Your chances of meeting an Ironman finisher walking down the street are about 1 in 1,000. Get a bunch of entrepreneurs in a room, and they're much higher.
Have you ever noticed the disproportionate number of successful entrepreneurs who have completed an Ironman triathlon?
I don’t have hard data, but it seems strange that everywhere I turn in entrepreneurial circles, there’s another Ironman. Last week I had drinks with fellow Entrepreneurs’ Organization member David Rich, and we talked about his last Ironman race. The next day, I met a Scandinavian who runs a coaching business in Vienna and is training for Ironman Austria at the end of June. Then I happened to read the bio of Scott Shewerty, founder of Nashville-based Ethos3, and … you guessed it … an Ironman.
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