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Every book Colin O'Brady recommended on podcasts
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Colin O'Brady appears on, in one place — not just one.
Colin Timothy O'Brady is an American professional endurance athlete, motivational speaker, and adventurer, as well as a former professional triathlete who represented the United States on the ITU Triathlon World Cup circuit across twenty-five countries from 2009 to 2015. On Modern Wisdom, O'Brady recommended Alfred Lansing's book Endurance, citing it as his favorite description of Shackleton's crossing and praising its intense depiction of survival struggles in extreme conditions. On The Rich Roll Podcast, he praised Rich Roll's memoir Finding Ultra, comparing it to his own memoir, The Impossible First. Additionally, during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, O'Brady brought up Jon Krakauer's famous book Into Thin Air to illustrate the extreme dangers of the Death Zone on Mount Everest, where climbers face severe survival challenges above 26,000 feet. Across these podcast appearances, O'Brady used literary examples of extreme endurance to reflect on his own athletic achievements and polar expeditions.
Books recommended by Colin O'Brady
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Finding Ultra
Finding Ultra by Rich Roll is a memoir chronicling the author's personal struggles with alcoholism and his transformation through endurance sports.
Discussed“i was actually listening to you and skolnik chop it up on the 10-year anniversary pod of finding ultra”
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Endurance
Endurance by Alfred Lansing is a gripping historical non-fiction account detailing Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and the harrowing survival story of his stranded crew.
Recommended“you know if you're reading Alfred lansing's book which is my favorite description of the the Shackleton Crossing you know you read that and it's such an intense story learning about how they were first they had to kill the dogs and then they're having to look for seals and then they leave some of the men behind and they”
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Into Thin Air
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is a gripping and tragic non-fiction account detailing the author's harrowing participation in the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest climbing expedition that resulted in the deaths of several climbers.
Discussed“have you read the book into thin air by Jon Krakauer or anything about it I say okay there's a famous book that's written about it where eleven people die and right in this moment it's called the Death Zone where you enter above 26,000 feet”
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The Impossible First
Discussed“you know that's a memoir about my life that's me just like the finding ultra is about your life”
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Books Colin O'Brady wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| The Man Who Walked Across Antarctica - Colin O'Brady - #509 | Modern Wisdom | 2022-08-06 | 1 |
| Colin O’Brady & Jenna Besaw On Possible Mindsets, K2 Perils & 12-Hours Walks | The Rich Roll Podcast | 2022-07-25 | 3 |
| #1244 - Colin O'Brady | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2019-02-11 | 1 |
Other mentions (9: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and in my first book The Impossible first there's a chapter it's called Frozen tears”
“and so in my mind I'm like okay 10 hours I'll make it to 10 hours he's going to stop before then there's no way he's going that long I don't know how long his days are with this eight hours goes by he's still right next to me nine hours goes by he's still right next to me 10”
“we write about this in the new book the 12-hour walk of you being like you're trying to help me problem-solve like you've been”
“the column bars that I used in Antarctica the special bars by the way I was entirely vegan the entire row talked about it but I was I was entirely vegan the whole row the column bars which are kind of specialty bars that my sponsor standard process created for me and this time for the entire team those got”
“and the Drake Passage row and I'm to kind of have that through line was for me in writing this book about the impossible first which obviously I wrote before I did the Drake Passage row I really was you know I still have this thesis of saying like okay like I am giving this wisdom I'm sharing my story”
“I brought a book I wrote it I wrote this book last time since I saw you last the impossible first”
“so after I got back from the impossible first the Antarctica crossing right about time I saw you last year”
“so something I've been talking about super openly including in my book which is a Nazi article you know it's a little bit unfortunate”
“Have you read the book into thin air by Jon Krakauer or anything about it? I say okay there's a famous book that's written about it where eleven people die”