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Lessons in Greatness: One Woman's Journey From Heart Condition to Climbing Mt. Everest
When Alison Levine was a child, she used to tell her family that “it feels like there is an elephant on my chest.” But they always told her, “toughen up.”
Yeah, she came from a “tough love“ sort of family.
At age 16 she passed out during soccer practice. While at the hospital they learned that she suffered from a rare heart condition.
Three surgeries later, she climbed to the peaks of the highest mountains on every continent and skied the North and South Pole.
This week on the School of Greatness, we have an amazing athlete, adventurer, professor of leadership and New York Times Bestselling author on the show. Please welcome the inspiring Alison Levine.
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In This Episode, You Will Learn:
About The Adventure Grand Slam: The Seven Summits – Tallest Mountains on Seven Continents and The North and South Pole – Skiing to the Ends of the Earth
The amazing story of how health problems inspired her greatness
How to overcome heart surgery like a champion
Why Mike Krzyzewski seeks out big ego players for the USA Olympic Basketball team
How to identify and build teams around Performance Ego and Team Ego
Conversations about failure with Pete Dawkins
Differentiating those willing to fail from those who simply under perform
How the acclimatization process of scaling Mt. Everest is a metaphor for succeeding at anything
Why Alison sees power in practicing sleep deprivation (Sleep defender? Listen to Ameer)
How to simulate extreme conditions to prepare for uncanny adventure
Lessons learned from Kilimanjaro
Wolf Parkinson White Syndrome and recovering from 3 heart surgeries
Unbelievable stories of near death experiences
About the importance of team dynamics in physically demanding environments
What she realized at the top of Mt. Everest
Plus much more…
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