Overcoming Odds Podcast · Discover Your True Potential | Luke Tyburski

A runner trains for months for his upcoming race.

His coach pushes him and explains how he can achieve his full potential.

The days of training, sweating, and pain, all accumulate to one moment:

The day of the race.

At the starting line he can hear the shouts of the crowd.

He can hear the shuffling of feet from the other competitors.

He can hear the pounding of his own heart.

His anxiety starts to flare as the man at the starting line raises the gun.

Will he be able to live up to all of the expectations he placed on himself?

Will he realize his full potential?

The gun explodes and the race starts.

Not everyone is a professional athlete.

Not everyone is a tycoon of industry.

However, every person has the potential to be the best at whatever they set their hearts on.

This can create a fear where failure is possible.

It can also create a fear that if success is not met, then there has been a monumental waste of potential.

Just like training for a race, life has its moments of easy days and hard days.

There are days where it feels like everything is going great and days where it feels like the whole world is crashing down.

Life itself is a marathon, not a sprint.

It takes time to build up potential and truly understand who you are in relation to the world.

Over the course of your life, have you found yourself living to your potential?

Do you believe that it is out of your reach?

Do you fear that you will never achieve it?

Join Oleg and Luke as they discuss the potential of everyone and the fears we harbor along the way.

Overcoming Odds Podcast · How To Turn Your Anxiety Into A Superpower | Adam Hill

Your heart is beating fast.

Your chest seizes slightly.

You burst into a cold sweat.

Your deadline is fast approaching and you feel physically ill from the pressure.

You close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and continue your project in stride.

Anxiety can come in many forms and be triggered by all sorts of situations.

Perhaps meeting new people or traveling or pressure from work.

Whatever the reason may be, anxiety is usually perceived as a negative attribute.

After all, people seek medical intervention in order to decrease anxiety.

But what if anxiety had its purpose? What if there were ways to harness its power?

According to the Yerkes-Dodson Law, there may be an optimal level of stress or anxiety one can experience in order to have the best possible performative outcome.

It would be appear then that anxiety may be beneficial in the right amounts.

If one suffers from anxiety, how can one be able to rewrite their narrative for the good?

How can one reframe anxiety into a superpower?