Face Down What’s Uncomfortable and Find Purpose | Spartan CEO, Joe de Sena

Joe De Sena (0:00)

You really want to dive in and try to figure out your purpose. Very hard thing to figure out. I like three questions.

You know, what would you do if you had all the money in the world? I like that question. What would you do if today was your last day on earth? I like that question. But my favorite question, my third one I would ask yourself, what would you do if you knew you were going to fail anyway?

I mean, I failed at Spartan for 15 years. I didn't make money. It was a disaster. If I keep doing it anyway. So clearly, I love to do this.

Yeah, that's what I would do. And make sure you're healthy as you can be when you're analyzing that question.

Michael Gervais (0:46)

Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. And by trade and training, I'm a sports and performance psychologist. Now, the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are committed to both their craft and their inner life, literally those who are on the path of mastery. And the idea is we want to better understand what they're searching for, how they use their mind, their psychological framework, if you will, to make sense of the world around them, to make sense of how they're pursuing their own life. And then we also want to use these conversations to understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft.

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