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Embracing Discomfort | Lessons from Endurance Athlete Jonathan Levitt

May 22, 2024 · 48m 6s
Embracing Discomfort | Lessons from Endurance Athlete Jonathan Levitt
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This week we are delighted to welcome our guest, Jonathan Levitt, who is currently in Boulder Colorado and a fantastic endurance athlete and cyclist. Jonathan didn’t always love running, but...

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This week we are delighted to welcome our guest, Jonathan Levitt, who is currently in Boulder Colorado and a fantastic endurance athlete and cyclist. Jonathan didn’t always love running, but back in 2013, he did his first half marathon and steadily started to develop a love for it. He has a podcast focused on discovering why people run and delving into the deep reasons that motivate people and push them to continue this healthy practice. People get not only physical benefits from running, but benefits from doing something hard and pushing that limit so that you have a greater capacity to do hard things in other areas of life. 

  • Developing the love for running 1:00
  • Minimal shoes 5:55
  • Why do people run? Jonathan’s podcast 19:45
  • People’s attitude toward running shifted with COVID 31:00
  • Running improves long term health 41:00

“We grow via stress. Physical stress, mental stress, and we adapt to hard things. My reason, and I’ve noticed this with a lot of people, is that running is this sandbox that we get to experiment in and the stakes are pretty low. It doesn’t really matter if you don’t PR, get injured, or don’t win a race…it’s the muscle memory of getting uncomfortable that allows us to be better at getting uncomfortable in other aspects of life.” 34:38


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