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Caroline Paul

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first: 2016-04-05
most recent: 2016-04-05
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“I have a website CarolinePaul dot com and my book is there and we actually have an Instagram called the Gutsy Girl Club that's doing very well where we highlight girl heroes or girls that are great role models for gutsiness and bravery. And we also have a website for the book the GutsyGirl.org”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, if you're a parent, I really want you to look at the way you are guiding your girls versus guiding your boys. Because I hear a lot of parents say oh no, no I treat my boy and my girl the same and then the more we talk about it the more becomes clear that maybe they don't so for instance I was talking and I referenced this in my op-ed, was talking to this woman and she said no I don't really treat my boy and my girl differently. Oh, but my girl's actually more cluttsy so I do caution her more because she's more clutzy and so in fact she was actually already Treating her girl differently without realizing it. Think if we look, because I'm guilty of this too, this bias of thinking that girls and women are more fragile, are more in need of help. And that is just so not true and so detrimental”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“puberty are physically the same, they break the same, and they're as able as each other, if not girls being more able at that time. So the fact that girls are told and treated as if they're more fragile doesn't make sense at all. And it primes them to be very sort of over cautious about this idea of being hurt.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was foretold. It was not treated as if it was something catastrophic. It just was part of childhood and I had a couple stitches and it broke my thumb and blah blah blah. So I guess what I think is that I hope no one gets injured, but I think injury's not as bad as people think and to not do something because you might get injured is a terrible reason not to do something because we're going to get, we could get injured in anything. I mean, just getting into your car is very dangerous. And so I think we should just put that in its place where it should be. And so girls are often told, oh, you could get hurt and this specter of getting hurt takes on these huge proportions. That's not emphasized. And they've done studies with this. And yet the interesting thing is that girls and boys.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's interesting. I mean, I think the parents will hate me if I say they should. I had my first stitches when I was five parents put me on a sled and I immediately sleded right into the tree at the bottom of the hill. Thus, my losing career.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think I don't remember having trouble sleeping like the last ten years. I don't know if it's an age thing. But it's a drag when you can't sleep because well part of it is I used to get injured a lot and then I couldn't sleep because of my injuries. I basically had my knee replaced. That was a very from because I fell in a fire while firefighting. And eventually that knee had to be replaced. And once it was, it took years for me to feel, to be able to sleep. And then so that kind of thing, I think, probably threw me off track.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I actually use an e-cigarette because I don't like the effect When I wouldn't, I don't smoke anything general. Like I don't smoke cigarettes, never have. But I do use the vape, I guess. Right. I'm so uncool. I don't know any of that.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do. I have a lot of trouble sleeping. Now I have my medical marijuana card, actually. I've never liked pot. And but my mom recently had lung cancer and she's fine, but she was really nauseous from the drugs and she had a friend giving her pot, some pop paste, which we said, just take that pop paste. It'll probably help your extreme nausea and she's English. She's almost 80. She's like, oh no, I'm not going to smoke pot or I'm not going to take pot. And then she did, and it was miraculous for her. And she said she slept well. And I said, you slept well. And I don't smoke pot either. And so, but I said, oh, I need to sleep terribly. And I've been, I took it and I slept like a log. So now I take pop before I go to sleep.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To sleep. I cannot stay up late. I wish I could. I wish I could hardly sleep at all because I'm not one of those people who love sleep, but I need to go to bed. About 10, it dries Wendy crazy, but at about 10, I'm checked out”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“six Even if it's a vacation, I sent my alarm and get up. I feel if I sleep in that I've sort of wasted the day, and then I immediately I eat within an hour just because that's important for my metabolism and it's Pete's coffee, French roast, really strong, two balance bars, and I feel set for the day kind of thing”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I am such a creature of habit which often surprises me. Outside, let's say, I don't know, I was, I did first ascents with a whitewater team. You do not know what's going to happen next on a river that's never been done before, even if you've scouted it along the banks. Yet I need routine in my daily life. I guess that makes sense because it balances it out. It's like Obama who wants to wear the same tie because he makes way too many decisions in other areas. So, yes, I love I get up early. Even if.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be brave. I don't know. I'm not good. I write books, not sentences. Yeah, you're right. What would you put on a billboard, Tim?”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're something psychological about doing something alone. So when I was a paraglider for many years, and I remember always when I would launch feeling, okay, now I'm really alone, no matter what happens, it's just me. I mean, at the time, we didn't even carry radios. Now I think probably paragliders carry all sorts of, you know, paraphernalia, but So when you fly in the air you feel alone and a she's in the middle of the ocean in a storm very different.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I have a quote where she's like, yeah, because I have a lot of quotes in the book too. And her quote, I'm not going to do it quite right, but it's something like, yeah, we had sort of a boring day. She wrote writing in her journal. I had sort of a boring day today. Hurricane Lucy came by, but that's about it.