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The Fit Perception
The Fit Perception
Peptide Power
Embark on a personal journey with me as I experiment with a peptide cycle featuring IGF-1 and L-carnitine, all in the quest for enhanced muscle growth and recovery. Learn firsthand how these peptides differ from traditional steroids by naturally assisting in growth hormone communication, rather than artificially altering hormone levels. Despite the initial challenges of intramuscular injections, I'm already experiencing improvements in sleep quality and recovery time, fueling my optimism for sustained fitness as the years pass.
Explore the fascinating potential of peptides such as BPC-157 for injury recovery, capturing the attention of athletes and celebrities despite strict regulatory hurdles that complicate access. Frustration grows as we discuss the challenges imposed by regulations and the ongoing advocacy work by organizations like Ways to Well. Shifting the focus to societal influences, I ponder the detrimental effects of celebrity worship, referencing a study that suggests a link between celebrity obsession and lower IQs, while debating if idolizing public figures undermines personal growth.
In a world saturated with true crime obsessions, I express concern over the moral implications of such content and the risk of desensitization. Elevate your spirit with a celebration of "The Rings of Power" TV show, an adaptation that pays homage to Tolkien's timeless legacy. As we wrap up, I emphasize the importance of genuine friendships and mentorship, advocating for a mindset of perpetual learning and personal growth. Tune in for a message of empowerment that reinforces your inherent strength and value, urging you to be a student of life rather than an expert.
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Oh, what's up you guys? It's great to be back in the studio. I say that like I'm at a cool studio. I'm literally in my office. It's fine. What's good? What's cracking? The world's falling apart. It's crazy. What's going on? What's going on. What's going on. Well, where do I start? Where do I start? Oh, okay, how about this?
Speaker 1:So your boy pulled the plug. Finally, I feel like it's been a long time, but I pulled the plug and decided to do a run of peptides, a cycle of peptides. So yay. If you don't know what peptides, so yay. Um, if you don't know what peptides are, all good. Are they steroids? No, um, your boy's not super fond of steroids, meaning like, I don't have a problem with them, but they also scare me. Um, so I have. I I mean again, I'm not against them, but I'm too scared to try them.
Speaker 1:But peptides are amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein. So essentially, I am using these to help me build muscle, right, because I'm 31, almost 32. And every year that I get older, it gets harder and harder and harder to stay fit. Okay, so, at the level that I want to, let's say that, because it really isn't too hard to stay fit, but at the level that I want to. It's tough. So I'm doing this cycle of peptides and I did research for a long time and listened to a lot of professionals talk about it and discuss it, and so it's not something that I just like jumped into without you know thinking, put a lot of thought, a lot of money, a lot of time into understanding the concept of peptides. Was it good for me? Is it something that I can get off of without any real big repercussions? The answer is yes.
Speaker 1:So I am doing a couple of peptides. The first peptide is called IGF-1. It stands for insulin growth factor formula or something like that, and essentially what it does is it increases the communication, um, to my growth hormone. Uh, meaning I? I essentially target the growth hormone and tell it to build more muscle. Um, it's so, it's. It's not a a. Like if I took steroids, it would be an unnatural synthesis of testosterone, where my testosterone would just go up to an unnatural level, whereas and then, of course, because of that, I would grow, my growth hormone would also get jacked up and build more muscle. But with the peptides it's a little different. It's a little different. It's um it. It targets the, the communication of that hormone, rather than just jacking the hormone up. Um, so it tells that hormone to go build more muscle. Um, so I haven't. I've been doing this for two weeks now, a week and a half, two weeks and I feel great. I haven't seen or felt massive differences.
Speaker 1:I am also taking a peptide called L-carnitine which is in actually it's in a lot of recovery drinks and pre-workouts, so it's not a supplement that is uncommon. I'm just taking a very high dosage and I'm taking it intramuscular, which means with a needle in my butt, cheek, and it doesn't feel great. It doesn't feel great. The needle is so massive, it's like an inch and a quarter, maybe an inch. It's so big and it is so massive. It's like an inch and a quarter, maybe an inch. It's so big and it's so painful. The, the igf, is like a little insulin needle. It's tiny, it's like maybe a quarter inch. Uh, so that one's not bad. I just take that subcutaneously, just in the, the belly, just put it in. It's fine, that one's not bad, doesn't hurt it. But, man bro, that L-carnitine. I'm taking a hundred units of it. It's a whole syringe full and it stings, it bruises. It's unpleasant. It is unpleasant, but we're going to try to see if it can help your boy recover a little bit better.
