Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
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Yeah.
In certain tribes, there is a belief that as you get older, you become a faster runner, right?
So you don't believe you get slower as you age.
The belief is that when you get to your 60s and your 70s, that's when you're really fast and masterful runner.
So what does that do to people as they get older?
It's not that they slow down.
It's like, hey, my best times are ahead.
So what does that do to your motivation?
It increases your motivation to keep running.
Yeah.
And I really, I would say in my life, one of the best examples of this is my mother-in-law, who's just a phenomenal can-do person.
I mean, she will literally, she doesn't believe there's anything she cannot do.
And it's, I love it.
And I love that my children see this as an example of, you know, in your seventies, you know, she basically,
I did the London Marathon, I think, in 2021.
And my wife, my kids, and my wife's parents came down to London to support.
And
My mother-in-law basically, I think, saw someone in their 70s doing it, and she literally came back and started joining her local 5k parkrun.
She thought, well, that person can do it, so can I. And then for a period of time, she was doing parkrun every week, which is 5k every Saturday.
So the whole idea that our beliefs have that much of an impact,