Colin O'Brady
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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And then unaided means no, no kites, no dogs, no nothing else propelling me.
It's just me, mano y mano, thousand miles.
Ended up taking me 54 days.
I was on my last bite of food.
I didn't have nearly enough supplies with me because I couldn't carry it all, obviously, to make that crossing.
And because of that, people said, hey, this project is impossible.
Some of the best people in the world have attempted this.
People have died trying this.
Like, this is impossible.
And I named my project The Impossible First, not as like a wink of, oh, I'm going to call it The Impossible First to show everyone to prove this wrong, to say like, this might be impossible, but I'm willing to try.
I am willing to open up the possibilities of them being wrong, or maybe of proving them wrong.
Because I believe when we dare to dream greatly, when we set massively audacious goals, we either succeed and amazing, that's wonderful, or maybe we fall a little bit short of that,
But in daring to dream greatly, we got 90% of the way there.
We succeeded immensely in doing so.
The actual, so I always say, you either win or you learn.
There's no failure.
So it's like, that's the ethos that I've, and you know, I sit here with 10 world records.
You know, I sit here having had successful business ventures and stuff like that.
But that's been built on the backside of failures, learnings over time, et cetera.
And my new book, The 12-Hour Walk, one of the core components of that is breaking down that limiting belief, that fear of failure.
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