David Goggins Says ‘Stay Hard’—But Is That Destroying Your Running?

Is David Goggins Good or Bad for
Distance Runners?
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[00:00:00] Daren: This guy thinks David Goggins is destroying runners lives, and
this other guy thinks he’s saving them. And this episode was settling the David
Goggins running debate once and for all. Plus, you’ll see how a hybrid athlete
approach completely changed my marathon training, and why getting terrible
YouTube numbers might be the best thing for your content creation.
[00:00:18] We’ll be talking about obviously my healthy marathon training, Remy’s
new exercising versus working out theory and mindset. Creatively the new book that
I’m finally doing slowly writing, Remy focusing on video production rather than just
training and the learning lessons of creating for creating sake and a bunch more.
[00:00:34] Let’s get into it. Hey everyone. Welcome to this or that a series where we
discuss polarizing topics in the running and endurance sports space. And
sometimes life is going to be a bit of life stuff here. I am Darren stuff. Three hour
marathoner, 10 hour Ironman finisher. Living here in sunny Sydney, Australia, but I’m
originally from USA.
[00:00:52] And this is
[00:00:53] Remy: Remy. Me also lived in the U S for a while, originally from Haiti,
currently living in very sunny Ethiopia,
[00:01:04] Daren: continent of Africa for you, people that may not know where
Ethiopia is. We’re going to answer the red hot question that I’m sure you never
asked, but I love this. This is the whole, this is that series.
[00:01:15] Is David Goggins good or bad for distance runners? So Remy’s going to
take a side. I’m going to take a side. It might be the same side. We actually have not
discussed this. So this is different than what we’ve done in previous series, where
we discuss it and we go, we’re just going straight in. So I’m going to start right now.
[00:01:29] I think David Goggins is net positive for distance runners. And I’m going
to kind of tell you why, but I read his book. And I, I actually felt a certain way about
him, which I then reversed How I felt about him after reading the book and it was
through kind of his image and his branding on social media And I thought he was a
certain thing and I knew him but actually didn’t and i’ll talk about One interesting
thing that he did that.
[00:01:52] I was like, this is amazing for just humans. So we’ll go outside of running
And um, but then there’s a bit of a paradox that he has, uh, this whole comfortable
of being uncomfortable paradox That he actually contradicts himself. There’s no
answer to this, but i’ll bring this up in a bit So I think he’s net positive for runners
because one you just get comfortable or you try to get comfortable just doing stuff
That is hard and I’ve got this whole soft people don’t do hard things soft people
They just don’t it’s self explanatory things and anytime I want to take the elevator.
[00:02:23] I live on the eighth floor I can take the stairs and I literally go I go, just
take the stairs, just take the stairs, because soft people don’t do hard things, bro.
And I do that, and I think he is in the embodiment of it. He has this juice, he has this
sauce, that everyone just wants to be around it and figure out what it is, and he just
suffers very well.
[00:02:41] Probably to the extreme all the way over here. I think most people are
here, and there should be a middle ground. You know, like, most people don’t suffer
enough, he suffers a lot. All the time he said I want to be the hardest man God
created and even and I love that He actually says i’m not talented. I’m not good.
[00:02:56] I was born with all these defects. I’m deliterate I think that’s phenomenal
because it’s like a lot of people go. Oh you have genetics and it’s like no There’s
actually more to it than that and he is a perfect example of just Showing up, putting
in effort, figuring it out afterwards, get better afterwards, revise your effort
afterwards, but just start, start with effort, do dumb things, learn, almost kill
yourself, and then figure it out, revise, get better and better, better, optimize,
sharpen the tool, become a craftsman, I think, I think he’s great at that, yeah, he
cusses a lot, and yeah, he probably is too hard for a lot of people, but at the same
time, like, I just, I still think more people need to be, you know, More in the middle
and need to just suffer a bit more and just and just just figure things out Like it’s
gonna be hard life is messy.
[00:03:41] No one has the answers So i’m gonna end it there my paradox that I have
is that here if gagan does stuff that he hates like running He says he hates running
and he does it because he hates it all the time Then it becomes the bit the norm the
baseline hating the thing And he has a predictable day each day that is scheduled
because he loves his schedule.
[00:03:58] He’s a military navy seal Doesn’t he then need to break that by doing
stuff that most people would enjoy? So if he hates stuff and he starts liking the hate
shouldn’t he start doing stuff that he enjoys? Like he should be happy more versus
being angry, right? Because then that’s not what he wants because being happy is
not what he wants.