Speaker 1:Okay, so here's the reason why. Here's the reason why I'm even doing this, right, cause you're like, oh T, you're so healthy, and which isn't true, but, um, I, uh the. The reason that I'm doing this in the first place is because I started noticing that, like number one, I wasn't sleeping great, like my recovery sleeps weren't awesome, um, and, and I would be so sore after a workout, which, like, obviously, you get sore after a workout If you work hard enough. I get that. I've been doing this for years. Um, but I also am aware of when it's too long, like, I would be sore for like three or four days, which is just too long to be sore. It's not good. Um, you, you should be able to work out multiple muscle groups, or or, or or yeah, multiple muscle groups multiple times in a week, um, so you should be able to hit every muscle group in your body at least twice a week, and you can't do that if you're sore for fricking half of that week.
Speaker 1:So I, uh, I know that that, like, my recovery was not awesome, and so I was like, okay, I'm, I'm going to find peptides, um, that help me specifically to recover and and recover quicker. Um, and the these are the two I talked with the physician, I talked with a professional um to discuss, like what peptides to do, and these are the two that I decided on that ultimately are supposed to help me recover better, faster, quicker, and so I will say that I have noticed that when I go to sleep, fam, I go to sleep hard, like unconscious hard. So when, when your boy closes his eyes and goes in the night, it's to la la land, I'm so deep in sleep. Um, which has been nice. It's been really, really nice. Like I feel more awake because I, you know your boy gets up at four o'clock in the morning four out of seven days and it sometimes is really hard to wake up. But since I've been on the peptides, I wake up and I'm like ready to go. You can ask my five 15 classes, like your boys pop in at five, 15. Um, and that has a large part to do with the fact that I'm sleeping super deep. Um, which is nice. It feels great. Uh, and hopefully that continues cause I'm enjoying it. Um, and hopefully that continues because I'm enjoying it Looks wise. Haven't really noticed anything, which I mean it's been two weeks, so not going to really see anything. I'm supposed to be on this for about four months, so right around the first of the years when I should really start to see some actual mass put on the body, some muscle mass. But it's not like Arnold Schwarzenegger big. That's not what this is for, that's not what I ever wanted to be and I don't think I could technically do that with my size. Anyway, so that's what's happening to your boy.
Speaker 1:And there's a lot of peptides that are really really good, one of the most common ones, and this is insane. So peptides are, like I said, they're not steroids, right? Steroids are synthetic, synthetic produced, synthetically produced supplements that jack up your hormones to absurd levels. And no, I don't condone everybody doing them. I don't have a problem with people doing them. Don't get it twisted. I don't care if people do them, but they need to do them wisely. They need to do them under the care of professionals and make sure that it's under control. Where is I going with that? Oh, but the peptides are not that, they're not synthetically producing the jacking up of your hormones.
Speaker 1:And there's a peptide called BPC-157. It probably is the most well-known peptide in the world and it's gotten a lot of traction in the last like probably year or so, because a lot of high profile athletes, um, and and celebrities have come out and said that they've used this to recover. I mean, we've had we've had a full-blown ACLs recoveries in like six months, which is insane Full rotator cuff tears recoveries in four months, like crazy, crazy recoveries using this peptide, because the BPC-157 stands for body protection compound 157. And it's one of the only supplements that we know of that can literally reconstruct tendons or or send the, the, the um tell the brain and the body connection to build, rebuild those tendons. Um, and, because it's been getting so much attention, you have to remember peptides are not generally used, from a doctor's standpoint right, because it solves problems, it solves issues, and that is not what doctors are known for, and if you've listened to this podcast, you know my issues with doctors and it's not a surprise. Okay, so don't come at me. Here's the thing we have a proven track record that BPC-157 works, that it is a very, very, very powerful peptide, a very, um useful peptide, a very constructive peptide and one that actually helps people recover.
Speaker 1:And so what does the government do they go and make it illegal to to get it for injections. And if you know anything about peptides and about steroids and about using those type of supplements, you know that the most effective way to get those peptides is via injection, whether it's subcutaneously or intramuscular injection, whether it's subcutaneously or intramuscular, and the government comes out and says okay, that's illegal, you can only do these peptides orally. It is proven in multiple cases to not. You can't get the same amount of that peptide orally as you can with an injection. And I'm not a scientist, I don't know the. I don't claim to know the scientific process behind that or how that works or why that works, but it is a fact that when you take something orally in the pill form, the body doesn't break down nearly enough of that supplement to get the results that you need, so you have to take it like. That's why, like the L-carnitine that I'm taking is via injection at a much larger dose, because you cannot get that dosage in a pill form. You would have to take an entire bottle probably to get the same amount.
Speaker 1:And so what the government has done and I don't know who in the government did this okay, like I'm not saying this from like a conspiracy theorist standpoint supplement and made it ineffective so that eventually they can take over and completely dominate and sell it for unbelievable amounts of money. Right, because that's what they do. They have a track record of doing that. Take something that's useful, take something that actually does something and helps people, and we're going to make it illegal for anyone to sell this unless it's us, and we're going to jack the price up to exorbitant amounts so that we can make money, which in a capitalist society, that's fine, that works. But I think it's messed up that they even got involved in the first place. But I think it's messed up that they even got involved in the first place.
