Why Your Mind Tells You to Stop Right Before It Gets Good
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Why does your mind tell you to stop before growth?
Before anything else, you have to teach yourself that it's okay. What do I mean by this? Well, let's share a quick example and then I'll expand a bit. I often joke around that part of growing up is realizing you never really feel 100%. especially as I've been trying to stay fit and hit the gym and run and all that stuff. It's like the mind truly shifts from how do I feel perfect all the time to, look, there's most likely going to be some ache or pain. The question is just how do you best manage it, stay on top of it? How do we maintain, quote unquote, good enough to keep showing up and pushing the envelope every day? Man, I'm learning that can be a full-time job, right? It's like yoga, stretching, supplements, chiropractor, body work.
Sometimes it all just feels wild to me, but, you know, it's a cost, metaphorically, I'm willing to pay. And... Recently had some knee discomfort pop up and I know now these things can be targeted and over time resolved. I called my friend who's a mobility specialist and, you know, he's looking at my lower body. He's like, dude, your ankles are like bricks.
How can discomfort lead to personal growth?
They don't move. You don't have the mobility needed to do what you're doing. Which, he continues on, makes your calves tight. Feel this. Then he pokes the center of my calf. And I let out this unexpected yelp. And he continues. He goes, which means the inside of your thigh and the outside of your leg are working really hard to compensate. And your knee is just the messenger here. It's screaming, something's wrong, pal. And so here's the cool thing, right? Eventually, he goes, Eddie, get into the squat position. And no weight or anything. Just think of an air squat. You know, he says, sink down to the bottom and hold it there, the bottom of your squat.
What role does fear play in our decision-making?
And my body, like, it really didn't have the ability to do that, right? So he sees it. He acknowledges. He says, stand up. Hands me a rope. I have one end. He has one end. And he says, do it again. And you know that you're not going to fall backwards, right? You're completely supported. The tension on this rope is going to hold you up. And Yeah, I know that, right? It makes perfect sense to say, okay, and I squat again. And when I'm at the bottom, the discomfort was crazy. It was like a full-on panic. Um, as I'm trying to hold it there, you know, my heart rate was really jacked up and everything's screaming. And I feel like I'm on mile two of a, a full on sprint, but I'm not even doing anything. I'm just trying to stay stationary, sitting there at the bottom of a squat.
And it's just, it really was, uh, just unexpected. It was crazy. And he's like, he can see what's going on. He says, okay, stand up. and basically explains to me, so your body is so convinced that the depth at the bottom of that squat is dangerous, that it's doing everything it can to avoid it. Every time you get close to the bottom of that squat, it's sounding an alarm. It's thinking, oh no, injury, injury, injury. We don't go low. We don't do that. Depth equals bad, negative, right?
How does repetition help in overcoming fear?
Pulling every alarm it can. And so he goes, Eddie, what you need to do is literally teach it that it's okay. You need, through repetition, to show all those nerves and all that stuff down there. Clearly, I'm paraphrasing. I don't remember what he said, but we'll go with stuff down there. You need to teach it that you can get low and that death doesn't equate to horrible consequences. Because right now, your body's desperately trying to protect you from what it thinks is the problem. And the way that, you know, that was framed made perfect sense to me. I'm like, okay, the reps make sense, right? A little at a time makes sense. It's like showing a child that the water in the pool is okay. Little at a time.
You walk up, you put your toe in. You walk up, you put your foot in. Or, you know, whatever metaphor you want to use. So where am I taking all this? Well, as I sit there and I think about it, Isn't that what speaking in front of an audience was for me? It's like getting a little less nervous and a little more comfortable every time I did it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why does your mind tell you to stop before growth?
0:00–1:24
2
How can discomfort lead to personal growth?
1:24–2:06
3
What role does fear play in our decision-making?
2:06–3:36
4
How does repetition help in overcoming fear?
3:36–5:41
5
What lessons can we learn from Michelangelo's experience?
5:41–8:08
6
How do sacrifices contribute to achieving greatness?
8:08–10:52
7
What does it mean to invest in your future?
10:52–13:16
8
Why is patience essential in the pursuit of dreams?
13:16–31:06
Speakers
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