[00:04:17] He likes, you know He doesn’t celebrate he said like It’s exactly like he
doesn’t celebrate.
[00:04:23] Remy: I think at, at, at some point the snake is eating its tail. Cause if
you, if you only enjoy the hard stuff, if you only are doing the hard stuff, at some
point it starts to get easier. And what becomes hard is the stuff like riding a
rollercoaster, you know, like, Oh, smiling and going out dancing.
[00:04:46] And that becomes the do hard things. And that’s what you should be
doing, sir.
[00:04:51] Daren: Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So I just, I, it’s, um, it goes, it goes back to
one of these sayings that I’ve had, it’s another paradox that I had 20 years ago. He
said, uh, when uncomfort becomes comfortable, you need to do the comfortable
thing because that is uncomfortable.
[00:05:07] Right? I know that sounds like word salad, but it’s like the, everyone’s
like, you know, get comfortable being uncomfortable. It’s like, well, the minute it
becomes comfortable, the uncomfort, then you need to do the thing that’s actually
comfortable because that’s uncomfortable. Like. Sitting back and getting a
massage or sitting back and you know, enjoying life and all these things.
[00:05:22] Like I just feel like he’s a walking paradox in that. And there’s no right or
wrong answer. Let, let me know what’s right or wrong. So you answer Remy thrown
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anytime. Let’s get back into it. Do you think David Goggins is good for runners or
bad for distance runners?
[00:06:32] Remy: I think it’s a net negative. There are lots of good things, right?
[00:06:38] The getting comfortable with discomfort, there are lots of things because
it is a difficult task and you have to push. Being a running coach for adults, I
coached high school cross country. One of the hardest things to get Distance
runners to do is to take a rest day because of the like, Oh, I got to go hard.
[00:07:02] I got to do this now. And it’s like, buddy, you’re breaking yourself down.
Uh, you gave your best performance in training, but because you didn’t recover
properly, you were not ready for race day because you didn’t recover properly. Uh,
you’ve got this injury that, or this niggle even that would have gone away in Two
weeks that’s lasted three months.
[00:07:27] You gotta know when to turn the lever down sometimes and be good to
yourself going max. Like we’re not machines setting it to maximum effort that that
can’t be your default all day, every day. You’ve got to recover, take those easy days.
There are so many positive gains and How are you going to come back to it if you’re
not enjoying it?
[00:07:53] Sometimes you got to give yourself a little, a little, you know, carrot to go
along with that stick. If I’m just grinding all the time, okay, I’m going to finish that
race. And then so many folks I have seen just put the sport down. They have. Toxic
relationships with running, uh, for the reason you see so many folks like they finish a
race and immediately looking like, what do I do with myself now?
[00:08:20] I gotta sign up for the next one. I gotta keep that. Relax, enjoy so you
don’t find yourself burning out and then falling out of love with running for three,
four or five years and then having to start over. The best athletes on the planet have
an off season. You need to take an off season too. You need a little time to rest and
recover.
[00:08:46] Daren: Well said. I’m all about, you know, you, you work hard, you do the
crime with the training and you got to do the time with the sleep and the rest and
the recovery. So I, I do agree. And David Goggins at the end of the book, if you read
it, sorry, spoiler. He, um, I guess it’s kind of towards the end. He, uh, his, uh,
endocrine system.
[00:09:02] Um, basically he just is. Like, and he, he like, he actually can’t get out of
bed for like nine months in because he went so hard and he blames it on the boot
camps. Uh, the, the training camps. He did it three times. Hell week, three hell
weeks for the Navy seals, which most people only do one. He did three had
pneumonia.
[00:09:19] He blames it on that. A lot of people like well, you probably did too many
ultras, you know, 300 mile runs on no sleep Too many iron triple iron man’s, you
know, like where you race for three days straight Like he probably did too much of
everything and he just burnt and his body literally just shut down Um, he fixed it with
some stretching and that’s what he did He stretches hips and that’s what fixed it.
[00:09:40] Um, which I was interesting Um, so take take it for what it is. I another
thing i’ll just add and kind of close this put a nice little bow on it is You That he did
do some really good stuff for society and especially black, black youth. He started
when I found out that but when he was injured or I think it was his heart something I
forgot when it actually happened something happened where he couldn’t run
anymore So the marine, uh, the navy seals were like we need to go into these Urban
african american schools, these high schools and universities and we need you to
tell you a story and that’s how he honed his like his whole brand from that.
