Chris Williamson

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Beautiful.

Great question.

I'm always hesitant of giving some pithy philosophical answer to this stuff because I think so much of it is just practical.

Spending less time on your own.

It sounds so dumb.

You go through a breakup, spend less time on your own, man.

Like it's important for you to have your friends come around with tacos and ice cream and watch shit movies.

Like that is an important part of the healing process.

It's important for you to stay busy.

It's important for you to reconnect with the hobbies that you had as a kid.

Start playing football again or pickleball or whatever it is that you like to do, martial arts or running, whatever, and to do it in a group.

And that will carry a lot of the difference between somebody who that pain calcifies and it turns into stasis.

Basically, what I'm pushing toward is a bias for action, but it's a bias for action when your capacity for action has been severely diminished.

So you can't act as easily.

Your one rep max has been chopped down by 95% and you're really going to struggle to lift anything, even the smallest weight.

So what do you do when you have a weight that you can't bear?

while you spread the load between other people.

So I think relying on other people, but the broader lesson, not everybody has other people, needs other people in this way.

The broad lesson I think is a bias for action.