Speaker 1:Anyway, so if you need BP-157, if you have injury, you can still get it. There's ways to get it, obviously. And there's places like Waste Well out of Austin, texas, that are going to Congress and saying, hey, man, this is effed up. You can't do this Like we're helping a lot of people with these, these peptides and and you coming in and just making things illegal and claiming that it's it's not healthy and that it's not science. Back, it's just messed up, it's not true, it's not real. Um, but anyway, so not to go down that road of crapping all over the government. But, um, yeah, I am.
Speaker 1:I am using peptides. I'm very excited to be using them. I feel great. I feel rejuvenated. Hopefully I get a little bit stronger and more muscular, cause that'd be rad. But what else is happening in the world? That's just me. I'm boring. What else is going on? Oh, so, guys, there's a few things that I love more in this life than being correct. Now, that sounds really vain and really like narcissistic, but I really do love being right.
Speaker 1:Um, and I was on social media the other day and I came, I came across a post that was like there's a new study that shows that people who are obsessed with celebrities tend to have lower IQs. And if you know anything about me or have been listening to this show for a long time, you know that I hate celebrity. I don't think that people are meant to be. I don't think human beings are built to, number one, be celebrities and number two, to have celebrities to look up to. I don't think that it's good for human society. I don't think it's good for human nature. I don't think that humans can handle it. Our brain capacity is not where it should be to have celebrities or to be celebrities, and I've always said this and I've always said this.
Speaker 1:I've always said this that if you are the type of person that gets obsessed with celebrities, and anytime you're around them you get like oh my gosh, oh my gosh, you're a dumb person. I've said that for so many years. Like, and people are like. Oh, but to you you love Kobe Bryant. I love Kobe Bryant's mindset. If I met Kobe Bryant, I wouldn't treat him any differently than I treat like someone at Barry's or someone at a restaurant. I wouldn't treat them any differently. I've been in multiple rooms with multiple celebrities multiple times and they're just people to me.
Speaker 1:I don't care what you've done, I don't care what show you're in, I don't care how famous you are, I don't care how much money you have. You're just a human being. You have skin, you have blood. You're going to die. You're just a human being. You have skin, you have blood. You're going to die. You're just a human. I don't care what you've done. If you carry yourself like you're better than anyone else. You're a piece of garbage. I don't care what you've done. You're a terrible human if that's how you carry yourself.
Speaker 1:And so, seeing that a study was done and obviously there's probably bias in that study, because every study has bias but I was like, hey, your boy's right Again, freaking love being right. I got so. I got so because I reposted it on social media. I got so many people that were like, oh my gosh, I can't believe that this is a study. I was like I know, right, but we love it, and like I genuinely Think that you should have people that you look up to. I'm not saying that you shouldn't look up to people, but I am saying that you shouldn't put celebrities on a status where they don't belong. For example, for example, taylor Swift. If the Swifties right, the people that are obsessed with Taylor Swift, great, I'm so glad that you love an artist. Awesome, awesome.
Speaker 1:The fact that you think that she can do no wrong is insane. The fact that you would go and crucify someone who said that they didn't like Taylor Swift is crazy. Like you are dumb, like that's. That's a dumb way to behave. That's a that's a stupid way to live your life. Number one she doesn't know that you exist. Number two she genuinely does not care that you exist. Number three if you died tomorrow, her life wouldn't change, doesn't care. And the fact that you would go literally broke to go see her concert shows that your IQ level is subpar, right, and if there's ever, I'm going to post this on social media and just watch my fricking life implode, cause that's how people that are obsessed with celebrities act. They act crazy, they act insane. They act insane Also, like when are we going to stop pretending that celebrities are like super people?
Speaker 1:They're not. Look at okay, freaking. Look at what's happening with P Diddy. The man was ultra famous, ultra quote, unquote respected, feared song artist producer. Turns out he's terrible, a horrible human being. Like at an unprecedented level. Like sex trafficking and and um, you know, it hasn't been proven yet, but conspiracy for murder and all sorts of horrendous acts that no human should do, and he got away with it because of celebrity.
Speaker 1:Like when are we going to stop pretending that celebrities are just people? They're just people with a lot of luck and insane amounts of narcissism. Like you have to be absolutely narcissistic to try to become a celebrity. Like you go to Hollywood, you do insane things to become famous Like that's bad, that's not good. To become famous Like that's bad, that's not good. And there's a like I watch movies just like everyone else. I listen to music just like everyone else. I go to sporting events Like a lot of people. So I'm not saying that like you can't enjoy what they do, but to pretend that they're Worth more Than other people is crazy. It's really dumb.
