John R. Miles

And then he sees his dad on the bow of the boat that's pushing him forward.

And he starts raising names of SEALs who have died in combat that John is swimming for.

And John says that moment and then seeing kind of the American flag relit his determination.

And as he would swim further and further, he

The father kept putting up a different name and then a different name.

And it's so related to Lewis's story and what you write about.

So I was hoping you could share that using Dew's story as a backdrop.

What I thought was so remarkable about it is he did two trials prior to doing the swim and actually warmer water and failed miserably both times.

Yeah.

He was actually extremely fearful.

And as you write, as was the doctor who had to make the decision, could he do this or not?

What I thought was just so amazing is when they would put out the different flags for him, it was like he was swimming for Sweden, he was swimming for Norway, and eventually he was swimming for Britain, where he's from.

But it gave him that sense that he's trying to bring awareness to climate change, but in each one of those segments, he was swimming for all the people in that country.

So he used that greater pole to mentally get his way through it.

excellence coming to life.

When I think of fear in my own life, I think about how many times I end up arsoning the very things because I start doing self-sabotaging actions, the very things that I want to accomplish.

And sometimes that fear takes root because we allow our mind to leap as Lewis was to like the end where he wants to go instead of thinking, I just have to take the first step.

And I often think the reason most people never change their life is

They get so fearful of what they think it's going to take to get to where they eventually want that they never take the first step to begin with.

And that is the hardest choice of them all to make is to choose to take that step, to start going down the path of making your life different.