Jeff Seckendorf spent 15 hours a week cycling to learn perseverance, then applied that no-quit mindset to launching a Parkinson's Association initiative. He argues the discipline from endurance sports only matters if you transfer it to everything else in your life.
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How do you learn not to quit? Somebody once said to me, said recently I heard that winners are just losers who didn't quit. Yes, I've heard that. Pretty interesting. So that's what I'm working on, you know, and that's what I bring to everything in life, right? It's like there's no point in doing any of these projects, the bike ride, you know, mountain treks, any kind of training or any kind of self-development in one field if you can't apply it to the rest, right? So, you know, I've got this crazy bike thing. I'm training 15 hours a week on the bike and, you know, I just just got off, you know, about half an hour ago from a workout. And, you know, gym and paying attention to nutrition and hydration and the mental aspects and the equipment and blah, blah, all that other stuff. And so if I can't take that and apply it to everything else, then there's no point. So, you know, when I start a project now, like for the Parkinson's Association, I just get on this rampage where I can't quit. And I've really learned that from cycling. Because, you know,