Speaker 1:Um, and it's like it happens all the time, like this whole like P Diddy thing. People are like losing their minds as as they should. Like what he's done is horrific, horrendous. I'm not trying to downplay that at all, but what I'm saying is why are you surprised? Why are you surprised? Anyone who has that level of celebrity can get away with a lot of terrible things because we allow them to do that, because they're celebrities. Like it's crazy, dude, crazy, crazy. And I'm not. I don't want to get into the whole P Diddy situation because it's disgusting and I don't like it doesn't add value to talk about it and also it's going to be blown over next week. No one's going to care because we've talked about this before. Everyone's attention span for horrendous things is so short, so short the fact that that he did all of these things. He's in prison, he's, he can't get out on bail and literally next week nobody will care unless he gets killed, unless he gets, you know, murdered or whatever in jail, nobody's going to care anymore next week.
Speaker 1:Insane propensity that we have for for observing and and and absorbing terrible information and acts and moving on is nutso's like. It's so great Like you're. The human brain shouldn't be able to do that. Like learning what he's done and hearing all these stories and all these people coming forward, like Justin Bieber and and the poor women that he has abused, poor women that he has abused Hearing those things should ruin your day, like if, if we're going to like the core of being a good person, it should ruin your day and and it should cause the entire society to be like okay, we need to change this. Something is nobody should be able to have this power, because obviously, when people have this kind of power, they do terrible things. Like that's what should happen. When these stories come up is like, okay, we need to change something.
Speaker 1:Instead of doing that, we hear it and we go oh, did you hear about Diddy? Yeah, dude, it's messed up. It's crazy. Can you believe it? So did you watch the Saints game last night? Like what, dude, what you moved on in five seconds. That's so crazy. And nobody's talking about that. They're all focused on Diddy, as they should be.
Speaker 1:But the fact that we move on next week is so inhumane, it's mind blowing and I'm just as guilty. I am so just as guilty. I'm not saying that I'm holier than thou or that I don't do it, so just as guilty. I'm not saying that I'm holier than thou or that I don't do it. The fact that we are so numb to that is so bad. Like we're going to look down the road, look back at this way of behaving. Hopefully we'll look back on this way of behaving, you know, 20, 30, 40, 50 years from now and go ew, oh, my gosh, we are disgusting. Like it's so bad. It's so bad.
Speaker 1:You know, it makes my skin crawl that the number one listened to podcast and most watched documentaries are true crime podcasts and documentaries. Like it's disgusting to me and I have a lot of friends and family that love true crime and I still think it's disgusting. Like I'm not ashamed of my viewpoints, I'm not, I'm not afraid of telling friends and family like that's bad, like that's gross, um, and I don't stop them because, like, live your life. I don't really care, because I'm too concerned with living my life and the very, very small circle of people that I connect with, but like, it's not good. And actually there was a study I don't remember where it was from, it was from a massive university somewhere that said that if you can watch or listen to those things at night before you go to bed, that you have characteristics of a sociopath.
Speaker 1:Um, and I was like, whoa, I know, apparently I know a lot of sociopaths. Um, because it's just like, and people like, oh, it's just fascinating to me. I'm like, um, oh, so the worst thing in humanity is fascinating to you? No, you should try to stay as far away from that as possible. And the argument is always the same Well, I just want to know, I just want to know about it. Like, it's just fascinating to me that somebody could do that. Great, how about be fascinated with good things? How about be fascinated with good things? How about be fascinated with amazing things, positive things instead of the negative? Oh, I have to take pills for my depression and anxiety and stress. But also I'm just fascinated by murder. What dude, what are? How are you so out of your mind that you can't link those things together? Like, oh, like, I'm sorry you and it's fine, um, anyway, so what else is happening before I? Just, guys, I it's in, it's crazy to me that I just spout all this stuff and you guys keep listening. But whatever, um, let's, let's talk about something positive.
Speaker 1:So there was a show that I absolutely love and if you know me, I don't get obsessed with shows. Number one I don't usually have time to watch them, right? Also, I don't like shows because they're not conclusive. They don't give me any sort of like. I don't know they. They just go on, and on, and on and on. It's like hey, wrap it up, though, Wrap it up, I don't want to be watching this for the rest of my life, you know? Um, so I, I genuinely don't.
Speaker 1:I love movies because there's a start and a finish. It drives me crazy that movies are now part one, part two. Hey, call it what it is A three-hour TV show. Okay, that's what it is. If you have more than one part to a movie, you have a TV show, okay, so there's that, anyway. So it's very rare for me to get into a show just because I like starts and finishes. I don't like having to wait to know what happens. I don't like oh, it's Wednesday, it's time to watch the show. It drives me crazy. It drives me bonkers, um, anyway, so I I am obsessed with this show on on Amazon called the rings of power.
