Meet Dane Rauschenberg

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Dane Rauschenberg. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Dane, first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.

It is easy to think that what you are creatin in art, what you are writing, the races you have completed or anything else are not “that” special. But the easiest way to overcome imposter syndrome is to just not care. People are going to like what you do or they are not. There really isn’t much you can do about it either way. When you here people say LeBron James is not that good or they don’t like the amazing singing of well, name dozens of people, you are quickly made aware that opinions will be held and all you can do is create. If people like it – GREAT! If they don’t, oh well.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I am best know for running 52 marathons in 52 weekends. It is true to say “I am so much more!” because everyone thinks the same thing. But that accomplishment has opened the door for me in so many ways. It opened the doro for me to write books, to speak to audiences literally around the world, to forge a path where one did not exist to create a career I love and then give back to as many people as I possibly can.
If not for the freedom I created by this career, I would not have been able to create art the way I do, without fear of needing to sell it to survive. I couldn’t write books that are a bit more niche but have a rabid following amongst those who read them. I wouldn ot be able to spend over ten years creating an app, Sherpa, an on-demand app which safely connects athletes with personalized guides so people can exercise when and where they want, if I was worried about making ends meet.
I don’t have a brand. I am AWUL at selling myself. I cringet at what I see from others who put out so much pablum into the world and wonder if they really have themeselves fooled into buying the silliness they purvey. Instead, I say what I am going to do and try my best to do it. Everything else is just circumstances.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Knowing when to quit is a skill that is difficult to attain. We are told to never give up which I think is a fallacy. When you realize that what you are doing is not working, it is not shameful to stop it, start afresh or start completely in a different area.

Do not embellish. I wrote an entire chpater on it in my book Ignore The Impossible so I won’t go too far into here but embellishing your achievments is repugnant. It makes people not trust you and diminishes what you have actually done when it is found out.

I think and act like the world is comprised of everyone BUT me because it is. Put your shopping cart away. Drive safer. look around to see how you can help people. Pull your head out of your ass and act like you aren’t the most important thing on Earth. Doing so might actually make you that to many people.

If you knew you only had a decade of life left, how would you spend that decade?

I turn 50 next year. I don’t expect to die soon but I am likely closer to death than my birth. I don’t “live each day like it is my last” buty I assuredly already live like this is my last year. I am trying my best to suck the marrow out of life. Doing silly things that make me happy like trying to visit every county in the Unted States. That takes me down some far less traveled roads and allows me to see so much more than usual.
Having had two knee surgeries in the past year has taken running off the table for a bit but when these get healed, I will be back out there exploring the world and pushing my boundaries the best I can.
Knowing I had a whole decade would be amazing, honesrtly. A guaranteed ten years? I might actually run for office knowing I have a term limit and then work tirelessly to make the world better and not give a damn what the uninfromed jackasses think.

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