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The 12-Hour Walk: Invest One Day, Unlock Your Best Life Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Colin O'Brady (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)
4.6 out of 5 stars 306 ratings

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“A master class in athleticism, resilience, and human potential.” —Hoda Kotb, Today

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Impossible First, an inspiring blend of riveting adventure stories and life-changing wisdom that teaches us how to embark on a transformative one-day journey that will unlock our best lives.

Millions of people dream of living a more fulfilling life, yet many settle for a life of comfortable complacency, allowing excuses and negative thoughts to invade their minds. I don’t have enough time…I don’t have enough money…I’m afraid to fail...I don’t have what it takes—we allow these limiting beliefs to control us.

Now, The 12-Hour Walk provides the inspiration—and catalyst—for getting unstuck and realizing your full potential. Featuring life lessons from explorer, endurance athlete, and entrepreneur Colin O’Brady—whose adventures in such extreme places as Antarctica and the perilous Drake Passage and on the peaks of Mount Everest and K2 have seen him establish ten world records—this book’s vivid narrative and powerful insight will show you how you can embark on your own life-changing journey.

With Colin as your guide, The 12-Hour Walk asks you to invest one day in yourself. By walking alone, unplugging, listening to the voice within, and rewriting the limiting beliefs etched into your psyche, you can break free of the patterns holding you back and learn how to cultivate a “Possible Mindset”—an empowered way of thinking that unlocks a life of limitless possibilities. The reward: being the hero of your own destiny.

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  1. Listening Length
    5 hours and 16 minutes
  2. Author
    Colin O'Brady
  3. Narrator
    Colin O'Brady
  4. Audible release date
    Aug. 2 2022
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Simon & Schuster Audio
  7. ASIN
    B09KYJNBQX
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 5 hours and 16 minutes
Author Colin O'Brady
Narrator Colin O'Brady
Audible.ca Release Date August 02 2022
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B09KYJNBQX
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  • DJ McMahon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing and inspiring if you are looking to change find a simple challenge
    Reviewed in Canada on September 14, 2023
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    Heard him talk about his book and efforts regarding it on a podcast. Before the podcast was over, I was hooked both on doing the activity as well as wanting to read the book.

    Well I am telling you, I was so impressed and inspired that I was already making the plans and the date to do it!

    The book is honestly an easy read, and I cannot express how much I get excited to either lend my book out or simply recommend it.

    It reminded me how much I miss having an adventure outside my front door. And I really like how (beyond buying the book) he promotes how free it all is for anyone to do it.
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  • julia
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterclass in Mindset
    Reviewed in Canada on October 7, 2022
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    The 12 Hour Walk is more than a book it’s a movement. It’s hard not to catch Colin’s infectious joy for adventure and the 12 hour walk makes it accessible to EVERYONE.
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  • The Reader
    2.0 out of 5 stars Great idea but does not deliver
    Reviewed in Canada on April 11, 2024
    I listened to this book while I also read “The Impossible First”. Lesson number one, Colin, do not use the same material in more than one book. “The Impossible First” was a great book, but “The 12-hour Walk” then became redundant. When you like an author, you tend to read all their books. If one book rehashes material from another, it is disappointing, you might not read more, and you feel the author is only trying extend profit without true new material. It happened with David Goggins.
    I am really interested in doing the 12-hour walk. Colin then tries to address the mind-limiting beliefs that might stop us from attempting the walk, or other dreams in our lives. Ex: I don’t have the time; I don’t have the money; I don’t have the right friends; what will people say? etc. To me, these are basic excuses, and if a person is not even capable of reasoning beyond that, I doubt they are reading a book about walking 12 hours.
    What I wanted and didn’t find, is not how to decide to do it, but how to prepare once you’ve decided! Preparation is crucial! I once walked for 4 hours- 20 km and I was in major pain at the end of the walk and sore for days. Yet Colin glibly says anybody can do 12h, no training required. Really? I’d like to know what to expect. Pain? Where? When? What to do? Blisters? What to do? Cramps? What to do? Do you keep walking through major pain or will you injure yourself? How can you plan your itinerary to leave from your house and be back 12h later when you don’t know how fast you’ll walk or how long you’ll rest? What distance goal is it safe to aim for? What does it feel like? What other problems might you encounter and what are solutions or tricks for those?
    I understand Jenna does the planning and minute logistics and preparation of Colin’s complex and extreme challenges, and that for a professional athlete, a 12h walk is peanuts, but the complete absence of details, examples or down to earth step by step of the actual walk is unforgivable for the average person reading the book. You cannot guess what it might be like. Colin talks like the solitude or the silence might be the hardest obstacles. What if after six hours, my legs hurt so much I cannot actually put one foot in front of the other? What if my hands have swollen to the size of balloons?
    Colin ends by claiming that “his Everest” would be that 10 million people would do the 12h-walk. Well, with no practical instructions, I doubt that will happen. My next immediate thought is: “Why, because you’ve calculated that’s the amount of royalties you’ll need to be well off for life, even if you do nothing else?” The constant reference to his website, throughout the book, reeks of marketing. Not that he’s the only motivational speaker to do it. He repeatedly invites us to go watch his videos. Sorry Colin, I for one, like to READ my information, not watch it. (If only CNN could grasp that.)
    All in all, I admire Colin for what he’s achieved, I like his approach of growing a “possible” mindset, and a 12h-walk is an intriguing project. But the numerous repetitions from his first book, the complete absence of any practical advice for the walk, his fondness for branding, and even his apparent eagerness to pursue challenges that don’t really have any meaning other than being able to claim it as “a first” leave me lukewarm. Two and a half stars.
    **Update: I walked for 10 hours with some breaks. I walked 48 km. The only reason I did not walk the full 12 is that by 10 hours, I was in such pain that it simply wasn’t worth it to go on. Pain in the legs, the hips, the knees, the shoulders. After 5h you start feeling it, by 10, it’s excruciating. I am 52 and in good shape. So claiming that “anybody” can do it, or that his mother-in-law did it easily is b…ogus. I’m all for challenging myself and pushing my boundaries. I don’t mind that. But why pretend that a 12hours walk is anything but extremely hard, demanding, challenging and NOT everyone can do it.
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  • Fitness guy
    1.0 out of 5 stars Not helpful
    Reviewed in Canada on January 10, 2024
    This book did not do a good job of relating the content to the premise. The premise was around the importance of incorporating challenges (such as a 12-hour walk) and time alone in quiet solitude into our lives to improve happiness and gain introspection. The book tries and fails to make strong connections between the main premise and the author's experiences. I found myself forgetting about the main concept and why I picked up the book too many times.
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  • Joseph W. Hughes
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Personal Development Playbook!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2025
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    Incredibly powerful book. So much more than a 12-hour walk. Personal development on steroids.

