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Kyle Maynard

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  1. “So I hope he sees this, but it's like, but he's this kind of guy, though, that was like, he can go and run through a brick wall. And I needed that person to go and have that belief with me. So then from there, we sought out Eric. Eric introduced us to her guide, Kevin Shrilla. Kevin had led. He'd managed Eric's base camp of Everest Klein. He was the base camp manager. He's led more climbers up Kilimanjaro than I think any American. And many with disabilities led a guy almost to the True Summit in like a hand cranked bike, group of like eight blind climbers up Kilimanjaro. So with Kevin, he was really the one, him and his partner, Kristen, they kind of made it happen.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “And like he's insane, he's amazing. And I saw him out. Me and my friend Dan, who helped me co-create the mission. And we, you know, Dan was the first one that was kind of like the one crazy enough to go along with me. He'd been a record-setting middle linebacker, but he was five foot nine or something like that. had 21 on us as tackles in the game. But it was like one of the most passionate esoteric, you know, just guys that we could connect with on that level. Almost burnt my house down because, you know, a couple random story, but yeah, he like microwaved and illuminate coffee mug and I was doing some emails and I turned around and there's flame shooting out of my microwave like bro.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “It was rough. I mean, so thankfully, one of my friends and mentors is a guy named Eric Weinema that was the first blind mountaineer to climb Mount Everest and every high peak in the world. And he actually just rafted the entire length of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Not rafted like in a rafter. He was kayaking. Completely not like you can peek through when you put blind poles on a little bit. It's crazy to think about that.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “So, sitting in the bathtub with the ice had the idea that fall of 2010 met my friend Dan April 2011 and we started this project together. And then, so April 2011, and then by January 3rd, 2012, we were on the plane flying to Africa.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “The garbage great, man. Maybe that's a book right there. Seriously, I think about this, I'm like every one of my favorite societies to go and study of the Spartans and the Vikings in these warrior cultures, they would have left me to die.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “And I love that. It's like I love that you can go and attest to those assumptions. That was, you know, it's in medicine, it's in everything. I mean, I just got to give a speech with Pfizer, and I talked about the treatment that my grandma went through with this, cancer, oncology treatment products are some of the things that they go and make, and they polarity that occurred and the tension that occurred inside of our family and how that treatment should go. Really intense, and finally I was dealing with oncologists that hadn't had, you know, they went to school that were like maybe 40 or 50 years ago, right? And it was like they're at the very tail end of their careers. And they're not updating the map, right? And there's so many things like even fasting has had demonstrated profound effects on radiation and chemo treatments.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “I think winemaker is some of the most interesting people because I think the ones that I got to in Argentina in this last climb when we were in the land in Malbec and spent time with this guy, the line was Ellen and Migo and had this like, you know, super masculine half scorpion, half man on the label. But it said at the end, there's only one battle that you remember. And it's a battle within. It's like, I mean, of course, I'm like, this could be terrible, but I'm going to love it because of that court, right? Yeah, but the guy was like testing limits and testing assumptions where he was growing grapes at altitudes that people said you couldn't do it.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Basically, I drank like, I don't even know, like my body weight many times over, and now that's because of you. I thought for sure you would know that.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “So Maynard goes and gives up his music career and he's still doing it, but it's like he's had this super successful career in music, completely gives it up, recreates himself as a winemaker. You didn't know that? No. Dude, you're like the wine guy.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “I love tool, right? Maynard, James Keenan in Tool. He's like, he's the man. And I love him also too. He's a black belt and jujitsu, wrestled at the army. Yeah, I saw a guy that tried to get on stage with him one time, got past security. And the guy was like, went to go and give him a hug. And Maynard went to give him a hug and he hip-tosed him, took the guys back, rear naked choke. The guy's like rocking out. And Maynard starts singing again. And then the guy's hand just drops. This bad stage to run up on, right? He's a guy where I'm like”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “It's like, you know, she's like four years old. And she's like the sweetest girl in my life. I mean, and I think that that too, and kind of her being around me and other things like that, has kind of given her a level of, you know, indifference about the disability, which I think is a really good thing. Like indifference there is zero separation. It's just normal. And the only time that she's ever said anything, my niece, we were coloring together. And it was this Elsa, you know, Elsa Nana kind of like thing that we're coloring. And she was like, looked at me. She was like, oh, Kai Kai, you don't have hands. I was like, yeah, I don't. She was like, huh?”