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#382: The Secrets of Greater Endurance

The Art of Manliness

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The Science of Human Performance

The author of Endure, Mind, Body and Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance talks about how we're able to push ourselves to do these amazing physical feats. "I was a competitive track and field athlete... I ran for the Canadian national team for a number of years" He says he had been trying to break four minutes for 1500 meters which is a sort of decent high school time for like four years but that changed one day when someone tricked him into thinking he was running fast.

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