Build An Unbreakable Mindset - Marcus Smith - #250

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Well, hello, my friends. Welcome back. My guest today is Marcus Smith, ultra endurance athlete and founder and owner of Innerfight out here in dubai. He is one of the most unique humans I've ever had the fortune to meet, and I am so excited to bring this episode today. From breaking his body in a cycling accident to running 30 marathons in 30 days, Marcus genuinely does embody an ultra mindset. He is about as close to an animal as I think I've ever met. So today, expect to learn the framework Marcus uses to overcome any obstacle, how it feels to hit a wall at 54 km an hour on your bike, what it's like to run for 24 hours straight, while your parents were right to tell you to relax, how to maintain motivation when life gets hard, and so, so much more. Marcus is exactly the sort of guy that's going to get you fired up to do pretty much anything. I found myself tempted to even do endurance events simply because of the insights that he's got when he's done his. If you enjoy this episode, which I'm absolutely adamant that you're going to, share it with a friend. That would make me incredibly happy indeed, and it is the best way that you can repay me if you enjoy listening to the show. This podcast only grows because people like you share it with people like you. So find a group chat, hijack a work intranet, put it on it, LinkedIn, wherever you can. I would massively appreciate it. And this episode can help a lot of people. The insights that we get from Marcus today are nothing short of wonderful. And I really, really hope that you take as much from it as I did. In other news, this episode of the podcast is brought to you by Uncommon Coffee. I am still out here, still in dubai, still without my Uncommon Coffee. I found some good coffee houses, but none anywhere near as good as what I can get from the guys in the UK. Uncommon Coffee are an on-demand, premium coffee delivery company. You don't have to wait weeks to get your favorite coffees. Not only that, but they curate the best roasters and coffee houses in the UK into one website. Absolutely everything that I've tried from them is phenomenal. You don't have to pay high delivery prices. You don't have to wait for ages to get your delivery. It is the best selection of coffee that I have ever found. And you can get 20% off everything site-wide with the code MW20 at uncommoncoffee.co.uk.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. I am joined by the one and only Marcus Smith. How are you, brother?

**Marcus Smith** (3:38)
Thank you, my man. Well, awesome. How can I not be good right here, right now?

**Chris Williamson** (3:44)
It's not a bad backdrop, is it?

**Marcus Smith** (3:46)
Mate, I don't know if this class is a working holiday for you, but those, yeah, if you're watching, anyway.

**Chris Williamson** (3:52)
Yeah, exactly. Tune in on YouTube on the 25th floor of dubai Marina, overlooking a backdrop that, yeah, it could be like, it's epic, it's actually epic.

**Marcus Smith** (4:00)
It's pretty good, mate.

**Chris Williamson** (4:01)
Joe Rogan, never heard of him. So I've been doing my research a lot since I've been out here, knowing I was going to record with you, and you just continually do mad shit. You're a closet psychopath. What are you working on at the moment? What's next?

**Marcus Smith** (4:17)
Interesting, because sometimes we start, where did this all start? You've gone straight into what's next, which I quite like because next is a, we're actually going to run, mate, and this is quite interesting because obviously this year has been mental for absolutely everyone.
And we've seen a lot of people naturally get frustrated that events are canceled, travels canceled, and a lot of people have literally just thrown their hands up in the air, like this, and done nothing, put on weight, motivation has gone down, and it's terrible on a number of levels. We were like, well, we know we're not going to travel this year, and this year I would have run probably about three ultras in different countries around the world. And so what we did is we looked at the map of the UAE and I think this is actually the first time I've said this to our class of US media, mate, to the media. We looked at the map of the UAE, and I was like, okay, what's the challenging parts of the UAE? And lots of people think dubai and the UAE is what we see around us now, which is the marina, it's very beautiful. But there's actually a high point of the UAE, which is just about 2,000 meters in the mountains. And there's a mountain range that divides the East Coast and the West Coast called the Hajar mountains. And I thought to myself, it'd be really interesting if we could sort of traverse that mountain range and then take a turn inland and end up at my gym. And I sort of said, and this is how these things start, like, you know, there's a couple of mates and we'll get on Google Maps and we'll just draw on our phones and just send different things to each other. And it's almost like a gamble or a guessing game. How far is it? And one of the boys goes, oh, I think that's about 250 I said, yeah, I think it's a bit longer. I think it's about 300 Anyway, so we've got this idea. And then, and this is honestly how it starts, is then one of the lads goes, or the boy I was sending it to, Rob, he goes, when are we doing it? And so this is how these challenges kind of start a lot of the time, mate.