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The Fit Perception
The Fit Perception
The Hidden Agenda of Fitness and Health
Prepare to have your beliefs challenged and your eyes opened, Fit Perception family! Your boy T is here to tear down the walls of misinformation fed to us by the media, starting with a glaring example from CBS that could mislead the over-50s about fitness. I'm taking to task not only the blatant falsehoods but also the accountability that seems to be missing when it comes to the health advice broadcasted to the masses. Strap in for an episode that's less about sugar-coating and more about giving you the tools to slice through the fabrications that could impact your well-being.
Things get even more heated as we examine the fitness industry's less talked about narratives. Have you ever considered the underlying agendas of documentaries like "You Are What You Eat"? It's time to question who's really benefiting from the trends they push and to scrutinize the so-called 'factual' information that could be steering you away from the true path to health. From rehashing outdated fitness myths to unveiling the tricky marketing of electric cars and the body positivity movement, we're here to redefine what it means to truly care for yourself in a world that often profits from your confusion.
Rounding out this episode, we're not just critiquing – we're also reflecting on the importance of joy in our careers and the power of a positive community. If your job isn't lighting that spark within you, I'm sharing my personal journey to illustrate why it's crucial to align your passion with your profession. Let this conversation be your guide as we navigate the pursuit of happiness, the real effort it takes, and why spreading this message is central to everything we stand for. I'm glad to have you with me on this journey, so let's uplift each other and create a wave of positivity that lasts far beyond today.
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Just a little side note to this episode. I was going through some technical difficulties and the software kept shutting down, so if it sounds a little bit cut here and there, that's why. But yeah, that's it. Technical difficulties suck. I love you guys and enjoy the show.
Speaker 1:What's cracking, fam? Welcome back to another episode, the Fit Perception podcast. I'm your boy T. Yeah, it's been a second.
Speaker 1:I got real sick there for a hot minute. I'm still. You can hear it in my voice. I'm still not a hundred percent. I feel great. I don't sound great. I don't sound great.
Speaker 1:I gotta go see an ENT. Not looking forward to it. I'm going to need to check my vocal cords Real stressed out about it, actually not a small thing, because I like my vocal cords and I really don't want them to be screwed. So that's my plan this week. That's top priority. I gotta go check on the vocals and the nostrils.
Speaker 1:Anyway, tmi in my life. What's happening, fam? There's a lot going on. There's too much going on to talk about all of it, but want to break most important things down right. Basketball is the word I'm kidding, definitely not basketball. Okay, first of all, we know if this is your first time listening to the show. Get ready, buckle up. I'm going to go back to the madness.
Speaker 1:I have a tendency to kind of go off the handle about things that drive me crazy and I guess what. There's a lot of things that drive me crazy, so that's cool. Anyway, where do I start? There's okay when I see things online that are just I don't know when we got into this culture of it being okay to blatantly lie about things and then never have to retract our statement. When did that happen? That is so unbelievable.
Speaker 1:We know that COVID was basically a made up crazy thing that happened now. No, I know that people died. I know that it was real sickness. I get that, also all the stuff that we had to do. They basically admitted that. They just made it up. There was no scientific backing to it. The six feet rule sorry, the six feet rule, the masks, always, even outside. They made it up, they blatantly said it. What's his name? Fauci, the loser guy. He said that, yeah, we didn't know where that six foot rule came from, but we ran with it just to see what would happen. So it's like, when did we get to the point where lying is okay? When I understand it was crazy, it was chaotic, nobody knew what was going on, whatever.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to give as much credit as possible, but if you lie it used to be you had to come and retract the statement and apologize. Now that just doesn't exist. Now you can just lie about stuff and never have to back it up or never have to apologize when it happens, which is unbelievable. It's crazy. And then we worry and complain about why we have to go to therapy and depression and anxiety when, like hey, maybe that's one of them. People lie and don't ever have to say anything about it. For example, there was something that came out. I posted it on my story. It made me so angry.
Speaker 1:Cbs, this huge media corporation right? Media is supposed to give us facts, media is supposed to give us news. Media is supposed to, like, spread knowledge and awareness, not just blatant lies, right? That's not okay. I think we can all admit that, like, blatantly lying to people isn't good, right? Yeah, okay, cool. So anyway, cbs, massively huge media corporation that I hope just implodes on itself and never exists anymore because no one would miss it came out with a statement saying if you're over 50 years old, you should stay away from pushups, pullups, weighted squats and weighted deadlifts.
