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

I mean, if I told you to sit here at your desk for 32 hours, you'd be like, bro, it's like, come on.

Or we just climb 29029 for 35 hours.

It's a long time to do something like that.

And I'm just staring at this compass.

I mean, just literally staring at a compass in an endless white space.

Pretty much, because it's very hard to, you can't even really see the distance in front of you, especially when it's whiteout and these blizzard conditions, and I'm just staring at something.

Wow.

So yours is blank, because blank can be in your mind.

So you're pulling it around your waist or your shoulders?

Pulling it around your shoulders.

I've got a compass strapped to my chest that I'm staring down at, and it's white on white.

And sometimes, yeah, skiing, but like with skins on the bottom, so it's not like, people think skiing is basically like glorified snowshoes, so it's got skins on the bottom just to give you a grip, but so you're not digging into the deep snow.

So anyways,

pulling the sled, but yeah, in that flow state, I'm thinking about what actually happened in those last 15 or 20 hours, and this was really cool, is that

I realized that all the memories we have.

So if I said, hey Lewis, tell me about your high school graduation.

You probably have a memory pops in your mind right now, like you've got an image of that day.

But then we're gonna keep talking and we're gonna talk about other things, you'll get distracted.

But in that quiet space, in that flow state, the memories in my mind, even of the mundane, became so rich.

And so I start thinking about all the points in my life, but I'm a five-year-old kid on a swimming pool deck with my mom encouraging me to dive in for my first swim race.

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