Speaker 1: It's this fear of discomfort. People have this extreme feeling in their mind when it comes to their associations with exercise. They want to avoid discomfort. They feel like any type of exercise is just like something to be avoided. That's not for me. I don't want to sweat. I don't want to strain. And a lot of times, this association that they have is about the beginnings of getting in shape. It's not about once you're actually fit, because once you're actually fit, exercise is something you look forward to. It's an alleviation of stress. It feels great. Like if I can't get a workout in, I look at my schedule, I go, oh shit, I don't have any time for a workout, which means I'm not going to get that good feeling. And so instead of looking at it like, oh, I've got to go grunt and sweat, I'm thinking I'm not going to feel good. I'm not going to feel relaxed. I'm not going to feel carefree. And I'm not going to feel even appreciative, like my appreciation of things. It gets enhanced greatly after exercise. I just feel better. I feel like I can take things in for what they are rather than whatever sensory data that I'm getting from any event is just one more distraction that gets in my way. That's a lot of times how I look at things if I'm overstressed or if I'm working too much. In our bodies, for whatever reason, most people, their associations are to avoid anything that's uncomfortable. But it's so illogical because when you look at comfort and you look at success and progress and then eventually the feelings of accomplishment and of getting past certain hurdles in terms of how you feel about life, a lot of those are connected to discomfort. Discomfort is your friend. It really is. Discomfort and not being happy and content with certain situations in life or certain feelings in life, they're massive, massive motivators. And they're amazing at facilitating change. And yet our instinct is to avoid those and just sit on the couch and watch some fucking reality show about dudes who make moonshine with our jaw open. It's bizarre. For me, at least, when I get really disciplined and I get really consistent with my workouts, one of the things that I feel, I almost feel momentum. I feel like there's a push behind me like, all right, after I get out of the gym, I have a really good workout. I'm like, yeah, now I'm doing it. I'm doing it all the time now and I'm looking forward to the next time. And it makes that resistance much weaker and it makes my motivation and my discipline much stronger. I think a lot of it is based on just the consistency. You know, it's one of the things that I talked about recently on the podcast. I said, you know, like blowing something off. It's not just not good. Like blowing off an exercise that you planned is not just bad for you physically. It's also bad mentally because then that option is now available. The option to fuck off is available and you did it before and you're probably going to do it again and you'll get mediocre results. Not just in that aspect of your life, but maybe in all aspects of your life. Because I think that option to fuck off when you embrace it, that is a pathway that you might choose when it comes to dealing with conflict in your personal life, dealing with business decisions, dealing with career decisions, like an uncomfortable decision that you might be faced with. Maybe you need to make a change as far as like what your pathway is in life, but you don't do it. Instead you fuck off. And that the inclination to fuck off, I think that gathers momentum as well. The inclination to be disciplined, that comes with momentum too. And I think both things, like you take a path, the path of the healthy person or the path of the fuck off. Like this is not like your body is like a race car that you can juice up yourself. Like you can add the fat tires, you can add the improved suspension, you can beef up the horsepower in the engine. You could do all that yourself. Or you could just choose to have this shitty body that's always falling apart on you. Because we're essentially ecosystems, and we're in charge. This weird consciousness that has all this resistance and has all this inclination towards comfort and fucking off and blowing things off is what is in charge of making all these things happen that keep this ecosystem healthy. It's almost like if earth itself had like a shitty manager. If there was a natural manager of earth that was like, oh God, who cares if it rains? Oh God, I'm going to stop growing things. I don't give a shit anymore. It's all stupid anyway.

Speaker 2: I mean, it's literally like the- Just blow it up. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck it, let's just kill all the life. It's all going to die eventually. I mean, the sun only lasts 7 billion years.

Speaker 3: You see, that is the perspective a lot of people take with aging, where it's like, well, you're going to die. You're going to age. You can't stop aging. And it's like, yes, you're right, but that's not the point. The point is to age better. That's the point. The point is to increase your health span. And that is, we know is possible. There's some of these centenarians and super centenarians I've seen that are over 100 years old, and they're riding bikes and racing. Yeah. And it's like, they're old. They are very old.

Speaker 1: But they're experiencing a very good quality of life. Yeah. And they're experiencing a quality of life that these other people that don't exercise feel. They physically feel their own body diminishing, and they just feel it's inevitable. It is what it is. You're wasting your time. You're out there running around. But we're not, because this experience right now, it's not like- No one's under the illusion that you're going to live forever, but you are enhancing the experience that you're currently involved in right now. And you are alive. You are alive. You do experience this life. But do you experience this life optimally? Is it as enjoyable as it can be? And we all know that there's a spectrum for that enjoyability. We've all had times in our life where it's not been so great, and then times in our life where everything came together like, what a fucking great day, woo. Make more of those. You can make more of those. And then the whole thing's better. And I think when that whole thing is better, it affects everybody you touch, everybody that's around you, everybody you come in contact with. And that in turn, I mean, it sounds so grandiose, but it in turn can affect the entire race of human beings.