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Bernhard Hengl

Extreme open-water swimmer | 10× champion | Make 5% your 100%: discipline & endurance mindset | Built inside cancer, not after | Author | Dad of 5

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The 5% Letter — 001

Make 5% your 100%. Welcome. You’re in. This is the first one, so let me tell you what you just signed up for, and then let’s actually start. I stood at the edge of Lago Maggiore with 61.5 kilometres of water in front of me, and every part of me said no. The water was dark. The distance was absurd. My mind was already tired before I’d taken a single stroke. I didn’t feel ready. I didn’t feel strong. I didn’t feel like a guy who was about to swim across a lake you can see on a map from space....