Speaker 1:Now, what's the matter with that? Well, those are the things that people should do the most of. Not only is it a lie, it's going against science, body mechanics, physiology it's literally going against science. There are so many studies and so much science that says if you're older, you should be doing those specific moves pushups, pullups, squats and deadlifts. Why? Well, because those are functional movements, things that you should do every single day bending up, bending over to pick something up, pushing with your arms, pulling with your back All of those are functional moves and we use them every single day in some form.
Speaker 1:And so for this massive media company to come out and say these are the things you should say, hey, you're wrong. You are blatantly lying to people, and for what reason, I don't know. You're obviously stupid. You're a really dumb person for saying that, because anybody that's involved in any sort of exercise knows that that's wrong. So not only did you lie, you are causing people to not do things that can benefit them, like you're literally saying hey, if you want to live a long time, don't do this. If you want to live a long time, you should never do pushups. Well, that's a lie. If you want to be healthy and strong for a really long time. These are the things you should do, and you just said we shouldn't do them. Hey, cbs, kill yourself. That's unbelievable, that's crazy, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1:And have they retracted that statement? Nope. Have they come out and said, oh, you know what? We were wrong. Here's the real stuff? Nope, they sure didn't. Hey, cbs by, you're not important anymore because obviously you're okay with lying to people.
Speaker 1:These are very simple things, like if they're down to lie to you blatantly about something as simple as exercise, what else are they willing to lie to you about? Like, that's the crazy thing, if they can get away with saying you shouldn't do pushups, pull up squats and deadlifts and nobody stops them and they're down for that, what else? They could use AI to create a war that doesn't exist or a disease that literally doesn't exist at all, and they'd be down because obviously their track record is we're liars. They were down for being liars because nobody's going to hold us accountable. Like why can't we lock those psychopaths up? Like that's crazy to me that we're locking people up that are doing minuscule things and yet these huge corporations that are saying, yeah, do this or don't do this is really good. Hey, you don't know, You're dumb, remember. Let's go back to the first part. Yeah, you're stupid, you're a dumb human. Buy, get out. Anyway, man, it just. It gets me so heated when people I don't like hypocrites, I don't like freaking liars, obviously, and it's just it's so frustrating that nobody holds them accountable.
Speaker 1:Anyway, and kind of on that same note, there was this huge Netflix documentary that came out recently called you Are what you Eat, and I got a lot of people talking to me about it. A lot of people wanted to know my take. Specifically, people online would send me clips from and stuff. And here's the thing If there's a documentary on Netflix, there's an agenda period. Here's the problem. It's another like they're like oh, here's the genetic code. We're using twins to decide whether meat is good or vegetarianism is good. Okay, cool.
Speaker 1:So before I watch that, I want to know who it is that is behind it, who is paying the money to make this show? Okay, because we all know that money rules everything, right? So whoever is backing this probably has an idea of what they want said, right, okay, so that's cool. So there's this family called Vaughn, and guess what, guess where? They've made a lot of like, let's say, billions of dollars, billions with the B as in boy. Billions of dollars invested in guess what? Fake meat and the vegetarianism mindset and lifestyle. Okay, so they've invested billions of dollars into vegetarianism, veganism, fake meat, all of that stuff, okay, and they are the ones that sponsored and paid for and created this documentary.
Speaker 1:So, knowing that, before I even get into the show, what can I assume? Oh, yeah, there's going to be that B word, bias, right, bias opinions. So is it going to be a fair look between meat eating and vegetarianism? I will say with a 100% certainty that no, it will not be fair. It will be skewed to what Focus on the positives of vegetarianism, veganism and the like. Oh, that's weird, that's crazy. So, no, I didn't watch the stupid documentary, right, because we already know what it's going to say. And if I already know what it's going to say, why do I need to watch the show? I don't.
Speaker 1:So, that being said, I'm sure there was lots of good points, because there's lots of good points to vegetarianism there is you should eat your veggies. You should eat more veggies than anything else. They have the multivitamins, they have all the minerals, right, and yes, you should have meat, because there's lots of iron, there's lots of protein, lots of good things If the meat comes from a good source, which is hard, it's hard, it is very tough to do, but that source is not fake meat, chemical ridden garbage, okay, um, anyway. So I just think it's so interesting, slash, lame, that people see that without thinking, go, ah, because of this one thing that they did with pairs of twins. All of a sudden, vegetarianism is the way to go because of this one thing that they did that was backed by this investor with billions of dollars associated with the vegetarianism.