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “You know, she's like, she'll talk to her about it. And it's just like it's just in this very open, loving way. And like, yeah, it sucks, and like dealing with the reality of it. But it's really like, she won't let her be consumed with this identity around the type 1 diabetes, you know? And it's like, and kind of teaching her even at a young age, like, yeah, I mean, if you want to do something someday to be able to make a difference with this, like you can.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “I mean, it's a little bit different, but I would say I'd probably give a TED talk on parenting, but not from, like, I mean, I don't have any kids, right? So who am I to give a talk on that? But seeing my sister as a parent is really special. My niece was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. And some days we're really hard for that. Like that's a disability that you can't necessarily always see unless you see maybe like a glucose monitor on someone or insulin pump. You know, my sister's just I don't know, she's just awesome with that. Like it just is really special. Like the other day, you know, she's at this birthday party and this little girl came up to her and she could see that she had like a glucose monitor in the back of her arm. It was this princess themed birthday party and this little girl was like, you can't be a princess because you have one of those. And my immediate response was like, oh, well, you can't be a princess because you're the devil.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “But this guy is. This guy is definitely on drugs, right? I don't want whatever he's got. Just make me move a bunch of chairs everywhere.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “I try to, I mean, I know that just with my body alone, I can go and make a lot of different things happen, different body weight things. And, you know, I mean, if I have one dumbbell or something like that, I can go and use it. It helps for me to have a little bit of a mat or something like that kind of yoga mat or something to brace off of. But generally, there's some form of, even like any type of object, right? If I need to pick up this chair and go and move it around really fast in a bunch, it might look really weird for anybody that comes in on that.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “Yeah, right. Totally. I actually kind of see some of your posts. I'm like, that doesn't sound like a lot of fun. No, but it takes a lot out of you. And at the same time, I'm like, you know, a book is a very permanent sort of medium. I don't know if someday if I'll have kids or not, I have a niece and nephew, and someday they'll have kids and all that, right? And their kids. And so way after I'm gone and way after you're gone, those books will still be around as sort of a way for people to know who you were”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “I do, and I mean, I can't give you a BS excuse as to why I have it. No, that's true. I think that the big reason of why I haven't, I'm kind of glad that I haven't.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  18. “I don't think we have time for that. No, it's really like, I think a big, I can answer that and summarize that with it's a perfect snapshot in time of who I Kyle Maynard was at 19 years old. And it's not something a big weakness that I've had and it kind of connected to what you'd say to even like why speaking, right? Why am I doing that? Well, a lot of it, frankly, is I don't have a good answer for that because of what I've always done in many regards, I think that Struggle sometimes that I have now is that someone will read my book and have me come in and speak to their group, and that's awesome, but it's also their map of who Kyle was is like the 19 year old version. And I'm like, might not even talk about wrestling, right? It's like there's a lot of other stuff to talk about.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  19. “It put a different feeling and perspective on it because it was like it took away this idea that I needed to go and serve with a rifle, but there would be ways that I could go and serve in other ways now. And I'm still in. With every fiber of my bean want to go in and find ways.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  20. “30 or 40 people in this room watching the film and like And seeing their reactions too when the people would go and say the things that they said about me in the MMA fight, it was like powerful. Some of them wanting to just strap up and go after those guys. I'm like, whoa, you guys need to chill. So this one kid I remember 15 minutes after the movie started and like he came, he was in his chair and he'd been blown up really, really high and lost both legs and like almost it was really high. And they said that that was like one of the first times that you got to come out of his room. The first time that he come out of his room, maybe in one of the first times ever since he'd been there. Stuff like that, man. It's like.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  21. “I hate this word, but motivational speaker, right? Like motivational speakers, whatever, they have bad days too, right? And you have moments where if you like motivating, but then I go and I meet some veterans and just have these just powerful experiences and things that just really reshape the way they go and think about stuff. I remember I was just sharing with some friends today about I went in a couple years ago. It was a trip just back to Walter Reed and got to got to go and visit. We actually played the documentary Fighting Chancellor. We had a viewing at Walter Reed and spent about an hour in this hospital room with this one kid who'd recently been blown up pretty bad. He's 19, 20 years old. He was sitting there with his dad. And they said, you know, I mean, it was fairly recent that it happened and that when I was invited him to come down and watch the movie with me. And we had maybe intimate kind of thing.