High Performance Secrets from Nimsdai Purja

Summary

As a high-performance trainer, coach and mentor, I'm constantly researching fascinating stores that prove that anybody, at any moment, can decide to achieve the seemingly impossible. The story of Nimsdai Purja, who has managed to climb the 14 8000ers in 6 months and 6 days, is one of these kinds of stories.

Transcript

In recent weeks, I've immersed myself in the story of someone who has broken all the records in mountaineering. He has proven that most of our limits are always self imposed. As a mountaineering aficionado and high performance trainer, coach and mentor the story of Nemes die poor Jaya has been an in fascinating intellectual journey for me, and today I want to share what are the key high performance lessons that I have extracted from his story? Let's get to it.

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So today I want to talk about Nemes de Porgera, which is a Nepalese born British mountaineer and who spent a decade in the British Armed Forces first as a Gurkha, which is a highly specialized unit from Nepalese origin that fights in the British Army. And then, as a member and operator of the special boat service, which is the special forces of the Royal Navy. After a decade as a an elite operated within these two corpse, he transformed into a mountaineering and achieved something that everybody thought was literally impossible, he managed to climb all 14 $8,000. So an $8,000 is one of the highest peaks on Earth. So over 8000 meters height, or more than 26,000 feet in just six months and six days, the previous record held by a South Korean climber was seven years and 310 days.

So he smashed that record without having a previous mountain or any experience or very shallow, he had not been trained as an openness. He had not been trained in the mountains. He was a soldier, a fighter, not a mountaineering. So how could he achieve this? How could he pull it off by harnessing some of the key principles that we teach our clients in relations to high performance, learn them, internalize them, and you will see your personal performance sore.

Of course, the list is not exhaustive, but it proves what high performance looks like in action. We want to become a top performer, you just need to emulate this character traits so that they become second nature to you.

Number one, identity and narrative update. Most of us are bounded by the limits, we said to ourselves, and those limits are normally made jaded, but all the people so it come from the education from our mentors from anybody that we have interacted with that they have produced a set of rules and beliefs that we have acquired, and we thought of them as truths. But oftentimes what we believe as truth is just not true for us. So we are limiting our own potential because we are not properly auditing what we believe is true. And on top of that, we generate a language based on those faulty beliefs that keeps us cage and doesn't allow us to transform into a better version of ourselves.

And in this case, Nemes die was not a climber as I was saying he was a soldier, he could have said that he had no right to become a mountaineering he hasn't been trained in doing so. And of course, he had no possibility of achieving in six months what expert climbers have achieved in seven years before him, he was new to the party, no track record whatsoever.

So when he decided to do this challenge, he had to take on a new identity, as someone that was an elite climber had to transfer all the skills he had as a soldier as an offer into the mountain and he did so by rethinking most of the commonly held beliefs in the mountaineering community. He crushed record after record because he refused to think like other mountains would think instead of taking one month to climb a mountain, he would attempt to do so in one day or two days. How by training his body and his mind, but most importantly, his own narrative he thought he could and he prepared himself so that that belief became his reality.

And he built a new identity based on this belief to irrational self efficacy, which is a term that comes from this psychological literature, most precisely from Albert Bandura. His work, self efficacy means a strong belief in your agentic capabilities and your ability to figure things out. So Nimzo not only thought he could, not only did he build a new identity as an elite mountaineer, but he also developed an irrational self efficacy at each step of the way.

He knew he could, and he developed the psychological mechanism to push himself to the limit. And let me tell you being able to drive effective behavior in high altitude is the difference between life and death. So I mistake at sea level will not kill you, hopefully, by mistake at 8000 meters will certainly kill you. So it's not only about being your best is also about believing that each step of the way each challenge, each obstacle is surmountable, because you have the ability to figure that out.

So one is the ability to create any identity and choose the ability to prove that you believe that identity is possible because you are doing things because you think you can three attention to detail or willingness to control. So it seems I of course, believe he could and had the ideal psychological mindset to pull that off, but he didn't leave anything to chance. So everything he did, was tracked, planned and executed with precision. So there was no randomness on the mountain because randomness on a high altitude can kill you.

Everything he did was precise and intentional. Every mountain was mapped out carefully, every found raising effort was properly tracked, every social media post to gather publicity for his mission was carefully tracked, everything under his control was carefully tracked, because that's how he knew he would develop even more self efficacy to fulfill this mission. If this is resonating with you hit like and subscribe, so you do not miss out on any juicy videos for shadow books and see, we all have our own demons, we all have our dark side, but the best of the best know how to use those dark emotions to propel themselves forward.

They never get caught up in those dark alleys of emotion so that they become unable to operate. There's in his book, nothing is impossible names they Porcha says that at some point, he discovered that the oxygen bottles that he had left on Everest had been stolen by someone and that can be deadly at such an altitude because if you count on oxygen that doesn't materialize, then you're left to your own conditioning. And maybe you haven't planned for that when he discovered this, that someone has stolen his oxygen, he transmuting that dark energy and rationalize it into thinking that maybe someone had been in need of that oxygen, that someone had taken his oxygen in order to save someone else's life. And therefore he should be grateful. And he should be honored that his oxygen could make a difference in someone else's life.

This is a psychological artifact that he used to transmute that anger that could lead to a very dark path into something positive five, low emotional variance and this is absolutely key see in business and in life, those are able to master their emotions will have the upper hand. And this is especially relevant in high altitude because again, if you get too emotional, and you can make mistakes that at that altitude can lead to disaster.

So learning to master your emotions and keep yourself in check is a key distinct quality from top performance and means they did this very well because as he was pushing himself the limit of himself so much in a short amount, amount of time, his mother was also going through a difficult medical condition and he could not allow NIMS they could not allow this situation his mother was in to get him on focus on the mountain he had to balance those things out and he had to remain calm and collected with attempting to climb mountains in just one or two days as he did summer in Pakistan. broadpeak GutterBrush one Gasherbrum. 

Two, he was able to topple them in just a couple of days which is impressive, but you can only achieve this if you are able to remain calm, collected and focus on the things that you really need to do. And finally leadership by examples on several occasions named unsafe someone else's life in high altitude risking his own and if you Want to become a top performer and you want your team to follow along and really become high performance too. You need to inspire them. And the only way of making sustainable inspiration is by doing so through example, NIMS de was oftentimes the first to trailblaze.

The mounting up trailblazing is normally in in mountaineering, you have fixed ropes that are set at the beginning of its season, and then you just need to follow those ropes until the summit. But oftentimes, a storm of some other methodological condition would get those ropes out of the mountain, and then someone else has to climb that up. And climbing up without a rope is very, very dangerous, because you can slip and go down the mountain. So every time that he found there were no ropes ahead, he would not complain. And he would make the effort of roping the mounting up, oftentimes, up to the summit so others could follow his footsteps and oftentimes also summit together did happen in k two, as he recounts in his book, in which he found a few climbing parties totally demoralized, because the weather had been very rough in the mountain for a few weeks. And they were running out of time to attempt to summit and basically, the mood was grim. But he was able to infuse hope in them. And then also by trailblazing the way up, some of these climbers were managed to climb with him.

So these are six key high performance lesson that I learned from NIMS de puja if you are into mountaineering, if you are into high performance, I strongly recommend you watch his documentary on Netflix and you buy his books, because it will prove you that all of our limits are self imposed. And if we really want to do something, we have a strong why and we architect our life and work in order to get to that goal. That goal becomes inevitable.

I hope this was useful. Please let me know in the comments if you learned anything, if you know of any example of high performance mountaineering on alpinist that we shall cover