#34 Amelia Boone: Learning How to Suffer

Welcome to the Furnham Street podcast called The Knowledge Project. I'm your host, Shane Parrish, the curator behind the Farm Street blog, which is an online community focused on mastering the best of what other people have already figured out. The Knowledge is where we talk with interesting people to uncover the frameworks you can use to learn more in less time, make better decisions, and live a happier and more meaningful life. On this episode I have Amelia Boone. Amelia's dominated obstacle course racing since its infancy. She's almost superhuman. A four-time world champion, she's been called the Michael Jordan of obstacle course racing. She's also known as the Queen of Pain, having once said

I'm not the strongest, I'm not the fastest. But I'm really good at suffering. In this conversation, we talk about learning, self reliance, reading, and a little bit about training, and so much more. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Emilia Boone is here and she's one of the most decorated athletes in the ultra competitive and somewhat superhuman Spartan and Tough Mudder races, twenty four hour races, hundred miles of running. I mean she's not doing that. She's a lawyer for Apple. She offers a real life example of someone

driven by a different motor. I'm pleased to have her on the Knowledge Project for the first time. Welcome, Amelia. Thank you. Thank you. I'm excited to be here. Really appreciative. Make the case for why, given all you've accomplished, I shouldn't think of you as superhuman. The case. I mean, because most people I think that would think there's a a little bit of crazy more than superhuman. Um but I think the funny thing is is I've always just considered myself a very regular person

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