[00:10:14] And I think that’s really cool. He got like going into the military for black
people isn’t cool. So he actually went there was like, look at me. I’m dumb, you
know, I got all these defects. Like I was overweight. I was almost 300 pounds. Like,
look at me. I made something of myself. You can too. I thought that was a really
cool story.
[00:10:29] He learned how to public speak. He learned how to storytell and all that
stuff. So I kind of, I guess this is one thing I didn’t put in there. I branded him as just
like the, Stay hard, MNF er, you know, like, stay hard, brr, brr, brr, brr, like, yelling at
you. And then I actually realized, like, there, there is, what’s the word, there, there is
method to the madness.
[00:10:48] It isn’t just some random guy screaming at you, like, stay hard, running,
you know, with a, whatever, you know, a heavy backpack, a 50 pound, uh, uh,
rucksack on, you know, in the middle of the desert, like, And actually I really ended
up respecting him after that I ended up like watching more of his podcast Um, he
doesn’t he doesn’t do actually a lot of podcasts But I watched a couple or listened
to a couple of his podcasts where he went deep on some things Um read his book
with jesse itzler.
[00:11:12] The uh, I had a navy seal live with me for 30 days Um, I forget that book
is phenomenal. It’s the guy that he’s married to the spanx woman. Um, And I got
more into like david goggin’s head and I don’t know again i’ll end it with this You He
more people should be like him like old Kanye more people should be a bit more
like old Kanye Is it this is like 2015 and earlier Kanye where it’s like you should have
a good context Yeah, you should have more confidence in yourself.
[00:11:40] You should act like yo ish Don’t stink you should just do stuff and be like I
got this, you know Like and that’s where I think Kanye was phenomenal now It’s like
a but like David Goggins, you know, there’s certain aspects of the personality
[00:11:53] Remy: So the thing about Goggins and the great things that he’s done,
uh, this is not lost on me, and you mentioned his endocrine system.
[00:12:02] That hit real close to home. Yes. Real close to home. Uh, and I haven’t
shared this with too many folks, but yeah, I’m living that very much in real time, and
not because I, I did too much, honestly, the long and the short of it. I did too much. I
came back a few years ago, had a very aggressive shoulder reconstruction.
[00:12:29] That’s another story for another time. I’ll link that. I’ll link that up
[00:12:32] Daren: here. I’ll link that up here. Yes
[00:12:35] Remy: Yeah, I came back from that and after taking a year off I wanted to
make up for lost time and I channeled that like, you know, I’m gonna go hard. I’m
gonna go back in I’m gonna come back like I never left and Shortly before as the as
the year was progressing and I felt good.
[00:12:54] I definitely wasn’t You The guy that I was, but that takes time. You got to
slow build, but also knowing that, Hey, we were getting ready to make this move
and I hadn’t told many people about it. I wanted to take in as many opportunities in
the U S before we moved to Ethiopia. So. I had two marathons and a half Iron Man
on my calendar within three months of all of it.
[00:13:24] I did too much. Uh, and after seeing my specialist and like, you know,
why are my levels like this? Yeah, your adrenal glands are secreting fluid, your
endocrine system is, you know, doing X, Y, Z. Uh, they went and took a look at it,
and I’ve developed on my kidney that, uh, it’s not cancerous, thankfully, but it is a
result of going too hard too frequently.
[00:13:50] Two marathons and a half Ironman in three months. It was too much. Too
much for me. And hats off to anybody who, uh, Has done it and can handle it, but
do not feel like I could go on and post and share stories about how hard I am that I
did all these things, but in reality, I’m paying dearly for it. Uh, so there is so much as
doing too much, and now I am reverted back to, hey, keep it to basics, go for a fun
run, three, four miles, that’s plenty.
[00:14:21] You want to go ride? Hey, 20K is plenty. You want to swim? A hundred
meters, I’m sorry, a thousand meters is plenty. You don’t need to do three
thousands, you don’t need to ride 60k, you don’t need to, you know, Run 13, 15 K
do enough. You don’t need to lift, you know, 250 pounds anymore. You don’t need
to squat that much.
