Dr. Haley Perlus

But in my indoor cycle class, inevitably, I would always ask one moment in time, everyone look around the room and don't say it out loud, but choose someone in the room that looks the most energized today.

And then for this next song...

I want you to match or beat, because I'm okay with competition, match or beat their energy.

But don't tell anyone who you chose.

That's just for you and you alone.

And what would happen is one of two things.

Some people in the room would not be feeling in a leadership role.

Some people in the room would just be happy they showed up.

Look around the room.

Choose someone that's energized.

and go ahead and use that person's energy to motivate them to get more energized.

Other people in the room want to be chosen.

They want to be the leader.

So they too stand up a little bit more energized, look a little bit more present because they want to be chosen.

So what happened is the whole room just elevated their energy, but the leader is someone who wants to be chosen.

They want to lead by example.

And it's not doing the work for others because the other people in the room had to measure up, but they walked the walk.

They talk the talk.

And I love, you know, there are many, many sports these days right now when you, we still have a lot of room to room for improvement, but there's many sports where their coaches look super fit.

Mm-hmm.