Warum Normalgewicht dich in die Top 1% bringt

0:00Why not? And this is exactly like the hater who says, "You're not going to amount to anything." And the reason it hurts is because you're like, "What if they're right?" And then like staring at the mirror with that question of like, "What if they're right? What if I am out of shape?" What? Like cuz the thing is is that like in order to be the top quote 1% or even the top 10%, shoot or even just above average, right? You just need to not be overweight, >> dude. The bar you need to not be overweight, right? You need to be gainfully employed.

0:28>> The bar is so low. The bar is so unbelievably low. Uh I got this idea I got to I got to teach you about uh the alpha history fantasy. >> Right. >> Modern men who are angry at a world they feel has rejected them mistakenly believe that they would have somehow done better in medieval times. They are adamant that the chance of them being genis Khan is greater than the chance of them being cannon foder peasant number 1,373,000 whose flla was sacked and destroyed. And it's this wistfulness for the past. And dude, I get it. Like if you feel lost and alone and like nobody understands you and like you've been forgotten and and things shouldn't be this way, guess what? They've always been this way. And right now the bar has never been set lower. If you have the opportunity to sit down and listen to me and Alex waffle on for three and a half hours, you have the capacity, the conscientiousness, the wherewithal to be able to go out tomorrow and take one thing that you've hit from today.

1:26This is this is something that I want you to get on to which which I think is important which is >> oh sorry go >> avoiding the mental masturbation. You know we can do this thing and and like speed [ __ ] quotes into the ether and like a like an uzi right just unloading all of these different things. And I think that a lot of people feel uh a general overwhelm of indexing of information and oh my god I'm I'm learning all of this stuff and I don't feel like I'm making any progress. And I really wanted to try and cut through this at some point in the conversation today as well, which is Tim Ferrris has an idea called the good [ __ ] sticks.

2:01>> Okay. I when I first started out on this journey of personal growth felt guilty because I didn't have a perfectly curated Evernote external brain with nested folders and all of my book summaries and I was supposed to keep all of this thing and how am I going to remember it and blah blah blah. Five and a bit years later, people come up to me and ask, one of the most common questions I get asked is, "How the [ __ ] do you remember all of the things that you remember?"

2:26Two things. First off, I don't remember anything that I don't care about. And the second thing, massive amounts of exposure. Those are the only two things that are going on. I've done 670 podcasts in 5 years for hours. And all of the reading I had to do beforehand and all of the listening I had to do beforehand as well. >> And I didn't stress myself about what I had to remember. So if you listen to this three in a bit hour podcast and you go they talked they said a lot of words there. Alex said a lot of words. Chris said a lot of words. What's the one thing that you couldn't stop thinking about? And there may be nothing. Fair play. We failed.

3:04[laughter] If there's one thing that you can't stop thinking about that story about the kid from Cumbria. That time when Alex had to drive across the country. That's the thing. That is the thing. and allowing yourself …