John R. Miles

Why do you think so many of us today get stuck in the performance trap?

Well, amen to that.

One of the other stories I really liked in the book, because I must have been sleeping under a rock or something when this happened, because I was not aware of it.

But you tell the story of Lewis Gordon Pugh.

And this to me was an amazing story in part because I have a good friend, John Doolittle, who's been a guest on this show.

John

retired as a 06 navy seal but he was the first navy seal to swim the english channel and john was telling me this story that and i'll let you tell the story of lewis but he went during some of the warmest months

possible to swim the English Channel and he still said it was freezing beyond belief.

It was like 4850 degrees.

So he said that at no time when he was doing this 12 hour crossing, could you stop or you would immediately go into hypothermia?

And he said that there was this period of time

He's about a third of the way through.

He wants to throw in the towel.

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.