Ken Rideout
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And I said, okay, at least we know where we're starting.
Guess what?
Everyone's scared.
You need to learn how to do this while you're scared.
I'm scared about everything.
There's the picture on the cover of my book is from the Gobi Desert, a race I did in Mongolia.
Yeah.
I had never run an ultra in my life.
I had never slept in a tent, run with a backpack.
And now I'm doing 155 mile stage race over six days across the Gobi desert in Mongolia.
Sounded like a cool challenge until I'm boarding the plane and thinking like, what the F am I doing?
I'm so scared.
But when I walked down the jetway, it was a very distinctive moment, like very memorable moment.
Cause I was like,
I'm so scared, like for weeks leading up to it, I'm like, what have I done?
I have sponsors.
I'm like, I could humiliate myself.
And as I walked on the plane, I was like, you know what?
F all this, I'm going to kill everybody.
And I am going to convert all of my fear into aggressiveness, like hell on the hill.