What am I capable of?… What are we all capable of? These are the two questions that I couldn’t get out of my mind after listening to a recent episode of James Altucher’s podcast. It was an episode where was he was interviewing a former Navy SEAL and I was instantly captivated by his story
It was a record that stood for 37 years. But then in 1998, both Mark McGwire of the St Louis Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs broke Roger Maris’s Major League baseball home run record of 61 home runs in a season.
It really is amazing how traveling can change your perspective on certain things. One of the most memorable trips I have taken was back in 2011 when I visited Rome, Italy with a good friend.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 8 years old and was watching TV when I witnessed one of the most amazing things ever. What I saw was a 21-year old kid doing something that was unbelievable to me.
Mitch Albom could not believe what he was hearing – so much so that he went numb when he heard it. It was back in the Spring of 1995 and Albom, then a sports columnist at the Detroit Free Press was home on a Friday night watching Nightline with Ted Koppel.