Rich Roll On: How To Pursue Health Without Becoming Unhealthy; How To Establish Motivation & Momentum; And Why People Hate Vegans

It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody, how are we doing? I don't use the word inspiring a lot, largely. because I think that word has been overused, you know, ground down into near meaninglessness through rote repetition.

But I genuinely do find my guest today inspiring. Rich Roll is a guy who found himself at midlife overweight, unhealthy, and unhappy in his legal career. He then took a huge risk and walked away from it all and became an ultra endurance athlete. To be very clear right from the jump here, I am not planning on becoming an ultra-endurance athlete. I'm not recommending you become one, but I do love the idea of pushing my body for as long as I have it.

And the fact that Rich was able to achieve so much is hugely motivating for me, especially at uh age 53. What makes me like Rich even more is that even though he's taken fitness to some pretty serious extremes, he has lots of thoughts and strategies for how any of us at any age and with whatever goals can get ourselves moving. And unlike many fitness influencers, Rich is actually very thoughtful about the pitfalls. of what psychologists call orthorexia, the unhealthy obsession with being healthy. In this conversation, Rich and I talk about how to harness the power of momentum and the importance of intrinsic motivation, what being quote unquote in shape means, who exactly sets the standards for what the shape should be,

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