The Duratus Mind - Dean Stott 'Relentless'

How long a period was that, I think?

So within a year, it took me 44 weeks to have the operation.

There was a spiral of events.

I'd say, well, bad mouth in the military too much.

The military was great.

I enjoyed my time in the military.

But actually, my medical care during that period wasn't great.

Unfortunately, I can't sing about that.

sing their praises for that period it took me 44 weeks to have the operation um you know nearly a year and by which point you know my leg my muscle waist is when i we'll talk about the challenge soon but when i actually started the cycling challenge my leg was two kilos lighter than my left leg due to the muscle wastage so And I'd lost confidence in my legs as well, you know, a spiral of things.

So eventually I walked out the gates.

I was now a civilian and all I'd ever known for the last 16 years when I was a young boy at 17 was the military.

You know, your mother, your father, they feed you, they clothe you, they pay you on time.

You know, I didn't know what counter-attacks band I was on.

I was doing a job that I loved.

So

the initial thing, I do a few podcasts and talks.

The best way to sort of compare is to professional sports people.

You know, you spend your career trying to get yourself to the elite, to pick the pinnacle.

And then all of a sudden, some sort of injury just changes everything completely.

So it's an identity crisis.

You know, I've gone from being in a role within a unit, knowing what I was doing day in, day out, I had a purpose.

All of a sudden, finding myself in an alien environment, which is a civilian environment, which it doesn't, you know, for civilians, it's not an alien environment, but for people in our backgrounds, it very much is.

seeing how do i fit how do i fit in this in this group here where do you

fit absolutely

yeah where do i fit yeah there's a there's a good book called tribe actually and it's a very similar concept we left one tribe there's a tribe here and how am i going to fit within that So yeah, I had that identity crisis.