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Transcript - I first met SEAL at a 100 mile run in San Diego and I was running this race as part of a six person relay team with friends and he was running the entire race by himself. And the run was unsupported so you have to bring your own supplies. So we had, you know, we overdid it a little bit. We had a tent and we had masseuses and food. I mean we were ready for like in case we had to stay there a week. And he had a folding chair, a bottle of water and a bag of crackers. And I just thought to myself like who is this guy. I’ve never seen anything like it. And during the race I kept an eye on him and around mile 70 he weighed probably 260 pounds which is quite large for an ultra runner. He had broken all the small bones in both of his feet and had kidney damage and he finished the race. So when it was done I Googled him. He had a fascinating life story and I decided literally to cold call him. And I flew out and met with him and after sitting with him for a couple of minutes I realized that I could learn so much from a guy like this that what makes him tick and various buckets in my life would be so much better if a little bit of what he had rubbed off on me. I asked him to come live with my family and I for a month. So at the time that I invited SEAL to come live with us I had an 18-month-old son. I was married, still am. Two more kids since. And I had sold a couple of businesses. I was in a great place professionally in my life but I was also in a routine. And routines are great but they can also be a rut. And I found that I just wasn’t getting better. I was doing the same thing every day like so many of us. Wake up, go to work, come home, you know, have dinner, repeat. And I just wanted to get off autopilot. And I thought that he would be a great way to get in good shape but also to just mix up my routine and get better.

The first day that SEAL came to live with me he asked me to do – he said how many pullups can you do? And I’m not great at pullups. I did about eight. Just getting over the bar eight. And he said all right. Take 30 seconds and do it again. So 30 seconds later I got up on the bar and I did six, struggling. And he said all right, one more time. We waited 30 seconds and I barely got three or four and I was done. I mean couldn’t move my arms done. And he said all right. We’re not leaving here until you do 100 more. And I thought there’s no – well we’re going to be here for quite a long time because there’s no way that I could do 100. But I ended up doing it one at a time and he showed me, proved to me right there that there was so much more, we’re all capable of so much more than we think we are. And it was just a great lesson. It was actually the first thing that we did. It was just a great lesson that we have so much more in our reserve tank than we think we do. One of the things that SEAL said to me and it’s in the book and one thing that people have said that really resonated with them. He would say that when your mind is telling you you’re done, you’re really only 40 percent done. And he had a motto if it doesn’t suck we don’t do it. And that was his way of every day forcing us to get uncomfortable to figure out what our baseline was and what our comfort level was and just turning it upside down. The 40 percent rule maybe it’s give or take a little but look at a marathon. Most people hit the wall in a marathon at mile anywhere from 16 t0 20. And, you know, 99 percent of the people in this country that run marathons finish and they all, predominantly all of them go through this hit the wall. So where does that extra 50 or 60 percent or whatever the number is come from? I mean it’s their brain saying I’m done, I don’t want to continue but their will saying you know what? Let's get to the finish line.

Ratjaculation posted:

I've never met an academic who also didn't have a monstrosity of an email signature, consisting generally of about 90% of the mails content and attachments. I wish I could post examples but I'm sure most of you can relate.

Spalec posted:

Do we have a thread for "Should be STDH but actually did happen?"

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/12/17/reddit-user-gets-bill-gates-for-secret-santa

Reddit does a secret Santa, one woman got Bill Gates who sent her a shitload of stuff including an Xbox 1 and Legend of Zelda Mittens. A representative of Bill Gates confirms it's legit and he's actually done it for a few years now.



Bill Gates is a pretty cool dude.

Ratjaculation posted:

But imagine being on the other end of this and being the person who has to get a gift for Bill Gates.

hyperhazard posted:

Pretty much, yeah.



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Ratjaculation posted:

But imagine being on the other end of this and being the person who has to get a gift for Bill Gates.

Ratjaculation posted:

As long as you are responsible for the 2mb "Be green, don't print" .bmp

Spalec posted:

Do we have a thread for "Should be STDH but actually did happen?"

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/12/17/reddit-user-gets-bill-gates-for-secret-santa

Reddit does a secret Santa, one woman got Bill Gates who sent her a shitload of stuff including an Xbox 1 and Legend of Zelda Mittens. A representative of Bill Gates confirms it's legit and he's actually done it for a few years now.



Bill Gates is a pretty cool dude.

moerketid posted:

YouTube stdh. Somehow even more awkward than its written counterpart.

"I saw a guy run a 100 mile marathon, break all the bones in his feet, get kidney damage, so I decided he could teach me things. I later cold called at his house and whisked him back to live with my family for a month"

Because these are things that happen in the real world

Edit: There's a transcript for people who don't want to suffer through the video

System Metternich posted:

http://www.news-leader.com/story/ne...lobal/95335334/


lmao, yeah right

AlbieQuirky posted:

Einstein actually wrote that to a child, though.

bobjr posted:

Another twitter chain one.

https://twitter.com/notjerryclayton/status/810273956708098048

Fathis Munk posted:

In the replies
https://twitter.com/Julian_Epp/status/811059114570878976

Pol apparently there are already "reporters" asking him to dm them to publish that crappy stdh

Fathis Munk posted:

In the replies
https://twitter.com/Julian_Epp/status/811059114570878976

Pol apparently there are already "reporters" asking him to dm them to publish that crappy stdh

Jerry Cotton posted:

What does role-playing games have to do with this

Jerry Cotton posted:

What does role-playing games have to do with this

Fathis Munk posted:

They contain about as much truth as that story. Someone with such a vivid imagination has to be a good DM.

goose willis posted:

Avenging_Mikon posted:

It's from Alabama. Don't they condone sister-sexing?