The Mental Trick That Turns Every Setback Into A Win

Welcome to the inaugural Page Parliament. That's the book club we can't call a book club because Alex would've bullied anyone who was in one. This week we pull apart To The Limit by Amber and Blaine Burke, one of the deepest female freedivers in the country and a 24-hour national champ who came second at King of the Hill.

We go front to back on the mental game that separates the people who could physically do it from the people who actually finish it. Turns out the sport barely matters. It's all up here.

In this episode:
- Why chasing hard things for the sake of it is the wrong way round, and what to do instead
- Stress inoculation training and why you should prepare to fail every single time
- The genius mindset hack that turns your opposition's every move into their weakness
- Playing games with your own head to get up a hill you can't get up
- The story of the astronaut who went blind on a spacewalk and stayed calm
- Why Troy went from laying down after work to running 30Ks and owning a calendar
- The mine owner who calls the high achievers 'jets' and why he wants them all
- Why the best win is Mark Dowdle thanking his crew, not some bloke screaming I'm a G

Timestamps:
(00:14) Welcome to the inaugural Page Parliament
(04:40) Who Amber and Blaine Burke actually are
(11:01) Why freediving is genuinely terrifying
(16:41) Surround yourself with people doing dope shit
(21:22) Troy from sedentary to a calendar in twelve months
(25:48) Find the thing you love, then find the discomfort in it
(33:51) Stress inoculation training and prepare to fail
(43:52) Playing games with yourself to get up the hill
(49:44) The woo woo stuff and the stories you tell yourself
(56:40) The most common story in ultra running
(57:56) The mine owner who calls them jets
(63:00) What a good win actually looks like
(66:06) The genius trick that turns everything into a win
(72:42) Phil Gore and sleeping the same way every day
(74:32) The final verdict in Huzzahs

Full episode out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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Pick up To The Limit here