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

You know, joking.

He's my stepdad.

He's an amazing mentor and influence in my life.

Incredible man.

um but he's literally going like you're pretty extroverted and your time you're going to sit in silence by yourself for 10 days sure enough i stayed for those 10 days and it had just a profound impact on my life of learning about that self-awareness in my mind in my brain etc and so what from that practice which i've gone back to this 10-day retreat i try to go every single year if i can um done several and um as well as have a daily practice with it

I've kind of taken that into my canvas, into my artwork, into my sport, and this curiosity of the mind and where we can go in our mind and brain.

And so one of my deep curiosity about Antarctica, honestly, was, yes, unlocking the physical potential inside of me, but as a gateway to do that, exploring the mind.

And what better place to be alone in this endlessly white landscape?

The sun never sets.

There's no change of days.

There's no dark.

There's no dark, it's a blank white canvas.

And like I said, I literally deleted almost all the media from my iPhone as to not, I actually had a couple School of Greatness podcasts, a couple of Rich Roll podcasts, a few podcasts and a few albums out there.

I listened to some Paul Simon Graceland and a couple others, but there was very few.

I spent 80, 90% of the time in complete silence.

And it was a beautiful thing to explore that.

So how did I tap into that flow?

Like I said, some of these times it was 30 seconds.

Some of the times it was a minute or two.

But as I kept on these repetition of days exploring this place in my mind, sometimes it was days, two days, three days, where the sequence of days

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