Asthma, Sailing & Surviving Hypothermia with Richard Hudson (008‪)‬ Way To Greatness

"Each person has their own weakness". But this shouldn't stop you from doing the things you really want to do in life. It shouldn't prevent you from reaching your goals in life & attaining your absolute happiness. No matter what the circumstance is, DON'T GIVE UP, DON'T STOP.


Show Highlights

7:20 (Ari) - What was it like growing up with asthma?


7:24 (Richard) - I grew up before they had good medicines and it was difficult. I spent a lot of time in hospitals just not being able to breathe and as this is a kid, right? So you're sort of not really all that consciously aware that.


9:29 (Ari) - You said before I just want to touch upon a few of the points you made, You said before you spent time in oxygen tents, can you describe what it was like living in an oxygen tent?


9:39 (Richard) - It was I mean you could open it up and and you could talk to people but that's people who are visiting you like your parents, but you couldn't do it for all you really need to spend most of your time in there.


10:10 (Ari) - Confined, almost like a prison, huh


10:13 (Richard) - It is yeah, you're not able to go anywhere. So I had a lot of time to read books and I would find out about the world through books and that gave me a strong desire to see the world.


10:41 (Ari) - You described to me previously that you spent much of your childhood as a sickly child quote-unquote. How did that shape your childhood experience and your view on life back then


10: 51 - (Richard) -That time I spent a lot of time reading and dreaming of going out and doing things and seeing things


11:18 - (Ari) - And then before you were saying that your entire life changed when you turn 12 or so and the better medicines became available. What was that like having your entire world changed based on just a medicine?


11:29 (Richard) - That was fantastic. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do before it was truly fantastic.


11:38 (Ari) - Was it entire like the entire aspect of your life changed or was it just some parts?


11: 43 (Richard) - I was pretty young so I would probably say most parts. It's a long time ago. But yeah suddenly I was able to do of a whole bunch of outdoor stuff that I could never think of doing for as long as I had this inhaler with me.


12:20 (Ari) - You mentioned just before that one of your friends from asthma Camp had died. What did that do to you?


12:29 (Richard) - That was this big reminder of mortality that this could happen to me too. And there was no predicting it there is nothing that could be done about it.


13:49 (Ari) - Honestly, I feel like everybody could benefit from a viewpoint like that. You know anytime you take the time to contemplate, hey, we're not here forever. Where have I been? And where am I going?


14:30 (Richard) - If this is my last day is it have I done what I want to do? If not then should I be doing something different in case soon is my last day, right?


14:55 (Richard) - Being focused on doing what you want to do and getting your goals achieved us. That's a great result of something like this.


15:05 (Ari) - You describe before not being able to breathe and in our communications previously you had mentioned that not being able to breathe really twists a person twist their focus and just creates almost a culture of constant fear to some degree. So, can you describe a little bit more about how not being able to breathe necessarily twists a person in the way that they act?


15:31- (Richard) - It's more important than anything else and you don't think of it that way because you always think you can breathe until you can't.


16:41- (Ari) - I mean, we were mentioning that before, it happens to be a quote from Ethics of the Fathers as well. It says, "Live each day as if it's your last".


16:54- (Ari) - How did you get into sailing?


16:57- (Richard) -Shortly after I got the better asthma medicines and began to be able to do a lot more outside.


18:50 - (Richard) - I think I sailed 6,000 mi