Speaker 1:Obviously, there's no bias. I'm stupid. I'm going to be vegan. Hey, don't do that, though, don't. Okay, let's use the thing in your head called your brain that's a supercomputer and think about things before we just go along, right, because again, people can say whatever they want and just get away with it. Unbelievable, unbelievable that you would just hear one thing and run with it. That's so. I just I guess my brain just, maybe I'm just like a not trusting person. I don't know, no, that's not true, because I trust a lot of people. I don't know what it is that makes me so upset and angry and frustrated that people are so quick to be stupid that are so quick to just jump on whatever happens and get involved and freaking, be a diehard about this one thing. It's so crazy. It's so crazy to be so invested in one thing that you don't look at all of the other possibilities that you could be incorrect. You know what it gets down to this.
Speaker 1:When it comes to fitness, there's a lot of things that happen. Obviously, I get off the rails a little bit about things that make me frustrated, but it's really for because I want people to be better. I want people to be the best version of themselves, and when people get lied to, it's hindering people being better people and it's so obviously apparent in the fitness industry all of the time and I was thinking about it the other day I blame it all on the 70s, 100% on the 70s. So if you were a teen in the 70s, 20s in the 70s, hey, you're the problem, because going back to the 70s, fitness was just becoming a big deal. It had just gotten off. Obviously, there was fitness in the 50s and the 30s and the 60s, whatever, but 70s was really big. It was a big deal. Gyms were popping up and aerobics were big.
Speaker 1:Fitness stuff was all over commercials and TV. You had Arnold and you had all of this massive, massive surge in fitness and most of it was BS. Because I mean, think about all the things that, okay, I'm just going to rapid fire on these. Brown rice, good or bad, guess what? Not any better than white rice Moving on, we're not even going to talk about it Moving on.
Speaker 1:Carbs are bad, incorrect. Running is the best. Cardio Incorrect. Compound lifts are the best for hypertrophy. Incorrect. Machines are for losers. Incorrect.
Speaker 1:Weights make you big. Incorrect, like. All of that was nonsense. That was shoveled down your throat in the 70s and nobody stopped him.
Speaker 1:And to little caveat to that. I understand that it was brand new. There was very little scientific development yet, cool. But once science comes forward and has the solution, hey, be better and look at that science. Right. Don't be married to the opinions. We know that's kind of like the motto of this show. Don't be married to your opinions because guess what they should change in the future when you get smarter. But yeah, the 70s just kind of basically screwed everything over fitness-wise.
Speaker 1:I talked to so many people. Okay, not to isolate one group over the other, but women, hey, weights don't make you big and I don't know what happens in your brain but you just go nope, click off. They don't make you big. It's literally not the thing that makes you big. All the science says that Guess what makes you big? Eating a lot of food. That's what makes you big. And not working out correctly. So it's not the weights that make you big. And yet for years and years, and years, and years and years and years, that's been the MO. That's been kind of like what people say To not get big, you got to run a lot and you can't eat a lot and you can't lift heavy weights. Well, all three of those things are lies. They're incorrect.
Speaker 1:If you want to be trim and fit, do low-intensity cardio. Mostly Run little, unless you like to run, that's when you should run. But to be trim and fit you don't need to run. That's not the best cardio. It just isn't. Scientifically it's not. And if you're exercising, you should eat a lot of good food. Protein Carbs are good for you. If you're exercising, eat a lot of carbs, know how much you should eat and eat a lot of the good stuff.
Speaker 1:Lift heavy weights. Why? Because it gives you muscle strength. When you're old, you won't be crippled if you lift heavy weights correctly, like it keeps you alive, it gives your body muscle density and mass, like it's those things that like we've been lied to for so long. And I get it that, like fitness isn't at the forefront of everybody's brain and it's not the career. I understand that. But if you hear it here you shouldn't switch your brain off and go nope, I'm going to go with what I believe. Hey, man, great, believe that, but you're wrong. You're wrong if you believe that Because it's your opinion and these are scientific facts for now. Right, because science is supposed to change over time. We're supposed to study it, improve, learn where we went wrong, adjust, make corrections, etc. That's how we get better.
Speaker 1:It's just so crazy to me that just somebody like runs with like hey, brown rice is better for you, and then nobody questions it. And there's like okay, white rice is bad. No, it's not. No, it's not. It's how you eat the rice, it's how it's prepared, it's where it came from, doesn't matter if it's brown or white, literally doesn't matter. Like there's so many studies that are like yeah, we don't know where this came from.
