Fact: 99 percent of people who start marathons finish them.
What are we to make of this incredibly high success rate? As anyone who has ever run a marathon can tell you, the correct takeaway isn't that running 26 miles is a breeze. Everyone hits a wall of pain at some point, yet almost everyone keeps going.
Instead, the real lesson, according to entrepreneur and endurance athlete Jesse Itzler, "is that we have so much more in our reserve tank than we think we do."
This is a truth Itzler learned in an unusual way -- by inviting a Navy SEAL he met while running a 100-mile race (Itzler was doing it in relay, the SEAL was doing it alone) to come and stay with his family for a month and teach them the secrets of incredible mental toughness. He shared one of his biggest lessons from the experience recently in a short video for Big Think.
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