The School of Greatness - 624 Find Your Flow with Travis Pastrana

Episode Date: April 6, 2018

DON'T GIVE UP BEFORE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. Have you ever wondered how people can be so great in the moment? How they can go with the flow so perfectly and know exactly how to maneuver a situation in their favor? Maybe it’s the ability to land that dream client who seemed unattainable. Maybe it’s being able to nail that trick on a skateboard, just when it seems like things are about to go wrong. In any case, the secret to your success and ability to go with the flow stems from the same place: failure. We all fear failure, but in the end it’s what makes us stronger. It means we’ve been testing the space, and working towards our dreams. To go into this more I wanted to post a clip of a previous episode with Travis Pastrana. Travis is an amazing athlete of a different type. He’s won gold medals for motocross in the X-Games, and is a phenomenal BMX rider. He even runs his own action sports show: Nitro Circus. Learn how you can become a master of your own passions, on Episode 624. In This Episode You Will Learn: How bad experiences can help you (00:49) Ways the greats push everything forward (1:27) What Travis does to stay on top (2:13) How your passions will help you succeed (3:12) Why not giving up is so important (3:35)

This is 5-Minute Friday! Welcome everyone to the School of Greatness podcast. We've got a very special and fun interview with a legend in motorsports competition and stunt performances, Travis Pastrana in the house, and he is an American motorsports competitor and stunt performer who has won championships and X Games gold medals in several events, including Supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, and rally racing. He runs a show called Nitro Circus and previously competed in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for Roush Fenway Racing. The more bad experiences you're in, the more bad experiences that you will get in that you know how to get out of, if that makes any sense. So like when you're in the air and everything's going wrong, but you've been in a similar situation. You know, either it worked or it didn't work, but you already have, you're not relying on thinking. You're just doing it.

And I feel like when you drop in and do something you've never done before, you already have an idea. You know what the takeoff feels like. You know what the pull feels like. You've tried it into a foam pit or an airbag or something. So for me, flow is simply repetition. It's being, it's knowing every part of my motorcycle or bicycle. So in and out that no matter what happens, I'm not that concerned about it because I know how to get out of it. And that's why guys like our Willie do so great because every time they mess up one trick, they might invent another trick because they realize what spins or how that, you know, so it's that, that mentally going, whatever this stunt, this trick, this jump, this day throws at me,

I've got it covered because I've put in the work. The only time that I feel like I'm really out of flow is when I'm thrown in a different element. Like, um, people are like, Hey, here's some skis. I'm like, Oh God, like I can't ski at all, but going down a hill, as soon as I get in the air, oh, all right, here we go back. There we go. Let's do some spins. Okay. And then I land back on the skis and I'm like, oh gosh, here we go. So for me, flow is repetition. The hardest part is with travel and with family and with everything, it it does get more challenging but give me an hour on my road bicycle every day and i don't care if we get to bed at three o'clock and we have to get up at five

i'd rather not sleep and just get that time for me that's i was never good at sitting on a couch or sitting anywhere just meditating still but on a road bike i feel like especially like around my house in maryland like it could be hot it could be cold it could be whatever and just just going out and you know there's not a lot of cars on the roads around the house and there's some good bike trails and you know just to put your music in and just have that time that's it's kind of alone and and you can you know the first little bit you kind of wind down and then you have that little bit of that that peace where you're just kind of riding and you might be thinking about what's going on and then you have that little bit of that piece where you're just kind of riding and you might be thinking about what's going on. And then you have that bit at the end where if you want to push it, you want to go a little hard, you want to see what you're made of again.

Every day you're like, you promise you won't do it the next time, but you want to see if you can beat that record. And that's funny. So for me, that kind of covers all three of my bases. If you're passionate enough about something, even if it's not exactly how you wanted it to be you'll find a way to make it work i don't know i feel like i don't know if what goes around comes around is something but i guess kind of stick with it because like i feel like there's a lot of people that get a lot of luck or get a lot or people that get a lot of bad luck and a lot of people with a lot of luck kind of change who they are and a lot of people with a lot of bad luck. And a lot of people with a lot of luck kind of change who they are.

And a lot of people with a lot of bad luck quit. And I'd say what goes around comes around. If you just don't quit, because so many times I have so many friends that were just, something was just about to come through and they gave up, which is fine.

That's what they want to do. But it's like, what goes around comes around. If you can just stick with it, if you can go through enough bad.