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Great documentary. Yeah, she actually wanted to go around the world and her parents said fine on her own, and the Dutch courts and the court of public opinion freaked out. It was a really interesting question, I think, but she was clearly a very talented sailor.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, no. Well, she's actually not in the book, but I try to, I have little sidebars of women throughout history and also around the world who have done adventurous super badass kick-ass things. And she certainly could be.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I two people I don't identify with Rosa Parks, but I would love to have her sort of her courage, her ability to overcome like what was then the social norm to sit in the back of the bus. The other person would be Beryl Markham, who's a pilot.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With varying degrees of success, obviously. I love that book. But these are books I'd give just to say these are amazing stories. And you'll probably learn something from them.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Peter Heller Heller? Gosh, I can't. And that book is called The Dog Stars, which I picked up because I love the stars, basically. I was like, oh, he's going to be talking about the main character will be an astronomer, and I'll learn something about the stars. It turns out it's an apocalyptic book. It's beautifully written. That main character is a pilot. And since I fly a lot of different things.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, it's a beautiful book by a writer who fought in Vietnam, and when he came back, he became a writer. And a lot of his writing, at least initially, was about Vietnam, either in sort of thinly veiled autobiographical form, but fiction. The things they carried is a beautiful book. It actually got me back to reading, because I think when you go to college, reading gets kicked out of you a little bit. You have to read all these things. And I didn't read until my friend Eric, who was a whitewater rafter with me, handed me this book and said, this is great. And I started reading again after that. I really love the book.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, Total Rockstar. But so she's very successful because she's doing exactly what she wants to do. She's an artist who has her own business. The great thing about Wendy, too, is she's so great at laughing at herself. She really, something that I really want to embrace more in my own life is just to laugh at myself. And she's also great about pointing out her own flaws all the time, whereas I try very much to hide my flaws. And it's just so endearing when someone bears their flaws. Because the truth is, you know, our flaws are usually fine. Usually what makes us so lovable.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wendy's my partner of eight years and she's a very successful illustrator and she's illustrated Gutsy Girl and she illustrated the book that I wrote before called Lost Cat, a true story of love, desperation, and GPS technology. And she's illustrated many books and been in the New York Times.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And there were a lot of amazingly kind and open minded men who were really struggling. I mean, it's hard when you have your homogenous club, which we all do. If you look at your friends, they all look like you. And then suddenly it's forcibly opened and it's just difficult. It's right. You shouldn't have your club necessary. You don't have a right to it. But still, it's going to be hard. And I really did empathize with that, especially when I looked around and saw that my own life was as homogeneous as the fire department had been. And in fact, my life opened up a lot. With the fire department met a lot of people I would not have met who were very different from me. So just understanding that the motivation is obviously often not malice.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm actually not easy offended mostly because I think in general, like for instance being in the firehouse, I learned one really interesting thing. At first I thought a lot of the men were ignoring me. I'd literally say hello to them or ask them something and they would not speak to me. It turned out a lot of them are deaf. I kid you not. I totally believe that. And then I suddenly realized they're not ignoring me because they wouldn't do that. I mean, of course, a couple, there were a couple bad apples for sure who would do that. But in general, they were super respectful.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Basically, I mean, they're very funny. I mean, firefighters are hilarious. And I really, you learn to have a thicker skin. Someone throws your meal against”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he was right, actually. I was so sullen about cooking that I didn't, and he actually was a little indignant about that. And now I try to put love in my meals. When I cook, the other thing was make it colorful. That was another advice that I got and I thought was great advice. Very hard for me to do. Everything was kind of gray. Oh, and then the third was have three to set meals that you do.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh yes, I had probably that was actually the trick. Well, there were three tricks. And once I remember a guy coming up to me and he said, you just don't put any love into this meal. I was so shocked, this big burly firefighter wanted loving his meal”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“People would try, and they would trade out of it or they would come up to me and say, well, you want to trade this? And you take my night watch next time. I was like, yes. They didn't want me to cook either.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The thing about the fire department is part of the biggest social times or the meals. And so V being a vegan was not going to really help me at all. So I... I became a vegetarian, and there were a couple other vegetarians in the fire department, some old timer guys who were vegetarians, but in general we were an anomaly. And people hated it when I cooked. I hated it when I cooked. I hated cooking. Cooking.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“People are interested in physical training. And he's just super interesting. And his techniques were really new at the time. This idea of training in an unstable environment was completely new. And so I do incorporate that in my workout still. But in general, I'm old school free weights.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Swiss balls, medicine Swiss Balls was his big thing. I mean, he can do squats on a Swiss ball. I know that's, you can probably do that too.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I was doing training in unstable environments, which is what Polliquin pretty much pioneered here in the United States. I think he took it from Russia.