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Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

And some of those things that you learn by going through difficult journeys that then help you on other different journeys, you know, beyond the thing that you learned the skill in.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

That's right.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

Did you hear, Nir, about, I think it's about six weeks ago now, there was a story from Australia where a family, a mum and three kids were out just playing at the beach.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

They were just going for an afternoon kayak and the wind blew them out.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

And they were quite far from shore.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

And I think from recollection, a 10-year-old boy,

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

They decided as a family, the mom was going to stay with the two younger siblings.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

I mean, they were going to die basically, they were stuck.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

And so the 10 year old boy went off to try and get help, but he had to swim, I think for four hours against current, I think it was two and a half miles.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

Very, very, very difficult to do.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

I think he started on the kayak and then water came in so he had to discard the kayak.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

And he finally did get to shore.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

He did manage to phone for help, and then I think he collapsed.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

Everyone was safe, right?

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

I was thinking about that story last night in the context of what you're saying about perseverance.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

And I think about that through the lens of both of us are parents.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

Surely as a parent, one of the most important things I can give to my children or try and give to my children is this idea that you can overcome things.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

You can persist.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

Don't give up at the first hurdle.

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
How To Stop Limiting Yourself And Liberate Your Full Potential with Nir Eyal #650

And I'm guessing that kid must have picked up the idea