The High Performance Podcast The SAS Mindset: Keep Going When Everyone Else Stops | Billy Billingham
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Nov 12, 2025 Join former SAS veteran Billy Billingham as he dives into the essence of discipline and leadership. With a background that includes facing life-threatening situations, he emphasizes the power of staying calm under pressure and the distinction between toughness and real strength. Discover why discipline trumps motivation, the importance of humility in leadership, and how to push past mental limits. Plus, get insights from his book, 'Further,' where he shares invaluable life lessons learned from elite military training.
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Turning Point In A Nightclub Stabbing
- Billy Billingham describes being covered in a friend's blood at 15 which forced a life reassessment.
- That moment convinced him he was the problem and motivated him to leave gang life and join the military.
Surviving The P Company Log Race
- Billy recalls the brutal P Company log race where he pushed through extreme pain to finish.
- He credits teammates and sheer refusal to quit for getting him across the line despite vomiting and collapse.
Commit To Keep Going Until You Can't
- When facing hard tasks, accept discomfort and commit to continue until you physically cannot.
- Use inner dialogue to push one more step and treat pain as a passage in time that will end.