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, sorry. So then when I was at Lake Placid, all these athletes from around the world trained there. It was an amazing experience. And I met my friend Andre, who was a, he turned into an Olympian. His nickname was not Crash. He was really good at what he did, and he became a trainer under Charles Polliklan and trained many Olympic teams and very So that's how I met Charles. And when he came to San Francisco to do a class with Andre, I was there”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He and I were. Really good friends, and we were both pilots, so we flew together a lot. And so then we went to Lake Placid. And then he left to go back to Stanford. And I'm like, I'm staying. And I took a semester off or quarter at Stanford.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And she was determined to break this Lake Placid kid only team. So she held these tryouts out here, which basically consisted of putting wheels on sleds and pushing us down Alpine Road near Stanford. And like, I don't know why. And I got, and I was like, this is for me, for sure. And I got picked along with my really good friend Blaze. He and I were pals and blood. Yeah, good name, right? That's a good name. That's a good nickname”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, actually, I was super lucky. It just so happened that the number, the highest placing American loser at the time was a woman named Bonnie Warner, and she went to Stanford.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And sky goes around the corner around us and I hear this scream. And I looked, I said, was that a scream? He said, oh yeah, Mike. His chin almost hits the ice on this turn. Don't worry about it.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I first went, the guy said, Yeah, Camir, I'm going to show you someone. There was no learning. They just basically put you on a sled. But he did take me to the side of the track. And he said, watch Mike or whoever it was. And I remember standing at the corner.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I figured that oh there's no women doing it then I'll for sure make the Olympics in this sport and they said well we're not in the Olympics yet but we we plan to be I was like that's good enough for me”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I looked at it. I was like, that's the sport for me. And when they said there were absolutely no women doing it, I was like”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is actually, and at the time it was really a ragtag team. They didn't have any uniforms. They wore jeans and like work boots and motorcycle helmets.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it was, but I just wanted to be an Olympian. And I wasn't determined, but when I found out about the sport of Skeleton”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can't remember. I think it was 14. That's the one I remember. And they would just watch me to take these incredibly flippy turny topsy turfy.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is so bad, and I talk about this in the book. It was, I had such spectacular crashes that people would gather at this turn and”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, I had an alleged Oh, yeah, that too. I was a loser as a loser. But I had determination, as most people who know me know and maybe who've read this book, I had an Olympic dream. And so my theory was, well, I'm not really good at anything, but I'm super dogged and determined. So let me find a sport where there's hardly any people. And lo and behold, it's losing, at least back in 1984 it was losing. Basically, the only people on the Olympic team for Luge in the United States all lived in Lake Placid. That was the only place there was a track. So I went and I did Luge and I was terrible. I crashed all the time. Yes. Yeah, it is. You go at high speeds. And if you're me.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I'm so old school, and I'm embarrassed about it because I realize that everybody these days are into, you know, functional workouts that mean like swinging kettlebells. And it's funny because I actually worked with Charles Polliquin like 20 years ago. No kidding. Yeah, because one of my really close friends is a trainer with him. I met my friend Andre when I was a loser. I was actually.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I've become a much more efficient worker outer. I used to be a complete gym rat and obviously when I was a firefighter, I was working out all the time. I ran six miles a day and I lifted a lot. But now I enjoy being outside much more. So my workout consists of surfing, hopefully, if the waves are right. And if not, I'll swim in an outdoor pool and I do a very quick lifting workout. I unfortunately have a replace knee. My knees are shot. So there's a lot I can't do anymore like run, which makes me sad. But I've just become way more efficient with my workouts.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This book takes place in the outdoors because I think it's a great training ground for bravery and learning bravery because yes, bravery is learned. But obviously it's not the only place where gutsiness comes into play. I mean, we need it in all parts of our life. So that's why the exercises range. But again, it's in the outdoors because that's fun. And it's great to read about adventures in the outdoors.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, which talks about how if you stand with your posture straight taking up space, you'll actually trigger confidence chemicals. And if you stand in what she calls a low power pose, which is slouched, you're actually triggering cortisol, which makes you feel worse. So the key is not to be brave in that moment or confident is to actually stand like you're brave and then the confidence will come. So there's exercises like that. So I wanted a full range because”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we have a bunch of sort of fun exercises that girls can do. And they range. Like some of them are survival tips like how to get water from a tree. Is that you put a clear plastic bag over it and the tree will sort of perspire, actual water through photosynthesis, which I think is cool. I love those kind of Macyre-like tips, how to find the North Star, which is not only practical, beautiful to look at the night sky. And then I have a lot of confidence building exercises, like standing in the Wonder Woman pose based on Amy Cuddy's talk, TED Talk. Great.”
2016-04-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #151: How to Overcome Fear - Lessons from Firefighter and Luger, Caroline Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT