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Have you ever thought about climbing Everest from both sides? How about running the 2190 mile Appalachian Trail in 41 days? Or walking to the South Pole completely alone?
No, me neither.
You might naturally assume these feats sound impossible and, for most people, it certainly feels like they are. But they’ve all been done, and series 3 of How to Be Superhuman sets out to find out how on earth that is possible; what does it take to become the kind of person who can pull off a feat nobody has ever achieved before?
The series opens with a bang. In 2022 Abdullah Zeinab took endurance cycling to the next level, crossing 2750km across South Africa and Namibia. Upcoming guests include Preet Chandi, holder of the record for the longest unsupported polar expedition, blind climber Jesse Dufton, and Martin Strel, who swam 5268km down the entire length of the Amazon.
The host is quite something too. Rob Pope is most famous for his “Forrest Gump run” in which he ran across the width of America over four times for a total distance of 15,621 miles in 422 days. He did take breaks. Breaks to run the London, New York, Boston, Manchester and Brighton marathons.
But really the key to the series is that it aims to make these seemingly unimaginably difficult things seem somewhat attainable, by asking those who know how to unlock that side of yourself. Abdullah Zeinab started cycling to work as a construction labourer in 2017. In 2018 he won the 5500km Indian Pacific Wheel Race across Australia. In the film Big River Man, Strel’s son, Borut, tells us Martin completed most of his achievements past the age of 45. When he swam the Amazon, he was 53.
While I’m not setting off to cycle around the world just yet, How to Be Superhuman absolutely succeeds in showing us that, with the right mindset, remarkable things are much more possible than you might realise.
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