The four rules to his formula—commitment, crash, submission, and escape—provide a blueprint for every failure in his life, he says. It has allowed him to survive the unsurvivable and has given him a guiding philosophy for every venture he gets into outside of the water. “It’s the attitude I go into before I start a new business, or a new training regimen,” he says. Together they form a wedge that he crams between his consciousness and the autopilot of his own nervous system. It’s the division between his own natural limits and the control he can express over the world around him. Hamilton’s
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