#426 - Ben Bergeron - Stop Living A Life Of Complacency
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Ben Bergeron is the Owner of CrossFit New England, Founder of CompTrain and an author.
Ben has tested his high-performance philosophy on the biggest stage in the world having been the coach behind 6 CrossFit Games Championships. Today we get to go through some great insights for how to take charge of your direction and reach full potential in work, sport, family and life.
Expect to learn Ben's process for deciding how to make changes in life, how to turn your inner critic into a coach, why trusting your gut is a superpower, what Ben thinks about Dave Castro's recent exit from CrossFit, how you get a team to respect their leader, how Ben dealt with recent big name exits from his gym and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Ben Burjeron, he's the owner of Crossfit |
| 0:05.8 | New England, founder of Comp Train and an author. Ben has tested his high performance philosophy |
| 0:12.3 | on the biggest stage in the world, having been the coach behind six Crossfit Games championships. |
| 0:17.6 | Today we get to go through some great insights for how to take charge of your direction |
| 0:22.3 | and reach full potential in work, sport, family and life. Expect to learn, Ben's process for |
| 0:28.6 | deciding how to make changes in life, how to turn your inner critic into a coach, why trusting |
| 0:33.8 | your gut is a superpower. What Ben thinks about Dave Castro's recent exit from Crossfit, |
| 0:39.2 | how you get a team to respect their leader, how Ben dealt with recent big name exits from his gym, |
| 0:44.4 | and much more. I really enjoy the way that Ben speaks. I think he has a calm, a should, |
| 0:51.1 | authoritative tone. It's obvious that he's a coach and he brings that across into his philosophy |
| 0:55.8 | around life as well. He's very intentional, very self-reflective. There's just, there's tons, |
| 1:01.0 | tons and tons to take away from today. I really, really hope that you enjoy this one. |
| 1:05.7 | In case you missed it, Jordan Peterson is coming back on Modern Wisdom. Me and video |
| 1:10.4 | Guideen are flying out to San Antonio, Texas in a couple of weeks to record with him. |
| 1:15.4 | In person, we have rented an entire 6K cinema camera setup. We've got a producer who's going |
| 1:21.5 | to be on site. We've had locations scouts looking at locations for a while and we've found a beautiful |
| 1:26.8 | spot to record in. It's going to be like the ending of a Christopher Nolan movie, just disgusting, |
| 1:33.1 | drama, cinematography. I can't wait. I'm excited to sit down with Jordan and have another |
| 1:38.8 | extended conversation with him and I'm really excited to create something that's going to look |
| 1:43.6 | and sound and feel really special because of all of the extra effort that we've gone to to produce |
| 1:48.1 | this. So yeah, get ready for that one. In other news, this episode is brought to you by brand new |
| 1:53.9 | sponsor mission. Mission believes that the world has a caffeine problem and they're probably right. |
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