Speaker 1:Like some, some moron in the 70s was just like I don't like brown rice, so I'm going to convince everybody that's bad for you. Like what dude? I just it's the 70s, ruined fitness, so not to sound like a really bad person, but the 70s people, when they're gone going to be kind of a better place Anyway, um, no, that was way too mean. I apologize, that was rough. I didn't, I didn't, I don't mean that at all. Um, but yeah, the 70s kind of screwed fitness, um, but it kind of like proves this point of like.
Speaker 1:If you want to get anything off of the ground, like if you have an idea or a mindset or like this whole concept that you want to promote and make big and be very successful at it, all you have to do. You don't have to promote the product Like you. Really the product doesn't matter. It can be absolute garbage, but if you can convince people that it's good for them and you can use all of the marketing tools you can use yourself, you can use all of this stuff to convince people that it is good for them, you'll win.
Speaker 1:Like, there's a guy out there I don't know his actual name, but V shred is his company that he's made millions of dollars with and a lot of like exercise. Scientists have just absolutely destroyed him, um, about how wrong he is about things, um, but he uses himself like his body. He's very, very fit as like, look, this is what I do, um, to get the body that like this, look at me. And then he says all this stuff that's just not correct, like at all, like, he's so bad. He's a huge liar, um, and he's made a lot of like, really, really shady deals and marketing campaigns, anyway. So he's a loser. But, um, he just convinced people to look at me, I'm this way and obviously this is what I do. No, it's not. It's not what he does at all, um, just because, oh, let's go back science, right, science would say that you're a liar, um, so, anyway, he, uh, he's just one Like example of someone who has taken something that's not good, that's really really bad, and just convinced people via the way he looks, via charisma, via marketing, via all that stuff, that it's good for them.
Speaker 1:Was it good for them? Absolutely no. But did he convince them that it was? Yes. Was he successful and made millions of dollars? Yes, is he still a scumbag? Yes, absolutely. Um, but like, go back, like anything and I'm not just talking fitness like, this goes for anything If you convince people that it's good. They don't care about anything else, because people I truly believe that people deep down, want to be good and want to be nice and want to be better, and so it's. It's easy for scumbags to make a lot of money by preying on that desire, on the desire to be better and to be nicer and to be a better version of themselves. You know, and that's why. That's why, like, fad diets go off. Oh, I want to be healthier and this is a big deal. It's all over the place. So obviously I'm going to do this diet, the, the no carbs diet, or, you know, the, the carnivore diet, or the keto diet.
Speaker 1:Like all these fad diets, they do come from like actual, like there is benefit there for certain groups of people. But then there's people that just take those fad diets and run with it and say, yes, it's good for everybody. When it's not. It's just not. Keto diet is not for everyone. It can make you very, very unhealthy. Veganism not good for everyone. It can make you very, very, very sick. You know all of these fad diets. That's why they get a lot of steam and that's why they are able to go on is because somebody, or multiple someone's, take the fad and make it good for you when it's not Okay.
Speaker 1:So anytime anyone says, hey, this is good for you, I, oh man, my gut reaction, my immediate instinct is to say okay, what is in it for you? What is in it for the guy preaching and shoving this down my throat? Then you go back and you're like, oh, he's being sponsored by companies that are making a lot of money promoting this diet or this meal plan or this, whatever it is, and like, obviously I'm just talking about fitness, but it goes beyond fitness. It goes into, like you know, electric cars and it goes into like milk and it goes into ozempic and you know, like milk was really good for me when I was I don't know, freaking 10, 11, 12, got milk ads and then, when I got to, when I was 20, people were like milk will kill you, milk is causing cancer. It's like, hey, man, which one is it? What is it? It's either really good for me and I got to have it, or it's causing cancer Kind of a big spectrum there, you know. And so on the flip side, it's either like you either convince people that it's really good for you or it's really bad for you and it's just.
Speaker 1:It's so dangerous to listen to people that that preach that something is good or bad when they have an agenda, when they're making money from it, like, and it's, it's impossible. Now, in the society we live in, I feel like to find someone who doesn't have an agenda, like if you're making, I'm sorry. If you are making money from something, you have an agenda period, end of story. That's the only answer. Like, if you don't make money from that thing, I can low key trust you. Not, I can not fully, but I can low key trust you because money isn't the driving force. Maybe it's power, maybe it's attention, whatever, not as bad as money.
