People enjoy acceleration not velocity
People enjoy acceleration not velocity.
We get used to how great we have it. Next time you easily get ice from your fridge or take a hot shower, remember no one before 110 years ago had both these luxuries. Only a king could have ice in the summer. Not even emperors could stand in a hot shower. No one had AC and heating was made by burning wood.
The mind is a comparative thing. Challenge is necessary to give good things value. It is counter intuitive but massive wealth and success can become a cage. Reward cannot be unlinked from effort.
People aren't meant to live in cities. Weights, chess, debates -challenges you don't need to live. But to need to live well. The distance between pain and joy is what we experience. Playing a 5 year old in chess is no fun Even though you'll win every time. Being crushed by Bobby Fischer isn't either. Struggle must be balanced with ability.
No challenge is greater or more rewarding than having children.
But that's final boss level. Unused potential eats away at you.
Humans evolved both physically and psychologically for thousands of years in a particular environment.
Aesthetics matter. By design you are best suited to do a certain amount of:
*physical
*mental
*social
*creative
Activities.
All of which were satisfied well enough by hunting/fishing farming, shelter building and tool making. Desk sitting ignores 3 of the 4 In modern times our physical needs are met, but our need to be phsysial is not. In making them easy, we have unwittingly removed a process of actualizing potentials that was psychologically gratifying and healthy.
At rest, this will eat at man from the inside. People seek constant entertainment to run away from the disturbance inside. The amount of hours, gaming, TV, internet garbage, drugs, alcohol, is staggering.
Young men are addicted to games because it mimics virtually what they ought to be doing. There is another reason. The effort to reward is guaranteed. Many young men do not see this in real life. They go to school they obey all the rules, they're still broke still single. They have tapped out because no effort and much effort get them roughly the same results. You can't play in the rigged system. The matrix wants worker ants.
Pick the low hanging fruit first Your starting block is your body. Lift, stretch, move Improving the body isn't to do MMA. Improving the body via weights, sports, combat is a medium to enhance SELF DISCIPLINE Which will carry over into all other endeavors.
Improving the other categories is complex and everyone is different. But improving the body is pretty unifrom. Don’t eat slop. Lift, Stretch, Move.
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