[00:14:47] Just stay healthy, have fun with it and repair your relationship with the
sport while you’re repairing your body. I went too hard and now I’m paying the
price.
[00:14:56] Daren: First off, I appreciate you sharing that with, with us. Um, I heard
about that just a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago. And I was like, Whoa, um,
and glad you, you know, it’s obviously not cancerous, but it needs to get removed.
[00:15:05] And I appreciate you sharing that and that side of it. And, um, I
appreciate you going on this cause I know you’re slowly removing yourself away
from the endurance sport world. Um, I know it’s still a thing, but you coming on here
and talking about some distance running stuff. But. I think it was perfect timing the
David Goggins endocrine system adrenal glands.
[00:15:24] It all worked out really well So let’s get into some life stuff. Um, it’s still
running related but uh, I used to I did lightly A series called healthy, wealthy wise.
Now we’re going to revamp it, re rebrand it to healthy, creative wise. And it’s
something healthy that you’ve done just really quick. You could show it, you could
talk about it, whatever you want.
[00:15:44] Screen share it, something healthy that you’ve been doing over the last
few weeks, something creative that you’ve been doing that’s just been filling your
cup and, uh, something that you’ve learned a lesson learned. So wise. So I’m just
gonna start off with mine. I’ll just rattle down my three. So we just get it all done.
[00:15:59] Uh, so I’m training for, sorry, I’m training for a marathon. That is my
healthy thing. And some would be like training for a marathon. That’s I’ve said this
many times, training for a marathon, doing Ironman is not healthy. It’s cool. It will
get you fit, but it is not healthy, but I’m actually doing it in the healthiest way I’ve
ever done it.
[00:16:14] So this is going to be my fourth marathon and I’m actually doing it to
pace, uh, a guy, Brenton, who I’ve done an episode on, go check that out. Brenton
for a sub three hour. And. I think I keep comfortably. It’s within my comfort zone. Do
a sub three hour marathon. It’s not a stretch. I’ve done one before. I think my fitness
system, I need to get up to that, but, um, he’s never done it.
[00:16:32] So I think it works out really well. And I’m actually just easing myself into
it. Enjoying the training. I’m not killing myself. I’m watching him kill himself and be
like, Brenton, Brenton, bro, bro. You need, you need to take a recovery week, man.
What do you, where’s your recovery week, bro? Like he’s only six weeks straight.
[00:16:45] I’m like, man, three on one off. So we’ve, um, it’s cool because. I’m
actually coaching him through AI. So he’s using a combination of chat, UBT and
deep seek, which is that new AI. And we’re like prompting it. And I’m having set of
me programming the plans, the AI is programming it and then adapting it to him.
[00:17:01] And it’s giving, he’s sending screenshots of Strava and downloads and
stuff. Um, so it’s actually cool. Cause then I’m coming in as an advisor and being
like, that’s way too much. Like I’m looking at what chat, you’d be like, Oh man,
they’re trying to kill you, man, or it’s not enough. So that’s actually been really cool.
[00:17:15] But I guess the healthy thing that I’ve done is. I’m doing like two weeks
on one week off as I like ramp up. I’m actually going to do a hold week where a
whole three week block. We’re actually hold the long run distance. I don’t increase it
and I’m holding it. And I’m just increasing by one kilometer 0.
[00:17:32] 6 miles a week. And I’ve never done that. Usually it’s like 10%, you know,
week on week, 10%, you know, get, get it up and I was like, how about I just hold it
and then see how my body goes and get really fit. And then right before, you know,
four weeks before I didn’t ramp it up. Um, so I’m like trying new conservative things
out and seeing how fit I can get.
[00:17:49] And that’s been going, going pretty damn well. Um, I guess another thing
is I realized that because I’ve been training for a 5k and half marathon the last seven
years, All that training is compounded and it’s like the same exact training to be
honest, like the long runs are a bit longer, but I’ve got the structure.
[00:18:04] My body’s used to the hard workouts, the intervals, the long runs. Now
I’m like, I’m good. Whereas eight years ago, I just decided to jump in and train for a
marathon. It destroyed me. I got runner’s knee. I barely limped my way to the
marathon. The last 10 Ks, six miles of that marathon were hell. And I just realized
like, you don’t have to train for a marathon all the time to actually get fast at a
marathon.
