Bryan Johnson recalls running a triathlon at a 5:50 per mile pace and feeling breathless at the first mile. Instead of backing off, he pushed past a competitor, using the struggle and doubt as fuel to keep going.
Tell me a story that perhaps your family would tell about you. Something great. Funny.
I need to think about this a bit more, but one that comes to mind. I used to do triathlons and we were on the run portion of the competition and I was trying to maintain a 5 minute 50 second pace. I reached the first mile marker and I met that time and I was breathing pretty hard. I could tell it was going to be a difficult one for me and I ran past this person.
And.
He was well intentioned, but he said, hey man, slow down, you're breathing too hard. I was I think 20, 23 at the time. I remember thinking, over my dead body am I going to stop at the goal I'm trying to achieve, no matter how badly it hurts, no matter what I have to do. And his comment gave me so much more energy to actually complete it. So I actually did get my goal. I just remember feeling incredibly motivated by the observation someone else was making that I was doing something that I wouldn't be able to accomplish. I'm attracted to pain and overcoming pain because all things I value are on the other side of pain.
