Arthur Brooks

Here's the fun about self-improvement.

When I first started getting really interested in self-improvement, I remember when I was kind of older, as a matter of fact.

I read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie in 1936.

I read Stephen Covey's book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

And they just energized me, man.

Not because I was like, check, I got all the stuff.

All these 36 habits.

The wind friends, I got all of them.

No, I didn't.

The interesting thing was that I didn't have most of these habits.

And the fact that I recognized the fact that there was something that I could do was great because it gave me this challenge.

It gave me a castle in the sky I could walk toward.

It was so wonderful.

It was a puzzle for me about myself to solve.

That's one of the things that people really like when they're starting a program of physical fitness is that it's not because they're already fit.

It's because they have a purpose.

They have a direction.

They have a goal.

And that gives them all this gusto for being alive.

It's a puzzle that you can solve that's utterly solvable.