Speaker 1:Why am I obsessed with it? Well, because I'm obsessed with Lord of the rings. I love Lord of the rings. I read it growing up. I'm a huge fan of JRR Tolkien. Um, I think he's a brilliant writer, one of the most beautifully descriptive writers of all time, and so, like I love Lord of the Rings, it's in my top five favorite movie series of all time. I think it was so well done, and it's one of those movies that you can't ever redo, like they won't ever revisit it. They'll just continue to branch off from it, but they won't ever be able to remake it. And so these rings of power show is the precursor leading up to the Lord of the Rings, and if you've never watched Lord of the Rings, oh, I don't want to say it, but I don't know if we can be friends. But no, so they, they put a lot of money into this, like over a billion dollars, into making these shows, and they are phenomenal, amazingly well done, uh, from top to bottom acting, the writing, the effects, the um, the storyline, just like everything is so good. Uh, and so I'm obsessed with this show. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1:Does it drive me crazy that I have to wait a week to watch every episode? Yes, it makes me angry. It makes me so frustrated, but that's fine. Patience is a virtue. You know, I gotta learn patience, but that's fine, patience is a virtue. You know I gotta learn patience.
Speaker 1:But there's a guy, a man, in this show who is a general and he's in a situation where the kingdom is being overthrown and is basically a coup and the people coming in are bad people. They're not good people, they're wealthy a-holes that come in, take over and so they start banishing and upturning like overturning all of the government, things that are making things work, and they're doing it because of a failed war and a lot of different reasons. Anyway, I'm not going to go into the whole backstory, but this is one of my favorite characters because he's so adamant at doing the right thing for just the sake of doing the right thing, regardless of the consequences, and I respect that more than anything else in the world. Um, like in real life, not just the show, like I, that is a character trait to me that is the most outstandingly good character trait that anyone can have, that they try to do the right thing just because it's the right thing to do, not because it's trendy, not because it makes them look good, not because it's a good pat on their back or or for like social status. They just try to do all of the right things because it's the right thing to do. And the has so many lines in this show, um, that I was just like, oh my gosh, this guy's my favorite um.
Speaker 1:But he said something that I'd heard before but I don't know why it resonated with me so strongly um, he's about to be put to death because he won't renounce the kingdom, which is like the most gangster thing of all time, anyway. And so his daughter comes in to beg him to just this once, beg him to just just this once go contrary to his belief system, just this once, say what he doesn't believe, just so he can stay alive. And to his daughter this is his kid, this is his blood no-transcript, and she's asking him to trust her and to have faith that it'll all work out. And he says that faith is not faith until it's lived. And for whatever? I've heard that before in, maybe not in those exact words, but like yo, that hit me so freaking hard that faith is not faith until it's lived. And it wasn't just the fact that, like, they were talking about faith, obviously I'm I'm very into faith, I believe in faith, um, I'm very religious, spiritual person, um, so faith is a big deal to me, uh, but the board in in so many aspects, not just in faith, is faith and isn't faith until it's lived.
Speaker 1:Same thing with anything that you believe, any, any value that you have. It isn't what it is until you live it. Honesty isn't honesty until you live. Honesty until it's tried, you know kindness is not, you're not a kind person until you're put in situations where you chose kindness and, like you know, strength, real moral strength, isn't strength until you've been put in a situation where you have to live that strength. Um, meaning you had the option to not do it and you chose to do it anyway. Uh, and usually it's in a situation where it's not fun, where it's not the easy choice, where it's not the the popular choice, um, and like it hit me so hard, like when I like I had to like pause the show cause I was like Holy crap, like how many things do I talk about where I say something just because, like, I say it and it's easy to say because I haven't ever had it tested. You know, um, you know I talk about fitness and I, and it's my career and I talk about, like, um, eating healthy and not drinking and working out hard, um, because it's easy for me to do that.
Speaker 1:No-transcript. What about those situations? Am I still going to stick to my belief system? And the answer is yes. I'm a very, very stubborn person, um, and and I can say that because I actually have been put in those situations where it was looked down upon, I was questioned, um, as to why I was doing something or wasn't doing something, um, and I'm not going to go into those details, cause those are special stories to me, but it rang true that, though that is so important to to think about and remember in your life, like what, what are my belief systems and what are my, my thought processes that have been tested. Not just that I say, not just that I think about like, where, where has it been tested and how do I know that? I believe that, if it hasn't been tested, um, anyway, like, so that that is just a phrase that, like I legit want on my wall Faith is not faith until it's lived. You can't claim to have faith unless you've lived your faith, which means it's been tested and you fought for it. Lines of like positivity and testing yourself and and proving yourself and and really figuring life out.
Speaker 1:I saw or maybe I was heard I don't remember. I either saw or I heard on like a podcast or something. Um, oh yeah, it was a podcast. It was a podcast. I don't remember who it was. I wish I could shout it out. Maybe I saved it and I'll post about it later and I have my phone out because I want to read what I heard.
