Will Ahmed
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Modern Wisdom · The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness - Will Ahmed - #943 · 19 May 2025
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So the average bedtime in Riyadh or in Doha is like 1.55 a.m.
Yeah. I think Doha is the latest. I think it's like a little after 2 a.m.
Yeah. So those are two countries that for the most part don't drink alcohol. And so I think in part they're substituting that with things like caffeine and nicotine. And so like those are stimulants that are going to keep you up later.
Yeah, just dial that back in. Yeah. So I think it's entirely cultural. It's interesting.
Uh, Ireland, uh, drinks more alcohol than everyone else. Maybe, maybe that's not too unexpected. Um, I think Australia and the U S report, um, the highest rates of sex.
Uh, so, so, uh, good for them. Um, Cold plunging, I think, is very popular in Sweden relative to other countries. Finland fursonas, probably. Yeah, Finland fursonas. And then there's very activity-specific stuff. Like, you know, certain countries do way more of, like, certain activities. Like, in the U.S., the top three activities are, like, walking, running, and cycling.
And then, like, after that, it's, like, functional fitness and weightlifting, which is, you know, kind of like the order of operations that you'd expect. But then, like... In the UK, for example, they've got a much higher weightlifting culture, interestingly. So that replaces cycling.
I think we have powerlifting and we have weightlifting. And we have functional fitness.
What do you define as power lifting?
Okay, we'll add it, we'll add it. Yes. We'll have an activity for bodybuilding.
It's a great question. I mean, I think the first obvious thing is that I do think only children are more self-centered. I think that there's an element of if there's things that you... want in life, there's sort of an element that you believe you can go get them. And I think that that's probably something that only children have a stronger gravitation to or it comes more naturally.
There's also another element, which is that, at least for me, I found I spent a lot of time with adults when I was a kid and I would travel with my parents to different countries. And so I also got comfortable around being people, like sitting at a dining room table with like seven other adults and me.
And strangely, the two things that I just described actually boded well for being a young entrepreneur because I think so much of building anything, it's probably even so much of like, what do you want to do in life, is knowing what you want and figuring out how to get what you want. And I think that knowing what you want is like a deeply, it requires a deep sort of inwards reflection.
I think the mistake that a lot of people make, particularly when they're young, like I started when I was 22 years old, the mistake that a lot of people make when they're that age is they ask everyone else what they should do and they don't ask themselves. And so I think that the best path of, trying to figure out what you want, like knowing what you want is to look inwards.
And as an only child, you also spend a lot of time alone. And so looking inwards is sort of a natural thing. Yeah. Uh, and then there's of course like practices that you can develop to look inwards. Like I got into meditating and we can talk about that, but, um, so looking inwards was something I became comfortable, you know, comfortable with. And, um,
And then the process of getting what you want, I think is actually, it's really important to get outwards, like to go be around a lot of people and, you know, essentially try to ask for what you want in the world and get rejected a lot and sort of deal with that. And again, the mistake that a lot of people make when they're trying to get what they want is they actually become isolationist.
And so there's an interesting irony to this whole concept of get what you want or discover what you want and get what you want. But then I think there's also an element with being an only child where you can build up, you potentially can build up more self-esteem because your parents have more time to sort of pay attention to you, right?
and i you know i have great parents and they loved me considerably and i think that helped with self-esteem you know probably throughout my childhood and growing up which probably in turn when i was starting a company made me more resilient in the face of rejection you believe that you can do things that other people might have had second thoughts about yeah yeah now
I also had a lot of conviction in what I was building, more conviction in the thing than I had in myself, which is an interesting concept in itself, but... I believed that what I was building should exist in the world and would exist in the world. And what I struggled with for years in building it was, can I do this? Am I capable of this?
Oh gosh, I feel like I'm under a lot of stress or I feel like I'm under a lot of pressure or I don't know the answers to these things or how do I hire someone or how do I fire someone or how do I raise money? For me, it was dealing with that sort of trauma of building the company.
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