The Pursuit of Excellence: The Uncommon Behaviors of the World's Most Productive Achievers

by Ryan Hawk

“What that mountain taught me is that everybody has that voice in their head that tells them they can keep going even when they feel like they can’t,” Alison told me. “When I was on that mountain feeling dehydrated, sick from the altitude, I thought, I’ll just take one more step, one more step again, maybe one more? And then that voice kept saying one more, one more. I kept taking one more. And eventually I was at the summit. Everybody has that voice in their head. You just have to find it.”23 It’s a message she reiterates to her audiences over and over. “You don’t have to be the best, fastest, strongest climber to get to the top of a mountain,” Alison writes. “You just have to be absolutely relentless about putting one foot in front of the other.”24 “When one can see no future, all one can do is the next right thing,” says Pabbie, the wise old Troll King in Disney’s Frozen 2.