Amjad Masad

We have this view of things physical, that physical things are not intelligent things.

But you need intelligence in order to manage emotions.

Emotions are a critical aspect of anything physical.

Any really good athlete, you need a few factors.

You need discipline, hard work, genetics, but you need intelligence.

It might not be the same intelligence.

People also, they confuse intelligence with your ability to express yourself, your vocabulary, your history of reading.

It's like a bias almost.

Yes, it's a huge bias.

Well, they assume that anything that you're doing physically, you're now no longer using your mind.

But it's not true.

In order to be disciplined, you have to understand how to manage your mind.

Managing your mind is an intelligence.

And the ability to override those emotions, to conquer that inner bitch.

that comes to you every time I lift that fucking lid off of that cold plunge, that takes intelligence.

You have to understand that this temporary discomfort is worth it in the long run because I'm going to have an incredible result after this is over.

I'm going to feel so much better.

You're trying to like trick yourself into doing things like that.

It's just they've missed this one aspect of intelligence, which is the management of the functions of the mind itself.

And they don't think that that's critical.