I am a huge eavesdropper and I also do what I call cumulative data conglomeration. So spending a majority of my life in the gym and fitness setting, I am a walking listening monitor of the collective consciousness.
The biggest difference between how I observe and listen is that often my framing of focus is to notice what has been left out. So many people in a live setting are distracted by what is going on. That is like being the perfect audience for a magician. That entertainer plans and relies on humans being easily caused to fix their sight and attention to the most movement nearest their face. Meanwhile,the trick is being executed nearby and more surreptitiously. So my intent is always to be a poor audience for the illusionist.
The second angle of observation that I constantly occupy is 'Compare & Contrast'. that was also a basic and routine assignment when I was in school. So I never understand people that state they didn't learn anything useful in school. Good schools teach the structure of critical thinking. That basic structure can be applied in any life circumstance.
So back to the gym.
In the arena of diet and exercise, people seem to flail about half heartedly starting programs or regimes and then sort of trailing off back to whatever default beliefs and behaviors their family demonstrated or society inadvertently caused them to adopt. And that track record of knee jerk buy it for $29.99 - "There, that ought to fix it" mentality supports a multi-Billion dollar industry of empty and failed gimmicks never fixes anything people aren't actually learning or succesfully changing just CRAP.
The available crap in this industry far outweighs the genuine entity because of the slope to surviving the threshold to alter one's interior.
Dig DEEP:
There used to be a phrase called dig deep. its not part of today. Today is everything immediate and superficial. which is totally fun and often beautiful, but what segregates the successful remains substance and character and commitment. Within fitness, people see photos and beauty and they want to acquire it like a tank top from AMERICAN APPAREL.
However core beliefs and daily rituals, planning and endurance are really key tenets of accomplishment. Instagram is not about core beliefs or life commitment. Possibly the followed by over 100k live these lives. But most must be moth like in their short attention spans attracted to bright or shiny object at a distance.
Let's say you see a pretty picture and you want to be like what you see. It can require a total therapeutic overhaul of your reasoning habits, your foundational beliefs, your choices in the face and presence of most around you choosing NOT to do as you chose. It might require embracing being alone in some respects, even ostracized. When you encounter amazing people you are rarely exposed to the list of hardships they handled with modestly, the thousand of hours they labored with no guaranteed outcome and the tenacity to persist sometimes just driven by some tiny smothered life force deep inside.
It might seem boring or arduous. I suppose that is where drinking the Kool-Aid comes into the game. I am very fatigued of the term passion. Some words although perfectly good get so overused that they cease to have any meaning besides you know everyone else is saying it and it's good and acceptable. 'Passion' is crawling into meaningless pablam as I blog here with my mini gaming physical Qwerty and mini iPad. Kool-Aid is the drink where you immerse yourself in buying into a dream or vision of a future better outcome. You forbid detractors from tripping you. You gather momentum and tools and support that raise you up and move you forward. You refuse to quit even whilst stumbling. You have wholly chosen and decided direction method and intent. It is as if the task is completed and getting to it is just aftermath.
Follow instructions that are not sold. Dig deep and change how you think and believe to allow you to do what is necessary to complete the daily details and behaviors that make you what you desire. Dont expect it to be sudden or easy or cheap in effort.
Stop mimicking failed models of people, lifestyles and rituals. Be fearless in being better not about taking unnecessary risks. being stupid and reckless as a badge of honor is for high achieving morons. Its why we have the Darwin Principle. They eliminate themselves and we are entertained in the process.
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Side note:
Yes, Drinking KoolAid is a Jones Town reference where people died. Yes, there is sugar in it. But the truth is you do die at the end of whatever you choose to do. And there is a somewhat insane energy that allows those who can evolve to drive a complex vehicle with 16 steering wheels to excel and achieve the unusual, not a mainstream cube worker control panel of four with large instructional labeling.
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