DO HARD THINGS

[Music] [Music] waking up early is hard going back to sleep is not hard but waking up early is [Music] hard this hard thing is a choice I choose to wake up early and go [Music] run life is made up of hard things and most of those hard things are things you have to do you got to go to school you got to work got to pay taxes got to follow the rules and those are hard things an apple serve a Isaac Newton's third law states that for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction here

you have life this is the start this is the end this is your path down here are hard things and while most hard things are unavoidable there's another category of hard things and those are the hard things we choose to [Music] do 300 p.m. Halloween 4 days till race day we're getting our bibs Oscar what's your goal time 3:30 all right yeah now noon wasn't just talking about is Apple in most all of life for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction when you work you get paid thank you you go to school you

get smarter thank you pay your bills you don't go to jail thank you big Roberto uh how you feeling but these kinds of hard things they make you feel good you're healthier you enjoy doing them but this it's a little harder to fine how are you feeling about me Roberto super super confident uh and what makes this particular hard thing such a hard thing is that I have a very specific goal I'll go in a little bit it's kind of slow right now I've tried to break 3 hours on this course eight times this right

here this is where I've failed this is where the race defeats me that's where I fail the New York City marathon is my favorite thing Marathon day is my favorite day of the year every year look at this look at this wait NE e ne e there it is but I've still never broken 3 hours and that's what I want that's what makes this hard thing such a hard thing day good morning Roberto Roberto do you mind if I call you Bobby today if it's shaves time off your sub three attempted sure we can even

go down to B yeah whatever [Music] these are the new Brooks Glycerin Max elevate your running Journey as you land with maximum softness and spring forward with ultimate [Music] e there are two ways of looking at this sponsorship one is that I got like an influencer brand deal with my favorite sneaker company great or two now that I'm being paid by a sneaker company I am technically a professional athlete a lot of people ask me what running shoes they should get I don't know you should get whatever works best for you what works best for

me has always been Brooks Brooks Brooks Brooks Brooks Brooks Brooks these are the ones I'm going to run the marathon in [Music] [Applause] Brooks I do genuinely love this sneaker these might be like one of the only running shoes they actually wear all day every day it's a great shoe these ones are all these ones are all dirty but it's a great shoe 5:05 a.m. it's race day got to take an Uber from downtown to the bus in Midtown nervous nah no I'm good nervous aure we do good luck good luck thank you very much

thank you very [Music] much would be thank you bye-bye thank you very much good morning and welcome to the Vero [Music] going to leave the phone behind and record on these glasses here time to go you ready all right appreciate it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] let's go Casey looking good you've got 2 million people cheering on more than 55,000 Runners Casey you got this brother and all 55,000 of them are trying to do their hard thing this guy here this is Chris cotch he was born with no arms and no

legs and he's trying to do his hard thing he's trying to do the marathon I met his him after the race we took a picture J once get half Bo New York City you're on your way to [Music] Queen so far things are going well and then something wildly unexpected happened casy you got this brother you see Roberto's hard thing for that day was to Pace me to break 3 hours casy casy and then at Mile 19 Roberto my Olympic Marathon coach had all hopes to do his hard thing crushed okay watch this that's Roberto

that's me Roberto me ready see this lady here pushing this metal trolley thing she slams it right into Roberto and he goes flying and his day was over I stopped and ran back to help him and he said no keep going go go go it's yours brother keep going go go go it's [Music] you so now it was just me me and my hard thing and like nine more miles there's Casey now there's a part of me that said no way I'm going to be able to do this because I lost Roberto and then there

was another part of me that said I have to do this because I lost Roberto the thing about hard things especially the hard things you don't have to do but you choose to do is that you can just bail any time come that's when you start to question this what even is this does it really matter let's go [Applause] Casey w and this was my decision point my hard thing was to break 3 hours and that is a hard thing I could win or I could [Music] lose let's go Cy let's go let's go [Applause]

[Music] J there he [Music] is so what's this what is it I guess it's that feeling that's only accessible through heart hard work that momentary feeling you chase your entire life it's one of life's great things and it's a great thing you only get if you do a really hard thing [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right Casey I'm going to let you do all the Talking what occurred today what did you accomplish Miley tea there's like a granny pushing a shopping cart across the street this guy crashes into it goes flying like an old 1930

silent film like trap ball lands on his back legs a Kimbo just like fully like all like a yoga pose covered in the gel that you eat when you run so he's like all covered in Strawberry goo I turn around go running back for him and he's like a go on without me go on without me and then just rolled back great long story short what did you comp BR three broke three couldn't have done it without you what did you do 257 proud of you buddy great day all right sorry about the fall it's

all right it happens great day