Every Second Counts: The 8th-Place Mindset That Wins

This morning I was walking my neighborhood at 6am wearing two weighted vests, staring at my phone, with a wireless mic clipped to my chest. I looked ridiculous. And nobody cared. That's the whole episode.

Short one today. No AI, no cop stories, no tools. Just one belief that's holding you back (that people are watching and judging), one CrossFit documentary from 2009 called Every Second Counts, and the guy who won the 2008 CrossFit Games from eighth place because he stopped doing what everyone else was doing.

What's in it:

• Why nobody is looking at you as hard as you think (and why that's freedom)
• "You can just do things" - what that actually means when you're chasing a different life
• Jason Khalipa, 30 squat clean and jerks at 155, and the come-from-behind win
• Why most of us are running with a weight vest on, and why it doesn't matter where you start
• The squat clean thruster - using your unfair advantage instead of copying everyone else
• The four things I think success is directly correlated with

Every second you spend working on the thing counts. Get after it like you're going from eighth to first.

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