Avoiding Normie Mentality
HOST
All right, so let me give you an illustration. I'm at a. I'm at a nice hotel and I have a top floor room and I'm with this chick and I'm sitting perched up on the balcony and I'm smoking a cigarette. She's sitting next to me and I'm.
I have a, I have full surveillance of what's going down at the pool beneath me. And this has happened several times. I've been seeing this more and more. It's a running theme where I'm looking down at the general ambience of these environments and I'm seeing a ton of dudes, I don't even know if you can call them dudes.
Just mealy eyed, a feet amiiboid looking in huge packs because that's where they all congregate for safety. Just weak looking, fragile looking men surrounded by a bunch of chicks. And all these chicks are friends. You can tell these guys are not charged.
They have zero sexual energy. Zero. And it's mind boggling how many dudes do not have a competitive bone in their body. There is zero sexual energy.
People are ashamed. The general fucking consensus that I see is a lot of men are ashamed of their own flesh and bone. They're ashamed of the fucking human body and all its capabilities. Because you see these dudes interacting and mingling with women and none of these chicks want to fuck them.
Zero. Less than zero. They get pat on the head like little kids, they tell little fucking jokes, they act like women, they fucking drink, they hoist their beers, they tinkle their fucking glasses together. They dance like women, they act like women.
And they're hanging around women and these huge fucking harems and they don't even get any pussy. And you have to ask yourself how the fuck a grown adult male finds it acceptable to interact and socialize in packs with other females knowing full well not a single female in that pack wants to have sex with you. Not one. If I was in a situation like that where I was in a pack of dudes around a bunch of chicks and not a single chick had any sexual attraction to me, the first thing I would do is wonder what the is wrong with me.
But none of these guys seem to have any capacity whatsoever to self analyze and understand why they are in the position that they're in. There's just zero sex self reflection. There's, there's nobody at home. And it's extremely fascinating because it, it goes back into my point, which is circular, which is that most men are walking around genu flecting and bending the fucking knee and yielding in deference to superior men.
They watch guys walk by them all day with the chicks they want, the cars they want, the lifestyle they want. And it doesn't even. Their heart rate doesn't even raise. There's like, there's.
They're dead. There's no inspiration. They don't look at that guy as a inspiration. They don't want what that guy has.
They just pass by, they fucking crumple their shoulders, they lower their head, they almost bow to you like they know you're a fucking superior male. And it's a fucking abomination. It's a fucking pandemic. Think about in the fucking 90s, in the fucking late 80s, you think men were hanging out with chicks and not that never happened.
This is a brand new phenomenon. These dudes are so ashamed of their flesh and bone, and they're so ashamed of the physical body. And that's what all this tech revolution crypto included. What it is on its face.
A lot of this is a cultural response to lack of attractiveness, lack of beauty. So these just despise the human organism. So they want to uglify. They want to uglify and fagify the entire world and invert every property, invert every property of the natural order into its form so they can accelerate this into the ground so that there can be a correction.
That's why I say these fucking weird chicks, these fucking effete males, they are our friends because they are accelerating this truck into fucking oblivion as fast as possible. So there can be a vicious response from who actually get what's on, going, going on. And I see this routinely. And it just, it really does baffle me how these guys are so dead inside.
They have no soul, they're not even in touch. There's zero sexual energy. If you're hanging out with a chick and you're not taking it personal that chick has zero sexual attractiveness towards you, you're a very broken man because your sexual energy is everything. You either use your sexual energy to make money or you use it to have sex, period.
The end. But it all starts from that. And if you do not take ownership in being a man, which, by the way, if you are up in life and you have no direction and you have nowhere to go and you are a man, the first thing you can do to fix that problem is you can take pride in just being a man at any point in time. That's your focal point.
Because as a man, you are factory installed. You are hardwired. You are the most powerful creature on earth. I don't give a how big of a nerd you are.
If you are a male, you are a blessed creature on this earth and you can take pride in just being a man at any point in time. So if you're struggling or you don't have your money, right, or your health is fucked up, or you have relationship issues, relationship stress, you, you have a job that you despise, you can fucking take pride in being a man at all times. That should fucking bring you solace and peace is that you were born in that fucking gender. Because pretty much everything is correctable as a man.
If you're ugly, it's fixable. If you're broke, it's fixable. If your mindset's fucked up, it's fixable. If your fitness is fucked up, it's fixable.
You're the end ranges that you can go to as a male is, is infinite. There's nothing that you can't fix. There's nothing that you can't overcompensate. There's nothing that you can't.