Speaker 1:You know, and I mentioned electric cars. They're like oh my gosh, electric cars are good for you, great. If you read everything, you'll know that that's not correct, that you know the way that they make electric cars is very bad for the environment. It's hugely terrible for the environment, like horrific for the environment, induces slave labor, induces like insane factory conditions, just to make the electric cars. Anyway, that's a side note.
Speaker 1:I don't care about electric cars, whatever. They're fun to drive, I don't care, but like to claim that they're good for something versus bad for something like that's just a show of what I was talking about. It just proves what I was talking about that people that are successful pray on people wanting to be good versus bad, that they use this is good for something, rather than just saying, hey, look how cool this car is, it goes wicked fast and you plug it into your house. Instead of just saying that, like no, it's good for the environment and petroleum is bad, hey, you could. You know that doesn't need to be part of the marketing strategy for a car, or it shouldn't be, because it's incorrect.
Speaker 1:Like you're lying. At that point, why can't you just take something that you've made and push it, rather than saying, like ours is better, good for you and that one's bad for you. No, just no, it's a car. They're both made in a factory. One of them uses slave labor, electric, and maybe the other ones do. I don't know, probably Because the world sucks.
Speaker 1:But to say that like hey, this is good versus this bad is crazy. They're both bad, they're both bad. Just accept the fact that. Oh yeah, it's not great. Oh well, I can't change it, you know, it's just like. It makes me crazy how number one people lie, like I said, and don't have to have any repercussions for it. Number two, that using that lie, they prey on the actual goodness of people wanting to be better. Like that's crazy, that's so just bad. It's just so bad, so bad and it doesn't lead anywhere. Good, like it doesn't make the world a better place, it doesn't make the people better. It just leads to distrust, at least to dishonesty. It leads to negativity. But anyway, I mean, it's just, it's so frustrating to make something good bad and to make something bad good Like, it's just. It's like. Like this is a sad example.
Speaker 1:But like the whole body positivity movement, I understand that we want people to be happy. I understand that we want people to love themselves. I understand that we want people to care for themselves and to be happy with who they are. Like me more than anyone. Like I truly believe that. Like I genuinely want literally everybody to be happy. Like to me, that's the most important thing in life is to be happy, way more than being successful and wealthy. To be happy is the goal always, always has been for me.
Speaker 1:It's now it's very difficult for me to do things for money. Like I stepped down from a position at berries that made me a lot of money because it didn't make me happy, like I, just like I wasn't happy doing it and so I stepped down and was like, oh no, no, I don't give a royal F that I make more money with it. I'll figure it out, because if I'm not happy, rather not be here Like I, just I. That's just how my brain works. I don't care about certain things. The thing that I care most about is being happy. It's always been. I like doing things that make me happy, regardless of whether they're trendy, whether they're cool, whether they're the best thing, I don't care. I want to be happy.
Speaker 1:Anyway, so, going back to the body positivity, I want people to be happy, and the body positivity movement is just wrong. It's being done incorrectly. If you want people to be happy about their bodies, make them healthy, make them do work that's the problem is like we want people to be happy without having to work for it. Well, if you're super overweight, instead of just saying, hey, you'll be happy if you just accept yourself for being overweight, stay overweight, and then just convince people that it's good for you to be overweight, whoa, hey, no, no, absolutely not. That's so backwards, so backwards. And no, I'm not saying that if you're overweight you should hate yourself. That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying if you're overweight, there's a track to being happy and being healthy. And guess what, if you work on being healthy, you will be happier, period.
Speaker 1:There's science that happens inside your brain at a neurological level, that you don't really have control over your adrenal glands and your hippocampus, and all the things that make you produce the chemical in your brain that makes you happy come from being healthy. All of them, every single one of them, come from you being healthier. And to like, just to prove that the whole body positivity movement is so full of garbage, there was these six massive influencers on social media that were body positivity activists, or whatever you call them, that were like hey, I'm super obese and it's good, it's great. Look, I'm a model, I'm on private jets and I'm getting free things and I'm fat and it's good. And guess what? All of them are dead. All of them have died Very young, very, very young.
Speaker 1:I don't have all the statistics, but I'm talking like 30s, 40s, dead. Hey, that isn't good. I don't care what you say about the body positivity movement. That right there is bad. You shouldn't die from heart complications and blood complications in your 30s and 40s because you're fat, and I know that's like a trigger word for a lot of people. I don't care. I don't care if it offends people or triggers them, if it will push you to be healthier and to be better, because that, my friends, is the only way that you're going to be happy, and not just from an opinion based standpoint, but from a chemical, neurological standpoint, scientific. If you're healthier, you will be happier.