Speaker 1:And it has to do with your friendships, it has to do with your relationships. It's great to be really strong in your belief systems and independent in your thoughts and your feelings and your values, but it also is very important to choose your friends right, and we've I've said this before. My friend circle, like my actual deep friend circle, is very small and I finally figured out why. Cause I have a lot of friends, I have a lot of associates. I really like people, like I genuinely really like a lot of people. Um, and I think this sounds really crappy of me to say, but I think more people would call me their friend than I would call them my friend. That sounds so terrible but, like, I have a lot of people that I really genuinely like and care about, but not in my, my what I call true friend circle. There's about five, one, two, three, yeah, about five, maybe six.
Speaker 1:Um, and this is why this this is why I say it's so small is because it says you know who your best friends are If you can tell them something amazing you did or something amazing that you received like you got an award, or you crushed a business deal, or you made a lot of money somewhere or you accomplished a task or a race or something without worrying that they will be jealous or or think that you are being cocky or vain. They'll just be excited for you. Like, there's a lot of people like we always say like oh, this is my buddy because they're who I call when something goes wrong. Oh, this is my buddy because they're who I call when something goes wrong. Hey man, you can call pretty much anyone when something goes wrong, because it's a natural human thing to go oh, I want to help you. Right, it's a natural human characteristic to want to be wanted. So when you say these are my friends, who I call when I want to bury the body, you know that's that silly analogy of like, oh, when there's a body to bury, who will I call? Well, you can pretty much call anyone because they would be excited that something bad is going on Right and and and. It's natural for someone to want to help. It's not that hard.
Speaker 1:You're not like that close of a friend. If that is your standard of friendship, like that's a pretty lame standard of friendship, meaning you're tapping into a basic human characteristic. If I call you with bad news, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry to hear that. Is there anything that I can do Because it makes me feel good to offer that help? That's not a true friend, that's a person, that's an associate.
Speaker 1:Real friends, deep friendships, are. I can call you when I win and you are genuinely excited for me and you are genuinely excited for me and I don't worry about you thinking that I'm being vain or being cocky or trying to be uppity. You're genuinely excited that I won. How many of those friends do you have? I have five, six, I have tons, probably hundreds of people that I could call when something bad goes, happen when something bad happens to me, and they would go oh my gosh, I'm so sorry to hear that. Is there anything that I can do? Do you need anything? I have hundreds of those people. I have five or six that I can call with my wins and know that they won't judge me for that, that they won't judge me for that, that they won't think less of me, that they won't go. Whoa man, you're being a little cocky there. They will just be excited. Those are your real friends and that is why my circle is so small, because that's how I judge my friendships and that's how I value my friendships. Is not not who do I call when something goes bad, but who do I call and want to talk to when something goes right. Those are your real friends, um, anyway. So, that being said, let's uh, like that. I mean freaking. We could end the show right there, but we're not going to because we've got to do the best part of the show.
Speaker 1:The devil's advocate alright, your devil's advocate, actually today is something that Liquid death y'all. Sorry, a little caveat Liquid death, great water, love it, it's amazing. Also, it looks like a Modelo beer. It's fine Trying to stay hydrated, and I love drinking out of a can. So there's that, um, okay. So your devil's advocate today if you, um know the show, you know that this is one of the best parts of the whole thing, is one of my favorite parts of the whole thing because, uh, it's a brain exercise and I love brain exercises. Um, it's a, it's a part of the show where I get to argue with myself. Or, if I have a co-host which I'm actually trying to do, guys, I would love to have a more steady co-host, because I think conversations with other people are way more enlightening than conversations with oneself. Um, but until that time when I can find a consistent co-host, um, we'll just keep doing the solos, solo, dolo. You know what I mean? Yolo, cholo, anyway, okay, I'm going to stop. Okay, so your devil's advocate today is something that I've been thinking about and stressing over, actually, like legitimately stressing over in my life, because I've been told to do things a certain way and I just don't do it that way, and so I obviously, like, constantly question myself should I be doing it a different way? Anyway, so the devil's advocate today is to be successful, truly successful, and quickly, and all that.
Speaker 1:Do you need to have a mentor? Is it a necessary thing for you to have a mentor to level up your life and become better and to be more successful and progress? Do you need to have a mentor? And I think that obviously it's an easy answer to say yes or no, like those are both very easy answers no, you don't need to live your life Right, or yes, you do. There's wisdom in people that have gone before Right. Very easy to argue both sides, um, but I don't like that. I want to go deeper. So I, I, I think that having a mentor and and this is going to maybe not necessary, because obviously you can have if you're trying to genuinely get better, because it requires you to be humble and ask for help and it requires you to to make someone else the most important person in the room other than yourself, for once, you know.