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  22. “So many instances I've been profoundly impacted by veterans that were also in some really rough spots. I desperately wanted to serve. I mean, I wanted to go when 9-11 happened and we saw the planes go in the towers. I was like, I want to go bad, you know, send me and would have done anything to go. And, you know, it was high school, right? testosterone and all that and got so many friends that are in the military now, some of my closest friends, active duty, some retired, some injured, some not. Anybody that's ever put on that uniform, I have a tremendous respect for. Several instances and times where I've been feeling sorry for myself.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  23. “And if one thing that either you or I could go and say could make one bit of difference with that person or people, then that to me matters way more than anything else. And I know that all the other stuff of like, you know, look good on TV or do a good job for Tim, that would be taken care of is that it doesn't even matter. But if my awareness is there, that's what matters.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  24. “And then at that point, kind of select what is the one that's going to be the most empowering place to come from with this. In this example, I was a young entrepreneur and reading your books and looking up to you. And like, so if I come at it from this perspective of one of the whys of me being here would be like, oh, I want to do a good job for Tim, right? But that's not the most empowering why. I mean, that can be part of it and can coexist with the fact that there may be some people in this room right now that are struggling with things that are way more difficult than anything you or I have ever faced.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  25. “Don't feel like giving a speech that day. Get up and do it anyway. And it's really a lot of it, the biggest habit, I think, that I've been conscious of lately, there's so much discussion and I talk about this in the speeches too, but it's like the idea of why, right? That's a big discussion. But I think the missing link that we have with that is there are like hundreds of whys that are occurring simultaneously for any given moment of why you're going to go and do anything. Maybe thousands, but at least hundreds. I mean, right now you could come up with like a hundred whys on a spot, you know, if you had 10 minutes to think about it of why you're doing this TV show and not to have judgment over those things. Some things might be business related. Some things might be making an impact on people. And it might be just so many different inner things connected with that. And really what I've noticed is that's okay. And I get to go in.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  26. “Sometimes you get up and you do it anyway, even when you don't feel like doing it. And that's, I think, the difference with a performer or someone that's a high performer, you have to do it, right? Even when you don't feel like it, but there are plenty of times when I'm at speeches and stuff like that where don't”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  27. “I think that right now that's probably the biggest thing that I'm struggling with in my life. I travel close to 200 days a year and I'm like just beat up by that. So it's different all the time. And that sort of routine and structure is definitely something that I've wanted to have more kind of consistency. And I think that now I'm taking actions towards creating that in my life. I would say the one thing that makes a difference for me is I'm actually like, I can fake extroversion well, but I'm not. Yeah.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  28. “Screw that, like, I don't need to convince everyone, right? There's plenty of people that I don't need to go in and convince. I mean, it's just, we all walk around with this idea and myself included, we all do it, right? But I try to remind myself all the time that I don't have a freaking clue what reality is. I don't know, right? I don't know and I want to be out in the world to like try to figure that out and just give up my assumptions and beliefs and whatever those things are and not be tied to any one thing. We go and see stuff right now with like the election too and like how polarizing everybody gets and we go and get so gripped to like these beliefs on one side or another. And it's not that one side or the other is better. To me, it's both the same thing. It's like we have to sometimes be able to go and see that it's just our own perception. It's just our own perception. There's nothing to do with reality.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  29. “By far the most valuable thing is that it's okay to have people pissed off at me or mad at me or saying things about me and whatever. And so I was like, okay, it hurt at first. I was like, I read that and I was like, I read all this stuff. And I was like, man, I don't want to say that frustrate me. And I remember I wrote this post on the underground and all that stuff. And it just got buried and nobody even replied to it. This whole wave just kind of kept going of people talking about stuff that was out of my control. And I was like,”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  30. “And in the internet, it was funny. It was like so many people said, like, oh, Kyle's definitely going to die. Definitely gonna die. I gotta turn on the TV. It's gonna be the first televised death, you know, it was like... My other son, I was trained with Forrest Griffin at the time, so my other training partners, Forrest, it was before he was going to fight Shogun, who's like legendary MMA fighter. And they were like, Forrest is definitely going to die against Shogun. He ended up beating him, but it was like, Forrest is going to die. Kyle's going to die. This is like, this camp's going to provide the first two MMA deaths.