Challenging Success
Challenging Success with Mark Pollock # 3
In this episode of You Can Ask That! I converse with Mark Pollock.
Unbroken by blindness in 1998, Mark became an adventure athlete competing in ultra-endurance races across deserts, mountains, and the polar ice caps including being the first blind person to race to the South Pole.
In 2010, a fall from a second story window nearly killed him. Mark broke his back and the damage to his spinal cord left him paralysed.
Now he is on a new expedition, this time to cure paralysis in our lifetime by exploring the intersection where humans and technology collide.
Mark’s keynote speeches have inspired millions of people to achieve more than they thought possible, in over a thousand organisations worldwide.
Together we discuss Challenging Success. The notions of success, and the juxtaposition of competing and collaborating.
KEY DISCUSSION POINTS:
The notion of success – past, present and future. Are we measuring the rights things in life?
Is success becoming a dirty word?
Is success addictive? Is success subjective?
Systems level – is anything really changing?
Competitor vs collaborator
Pursuing success and risking failure
World class – the best of the best to make the best (big breakthroughs)
When you find something at the edge, you find it and bring it back
RELEVANT LINKS
Mark Pollock Ted Talk - A Love Letter to Realism in a time of Grief.
“We must be driven enough to compete, but perhaps more importantly, brave enough to collaborate”