Speaker 1:So I, I think that having a mentor, as far as, like you know, say, for example, you know I'm trying to open a gym, if I go and get a mentor, who? Someone who has very, either very successfully opened a gym and built it from the ground up, or or someone who has, you know, built basically any sort of business. That would be wildly helpful. One of the most helpful things probably that I could do is find a mentor, someone who has done it already, to show me like, hey, I wasn't right. I, I wish I had known this when I was starting out, Cause I would have been able to really get things going a lot faster and more efficiently If I had known this. You know it. It provides you a mentor, provides you with with pretty much game hacks, cheat codes to success, because they've already been through it and they know what to do.
Speaker 1:So, as far as becoming successful, I think that having a mentor is basically a cheat code for getting to where you're trying to go the most efficient and fast. Um, and I and I think it allows you a lot of, a lot less stress, where you don't have to do the thinking, you have to do the listening and being humble enough to do that listening, which is hard. It's very difficult to check your ego and say, okay, you're the pro, you tell me what to do instead of here's my idea, this is what I want to do. Here we go, and so I. So I think. I think not only is, is having a mentor uber helpful and probably the most helpful and basically necessary things you can do if you want to be successful. Not just because it is a cheat code, but it also requires you to check your ego, whereas if you don't have a mentor, there's really no ego check until you fail Right, um, and and I think that that the I would say that having a mentor is necessary for success, because there's not just one way to have a mentor.
Speaker 1:You don't just have to, like, go out and say, oh, I need this mentor. You know, will you be my mentor? Like you're freaking, giving them a Valentine's day card, will you be my mentor? You don't have to do it that way. You know, a mentor can be. You just watch somebody, observe how they do something, go, oh, wow, they did that. That's a. That's a mentor. They don't know that they're mentoring you, but they are. You know, if you're taking their advice and you're taking their, how they've made decisions and and patterning, pattern, patterning, what you're doing after them, that's a mentor, um, so I think that that saying like, oh, you know, having mentor isn't necessary is just a dumb statement, because it's not just having a mentor.
Speaker 1:There's so many mentors out there. I have a ton of mentors in my life, and some of them know their mentors and some of them don't, but there were mentors to me nonetheless, and because of them I deem myself successful. On the flip side of that, I do not think that mentors are necessary, and this is why the Devil's Advocate is so fun, because literally 30 seconds ago I said I have mentors. I love this so much, you guys. So I don't think that having mentors is necessary for success and I think it actually can be detrimental to creativity, where a lot of times you see people that get these mentors and try to do things the same way that somebody else has done it and that just doesn't work because you are not them. You are not Gary Vaynerchuk, you are not Tony Robbins, you are not Mark Cuban. You are not these people. You don't have the same life experience, you don't have the same way of thinking or or seeing situations that they have, and you don't have the same luck that they have right, because it's so ignorant to think that success just comes from hard work.
Speaker 1:There is so much luck involved in being successful, being in the right place at the right time with the right people. There's so much luck that goes into that, and any really successful person will tell you that, any single one of them. I've heard Mark Cuban say it a bunch. I've heard some very, very high, um profile athletes say it a bunch. I've, I've had, I've, I've heard a lot of businessmen, entrepreneurs, um, podcasters, uh uh, movie stars, artists, musicians, ultra successful say that there is so much luck involved in becoming uber successful. Um, and, and you, like, I would say luck is more important than mentorship. Um in in, when it comes to being successful, obviously you need to make a plan and you need to be able to be focused on what you're trying to do, but there is a lot of luck involved. Um, anyway, that was not the point that I was trying to make.
Speaker 1:The point that I'm trying to make is you are so powerful as an individual. Literally nobody thinks the way you do, nobody has your makeup, nobody has your life experience, nobody has the breath that you're breathing right. Like you are an individual. I cannot stress that enough and I'm not good enough with words to formulate what I'm trying to say with that. Like you are the only one of you. You can do things that nobody else can do. You could create something that nobody else has created. You have thoughts that nobody else has had and I know it's really hard to believe with how many people have lived in the world and how many people will live in the world, yada, yada, yada, and how insignificant this life is. And we go down that whole road. But to say that you need somebody else to be successful in you is absurd. You don't need anybody to be successful. You need you because you are trying to be successful. You need you because you are trying to be successful. You're not trying to be your mentors successful, right.
Speaker 1:And I think that when you rely on mentors too much, you slow down your own creative success creative success where you're trying to be humble enough to listen to them that you start Maybe you start cutting off your creative process because it might not be what they told you will lead to success, right. And so you start to trust yourself less when you start to rely on your mentor more, and I don't think that that is good at all. I don't think that that breeds any sort of real success, because real success is an individual standard. It is not a standard that someone else holds. Like I, I never want to have the success of mark. I know I've said mark cuban a lot, but he's in the public eye right now quite a bit, so he's the first name that comes to mind and he's ultra monetarily successful. Um, his success will never be my success. I would never deem what he's done for myself as success.
