stop living like you’ve peaked
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Is high school really the best time of your life?
Is high school really the best it gets? Is that when you have your best years of your life, where you feel like you've done the most adventuring, you've lived experiences for the first time? A lot of people say it's college. College is really where you become an adult, where you experience life for what it is. But a lot of us have gone to college and realized that it's college.
What does it mean to peak in life?
That's really what it is. It's college. Maybe it's being an adult. It's actually moving to a new city, not knowing anybody, starting from scratch, getting a girlfriend on Hinge. Good luck. And then living the life, going to your job that you worked so hard to get. Okay, well, a lot of us are doing that right now, and I don't know. Every moment that passes... It makes you question, was that peak? Was that peak? Was that the best it gets? Does it just go downhill from here? I was having an interesting conversation with one of my roommates and he expressed the idea that he thinks he peaked in high school. Which that was like my biggest fear growing up. I'm like, I do not want to peak in high school. High school was a whole lot of schmidd. At least that's what I thought.
Can you have multiple peaks in your life?
And then I went to college and I was like, man, I wish I wouldn't peak in college. And the answer was in the follow-up question. I asked my roommate, do you really think that you peaked in high school from age 14 to 18? Those are the best years of your life. And he said, no. I think that you have different peaks in your life. You have moments where you have an experience, true bliss, where everything is just epic. It's awesome. And he feels that there were a bunch of moments in high school where he, you know, he looks back and he asks himself, was that peak? And it was. It was awesome. But he also looks back and realizes that that can be the same for college. It can be the same for adulthood, for your twenties, your thirties, your forties, your fifties, your sixties, and on and on and on. Right? I think what I've learned is that peaking, peaking is, is a, is an action. It's something that we'll all experience. We will have moments in our life where things are just awesome.
And it doesn't necessarily mean that you have everything going right for you, but maybe you experience a moment of bliss. Something that's peak in my mind is this burned in memory of waking up in the morning in high school at 5 a.m. because I was going to water polo practice. And I would go to water polo practice early in the morning. I did not want to be there. I would slam a protein shake before I got in the water, which is crazy. And I would proceed to swim, you know, in our pool. And I remember... I got to see the sunrise consistently for like a couple of months because we had these morning practices and they were mandatory. You can skip them. And it was beautiful because my high school had these giant windows and the sun would peak perfectly through these windows. There were like three or four of them and it would just, it would cast this golden light onto the pool. When I look back, bro, Was that peak? Yeah, it was. It was just beautiful. And it was everything that surrounded that moment.
I liked the idea that I was up super early as a kid. I liked the idea that I was with all of my really good friends. Like I joined water polo because all of my really close friends at the time were playing water polo. And I joined it as like a junior, bro. I was like low-key high school unc level. And I was just like, whatever, I'm going to try a new sport. So happy I did it. I was staunchly a soccer player, but I'm so happy that I took the risk and I just tried something new. I was like, whatever, let's try water polo. Let's see what happens. It's interesting that I look at that moment and that feeling in the same way that I look at... The... The lunchroom table that I had with a couple of my friends from high school.
Some of them which have, rest in peace, passed away. That's something people don't tell you. Man... Enjoy it. Enjoy it, dude. Because life is life. And life is unexpected. And things happen in life that we can't account for. Because if we could, I mean, it would be mid. There would be no peaks. And you need a lot of, you need peaks in your life
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Is high school really the best time of your life?
0:00–0:26
2
What does it mean to peak in life?
0:26–1:28
3
Can you have multiple peaks in your life?
1:28–10:25
4
How to create your own peak moments?
10:25–15:09
5
Why are peaks and valleys important in life?
15:09–20:24
6
How does perspective affect our experiences?
20:24–26:07
7
What memories do we cherish from our past?
26:07–29:09