{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/5f166a3c8d867e719c64e026?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"360: Sparta could make history","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/1595340575472-4575af6bca78b7de8bd8efb9e00e681d.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Here are the notes I read from on recounting the potential I saw for the Spartan Race community and its founder, Joe De Sena, if they chose to prioritize environmental stewardship.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Context: Joe: carries chain up 1,000-foot hill, brings others with him, invites people to climb hill for 24 hours, leads to Spartan Run.</li><li>Brings people up to carry boulders up steep hill, which they pay to do.</li><li>Community: Integrity, personal motivation, fun, supportive</li><li>Tasks: Learn about yourself, great joy, striving, constantly improving They understand the mental and physical side, learning, growing, deeper satisfaction and reward than cookies and ice cream.</li><li>Got me to go to Vermont and run up and down hill seven times.</li><li>Environment: abysmal: trash, doof, little fruits and vegetables, bottles, ignoring well water, no natural fibers</li><li>Texts from kids</li><li>But huge potential. 7 million members. They know you have to go through uncertainty, pain, struggle, mostly self-doubt, your mind telling you reasons to stop, working through them.</li><li>I've spoken with world-class leaders. Joe and his community see what to do and have lived doing it in other areas.</li><li>Competitors included blind, one foot, 61-year-old, black, white, hispanic, carrying 100-pound load, loads of kids.</li><li>I proposed one trash bag per event that all have to use and only fill</li><li>one, maybe one recycling container, but keep it empty too.</li><li>No single-rider cars. Joe said needed big fine. Given their integrity, I</li><li>proposed internal motivation. After speaking I thought instead give them cash and time off their finishing time so the'll go on record as having beaten people they didn't deserve to.</li><li>If Joe and his team act on my ideas, could become first main community to lead. They'll enjoy the process -- eating healthier, saving money, carpooling -- they'll enjoy discovering nature too.</li><li>Everything they get now in mind and body, they'll re-create in their</li><li>relationship with nature.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Joshua Spodek: Author, Speaker, Professor"}