Speaker 1:And do not get confused with fit and healthy, because you can be healthy without a six pack, without rippling muscles, without being able to run a marathon. You can be healthy without that. Okay, that is not the image of health. Health is a feeling, health is an ability, health is a longevity. Okay, that is what health is. Can you go through the day without taking a crap load of medicine? Can you go through the day without relying on some sort of stimulus? Can you sleep well at night? Can you run and not be tired? Can you eat without having bloating? Can you like? There's all these very simple things that we just have in our lives that we're like well, that's normal. No, it's not. It's not. It's really, really not.
Speaker 1:There's a way to be healthy and then there's a way to be fit and they're different. Fit goes beyond healthy. Okay, you get to healthy and then you go, oh, I want to keep going on this road and become fit, and then you can be fit and healthy. But they're not necessarily the same thing. Okay, and the body positivity movement screws all of it. It's not healthy to be fat, it's just not. It's not healthy to be overweight, and that's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 1:Don't get offended, don't get upset. Understand that being overweight is not healthy. That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying that you need to go be healthy and to be fit. I'm not saying that. I am just saying a simple scientific fact that being overweight isn't healthy and it doesn't lead to being happy. It just doesn't scientifically, chemically.
Speaker 1:All the things that chemically make you happy, Like it's not just like a feeling, like there's a chemical thing that happens in your brain that makes you happy and when you're healthy you have that stimuli more, anyway, so that was a lot of just crazy nonsense. I apologize, whatever, but I just like I look at the world around me, I'm like, oh my gosh, there's so many people that just don't think that, just get lied to on a daily basis and they think that it's good for them and they think they're doing all right and you're just not Like if you go out and you do things for yourself. If you go out and you look at two sides of whatever comes across your path whether it's a docu-series, whether it's a social media post, whether it's your favorite influencer or something, whether it's a commercial, whatever it is If you look at it both sides and try to find equal amounts of information about both sides of that, then you will be much happier. You'll be much more informed because you'll be thinking for yourself rather than being told something from people who are okay with being liars and lying to you. You'll have all the information. You won't be beholden to people with agendas. You won't be beholden to people who are terrible. You'll be able to think for yourself and not get caught up in things that are trendy and things that don't matter and things that are bad for you. Anyway, that being said, I will get off my high horse, I will get off my tantrum, but yeah, I just want people to be happy and I don't understand why you would let somebody blatantly lie to you and not try to go and figure out if they're lying to you.
Speaker 1:Anywho, it's getting to that point where we need to shut Thomas' mouth, right, yeah, okay, and let's move on to one of the best parts of the show the devil's advocate. All right, so your devil's advocate, if it's your first time joining the show, this is where the podcast started. It used to be called the Devil's Advocate and it is a part of the show where I get to argue with myself or, if I have a co-host, I get to argue with them over anything. It could be opinions, it could be a new idea, a new concept, a new technology, a mindset, whatever it is. I just get to argue about it from both sides in, hopefully, a way that is equally balanced and opinionated, to just encourage people and to prove that it's okay to think about two sides of things and not have to choose. You don't have to choose a side. You really don't. You can admit I don't know and to be okay with that, because I think it's very valuable. And so today I wanted to take a lighthearted approach because that was kind of a heavier episode.
Speaker 1:Your devil's advocate is if multitasking is possible and if it's good or bad for you. So I think this is actually a conversation that my wife and I get into all the time, because one of us is a multitasker and one of us isn't, and I think that multitasking should be something that we all practice. I think it's like obviously it's not something that everybody is good at, naturally, but I think it is something that needs to be worked on because it's very valuable and it's very when it's done correctly very effective. And I think multitasking for me is when I can do something and do it well, while I'm completing something else not as well, because I really don't think that you can do multitasking two things very well at the same time. But being able to do one important thing really well and something less important that doesn't have to be done super well should be done, because then you'll be twice as effective.
Speaker 1:I think that a lot of business owners the successful ones anyway are very good at multitasking. They have the ability to be thinking about a lot of different aspects of what's going on. Okay, this part of the company is doing this, this part of the company is doing that, they need to be doing this. Oh yeah, I need to be able to do that and they're able to take those things and they might have to. They don't do all of them all at once, but they're able to do a couple things at once. They're able to work with this group of people while they're talking to this group of people over here. Okay, you're doing that, awesome, awesome, awesome, got it. And these guys are doing that. Okay, great, love that.
