Becoming Battle Ready - Ollie Ollerton - #169

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, my friends. welcome back. Today is the big one, Ollie Ollerton, instructor from SAS Who Dares Wins, bestselling author of Breakpoint, and new author of the fresh off-the-shelves book, Battle Ready. Today, we are talking about his backstory, the ideas, the principles, the techniques that he has put into this book that can help you to make behavior change that genuinely will move the needle in your life. I get to read a lot of books. I get a lot of stuff sent out to me. And this definitely ranks up there with one of the best that I have read for quite a while. It's a fantastic introduction to how behavior change works. From mindfulness to goal setting, from getting rid of your ego to understanding how your long-term vision relates to your daily actions. Ollie really has done a number on the self-development and behavior change world here. Now, you very well might look at it and think, oh, it's just a book from some guy off TV. But Ollie really has done his homework and is dropping some serious knowledge bombs in this, including some work from past Modern Wisdom guests like James Clear and Robert Greene, along with a whole host of others. Me and Ollie got a bit of a bromance thing going on and he sent me a couple of signed copies of the book, including one for my dad, which is super kind of him. And I think I'm going to go down and see him at Breakpoint HQ. So maybe expect a sequel or perhaps even a vlog once the world reopens.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. I'm joined by instructor from SAS Who Dares Wins and author of Breakpoint and Battle Ready, Ollie Ollerton. Ollie, welcome to the show.

**Ollie Ollerton** (2:58)
Hello, mate, thanks for having me.

**Chris Williamson** (3:00)
Absolute pleasure to have you on. So first things first, the question that everyone has come to find out, who wins a 100-meter race between you, Foxy and Ant?

**Ollie Ollerton** (3:12)
Haha, you know what? Everyone would expect me to say, well, I will win, but I wouldn't win that race because I am more the endurance athlete as opposed to the short, you know, short, the likes of Ant, you know, he's got a punchy strength and so is Foxy. But then me and Billy are more the sort of endurance athletes. So I wouldn't win that.

**Chris Williamson** (3:41)
Got you. OK, well, you can go for longer, but Ant can maybe go a little bit harder at a shorter pace. I get it. That's totally fine. So you're on with my warmer pack, Chris Evans on Virgin Radio this morning, which is good. So, man, I am super, super impressed with Battle Ready. I got it last week and I've consumed it in the space of six days. And it is phenomenal, bro. You should be really, really proud of it.

**Ollie Ollerton** (4:06)
Thanks, mate.
And the bottom line is, you know, it's feedback like that that makes me proud of it. Because up until someone else gives you, I mean, I got my first testimonial yesterday. And up until that moment, you don't know, you know, it's because it's life experience, you know, is it like you've got no measure or you've got no, until someone actually tells you what it's done for them, you know, well, it's natural. We all have that self doubt.

**Chris Williamson** (4:34)
Imposter syndrome comes in.

**Ollie Ollerton** (4:35)
Yeah, yeah, no, exactly. But yeah, just the feedback from people is amazing and actually getting that testimonial, you saying that to me right now is just phenomenal. So I do believe it is an amazing book because it's not a theory, it's life experience, it's what I went through, it's the process. I'm living proof of the process that I've put in that book. You know, and I want to share that with everyone.