    I've already scheduled my 12 hour walk for a few weeks from now. Excited to try it out!

    In the meantime, I've already applied several things I read and highlighted in the book!
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  • 鶹 Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2022
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    Got this book for my partner who is reading it now & says it’s an excellent (but hard read).
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  • JC
    5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration & Actionable-Steps to Help you Discover the Courage for Your Personal Greatest Adventure
    Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2022
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    Colin O'Brady has lived a life of adversity and accomplishment most of us can hardly imagine. In The 12 Hour Walk, he shares some of his most intimate and personal challenging moments, and the inspiration and courage he found to persevere. Each chapter book focuses on a challenge that we all face in our lives. He's integrates stories from his own life and extracts the universal lessons and wisdom in a short, yet powerful, section at the end of each each chapter, complete with specific actionable steps. He's identified the big internal obstacles we all have that keep us from living a life of adventure and meaning.

    This is a wonderful book and I recommend it to anyone who has hopes and dreams for living a full life.
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  • Daniel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Just the book I need to kick into a higher gear!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2022
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    I first discovered Colin O' Brady after watching his inspirational TED talk. He spoke about changing your mindset to achieve your goals, dreams and even the impossible. I then read his book, The Impossible First, which does a great job in telling his world record story of traveling across Antartica. While that feat is worthy of high praise, achieving something like that in my life can feel out of reach. Thus, I was delighted to read the 12 Hour Walk which is a much more approachable, but no less significant, approach to finding my own high peak, or goal, to conquer as a means to achieve greater personal growth. This book isn't self-help book per se, it is full of enthralling stories of Colin's other adventures along with other approachable anecdotes that he breaks down to form a mindset that prods, pushes and compels the reader to take that next, more challenging, step in a pursuit of excellence that we can achieve in our daily lives. 鶹 fulfilled the book easily and I am ordering a few for students I mentor. I certainly recommend it!
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    Daniel
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Just the book I need to kick into a higher gear!

    Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2022
    I first discovered Colin O' Brady after watching his inspirational TED talk. He spoke about changing your mindset to achieve your goals, dreams and even the impossible. I then read his book, The Impossible First, which does a great job in telling his world record story of traveling across Antartica. While that feat is worthy of high praise, achieving something like that in my life can feel out of reach. Thus, I was delighted to read the 12 Hour Walk which is a much more approachable, but no less significant, approach to finding my own high peak, or goal, to conquer as a means to achieve greater personal growth. This book isn't self-help book per se, it is full of enthralling stories of Colin's other adventures along with other approachable anecdotes that he breaks down to form a mindset that prods, pushes and compels the reader to take that next, more challenging, step in a pursuit of excellence that we can achieve in our daily lives. 鶹 fulfilled the book easily and I am ordering a few for students I mentor. I certainly recommend it!
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  • Anna Stubblefield
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and probably worth a walk!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2022
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    I enjoyed the book overall. The personal stories were well written and interesting. At some point when the days are longer and it's not so frigid I plan to take a 12 hour walk. It's a good premise but I think for many taking a 12 hour walk is too intimidating.
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