[00:18:23] Like, so I’m actually have that. That’s something that is a little, a little bit
of theory. I want to see if other people have done shorter distance training and then
jumped into the marathon and didn’t do well in the marathon because everyone just
jumps into the marathon as their first race and then trains for marathons.
[00:18:38] And it’s like, do you have to do all that? So do you have to, uh, all right.
My creative thing, I’m writing this book, uh, 1 percent better runner, which is the
brand. And our goal is to, uh, obviously get everyone 1 percent better every day.
Step by step improvements. None of this hacky stuff. We’re not like, you know,
Instagram influencers.
[00:18:55] We’re like, Oh, run really fast now. And then burnout, like, nah, nah, nah,
nah. Like, this is all about doing this year on year for decades on end. And, uh, I’ll
do a quick screen share. Of, uh, just some chapters of the book. Okay. So this is a
bit of behind the scenes. So this is the outline. It’s crazy how long it took me to
outline this.
[00:19:11] I think I was outlining this back in September, October. It took me like
three months to figure out the structure and I’m still changing it. Um, I’m actually
halfway through and this is like the first. First rough draft manuscript of it all. And
you know, it’s got, uh, there’s three pillars. There’s the belief pillar, consistency
pillar, and the focus pillar, sorry, four pillars patients.
[00:19:29] So you need belief, you need consistency, you need focus and you need
patients. And then I’ve got chapters under each one. Trust in the process to be, to
have framework, uh, consistency negates luck, find your tribe that’s community. So
there’s just, you know, purposeful persistence is one, the runners priority matrix,
which, um, why is it no access?
[00:19:47] Oh, I don’t have the access to it, but, uh, yeah, this is kind of like, I’ve
kind of written a very small book about Uh about a year ago eight months ago, and I
did it for my podcast production company and then I just sat back and was like I
could write a proper book and it’s gonna be a small it’s gonna be a short book It’s
gonna be about probably 30 40 000 words um, but i’m i’m excited about it and it’s
gonna be like the pinnacle of The, the 1 percent better runner, this whole brand.
[00:20:13] And I’m going to turn it on email newsletters, kind of feed sort of thing,
courses, like all these things that I plan. And I just wanted to just sit down and have
a really big project that I slowly chipped at. I’m literally doing 30 minutes a day,
three to four days a week. I’m working on like sections of chapters.
[00:20:28] Like I’m working a lot with AI to help me like figure out outlines to write
certain parts and I’m rewriting stuff. So AI is definitely coming in as like an editor
and like a creative, I call it like a writer’s room. It’s like the writer’s room with me.
And it’s helping me get through a lot of stuff.
[00:20:41] What did I say? If I wasn’t using AI, I would have stopped about four
months ago. Cause I would have just been like, I don’t have the creative capacity to
keep pushing through this. And I have all this other stuff, this content, my life stuff,
my business, all this other stuff. And I was like, I’ve got this unfair advantage that
I’m paying for with chat GPT.
[00:21:00] I was like, why don’t I just use it to help me? It’s just an assistant to give
me a 10 percent boost. Like it’s like taking supplements, you know? So I’ll put that
there pin in that. Um, and then my wise thing. Uh, I was gonna, I was gonna say that
I, my YouTube channel, I’ve got some videos that I put out about running that, um,
have bombed and I thought they would crush it.
[00:21:21] There’s like, like this video I’m actually quite upset about. So it’s this
video here. Um, run 1 percent better every day. The secret no one talks about with
Adam Joffrey. So this guy’s like a podcaster turned runner. He has a podcast
production production company like me. And I really, this, this interview, we were
running and podcasting.
[00:21:42] I was super excited about it. It was focused on him and you know, I’m
going to quote unquote say he’s a nobody. I’m a nobody too. Uh, you know, like
he’s not some famous runner or anything or famous celebrity. And I like thought that
the content would shine through, like, this is such a good, he was such a good
guest, like, he killed it with me, we’re running through Sydney talking about all this
stuff and 1 percent better, and it is bombed man, like, if you look at the analytics, 96
views.
[00:22:08] I’ve made 35 cents on that. And if you want to, like, if you just want to see
other things, like I’ve got a video with 3000, 1300, 60, 000 views, you know, 13, 000
views, 3000, so 96 views. I’ve tried all different thumbnails. I’ve tried so sorry. I’ve
tried so many different things. Is this the right view? Yeah. Um, and it’s a good
learning lesson because even though this didn’t perform great, I like really, this is
like my fifth.
