#685 - Rich Roll - Stop Making Excuses & Transform Your Life
Sep 25, 2023
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Rich Roll, an ultra-endurance athlete, podcaster, and author, shares insights on balancing ambition with well-being. He talks about the importance of 'lower companions' who may hold you back and why many are addicted to progress. Rich emphasizes resilience and the transformative power of setbacks. He discusses the value of taking breaks for personal growth, the dangers of addiction, and the significance of surrounding oneself with authentic companionship. The conversation also explores the interconnectedness of success, self-worth, and personal reinvention.
Finding a balance between pursuing goals and maintaining sanity is challenging in the modern world.
Reinvention is a process that requires persistence and the willingness to endure challenges and discomfort.
Choosing friends and collaborators who support personal growth and align with one's values is crucial.
Avoid associating personal worth with achievements and the need to constantly suffer to feel deserving of success.
Deep dives
Achieving balance and avoiding burnout
In today's modern world, finding a balance between pursuing goals and maintaining sanity is challenging. Ultra-endurance athlete Rich Roll shares insights on how to achieve this delicate balance.
The journey of self-discovery and reinvention
Rich Roll discusses the process of self-discovery and reinvention that he embarked upon at the age of 31. He shares how he transitioned from a life of addiction to a life that aligned with his true values.
The misconception of reinvention and the importance of perseverance
Rich Roll highlights the misconception that reinvention happens overnight and emphasizes the need for persistence and willingness to endure the challenges and discomfort that come along with it.
Lower companions and the importance of choosing supportive relationships
Rich Roll explains the concept of lower companions, individuals who may not have one's best interests at heart. He emphasizes the importance of choosing friends and collaborators who support personal growth and align with one's values.
The Pitfall of Self-Identification with Achievement
Self-identifying achievements as a reflection of personal worth can lead to a dangerous mindset. The speaker shares how he associated the success of his work with his own value as a person, leading to insecurities and a need to constantly suffer in order to feel deserving of success.
The Pressure to Suffer and the Danger of Anchoring Self-Worth
The speaker highlights his belief that suffering is linked to better outcomes and a sense of personal achievement. He admits to short-cutting success and going straight to suffering, feeling like unworthy if success comes without it. This perspective creates a constant need to prove oneself through suffering, leading to imposter syndrome and a dangerous attachment to suffering as a measure of self-worth.
Balancing Discipline and Rest for Long-Term Success
The speaker emphasizes the importance of finding balance between discipline and rest. While discipline is necessary for achieving goals, true joy comes from finding activities one genuinely enjoys. Taking breaks and allowing oneself to rest and recharge is essential for sustained growth and avoiding burnout. The focus should be on long-term progress and personal growth, rather than short-term achievements driven by ego and toxic fuel sources.
Rich Roll is an ultra-endurance athlete, podcaster and an author.
In today’s modern world, relentless pursuit of goals often leads to being overworked and burnout. Finding the balance between working hard enough to achieve your dreams without destroying your sanity along the way is a difficult balance, but Rich seems to have found a solution.
Expect to learn what it means to have “lower companions” who hold you back, why we all are so addicted to progress, why you might be more dependent than you think, who is the most controversial athlete in all of endurance racing, why Rich takes a “Manuary” sabbatical, how to deal with setbacks, the keys to resilience and much more…
