Derek Thompson

You set a new record for a bench, and then you have to keep doing it.

Like, my God, it's not like a book where you write it and it's bound and it's shipped in the world and you're done.

It's like everything else.

It's like everything else where if you don't keep doing it, it just immediately disappears.

And so I think there's an interesting distinction, I think, between some achievements and

that once achieved lasts forever, and other achievements where the achievement never has an end point, right?

Like exercise never has like a logical end point.

It's something that necessarily must be maintained and re-explored and made more curious day after day.

That's a fascinating observation.

Right.

Yeah.

No, right.

And I think, I don't know if this is profound or like unbelievably mind-smackingly obvious, but like fitness is the opposite of accomplishment.

And accomplishment is something that you did.

Correct.

And then you did it.

And now you've done it forever.

Fitness is the opposite.

Fitness is a state.

You do that 30-day crash diet, get the six-pack, whatever.