Unlocking Persistent Motivation & Extreme Resilience | Ross Edgley

So Sisyphus was one of the the cleverest humans to ever exist in ancient mythology, uh was able to outsmart the gods, and he even chained up death at one point, which made the gods really angry because basically people were fighting wars and there were no no one was dying. So there's no souls going to the underworld. So Hades was really pissed off. Anyway, eventually he dies and the gods are just livid. So they're like, Look, we're gonna we're gonna punish you. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna make you roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. And just as it gets to the top of the hill, it's gonna roll back down. And you're just gonna do that for eternity, just this like absurd, like completely thankless task. But then it was Albert Camus, the philosopher, who said he was able to outsmart the gods one more time. And that's if you imagine. But Sisyphus was smiling. And this is the part I love. He said, because The struggle alone is enough to fill a man's heart. And I think for me, they've even coined the phrase that that Sisyphus was the absurd hero. And I I I think for me, swimming sometimes, I'm like

This is Sisyphus, this is my boulder, you know, it's not going anywhere. But The struggle alone is enough to fill a man's heart. Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast. We discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

My guest today is Ross Edgely. Ross Edgely is a British ultra endurance athlete who has accomplished such feats as swimming around Great Britain, which, by the way, is nearly 2,000 miles in distance. And it took him nearly 157 days. He also swam three hundred and seventeen miles of the Yukon River continuously, meaning nonstop. For fifty six hours. He's run a full marathon pulling a car. a full size car by the way, and he's done thirty marathons in thirty days.

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