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Will Ahmed

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Modern Wisdom
#943 - Will Ahmed - The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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,

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

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,

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

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,

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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

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?