The Duratus Mind - Ep #23 - Mark Coulbourne MBE - Paralympic Gold Medalist

Mark Coulbourne MBE overcame life changing adversity in the form of a severely broken back to a paralympic gold medal. A paragliding accident in his 30's when his life's passion was living a healthy active lifestyle came as a crushing blow. But through keeping a positive mindset, setting goals and taking on the challenges in his way, saw him far exceed any expectations his doctors could have foreseen. He threw himself into cycling and it was only a few short years before he found himself in the dream position of being in the final of London 2012 Olympic track event.
Mark tells his inspiring story in this video and we can all learn more about the benefits of chasing big goals, fully committing to something, never giving up and the power of a strong mindset.
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[@no_excuses]

Another great Vblog from Gaz and I thank Mark for sharing his story. I'm interested to know why we humans often need a signicant life changing event to transform our mindset to create a new self image with a new outlook on life with high achieving goals. It's clear we are not harnessing our brains resilience to adapt when faced with adversity.

[@DuratusUK]

100% agree - I'm fascinated by this. Most people are far from optimising our minds ability to sustain, adapt and then thrive.

[@HoperehabcenterthailandAsia]

powerful story, I took some nice gems from this - thanks

[@DuratusUK]

Our pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@JamesHartnell]

Constant ads, 5 by the time we'd got to 9 minutes. Stopped watching, sorry. I watch these while working out and Its a right naus to have to keep stopping to go and cancel the ads. Seems to be a recent thing on the channel?

[@DuratusUK]

Thanks for the feedback. I will get on that today and sort. Ads are inevitable with KZbin but so regular not necessary....on it!

[@JamesHartnell]

@@DuratusUK Apologies for it being a negative thing to post about - I've found all the podcasts to be brilliant.

[@DuratusUK]

@@JamesHartnell No sweat at all! I appreciate the feedback and would hate for people to be naused by the ad's....as too many KZbin ad's annoy me too!