Speaker 1:And to kind of like bring it down to a quote unquote dumber level, a good example is like when you're this may be a silly example, but one of the best when I'm doing Stairstep or I'm doing my low-intensity cardio, because we know that's the best way to do cardio, right, okay, cool, when you're doing your low-intensity cardio, you can do other things I can do. I can work on my emails. I can work on reading up on investment opportunities. I can read up on the current state of the global politics. I can read up on the newest fitness trends. I can read up on a lot of different things, aka multitasking. I'm doing cardio and I'm doing learning. I'm getting better. I'm including my brain into this. When, or when you're driving, you're listening to maybe a podcast, I don't know, maybe the fit perception, who knows whatever. Or you're learning a language or all of those things. Or at home with your kids. You're helping them read while you vacuum no, not read while you vacuum can't do that but you're helping them do something while you're doing something else.
Speaker 1:Multitasking is very effective and I think that, if you break it down, teaching people lessons is multitasking. Where, for instance, obviously I always go back to fitness, but I'm multitasking when I take my son to the gym and he doesn't wanna do an exercise or whatever and I teach him no, you need to do this, you need to do this difficult thing, push through, get stronger. I'm multitasking. I'm teaching him that he's strong enough to do something and he's getting fit, okay, and you might go oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, it is, it's multitasking. I'm teaching a lesson and he's getting something else out of it. Okay, multitasking. So I think that multitasking is very, very effective.
Speaker 1:I think that it's very difficult. I won't say that it's easy, but I think that it's very effective to practice it, to try to do something and focus on it and also be able to do something else as well. It makes you more efficient. It makes you more aware of things that are important. It helps you kind of tear the things that you need to do versus that don't need that much attention. So I think, again, it's multifaceted. It helps with so many different things. It helps you be able to get things done timely. It helps you kind of make lists of like these are the things that are most important, I need to get these done, these are the things that are less important. I can do them at the same time, but with less attention. So, yeah, I think that multitasking is very, very good and beneficial and it can actually be done. Because I do it, I know that it can be done.
Speaker 1:On the flip side of that, I don't think that multitasking is real. I don't think that you can actually do two things at once. I think that you can do one thing and then the other thing very close to that other thing, but you can't actually do two things to the best of your ability. It's just not possible, because to do something to the best requires total focus, and you know, earlier I gave that example of the stair stepper and learning something. Guess how many times I remember the thing that I quote unquote learned when I got off the stair stepper? None, I don't remember it. If I'm listening to a comedy sketch, I laugh because I'm thinking about that versus the stair stepper. But I'm not able to actually do the stair stepper my best ability because I have to go a little slower so I can pay attention to the thing that I'm also focusing on. So you have to make a sacrifice.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying that multitasking is impossible in the sense that you can't do a couple things, but I am saying it's impossible to do multitasking to the best of the ability of doing the tasks that are involved. You can't do you know your best. Say, you're painting a picture. You can't paint the picture to the best of your ability and take care of a business Like you can't do that. You can have a conversation with somebody you know that's talking to you about your business while you're painting, but you won't do the painting your best because you're distracting on making a conversation with that other person.
Speaker 1:Okay, there's science that has said that you cannot complete two things at the same time. Like brain-wise, you can't do two things at once. Fully, you could do two things, 50 and 50, but who wants to do 50% best effort on something? No, you want a hundred percent best effort and then go into a hundred percent best effort on the next thing. So I think that that not only is multitasking Technically impossible, I think that it's actually bad to try to do.
Speaker 1:I think it's better to list your tasks as a, you know, an important level like this is my most important, second important, third important, these are the things that need most of my attention, and then these things don't need that much attention and then go Full throttle on all of them this one, this one, this one, this one, this one in their own order, rather than trying to do all of it, where you try to do too much and then you don't do any of it. Well, I know from personal experience. You know, I try to do a podcast and I try to do a video Workout concept, and I tried to do Berries and I tried to do personal training and I tried to do other business adventures and, and when I tried to do all of them, none of them did well, rather than just focusing on okay, I'm gonna focus on this one and then I'm gonna focus on that one, and then I'll focus on that one. When I do that, I'm successful in all of them, and I guess you could say that was multitasking. It wasn't. I did one thing at a time. I think that that multitasking is just something that we need to try to get rid of from our brain sphere, just because it leads to frustration and it leads to Discontent because you know you could be doing better and you're not able to because you're trying to do other things too much. So, yeah, I don't think that multitasking is good, nor is it possible. Let me know what you think. Are you a multitasker? Are you somebody that does one thing at a time? What is the best way to do things and the healthiest way to do things? Let me know what you think. Let me know what you think I think is the real one, and if I'm a multitasker or not. But yeah, that's your devil's advocate. Next time it's gonna be a little more serious. I like to think deeply and there's some deep things that I want to talk to y'all about. But, before you get out of here, I always like to leave the podcast with positivity. I always like to lead or leave with something for you to work on, something for you to think about and, with that being said, this is your final takeaway. So your final takeaway Today is something that hit me while I was driving home, actually the other day After I had done my final day as the MTL the market talent lead for berries.
