Deep Dive With Dr. Carrie

Hey, Cadre fam. Doctor Carrie here, going live on this beautiful Wednesday. It is a fabulous day here in the middle of nowhere in the desert in California. It's actually a little bit cooler today. About 88, 86. A little bit cooler than usual for May 31, but excited to be talking about what I'm talking about today. I had a lot of topic ideas, but this one, I cannot stop thinking about it. So I watched this documentary the other night, and I am not a documentary person at all. I actually really dislike them.

They're just too fast paced or something for me, and too dramatic. And I don't like having, like, the cliffhanger at the end of. You gotta go to the next episode, whatever. So there's a 1 hour documentary about this marathon race called the Barkley Marathons. And if you haven't watch this, go watch it. But I'm just going to give you a brief summary. It is hilarious, first of all, because this guy who came up with this race is the most charismatic, quirky guy you'll ever see. And he just. He's very confident in who he is.

And he's so quirky. I just loved him. Loved him. But it's basically a race in Tennessee in, like, the mountains. And it is the equivalent of climbing Everest twice. Throughout this race, it's over 100 miles. And there's really no set standard as to actually how far this race is. They say it's 20 miles five times, but it ended up this one time. They filmed the documentary being about 130 miles of running. And the people that apply for this race, first of all, the application process involves a test, involves essays.

It's like, super intense and a very nominal application fee. And then when you get your letter of acceptance, he says, I regret to inform you that you have been accepted to run the Barkley marathons. Like, it's just. It's so quirky. But the things about this race that stood out to me. First of all, what crazy idiot runs over 100 miles? Well, I now know somebody who's done this. His name is Luke and he founded Cadre. So there's one crazy individual, but there's definitely a special type of person that signs up for this kind of marathon, right?

And it is just a cool thing to think about, right? Who's gonna race and run over 100 miles? Well, crazy people like Luke and people that wanna push themselves. But the race itself is so incredibly grueling because you not only climb Everest twice, but you have basically a map that has land markers like tree with a jut out in the trunk or something. It's really random. And you have to map your own route. And then you run it forwards, backwards, forwards, backwards, and then your last loop you can pick.

But you also run it in the middle of the night because it's an ongoing race. So you're, like, sleep deprived running that many miles. You've got to consume a ton of calories, and then you have to figure out, like, how to navigate it. And some people get, like, exceedingly lost in this race, too. And the chances of finishing it are so slim. There's only been, I think, like, 14 people who've ever finished it in the 2030 years that it's been going. So your chance of finishing this race is very, very small.

So why sign up for it, right? And Luke talks about this concept of Musogi. I think I'm saying it right, Luke, where you have a goal that's so audacious that you're like, I don't even know if I'm going to make it. And I'm watching this documentary. I'm watching these people race it who are in really good shape and who have run a lot of really ultra long marathons, and yet the sleep deprivation that comes in and the lack of calories and the navigating it in the dark and the creatures that are out there with you, it is just the most mentally taxing thing as well as physically.

And they end up with the worst injuries in their feet and their legs and all this stuff. I'm like, so you're signing up to run something that sounds exceedingly painful, but also there's so many unknowns, and I've been thinking about it for days because there's so many things in life that we don't know, right. That we have so much uncertainty in it that we don't know if we're going to reach that goal. We don't know what the outcome of that is going to be. And I just can't stress enough, like, my personality, I would never even begin to think about signing up for something like that because I don't want to attempt something that I couldn't possibly finish or I couldn't possibly succeed at.

And there's this concept that Luke has definitely put me onto called the musougee. Oh, he just posted on that. Something so big that every day you need to do something to reach your ultimate goal. Yes. So as somebody who's afraid to fail at things and who only wants to sign up for things that I'm going to do well at, I would never sign up for a race like this because the chance of me finishing it is so slim. And sorry, my dog is literally pushing my camera right now. But you, once a year at best, should be 50 50.

Luke, the people that finish this, their chance of finishing is about 2%, not even 50, but to think about, like, what? Is there something in your life that you've always wanted to try, but you're just too scared to even attempt because you know you're gonna fail? Like, do you ever go into something knowing that the goal is so audacious there is no possible way maybe this much chance that you're actually going to reach it? For me, that's no, because I want to do things that I'm going to be good at, and I want to set out goals that I can achieve and I can check off, because that's really important to me.

But it's challenging me to think about, what if I went out to do something, knowing that there was a high likelihood I was actually going to fail? Would I be okay with that uncertainty? And I want you to think about what that is for you. And I'm not saying you have to go do it, but is there something that is so far outside your comfort zone that you need to just start even daydreaming about? Maybe you even just need to start doing a few of the steps to get there, and you never actually get there, but you're so scared to even start because you know it's unattainable.

But you haven't even taken that first step to even see, do I know how to do that? So I want to challenge you to think about what your musogi is or a completely unattainable goal that you've always wanted to do, and maybe you just take the first step in getting there. Maybe that means you send an email to someone about an opportunity that you know is completely outside the realm of possibility that you want to go after. Maybe it means you get off the couch and you walk around the block because you're, like, running a five k.

Sorry, my dog. Is very intentional, wanting my attention. Come here, Reese. Maybe like, you're like, I could never run a five k. It just would never happen in my life. I've not built that way. Maybe it means you just walk around the block today and you start. You never actually make it to your five k, but you start somewhere. So I'm going to challenge myself to do this, and I would encourage you guys to join me in figuring out what that unattainable goal is that you're just going to maybe take the first step towards and see what happens.

So I hope this was encouraging and I'm curious to hear what you guys come up with. So send me a message. Write up in the comments, post on the community feed what maybe that goal is that you're going to try and that one step, maybe you're going to try to reach it. So thank you guys for tuning in with me. God bless.