And that's what, that's what the whole fucking game is. The whole fucking game of life is overcompensation. It's what everybody's doing. Coping is severely underrated.
Severely underrated. Healing is overrated. You don't want to heal every aspect of your personality. You don't want to sit here and be a restored, perfectly mentally healthy man because then you have zero zeal and zero motivation to attack this world and tear worlds down and rebuild them in your own image, which is what men are designed to do.
To say that again as a man. You are designed by nature to be a blunt instrument and tear down worlds and rebuild them in your own image. You can take that metaphor any way you wish. I take it as I have to have severe impact on my personal local environment.
My local environment means everything to me. I don't give a fuck what's going on at the White House. I don't give a fuck of a UFO lands on the south lawn of the White House. I only care about the primacy of my direct experience, my hopes, my aspirations, my fears, my dreams, my goals, my hopes, my crew, my friends.
We are central. That is the central party command structure. And anything less than that mentality is a loser scenario. It's a loser's scenario and it's a piss poor way to live.
You have to take charge of your local environment. People should know who you are when you walk through the streets. If people aren't dapping you up, if your butcher is not giving you deals, if people aren't letting you cut lines, then you are a broken man because you are invisible. And that is the absolute hell on earth for a man is being invisible.
I'll tell you that right now. And most men have slumped so low that this is a foregone conclusion. They have absolutely surrendered all agency to superior men. There's not a competitive bone in their body.
When I see men have that I have, it puts me into overdrive. I want that. Why don't I have it? Because you have to understand the you mentality.
I used to think that was the most. I used to think that mentality had the greatest ROI on earth. The you jerk attitude. It's not.
You know what attitude is? The why not me. The why not me attitude will take you further and propel you higher and make you climb this stratosphere harder than just about any mentality you could possibly indoctrinate yourself with. Why not me?
It's a pretty level playing field. Everybody's born as a nerd. Everybody's born as a dork. Everyone's awkward when they're a kid.
It's the. It's the kids who take risks, who get into sports, who deal with adversity, who overcome. That's how they edge themselves out and carve a place for themselves in the world. A nerd is just a who doesn't take risks.
That's why the World Series of Poker was such a spectacle. That's why that show. Everybody has watched the World Series of Poker because it's a bunch of nerds playing cards for millions of dollars. You're watching.
You're single handedly watching the evolution of a nerd in real time. You're watching a nerd become a man. You're watching a nerd become a G shoving his chips in the middle for millions of dollars at risk. That guy's no longer a dork because he's in the center of the stage.
He's where the gunpowder is he's making happen. And that's what life's all about. It's all about pushing your baselines. It's all about competition.
Competition is the most beautiful thing on this planet. Should inspire you. Should light you on fire when you see doing that you can't do. But instead we're in this reverse order where think competition is ugly.
Competition is evil. No, no, no. Egalitarianism is evil. Equality is an atrocity.
Equality is fucking disgusting. The act of Going into the gym and lifting weights and physically improving yourself. That process alone is the process of making yourself unequal. Anything you do to directly benefit your life is the process of making yourself unequal.
And that has to be relished and it has to be held to your vest and it has to be worn on your heart sleeve because it's everything. Like I said, I wasn't born the most perfect character. I, I, I grew up a dork like every other, you know, so if, if I could transform and I could be turn myself into a monster and a demon based on my own volition. I know every other motherfucker can, can, but you have to see through this veneer first.
You have to look at the state of man and how people just clog you up. It's, it's, it's just if you go in your public life, most people are just clogs. They're just here to slow you up. Clog up lines, create havoc.
Zero accomplishments, zero mission, zero dreams, zero goals. They're existing like maggots. They're not doing anything. You should be moving at a pace that is far more brisk than the fucking common man.
When I'm moving through stores, I'm fucking bang, bang, bang grabbing shit off the fucking shelf. I don't even fucking get a cart at the grocery store. I just throw shit in my fucking hand. I'm zipping through motherfuckers.
People are lollygagging, pushing their little fucking carts up the aisle for 30 minutes, checking prices. People love to wait. They love it. They love to lollygag because it's, it's an excuse to waste more time.
You get to around on your phone, you get to fantasize, you get to around on Instagram. You're not, you have zero direction. It should piss you off to wait in line anywhere, anywhere. Your time is so precious and people just piss it away like there's no tomorrow.
Like there's no tomorrow. People just piss on their time and then they practice positive thinking and new age things. Well, my blood is boiling in, in rush hour traffic right now, so I'm just gonna pretend to be Mr. Peaceful and Mr.
