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Will Ahmed

πŸ‘€ Speaker
633 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

It almost certainly would have been to have been less ambitious with the technology, to have gone to market sooner with something that was like less cutting edge, to be mass market faster rather than working with athletes. You know, a lot of sort of, to be honest, the feedback that I got from people who rejected the business was, I would have taken those as the lessons.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

It almost certainly would have been to have been less ambitious with the technology, to have gone to market sooner with something that was like less cutting edge, to be mass market faster rather than working with athletes. You know, a lot of sort of, to be honest, the feedback that I got from people who rejected the business was, I would have taken those as the lessons.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

But in turn, actually, when we did ultimately become successful, those were the reasons we were successful.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

But in turn, actually, when we did ultimately become successful, those were the reasons we were successful.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

But in turn, actually, when we did ultimately become successful, those were the reasons we were successful.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

Well, I think one takeaway is that it's helpful for us in general to take meaning from experiences. And so whether it's a success or a failure, taking something from that is in turn a path towards growth. And so you can question whether or not the lesson could have been actually the exact opposite or completely different. But by taking a lesson, you are in turn feeling like you're growing.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

Well, I think one takeaway is that it's helpful for us in general to take meaning from experiences. And so whether it's a success or a failure, taking something from that is in turn a path towards growth. And so you can question whether or not the lesson could have been actually the exact opposite or completely different. But by taking a lesson, you are in turn feeling like you're growing.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

Well, I think one takeaway is that it's helpful for us in general to take meaning from experiences. And so whether it's a success or a failure, taking something from that is in turn a path towards growth. And so you can question whether or not the lesson could have been actually the exact opposite or completely different. But by taking a lesson, you are in turn feeling like you're growing.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

Yeah, and reflecting and having a growth mindset, like these are things that are just enormously useful in your life. I mean, one other way to look at everything when you start to see the lens of sports, like, there's so many examples of what you were describing in sports of like this. The most recent example is, is with Rory McIlroy winning the masters.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

Yeah, and reflecting and having a growth mindset, like these are things that are just enormously useful in your life. I mean, one other way to look at everything when you start to see the lens of sports, like, there's so many examples of what you were describing in sports of like this. The most recent example is, is with Rory McIlroy winning the masters.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

Yeah, and reflecting and having a growth mindset, like these are things that are just enormously useful in your life. I mean, one other way to look at everything when you start to see the lens of sports, like, there's so many examples of what you were describing in sports of like this. The most recent example is, is with Rory McIlroy winning the masters.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

And Rory has been a friend now for like, you know, seven or eight years. He was one of the first big golfers to wear a whoop. And so I got to know him well. And that final round at the masters was like every version of, uh, like a human experiencing, you know, like this emotional roller coaster and such highs and lows.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

And Rory has been a friend now for like, you know, seven or eight years. He was one of the first big golfers to wear a whoop. And so I got to know him well. And that final round at the masters was like every version of, uh, like a human experiencing, you know, like this emotional roller coaster and such highs and lows.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

And Rory has been a friend now for like, you know, seven or eight years. He was one of the first big golfers to wear a whoop. And so I got to know him well. And that final round at the masters was like every version of, uh, like a human experiencing, you know, like this emotional roller coaster and such highs and lows.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

I mean, he hit shots in that round that he's the only person on the planet that can hit, right? Like on the 15th hole, he hits this like sweeping seven iron, like 200 yards to five feet, right? And then, you know, on the 13th hole, he had a shot from 80 yards that an amateur golfer would put on the green.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

I mean, he hit shots in that round that he's the only person on the planet that can hit, right? Like on the 15th hole, he hits this like sweeping seven iron, like 200 yards to five feet, right? And then, you know, on the 13th hole, he had a shot from 80 yards that an amateur golfer would put on the green.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

I mean, he hit shots in that round that he's the only person on the planet that can hit, right? Like on the 15th hole, he hits this like sweeping seven iron, like 200 yards to five feet, right? And then, you know, on the 13th hole, he had a shot from 80 yards that an amateur golfer would put on the green.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

And so at moments during that round, not just the tournament, just that one round, like he was the very best golfer in the world by far. And he was a complete amateur golfer. And he had to go through these huge ups and downs to like, you know, overcome what was this painful 14-year trauma that he essentially was experiencing of winning the career Grand Slam and winning one more major.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

And so at moments during that round, not just the tournament, just that one round, like he was the very best golfer in the world by far. And he was a complete amateur golfer. And he had to go through these huge ups and downs to like, you know, overcome what was this painful 14-year trauma that he essentially was experiencing of winning the career Grand Slam and winning one more major.

Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

And so at moments during that round, not just the tournament, just that one round, like he was the very best golfer in the world by far. And he was a complete amateur golfer. And he had to go through these huge ups and downs to like, you know, overcome what was this painful 14-year trauma that he essentially was experiencing of winning the career Grand Slam and winning one more major.