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  31. “If he's not going to come in and engage, then I'm going to force the action. I went and laid in the middle of the cage on my back. And he came and just crushed me on the liver. And I was like, oh, bad idea. Get back up. Plan B, plan B.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  32. “So it wasn't the most exciting fact in the world. My goal, my strategy, I wanted to go and cut the cage corners off to be able to, it was a square cage that we were finding in. I wanted to be able to go and then work the angles to then hit lowest angle or whatever it was to be able to go and drive them against the cage and take him down. Not much of a kickboxer, if you can imagine. And so a lot of it in the first round is kind of baiting him towards to come to me and kind of uneventful. But by the second round, I was like press the action. I'm pressing him, trying to cut the corners and all that. Didn't get him down, ate some just jabs, probably the hardest shot I ate was maybe in the second round. And then in the third round, I was like, screw this reckless abandon. Like I'm just chasing this guy as hard and fast as I can. Like 90 seconds. And then even the announcer's like the guy I fought was like, well, this guy's on his treadmill now. It was like more of a track event than it was an MMA fight. And I'm like, but, you know, I'm going to go out there. And then eventually I was like, screw this.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  33. “So I started before this. I used to in wrestling, I had overwhelming competitive anxiety and pre-match anxiety. I would be overtaken by it. And to the point where eventually wanted to know nothing about my opponents. And I remember I beat a kid that was super tough. And it was like afterwards my coach was like, did you know he was like a two-time state champ? And if I had known going into it, I probably would have lost. So really going in this fight, I did so much visualization and sounds kind of like woo-woo, but it was like so much visualization, then I think kind of like I felt like I told my instructor, my Paul Creighton is his name, my jiu-jitsu coach at the time. I told him, I was like, I feel like I've been here like 10 times. Like, this is like my 10th or 12th fight because I had visualized it so much that when I finally got there, I was able to be calm enough to be able to enjoy that moment.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  34. “In their map of the world and their understanding that it was like, I get it, it makes perfect sense. And at the same time, in the cage, I got to sit in there and be the first time in there looking out, not as a spectator, but as a participant. It was like such a cool view, man. It was like, wow, like 99.99% of the people that said those things would never have that view because they're so busy talking shit. That they don't live their life to then have that experience. And there's a Teddy Roosevelt thing, a quote from a speech that he gave. But this excerpt is called Man in the Arena. And that I really encourage everyone here to go and check that out. Made a huge impact on me.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  35. “Have compassion for, have some empathy for them and understand that even, you know, all they're doing is they're projecting my capabilities based on their own experiences. And imagining if I were in Kyle's shoes, then of course whatever, then I wouldn't be able to go do this or that. And if you don't have any experience, like if I've never trained with you or whatever, then it would make sense, a guy going into a fight, you know, punching and kicking is loud, you know, choking is loud, all of that stuff. It seems like crazy and ridiculous until if we train together, I can change your perspective, right? Then it's like, so...”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  36. “So, yeah, and it was kind of my first time doing something that was very polarizing like that. And it was a unique experience and it was also coupled around right around the time I had just opened the gym, some training for the fight and some nights sleeping at the gym. I mean, had opened it up and it was like coaching all the classes. I'm like the CEO. I'm also the janitor. Somebody goes and pukes during a workout. Got to go clean the toilet. It's like, you know, so kind of all of those things are going on simultaneously trying to go and prepare for this fight, which is like one of the biggest events in my life. It was a wild experience, but I'd look back on that. It was amazing. Some of my best friends, actually some of them, one of them is here was a director of, we produced a documentary on it, ESPN bought, and then now it's on Netflix, but it's an amazing journey.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  37. “Yeah, the head commissioner was in a wheelchair actually. He told me, I think this is amazing what you're doing here for people with disabilities and we support you doing this. And then at a commission meeting. Kyle's a limbless freak show, get doing this, get back on TV, and come take a chainsaw and cut off my arms and leg so I can get on TV too. The super classy YouTube comments, right?”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  38. “This is a little bit before. I've been training for a few years and then opened the gym and actually chose to pursue a fight in MMA within a couple of months. I mean, it was like I tried to do a MMA fight before in 2007 and got denied. And so...”