e calls it “optimistic stress”. Conor Pierce lives 5 minutes from the seashore in Dublin and daily, irrespective of the climate, he goes out swimming within the Irish Sea, in the midst of winter. “I cheat, although,” he says. “I take a two-litre flask of sizzling water with me to pour over my head once I get out. I’ve to outlive.” His slogan is “Do what you possibly can’t”, which works properly for him as company vp of Samsung for UK and Eire, and evangelist of the transition to 5G.
He has needed to overcome his share of obstacles. Introduced up in Shankill, south of Dublin, on the age of 10 he was recognized with a type of juvenile arthritis that put him on crutches for a yr. “Swimming took over my life,” he says. From 11 to 16, he would spend hours within the pool daily with the Trojan Swimming Membership, doing a mile only for a warm-up, and specialising in butterfly. “You’re so drained after that,” he says, “you don’t fear an excessive amount of about lacking out on the standard adolescent actions.”
