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E2 - Ant Middleton: How to create and maintain a zero excuses mindset

The High Performance Podcast

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The Dangers of Obsessiveness

I always excelled at what I'd done, but then I got bored of it. When I joined the military to be self-sufficient and stand on my own two feet. It gave me this sort of understanding that if I put my mind to something that I really enjoyed, it became obsessive to me. But does that not make you a dangerous soldier though, with that sense of ego? Never, ever thought there was a soldier on that battlefield, that was better than me, never in a million years. That's why I always got in that helicopter on the way home, that's why I'm here today. There's no sort of middle ground with me. You're either going

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