Christopher McDougall Archives - RapidStart Leadership https://rapidstartleadership.com/tag/christopher-mcdougall/ Accelerating the Leader to Excellence Sat, 07 Nov 2020 23:19:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://rapidstartleadership.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Logo-for-Favicon-v5.png Christopher McDougall Archives - RapidStart Leadership https://rapidstartleadership.com/tag/christopher-mcdougall/ 32 32 94017446 Running 50 Miles: 6 Lessons in Perseverance https://rapidstartleadership.com/running-50-miles-6-lessons-in-perseverance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=running-50-miles-6-lessons-in-perseverance Thu, 10 May 2018 14:42:28 +0000 http://rapidstartleadership.com/?p=6436

What’s it like to run an Ultra-Marathon, and how do you motivate yourself to finish any great challenge? Today’s post will be a little different.  In 2014, the year I turned 50, I somehow came to the notion that I should celebrate a half-century of life by trying to run 50 miles in one day.  […]

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]]> 6436 Book Notes: Natural Born Heroes https://rapidstartleadership.com/book-notes-natural-born-heroes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-notes-natural-born-heroes Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:11:36 +0000 http://rapidstartleadership.com/?p=2496

What kind of person does it take to kidnap a Nazi General? That’s the question that Christopher McDougal asked when he wrote Natural Born Heroes. In an epic but little known story from World War II, Greek resistance fighters on the island of Crete were able to pull off this amazing feat in the capitol […]

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