Michael Phelps says after 20 years of swimming, the difference between good and great is showing up on days you don't feel like it. His conversation partner points to completing the 75 Hard challenge, running a marathon, and writing a book as proof that identity gets built by doing hard things when motivation disappears.
Is there anybody in here that likes to get up every day and goes to work? And go to work every day? Like enjoys getting up super early in the morning and they're like, "Yes, this is what I'm going to do." There's not a single day where you guys are like, "I don't want to go to work." Not a single day. I mean, I swam for over 20 years and I can guarantee you there was probably 100 days where I didn't want to do anything. I wanted to stay in the pool or stay in my bed and not get out. But those were the days where you have to, you have to get up and do something because I think that's really what separates the good from the great. The greats do things when they don't always want to do them.
It's wild. Doing 75 Hard helped me build that mentality that I am someone that does hard shit. So now 75 Hard, done a marathon, doing 29029 this year, writing a book, all very hard things I don't want to do. It's who I've become.
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