Dorian Yates
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
All my friends were driving 18, 19.
But the funny thing is I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything.
I knew I was on this mission.
And this in itself was so powerful.
Like nobody else had this mission that I was doing, which was to change my life, basically.
And bodybuilding was the vehicle.
And I think something that really helped me
is I'm an avid reader.
I have been since I was about 10 years old.
And I can take in a lot of information on a subject if I'm very interested.
I'll almost get obsessed with it for a while.
And then I might just say, oh, I forget about that.
I'll go interested in something else.
So all the guys that I was training with, they were just watching videos and listening to other guys in the gym.
I was reading Mike Mensah.
I was reading Arthur Jones.
I was trying to figure it out for myself.
Which means you need a very independent kind of personality.
So, yeah, let me try to do a bit more.
It doesn't work.