Chris Larsen argues most people either burn out fast or coast slow, but the rare ones sprint the marathon: sustain high intensity for decades like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. He says you need to toggle between sprinter and marathoner modes to reach greatness.
Most people, they're sprinters, they run really fast and then they poop out and they're done for a long time. Then there's some people who, okay, I'm going to run this marathon. And it'll take them exactly. And it'll take five years to run this marathon, but they'll eventually get it done right, slow and steady. Then there's a rare breed of people who actually sprint the marathon this Kenyans who are running this in like a less than two hours. And they figured out how to have sustained greatness over not days, but not weeks, not months, but decades. These are the, you know, the Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, the Oprah's, the Tonys. Like, these are the people that can figure out how to sprint the marathon. Way to do that is you have to start toggling your brain into different modes. Your default setting should be other people's beast mode. I want to give a gift to everyone at the next income show. And that gift is if you go to perfectweekmd.com you're going to be able to go to the website and if you put your information in, I'm going to a copy of my book for free.
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