[00:22:34] Running while conversation is on two, which is a title that you came up
with. Um, and it’s the format where we’re running in podcasting, video podcasting,
even though. It’s bombed. I just am so proud of this episode. I think it’s my best
one. It’s my best one. And I’m not mad at it because I am what I am the art because
it’s sculpted me.
[00:22:51] I got to learn and get better and I get to now apply this. Let’s say I get, I
get to run with a really fast, uh, a really fast, famous, you know, marathon or on the
next conversation zone too. I now have so many skills and tools that I can use to
make this better. Uh, art, this is, uh, I’m going to end it there.
[00:23:09] Yeah. And, uh, maybe I’ll do it with that drone. I’ll get that DJI drone.
[00:23:12] Remy: So something healthy, healthy, that has improved just my general
being, uh, is, you know, kind of like what we were talking before, taking a step back.
And the first part of that was re evaluating, uh, my relationship. with athletics and
with what healthy actually means.
[00:23:35] Uh, I realized that for the last, gosh, seven years, I had been training and
now I’m making the shift to exercising. And it’s a very subtle difference with the
rigidity in the structure. Like I mentioned before, I don’t need to do a three hour bike
ride and then go run 10 K right after. On a Saturday like that is not the lane that
we’re in and coming to grips with that and the identity of, Whoa, this is who I’ve
been for the last X amount of years.
[00:24:10] And what does it mean to change that? Just being comfortable in that.
Hey, you can do less and actually be healthy versus super athletic and part of that
is Recognizing that yeah, you’re not gonna be as ripped as you once were and
that’s gonna be okay But your general the health and getting rid of the vanity of like,
oh my gosh But I looked so good in this and that is, you know, definitely doing a lot
for me both physically and mentally You Just to change that relationship, uh, so
that’s been, that’s been huge.
[00:24:51] Uh, as far as creativity, um, I’ve actually been branching out with the time
that I have when I’m no longer on a bike for three, four hours. And, and, you know, I,
I legit, the training schedule was six days a week. You know, with that time, I’ve had
so much more time to put into other endeavors that I liked. I used to tell myself that
like, at the, at the end of the days, I would give scraps to my video production to my
YouTube channel, whatever I had left.
[00:25:28] And now that can kind of take more of a front and center. Cool. Do an
hour of lifting, you know, run for an hour, just take take 60 minutes to do a nice little
workout, get your juices flowing, get your mind activated. And then I have those
other bits of time to spend creating, learning new techniques, uh, new v visual
effects, uh, and even helping others.
[00:25:56] I’m branching out and doing, uh, more client work and really enjoying that
process, which just gives me life. And another slight thing, um, I don’t know if this
counts as a, as a lesson learned from failure, but certainly a lesson learned, um, I do
a lot of. Informational reading. So the time that I spent, you know, people like to
read for leisure, and that hasn’t been my reality, both with the work that I’ve done
professionally and learning stuff for my creative endeavors, or even spending time
researching for the athletes I was coaching, and, uh, you know, training plans and
things like that.
[00:26:38] It didn’t leave a whole lot of time for leisure reading. I’m finding myself
enjoying more of that. And. I’m even gaming more. I thought I was done. I thought
that was, you know, kid stuff. You’re a parent now. And this right here, it’s, I keep
that thing on me. I got this, uh, handheld, which lets me basically treat games like a
book.
[00:27:04] So if I have a quick 30 minutes, Alright, cool, let me pick this up. I’mma
play a little bit, put it down. And do my thing, I’m just going to get into a chapter real
fast and wrap that up a little bit before bed, a little bit at lunch, a little bit while, you
know, the kids are at the pool or at the playground or whatever, just like you would
sit there and read a couple of chapters.
[00:27:26] So to combine that with all the informational text, but then still have some
leisure story stuff, uh, it’s been a net positive all around to just, uh, keep me feeling
good and not so boxed into yep. I’m always learning a new technique. Oh, I’m
always reading and staying up on the next technical stuff. Hey, be a more well
rounded person.
[00:27:49] Just like my sports. I can get off the bike and play basketball. I can, you
know, go rock climbing. I can go hiking and be a more well rounded individual and
not so pigeonholed into one specific thing.
[00:28:04] Daren: Love it. I appreciate all of that. I got nothing to add to that. All the
best with, with your training, you, Remy, all the best with you listener, with your
training, with your life.
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