If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
Here, Impossible League member Patrick Hitches here is learning to surf in Peru. Obviously, his impossible shirt kept him completely waterproof throughout the entire experience (I told you!). After learning to surf, Patrick climbed Machu Picchu, ran a marathon with less than 30 days of training and sharks in the area reported human attacks as Patrick decided to get an [...]
We tend to focus on getting good at stuff a lot. This makes sense for obvious reasons – you’d rather get good at something than get bad at it. You want to get good. You want to get better. You want to progress. You want to be an expert. It’s logical. I like getting good at things, sure but it’s really [...]
We’re trying something new today. There’s a ton of really interesting stories going on in the impossible league and there’s almost 300 people involved in it. In order to highlight some of the impossible things people are doing, every Saturday from here until I decide to stop it, we’ll be featuring someone from the League doing something impossible in their impossible shirt. First up: Kristin [...]
I don’t watch much TV at all. But I watch Burn Notice. For the uninitiated of you, Burn Notice is a show about Michael Westen, a government spy that gets kicked out of the CIA and is left in Miami with nothing. No money. No job history. No identity. He’s stuck in Miami and has to figure out how to make things work [...]
Taking photos 30,000 feet in the air, of course. Actually, I’ve been laying low and relaxing after running my half-ironman in Miami. Between that, coming back to Milwaukee, flying to Denver and back, moving and trying to find some sleep and some time to relax, I’ve been keeping pretty busy. That said, have no fear! There’s a lot of really, [...]
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