Dream Big, Start Small: Lessons from World Record Miler Jim Ryun
Jim Ryun couldn't make his junior high basketball team, track team, or even his church baseball team. Two years later, he was the first high schooler to run a sub-four-minute mile. He'd go on to run a...
28 Touko 56min
The New Science of Pain (and What It Means for You)
We're all going to experience pain in some form or another. Unfortunately, our long accepted model for what pain is — and how to treat it — has been wrong. Today, we're breaking down the biopsychosoci...
14 Touko 46min
The Cost of Keeping Your Options Open (with David Epstein)
In 1960, A publisher at Random House bet a writer $50 that he couldn't produce a children's book using just 50 distinct words. That writer was Dr. Seuss, and the resulting book was Green Eggs and Ham,...
7 Touko 56min
How to Break Through Barriers (Lessons from the Sub-Two-Hour Marathon)
Not just one, but two (!) men finished this past weekend's London Marathon in under two hours, a time that has never before been beat and was once largely thought to be impossible. Today, we unpack ho...
30 Huhti 40min
How to Save Your Brain (with Cal Newport)
There's a good reason you can't concentrate. That's not just a statement; it's also the title of a viral piece that our friend Cal Newport (author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism) recently wrote f...
23 Huhti 52min
What Every Athlete Can Learn from Elite Distance Runners
Today, Clay taps into Steve's wisdom as a long-time running coach—which doesn't mean you have to be a runner to get something out of it. The episode covers the most efficient type of aerobic training ...
16 Huhti 45min
How to Change, Actually (with Eric Zimmer)
Once an addict, Eric Zimmer is now 26 years sober. He has made that one huge change through a series of many small, daily changes, or what he calls "low resistance actions done consistently over time ...
9 Huhti 46min
