When did the speaker say he had been at the top of the ridge?

Name: Distance Is Shorter Than We Think
Uploaded: 2023-09-07T18:58:24+00:00
Duration: 1 min
Channel: John Assaraf
Description: John Assaraf narrates a short personal anecdote filmed at a ridge overlooking a beach. Although the beach looked difficult to reach from above, he…

John AssarafBehavioral Neuroscience Researcher and Goal Achieving Expert. High Performance Consultant/Coach

Distance Is Shorter Than We Think

7 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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John Assaraf narrates a short personal anecdote filmed at a ridge overlooking a beach. Although the beach looked difficult to reach from above, he discovered an easier route—a trail carved by others—and used it to descend. The anecdote serves as a life lesson: goals that seem hard to reach become easier when you follow paths or 'blueprints' others have created.

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About 15 minutes ago.

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So here's a really important life lesson for you. I was at the top of this ridge about 15 minutes ago, and I wanted to get down here to the beach, because there's a beautiful little area that I'm standing on right now that I saw from up there, and it's right on the edge, obviously, of the water. Now, when I was looking at it from the top, wanting to come down, I was in the house that we rented right over there. Hold on. Right there. It looked like it was gonna be really difficult to get down, but I said, let me go see what's down there. And so I went to the right of the house and saw that there was a trail. Then I started coming down the trail. Now, the purpose of this video is to let you know that initially I didn't think I could make it down here, but somebody else, maybe a lot of people, started carving out a trail. A woman's, rugged, of course, as you can see. But it's. It's so much easier to get to where you want to go when somebody else has created a trail for you, almost like a blueprint.