Courtney Dauwalter is an American ultra-marathon runner.

But she doesn’t just run them. She wins them.

She used to view pain in training and competition as something to avoid for as long as possible. And when it comes, just survive.

Then she flipped the story.

Now she tells herself it's somewhere she wants to go. She celebrates it. Because that’s where the work actually happens.

She literally pictures herself in a cave. Chiselling away at the rock. Making her pain cave bigger.

“Our minds are so powerful, even just changing the storyline makes it a whole different game.”

A powerful tool for when the going gets tough.

(Listen to more from Courtney here)