Smurf & Smurfette are endurance athletes balancing their careers as a doctor and educational leader with training, racing and life. During the COVID pandemic, endurance athletes around the world have had to find ways to challenge themselves outside of racing. This has meant finding hard personal challenges to complete. But why do we do these hard things? What is it that drives us to push ourselves outside our comfort zone? This week we discuss these ideas, in particular;

• The work of Dr Adam Fraser and his book Strive - how real fulfilment comes from the process of striving to do hard things
• The connection with other people we get from working towards hard things and sharing these experiences
• How doing hard things, both the process and the goal, helps to give human beings purpose and provide opportunity for us to grow
• Overcoming things that we once felt were impossible
• The element of curiosity and how curiosity of what we are capable of can encourage us to challenge our limits
• The adrenaline rush that comes with challenging ourselves and the risk of failure
• Why doing hard things is about falling in love with the work and the process as much as it is about loving the goal  

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