#251 You Are One Action Away From The Whole Thing Changing. He Proved It Twice

The only NFL player to climb the Seven Summits. Mark Pattison played five years in the NFL, summited Everest, and spent two years after football with no purpose and no phone calls. Mark Pattison was a seventh round pick of the Los Angeles Raiders out of the University of Washington, where he is in the Hall of Fame. He played five years in the NFL. Then it ended, and he spent two years with no purpose, no skills he could name, and a phone that never rang, and he took a job waiting tables at the Chart House where his old teammates came in to eat. In this conversation with Bart Berkey he explains what got him out of it, which is a four word sentence he still uses: action creates reaction. It carried him into business, then to twelve years at Sports Illustrated where the business he built went from number 17 in its category to number 1, and then to the top of the highest mountain on all seven continents. WHAT THE SEVEN SUMMITS ARE The highest peak on each of the seven continents: Everest in Asia, Aconcagua in South America, Denali in North America, Kilimanjaro in Africa, Elbrus in Europe, Vinson in Antarctica and Puncak Jaya or Kosciuszko in Oceania, depending on which list you use. Very few people complete all seven. Mark Pattison is the only NFL player who has. It took him close to ten years, delayed by storms and by COVID, and he did Kilimanjaro twice and had to return to Denali a second year after the first attempt failed. WHAT HE DOES WITH IT NOW He is a keynote speaker on resilience and high performance, the author of Finding Your Summit, and the host of the Finding Your Summit podcast. His documentary Searching for the Summit won a 2022 Sports Emmy for Best Short Documentary. His method, in his own words, is not to look at the mountain: only at the next ten steps. CHAPTERS 00:00 The one thing he does that Most People Don't 01:20 Stepping into the fear 02:00 Deciding to be the first NFL player up the Seven Summits 02:40 Writing Finding Your Summit as a man who is not a writer 03:15 Grit, nature or nurture 04:00 Don James, and a pyramid of success borrowed from John Wooden 04:50 Eighteen years old, and the end of talent being enough 05:10 181 pounds, and unable to bench his own weight 06:10 If you do not love what you do, you will quit 08:20 Stop comparing yourself to everybody else 09:30 Ten more steps 10:45 Speaking to the Washington team he once feared 11:55 The NFL combine, and running 40s on grass 12:50 Seventh round, to the Raiders 15:30 The lowest point, and why it was ten years and not five 16:55 Retired is the wrong word 17:15 The Trust, and the programmes that did not exist yet 17:50 Off the cliff, and two years without purpose 18:50 Not one person called 19:25 Waiting tables at the Chart House 21:40 Action creates reaction 22:10 Sports Illustrated, from number 17 to number 1 25:00 The second valley, and why Everest 26:15 Kilimanjaro, and the altitude question 27:05 Making the impossible possible 29:20 The accomplishment he does not consider shiny 30:45 Finding Your Summit, the book and the podcast 31:30 Most People Don't follow through with daily discipline ABOUT MARK PATTISON NFL veteran. The only NFL player to climb the Seven Summits. Emmy Award winning producer, keynote speaker, and host of the Finding Your Summit podcast. Website: https://markpattisonnfl.com Book: Finding Your Summit: How to Build Resilience and Faith to Conquer Life's Peaks ABOUT THE SHOW Most People Don't... But YOU Do! is hosted by Bart Berkey, who spent 16 years as a global executive with The Ritz-Carlton before building Most People Don't, LLC. The show is in the top 2 to 5 percent of podcasts globally, with more than 250 episodes about the small, deliberate things that separate a good intention from an exceptional human experience. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN YouTube:    / @bartberkey_mostpeopledont   Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6MGmeT8... All episodes: https://www.bartaberkey.com/podcast FOLLOW BART LinkedIn:   / bartberkey   Instagram:   / bartberkey   Facebook:   / bart.berkey   TikTok:   / bart.berkey   WORK WITH BART Book Bart to speak: https://www.bartaberkey.com/booking-e... HUMANALITY™ keynote and certification: https://www.bartaberkey.com/speaking-... Sponsor an episode: https://www.bartaberkey.com/sponsorship Newsletter: https://www.bartaberkey.com/blog #SevenSummits #NFL #MountEverest #MarkPattison #FindingYourSummit #Mountaineering #Resilience #LifeAfterFootball #Raiders #UniversityOfWashington #KeynoteSpeaker #MostPeopleDont #BartBerkey #Mindset #Grit