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  39. “I saw this chick do this to this guy. This girl, she did it to a guy that was like 200 pounds the next day. And I was like,”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  40. “Super quick too. She triangle choked me, slapped it on. I was like, out. You know, and I was like wrestling club level, but still preparing to go to the nationals in good shape. Wrestlers love to get contract.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  41. “Early days, like man, but yeah, so much, I mean, like that saw those videos and I was like, whoa, like another human's able to do this to another human? I have to learn. And I went in and I got choked out by a girl and I was like,”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  42. “Jiu Jitsu came in because I saw some Gracie videos and I was like, I want to try this in action. Like some Gracie's in action.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  43. “My coach used to stay after and practice, and he would literally tuck his arms into his sleeves and wrestle from my perspective and try to, for hours, just try to figure out moves that could go and do. I think a lot of times too, we look at things and we forget one person that's achieved something great and we're like, oh man, that person, right? We don't see the massive amount of people, the hundreds of people or thousands of people that have poured their life into trying to help that person.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  44. “And I tried to grab the wall to slow myself down and it was like this big streak of blood came down. So there's a big CSI crime scene. And I'm like, wow. And I hit the bottom of the ramp and all that and flipped out of the chair and I was laughing hysterically when I'd survived.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  45. “Let go. He just launched me down the jetway And, like, I'm sped out that I can see the people, their eyes at the bottom like, this is it. He's coming.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  46. “Traveling, especially when I was traveling by myself, that many people looked at me very differently. And, you know, of course, I want to help and things like that. And I've had some pretty hilarious events where it was like, for sure, I've learned that one of my bigger challenges was accepting help. But there was some times where I knew that it would just be better and easier if I, whatever it was, did it on my own, right? One time I'm in the New York airport in Luardia. It was a really super steep jetway. This guy and I get in a little bit of an argument where he tells me he works at the airport and he's telling me he has to push my wheelchair down this jetway. I'm like, no, no, I'd be better if I did it. And he's like, no, I have to. It's liability. I'm like, we go back and forth and finally give in. But this guy was like the tallest human being I've ever seen, literally. And he goes and takes about three steps down the jetway and he gets his foot caught in the back of my wheelchair. And he goes down. So he doesn't just like...”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  47. “I think they were very much, my mom especially trying to constantly, she was. Use a big, she used to always talk about psychosometics, you know, and all this stuff, right? She would just talk about kind of mind over matter and just be drilling things in my head of focusing on the positive and all that. So it was really, I'm super glad that she had that perspective. But it wasn't always the case. My mind didn't always obviously go there. And differently, probably one of the most difficult transitions that I faced was going from As a freshman at University of Georgia and write a book. And as you know, when you go and launch a book, then it's like it changes your life pretty dramatically. And the whole book tour and all this stuff got to be on Oprah and Larry King when I was 19. And it was like just, I went from being a full-time college student to full-time business traveler overnight. And in my community, people knew me and they knew, you know, not that I like the disability and stuff like that wasn't as, you know, they didn't make it that big of an issue. When it'd be gone.”

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  48. “Kind of get to sort of quasi mentor and help a lot of different kids with disabilities. And I noticed that those transitory periods, anytime where there's a major transition in someone's life with a move or going, say you're going from middle school to high school or high school to college or college to the world, then it's those periods of transition that are the most difficult because it's like my friends in Indiana saw me as Kyle. It saw me as normal. And now I've got to go and reacclimatize an entire new group of people in Georgia.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  49. “Sixth grade, yeah. Grandparents moved down. I mean, just like we're in Indiana, and it's just, I mean, it was like the snow and all that. It was the best thing that happened, I think, in doing the move and going to Georgia, but it was also time it felt like the worst. I tried to stage a family coup d'etat to like try to overthrow my dad and go back to Indiana. I noticed that a lot.”

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  50. “Old, like, that was really struggling. Like, yeah, someday you'd be able to go and lift that weight or travel the world as a speaker, have businesses and hate some amazing girls or all of that. It's just different experiences or climb some of the highest peaks in the world. If I could tell that 10-year-old that it would almost seem like a fantasy story. And I think that. And somebody maybe that's at a really hard spot if they could talk to someone 10 or 20 years a version of themselves 10 or 20 years later after they had really faced some of these fears, then I think that they would have their mind blown as to what they'd be able to achieve for sure.”

    2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT