2024-09-27 11:00:00
Carlos Paunera Spanish mountaineer, in 2018 he was lost at more than 7,000 meters above sea level, with a temperature of -40 ° C, in Kangchenjunga for 48 hours. Together with a team of five, they were traveling a completely new route. After reaching the summit and begin the descent during the nightPauner slipped down a large ice wall, losing some of his mountaineering equipment. He negotiated and fought with his mind to go forward, mind that I was just trying to convince him take the easy path which is to give up and die so that you no longer feel cold, thirsty or tired. After an amazing 48 hours battling the elements, the mountain, and his mind, he managed to reunite with his team at base camp. This is one of the few stories of this kind in the high mountains, as it is common for anyone who spends one night at that altitude to be presumed dead.
Arnulfo Castorena He is a multi-medal Paralympic swimmer, with seven medals, and an inspirational story of improvement. His mother died in childbirth and his father abandoned him because of his deformed legs and arms. He was raised by his grandmother until he was twelve, he entered a boarding school where he met Sor Chiva, who took him to a swimming pool. and discovered his swimming talent. Despite the difficulties, he worked selling gum and cleaning windshields to continue training. At the age of eighteen, he met an official from the CODE (State Council for the Promotion of Sports), which enabled him to have a sporting career that helped him win his first medal in Sydney 2000.
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Like Pauner and Castorena, We all have the ability to overcome difficulties. Beliefs, learned or imposed, depend on how you choose to see them and how much you train your mind. As Immanuel Kant said: “We do not see things as they are, but as we are.”
Science helped us prove it, a study of patients with knee pain, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002, showed that people who got placebo surgery (they just had an incision made without the actual surgery) had the same improvement in pain as those who got the real surgery. This suggests that up to 100 percent of relief may be due to expectations!
As in the previous cases, you are probably dealing with a self-imposed paradigm, in which you have the opportunity to question those limits, beliefs and situations, and therefore try to reach your maximum potential . Just this week, I’ve heard phrases like this: “I didn’t exercise because it was cold.”, “I don’t jump or train because I have a lot of work”, “I’m late for work because I live far away.”.
What do you think life would be like for these people in the case of Pauner and Castorena?
If you want to improve your mental strength, you just have to believe that you have a strong mind, but always train it and challenge new limits. Some examples to prepare and strengthen your mind include:
– Do difficult and challenging activities, such as long exercise, for example, doing hiking.
-Voluntarily choosing the discomfort, for example bathing with cold water daily.
-Delay immediate gratification, avoid desserts, sweets, soft drinks, etc.
Remember that success, inexorably It’s outside your comfort zone.
Greater mental strength will help you, both as a business leader and in your personal life, to overcome obstacles and make decisive decisions, motivate your team and see “failure” as a necessary step to success. After learning the story of Pauner and Castorena… What’s your excuse for not starting to build the best version of yourself today?
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