Andy Stumpf
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Podcast Appearances
She doesn't want to get hurt.
She doesn't want to.
And when she hits the fan, it's just over for her in a split second.
And she just she blacks out.
So it's like maybe, and my wife, for example, she gets really angry when she gets nervous.
So when I do something that makes her scared, she's mad at me, but she's not actually mad at me.
I think, you know, she's scared.
And that helped her get, you know, three X Games gold medals because when she gets angry, she gets stronger.
not fun to be around when she's scared but or sorry when she gets scared she gets stronger so what i've learned is that everyone naturally has a little different way of reacting to fear and i think most of my military friends at least the ones that have been through hell and they keep going back most of the successful people in a contact sport when hits the fan when everything's wrong when you're in the air on a dirt bike
And you're going, for example, I was hitting this jump and my foot peg hit the takeoff and I was going up over the bars.
As fast as the bike would go, 70 miles an hour, clearing two barbed wire fences, coming up short on the landing, and I'm going over the bars.
I remember being fully panicked.
And then I remember almost everything stopped.
And I probably didn't smile, but in my head I was smiling.
I was like...
oh, this is like, this is pretty interesting.
And I had all this time to think about it.
I'm like, all right, I'm 40 feet off the ground.
I'm going 70 miles an hour.
Four stories up, highway speeds plus.