Speaker 1:And and I think that's where the issue lies is your version of success should and needs to be your own individual, like idea of success, not patterned after someone, because then you're trying to accomplish what they've done, not who you are. And that is why I think that having a mentor is not necessary and is detrimental to becoming your own version of success. Now, to become your own version of success, you have to determine and decide what that is to yourself. You have to describe that to yourself before you can get there. And I think that a lot of the times when we go and try to get mentors, it's because we have not determined what we think the level of success is that we're trying to reach. I actually truly believe that. Truly believe that that people that are constantly trying to find a mentor are people that have not determined what they think success is. They're having somebody else tell them what success is. This is my success. This is what I think success is, and they go okay, that's what success is, then, and I don't think that that is good. I don't think that that is going to help you in the long run.
Speaker 1:Um, so let me know that's that's your devil's advocate. Is a mentor necessary and helpful to success, or isn't it? Do you need one, or don't you, to be successful? Um, and don't? It's like the whole point of the devil's advocate is to go deeper. It's not to do surface level answers, because those are boring and lame. So what do you actually think? And you don't have to think one or the other. Maybe you agree with both sides, maybe you disagree with both sides. I don't know how you could have any other option, but whatever, that is your devil's advocate. I hope you enjoyed it. If you have ideas for other devil's advocates, let me know. You can text the show. There's a number that you can respond to on the episode description if you want to text into the show.
Speaker 1:And before we get out of here, let's leave you with the final takeaway. All right, so your final takeaway is I feel like, honestly, like not to pat myself on the back, but I feel like this has been a really good episode. Obviously, there's been some rants and raves because it's your boy, um, but but all in all, I feel like there's been really good points made, um, anyway, uh, this is probably the most important part of the show. So, if you skip everything else, always skip to the end. This should be what you listen to, because it's applicable. It's things that you can do.
Speaker 1:Your final takeaway is either an idea, a thought process, a mindset, an action, something to do, something that you can actually put into your life. That, I think, will make you a better person, or a stronger person, or a happier person, a more positive person, and that is your final takeaway today is try to be a student more than an expert, and what I mean by that is you can go online and you can go on social media and you can find what the experts are saying right, and you can try to become the expert on something I will never describe myself, ever, under any circumstance. I don't care how much learning I have or education. I will never, ever describe myself as an expert because I think it's bad, um, and there's too many experts out there that are saying like, oh, this is exactly what you should do. This is this is you know, we've we've had all these studies and this is the conclusion we've come to we're the experts on this. Great, that doesn't mean anything. You're basically a celebrity which you know.
Speaker 1:Your boy doesn't agree with, um, but there's there's way too many quote unquote experts out there. Um, and what that does is it makes you have blind trust, and blind trust isn't is never a good thing, um, like trust is. Trust is good. That came out wrong. Trust is good, but to be blind in what you're trusting in just because someone is an expert is very detrimental, um, and and we can go down that road for a long, long time, but I, for the sake of time, I'm not going to. It is so much more helpful to yourself to focus on being a student rather than becoming an expert, because being an expert is almost like a final destination. It has a cutoff point. Being a student doesn't. You can learn and learn and learn and learn and learn forever, but the second you become an expert is the second that you admit that you're done learning.
Speaker 1:Um, because you've made it, I'm an expert, and I think that is so bad as far as your progress, um, so so I've been thinking about that for a long time. I was like you know, for a long time my mindset was like oh, I need to become an expert in, in exercise science. I need to become an expert in, uh, biomechanics and how the body works and how the brain functions and the connection. I don't want to be an expert in anything. I want to be a student in everything, because it's so much more valuable just to learn than it is to have all of the answers. I'll say that again it is so much more valuable to learn than it is to have the answers. Learn than it is to have the answers. So, as you go through your week, as you go through your days now, I want you to think about being a student learning and learning and learning and learning. Not to be an expert, but just to learn, to just expand what you know, not to have all of the answers, and to be definitive, because if you're focused on being a student, you will always be able to admit when you're wrong, because being wrong is part of learning, whereas if you're an expert, you can't be wrong because you have all of the answers. So when you have the mindset of I'm just going to continuously learn, you can admit when you're wrong. You can change your viewpoints on things. You can change your opinions. You're not married to your same dumb opinions that you had when you were 12. You've learned, you've grown, so it's so much more productive for you to be a student than to be an expert. That is your final takeaway. Focus on being a student forever, way more than you are trying to be an expert in anything. Be a student in everything, not an expert in anything. That is your final takeaway.
Speaker 1:I love you guys. I hope you have an amazing week. I hope you enjoyed the episode. If you have things that you would like to see me or hear me discuss, let me know. I'm going to work on putting this episode and a couple of the former episodes up on YouTube. We'll see how it goes. If you would share that, that'd be really helpful. But yeah, I love you guys. I hope you know that you're amazing, that you're important, that you're powerful, that you're strong, that you as a person are incredible. Don't ever forget that. I love you guys. Thank you for listening. This is the Fit Perception Podcast. I'm your boy T and I'm out. Thank you.