Colin O'Brady

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The School of Greatness · 54 Days Alone in Antarctica, Pulling 375 Pounds | Colin O’Brady · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

And so, you know, how do you strategize and plan for something that's been told is impossible?

You're stepping into the unknown.

it's by being adaptable and ultimately realizing that these things are happening in our minds, these doubts, these fears, that's a human thing.

I don't care who you are.

I still have them.

I have four world records and I had, you know, some, a bit of success in my life through challenges, but like I wake up every day with doubts and fears and challenges, but it's a being able to quiet that in my mind and continue to get to that first way point or get to that next step forwards and whatever you're doing.

Yeah, so that's something that I've just been fascinated with.

So I grew up as a kid as a swimmer.

And it's funny, I have five older sisters actually.

and I'm the baby boy, and an older brother as well, but I'm a little boy of seven, blended family, but a big family, a loving, supportive environment, and my sisters and my parents would always be like, you're always talking all the time, you're always this, like I was trying to hang out with them, follow my sisters into their room, like always like chatting and all this kind of stuff, but what I realized is I spent four hours a day as a kid swimming, two hours before school, two hours after school, putting in those reps,

of quiet.

Swimming is this weird sport where you're staring at a black line, like you can't talk, there's no eye contact, there's no, you know, really can't really chat to your teammates even, you're kind of in this zone.

And so before I knew the word flow state or high performance, this is me as a kid, I realized I was sort of tapping in and out of those states.

And I became more conscious of that as I went through my life and became a professional triathlete after

whole other crazy tangent of my life being severely burned in a fire in Thailand and being told I would never walk again.

We can talk about that if you want.

But more so, what happened when I was racing triathlon is a friend of mine came to me and she said, I don't know much about sports.

This is a Turkish woman who's a wife of a good friend of mine named Ece.

And she says, I don't know much about sports, but just by observing this, I see that this is all in your guys' minds out here.

And I was like, yeah, absolutely.

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