S1 E6. Your Knots Are Only as Good as the Storm

Your Knots Are Only as Good as the Storm

True resilience isn’t built when life is calm — it’s proven when your rhythms hold under pressure. In this episode, I share a turning point lesson from the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Calm seas gave space for practice. But when the storm hit, only drilled habits and steady rhythms held the crew together. The same is true in leadership: the rhythms you protect in calm are the ones that will carry you through chaos.

Anchor Line:

True resilience isn’t built when life is calm. It’s proven when your rhythms hold under pressure.

Leadership Move:

• Practice in the calm — Build and drill your rhythms before the storm.
• Protect your anchor habits — Don’t abandon sleep, exercise, or recovery when pressure spikes.
• Treat resilience like survival — Safeguard the fundamentals that hold you steady when chaos comes.

Quote:

“Calm seas equal practice. Storms equal performance.”

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