Slow Down to Speed Up & Mastering the Art of Efficient Progress | Nick Bare EP 429

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0:52What are three skills you wish you would have learned before entering the Army? The power of true delegation and elevation. You know, being a doer, wanting to lean in and work on things that you can do because you believe in yourself. It's great for the short term, but it's unsustainable. I've had to learn that in business over a long period of time. There is so much power in delegation and empowerment. When you empower people to do a job, give them more responsibility, more accountability, people thrive. They thrive in empowerment. That is part of building an amazing team, culture, and brand.

1:39I'd say the second skill is patience. How much patience and how do you handle that in front of yourself and in front of others? Do you have a lot of patience? I do now. And in certain things, I do now. You know, building a business has taught me a lot about patience. Running marathons has taught me a lot about patience. You're not going to get there fast. You're going to take it easy, slow and steady, yeah. You know what's funny is when I first started running marathons, if I had a seven-mile easy run for that day, I'd go run that seven miles as hard as possible. Running marathons you can apply to a lot of parts of life.

2:18My triathlon coach would respond to my stories before I started working with her. And she would say, you're running too fast. You're running too hard. You're not going to get faster. Interesting. so I decided to work with her help me get to where I want to be so she's telling you need to run slower in order to be faster right so we sat down we talked she said I understand what you're trying to do you know you want to get from point a to point b as fast as possible and you would think that running those seven mile training runs as fast as possible will correlate to running a really fast marathon but it doesn't what you need to do is you need to run below your max aerobic heart rate.

2:58You need to run truly easy. You need to be in an aerobic state. You need to run slower to get faster. Why? Because you're building this foundation. You're building a strong foundation that you can build a house upon. If you lay no foundation, no aerobic foundation, you can't get faster. All these track workouts and these speed workouts, these tempo workouts, they mean nothing in a marathon because you're not building it on top of this foundation. 26.2 miles is a long time to hold a certain heart rate and a certain pace. To run slower, you lay this foundation, you lay this base, and it's strong.

3:38It's bulletproof. Then you build upon it. That is patience. That is having the patience to run slower in order to get faster. You're taking a step back to get two steps forward. You apply that to your life. Everything. without patience you're struggling. The third skill is similar to the two and it is that you can go really fast alone but you can go so much further together. I learned this by leading a platoon. I learned this in ranger school. You learn a lot about yourself. You learn a lot about other people. A few years ago I did the Leadville 100 ultra marathon in the Rocky Mountains of Leadville, colorado it starts above 10 000 feet of elevation and it's a brutal course that's one of those races that certain people can do by themselves but me i needed support yeah i had a crew that would go from checkpoint to checkpoint and they would tape up my ankles wow they would feed me they'd fill my water and we titled that documentary more than the miles yes it's going from point a to point b but what you don't see is what gets you there it's the support it's the people it's the distance that everyone else achieves and goes through a lot of people realize at some point in their life that you can go really fast by yourself by yourself as fast as possible gets you to a certain point but for longevity for endurance for durability a group of people will go so much further you know I apply that now to building my family and building my business and team.

5:18It pays off because there's no way I could get my business now. The point it is by myself. It's here now because of the people involved.

5:39Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of the daily motivation. and I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to click the link in the description. That will take you to the full episode of our main podcast on the School of Greatness. And if you are loving the daily motivation, please follow us over on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review over on Apple Podcasts right now. And if you want more exclusive content and ad-free listening experience, make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel on Apple Podcast right now. And if you wanna get even more inspiration from our world-class guests and learn how to improve your life and take it to the next level, then make sure to sign up for the Greatness newsletter and get it delivered right to your inbox over at greatness.com slash newsletter.

6:29Again, have an amazing day and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.

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