Speaker 1:I stepped down from that position, like I said earlier, and so I'm the drive home. I was thinking about, like man, was that really the best choice? Did I? Did I? Am I doing the right thing? Was this the best thing for my family? Is the best thing for me personally? Should I have kept going and just climb the ladder and not worried about the things I was worried about? You know, it's a lot of thoughts, as per normal, I think, when something like that happens.
Speaker 1:But so I'm thinking and thinking and thinking, and then I was thinking about well, what really makes me happy? What are the things that really bring me joy? And Music is one of those things. Music holes Are one of those things. Fitness, obviously one of those things. Traveling one of those things. Hanging out with my family, one of those things, um, you know.
Speaker 1:And so I was thinking. I was like the, the job that I was doing at the moment wasn't one of the things that was making me happy. It was all of the things outside of that, the hobbies, that were making me happy, the things like the hobbies being musicals, the hobbies being music, the hobbies being exercise, the hobbies being Interacting with people and going places. And I was like yo, epiphany, I'm If, if my hobbies are Making me happier and bringing me more joy than my career, I will ultimately end up very unhappy. I'm living life Incorrectly.
Speaker 1:And you could say, oh, yeah, but that's a mindset. You should just let your job make you happy, just be happy in your job, you know, be grateful for your job or whatever. Yeah, there's some truth to that. But If you're in a career that is just constantly making you Frustrated and you hate getting up in the morning and you don't want to go to work and you, you know, look for every opportunity to get out of your job and to you know, you, you are just craving vacations, then you're living life incorrectly. Your hobbies are great, but they shouldn't be the thing that brings you the most joy and happiness. Your job and the thing that you do Most of the day is the thing that should bring you the most joy. And you know some people are like, oh, but that's a luxury that you're just in a position to say that, because that's what you do. Hey, man, no, I've been in plenty of positions where I wasn't happy doing my job and guess what, I quit the job. I quit the job and I figured other things out, because I'm in a country that allows me to do that and and I'm very fortunate. I'm not blind to the fact of how fortunate I am, but, like, if you're in a in a job that makes you unhappy, get out of the job, go pay your bills with something else that makes you happy and you might have to sacrifice to not make as much money. Hey, oh well, as we've stated in the past, money is so common.
Speaker 1:I was watching, I was watching freakin the, the old Willy Wonka the other day with JJ and Victoria, and I was blown away by the wisdom of this one phrase. It was the little boy is talking about how he wants to sell the golden ticket to Help his parents pay the bills and his grandpa says don't you dare, don't you dare sacrifice something so special for something as common as money. Bro, mic drop, boom. Willy Wonka, freaking philosophy like dude. Don't sacrifice something as important as being happy for something as common and gross as money. There's money everywhere. You can always go and make money at wherever, but you, being happy, should never be at that expense. You should always, always, try to be happy. You get one shot at being alive one shot, and you want to. You want to freakin waste your time Clying and craving and stressing and foaming at the mouth for something as common as money? Get out of here. No, you don't know. You don't stop lying to yourself. You want to be happy and and and.
Speaker 1:If your hobbies are making you happier than your job, get a new job. Figure it out, because it's not worth it. Anyway, that is your final takeaway Readjusting what you value in your life. Look at your hobbies, look at your job. If your job makes you happy and your hobbies also make you happy, you're winning. If your hobbies are making you happy and your job isn't making you happy, you're losing. That's it. That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1:So I love you guys. I hope that that inspires you to To be happy. I hope it genuinely inspires you to go search after things that make you genuinely happy, because they're out there. There's so many things in life to make you happy and I I really, really really do hope that you have a career and a job and and Something that provides for you monetarily as well as provides for you happiness. Happiness, it's just there's. It's so important. So I I really do hope that right now you're happy and that this Podcast brought you some sort of joy. I know it's a little bit negative, oops, but I hope that that it helps you see how important being happy is and that it does take work and it does take effort and it does take things that time, but it's so worth it in the end.
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