John R. Miles

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.

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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.

As you're coaching athletes and executives, et cetera, do you find the same to be true?

I actually call it the bee and the turtle effect.

And I got this actually from Elon Musk.

And the way I think about it is you have to have that vision of where you want to take things, kind of a slow moving sea turtle, but you have to execute your life like the bee who is constantly in action, taking small steps to serve the hive.

And it's that combination of balancing both.

If you can perfect it, that really gets you into the flow of life.

One of the things speaking of being too distracted that you focus on multiple times in the book is the life of a samurai.

Why did you choose to use that as such an important element of the book?

I also liked how you in the book talk about the samurai and this focus on the three pillars

qualities that you bring up in the book, but also their folk, their inherent mindfulness and focus on being present at all times because they never knew when their life might end.

And so they were always having to live in the moment.