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Brian Koppelman

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Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

And it would have taken three or four or five times as long.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

And I would have been worried about my heart.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

And I didn't even think about it, right?

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

Because I'm 60.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

I didn't even think about it.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

Now, I will say not thinking about it might not have been that great because as much as I lift weights and exercise and throw kettlebells around, walking up all those flights with a pack that's heavy and not built for that purpose, the next two days, my back was pretty jacked up.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

And because I'd already I mean, I'd also done that.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

I put a barbell on my back after that.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

So it was a lot of stuff in a row.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

But now we're three days past it and I feel great.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

And I did have the next day.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

It was like, oh, that was maybe dumb.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

But as an exclamation point on the last few years, Michael, and on the influence that comfort crisis had on me.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

Which, as you know, hit me not at the beginning of this kind of move I made into trying to get myself in much better physical condition.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

But I think anytime you're on a long, like no one knows more about like long missions than you do.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

But anytime you're on a long mission, years long mission, maybe a mission that's like for the rest of your life, you hope.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

uh, you need things, not just at the beginning, you need things like stages of a rocket.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

You need things to propel you into the next part, the next phase.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

And cause it's not just like you have one, um, takeoff and you're going, it's like you take off, but then fuel, you know, you run out of fuel or you need a different kind of fuel or you need to a different kind of propulsion.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

And, um,