How to Run 24 Hours in a Blacked Out Shipping Container | Spartan Up #216
Imagine 24 hours locked in isolation in a completely dark shipping container competing to see who can run the furthest on a TrueForm treadmill. Retired United States Marine, Major Brian Chontosh (aka “Tosh”) and three others (John Witzing, Josh Chessman, and Isaiah Vidal ) accepted this challenge to raise awareness around mental health with the Whiteboard Project’s LL24h ( https://www.thewhiteboardproject.com/24-hours-of-isolation ).
The recipient of one of the highest military honors, the Navy Cross, Tosh has shown unmatched fortitude in combat and combating the stigmas around post-traumatic stress. Jump in the shipping container with us as we learn how to “suck a little less each day.”
In this episode Joe De Sena interviews Tosh before he enters the shipping container and then all four athletes the moment the box is unsealed.
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Lessons:
- You are what you advertise
- Do a lot with very little
- Surround yourself with great people
- Want “in” on the hardest things
- Do things you don’t want to do
- Identify your limits and expand your horizons
- Prove things to yourself, know your limits & strive beyond them
- Measure your effort, but against the right things
- Always do the BEST that you can in EVERY moment
- PTS vs PTSD: traumatic stress as a normal reaction vs a disorder
- Don’t believe your own bullsh*t
- Walk humbly, absorb, think, question..
- it's not about having the right answers - it's about having the right questions
- Take ownership - kill the excuses!
- Rationalizations are just excuses in a fancy package
- Break down big problems to small problems & utilize small solutions
- Stay process oriented
- Focus on the task at hand and that will lead you to the target
- JUST BE HAPPY WITH YOU
- Suck less today then you did yesterday :)
LINKS:
LL24h ( https://www.thewhiteboardproject.com/24-hours-of-isolation
Brian Chontosh articles:
His advice on how to think about and pursue goals with effectiveness.
Performance on Demand: What is is and why you need it.
How Parenting and Leadership have so much in common.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 intro to episode
1:18 Athletic Greens
1:48 Interview begins
2:00 Marine background
3:00 The Navy Cross
3:40 shipping container challenge | Whiteboard Project
4:45 What is a strong mind
5:40 The need to do things you don’t want to
6:00 Dr. L’s advice
7:10 The burden of command
8:30 Truth of looking yourself in the mirror
9:15 Competitions in life
11:00 Mental Health Awareness
12:00 PTS as normal & natural - not a disorder
12:40 Athletic Greens break
16:27 Interview continues
16:45 barriers of knowing & bullsh*t
17:30 Not about answers- It’s about questions
20:00 Rationalizations are just excuses in a fancy package
24:00 Reductionism: breaking big problems down to have small solutions
26:00 How to suck a little less
28:00 Keep your eye on the task at hand
29:18 The panel gets ready to break them out of the shipping containers
29:35 Shipping containers opens
29:50 Tosh’s reaction to 24 hrs in darkness
32:00 The four Whiteboard Challenge participants men’s reaction
41:00 Sefra, Angle, Johnny & Joe discuss the interview
47:30 AthleticGreens.com/Spartan
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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