Let Everything Roll off my shoulders. No, no, no, no. It should fucking make your blood boil to wait two hours in traffic because you have to plan your life better. You have to plan your entire life around avoiding normies because they will slow you up.
They don't give a, they have no incentive to be fast. Zero. You go to the dentist, you go to the doctor, they're always an Hour late for your appointment. They don't give a.
About you. They don't give a. You don't even get a apology. It's just everybody's moving at a snail's pace because they're paid regardless of your time.
So you have to start doing crazy. You have to up the end, you have to up the stakes. I was at the barber shop a couple weeks ago. I walked in, they wouldn't take appointments, and I was like, I'm not waiting here.
So there was an old man who was in front of me. I said, yo, I'm gonna give you 100 bucks to skip you. He was like, what? He was like, how about 50?
And I said, no, no. I said, I told you I'd give you 100. I'm gonna give you 100. Handed him a hundred dollar bill.
He was like, please, be my guest. Walked right in front of him. Got my. Bounced.
Best hundred bucks I ever spent. Because I would have been sitting there with my thumb up my ass for 45 minutes waiting for that. And once you crank up the dials and you start to speed up and start to realize you can wheel and deal, the more networks you have, the more people you know, the faster everything goes, your mission becomes so much more clear because you're not bogged down by the trifles and the bureaucratic red tape processes of all these businesses and that want to slow you up. I'm constantly skipping lines, constantly tipping doormen, tipping valet guys, going first, jumping the line, starting with people.
I mean, I'm very aggressive with this because I'm saving hours a day to get more involved in the shit that matters to me. And if this doesn't piss you off and you can literally justify in your own head that waiting for all of these things and just that's. That's. I think that's the craziest part is people just sit here and they think, well, you know what?
I'm forced to wait. But you're not. You're never forced to fucking wait. There's always another fucking alternative.
But people just aren't aggressive and they have trouble asserting themselves and asking for favors and going to the. To the person who has the most power in the establishment and telling them, look, I got to get the out of here. What can we do? Work in backdoor deals?
But you motherfuckers just sit here and just pretend like you are a fucking rat, like you're just a fucking. You're a digit. You're going to take your little fucking ticket with the number on it. You're just going to wait like everybody else.
That mentality alone is extremely pernicious and it's very pervasive. And it's all of this is together, it all collides. That's the thing. All this compounds no sexual energy, no competition, no spirit, no drive, no aggressiveness, no alternative thinking.
You have to understand when you are in corners, when you are backed into a corner in life and you and you put time constraints on yourself to get stuff done, not talking about deadlines that other people set. When you put the pressure cooker under your own ass and you make it unacceptable to delay knowing what you have to do. The world will bend to that. It's it, it, it's, it's every time.
I've never seen this not happen. I've never seen it not happen. And you have to avoid being around poor broke people in general. Even if you are broke yourself, you have to go to the nearest city and start hanging out at places where the people are a lot more pleasant.
I don't deal with any riff raff in my life because I don't hang around poor people. It's a policy that I instituted about 10 years ago and it is the most immediate effective ROI that you can feel in your bones. You're just around pleasant. I don't go into cvs, Rite Aid, Walmart, Target, not looking for deals because I don't like the crew of people there.
They're built like they look like a sack of oatmeal in a garbage bag. They don't take care of themselves. And I don't want to be around that type of energy. That mindset is very infinite effective.
It's very contagious. And so I don't know how think they're gonna break out of their shell and push things to the next level if you are constantly surrounded by that hive mind of people who are broken, just broken inside, with zero desire to rise above their circumstances. So like I said, I don't even go into 7, 11, go into Rite Aid, don't go into CVS, certainly not walking into a Albertsons, not walking into a Vons, I don't give a. I'm paying more money to be at higher quality venues where higher quality people are people make your world, period.
The end. The quality of people that you even see, the quality of people that you interact with, the quality of people that are around you have the most immediate impact on your life. And you don't realize how up it is to be in an arcology or to be in an ecosystem with other who do not have the same mentality you have. The chances of breaking free from that are minuscule if you don't fix that.
And then magically you start meeting the right. You start meeting people who will give you opportunities. You start getting phone numbers from people who actually matter. You can't get out of your circumstance hanging out with broke people, it's never happening, ever, ever.
And the best part is once you get your together and you're actually somebody who's worth knowing, then you can go back and you can be a provider, you can start bailing out that you can sense have potential. You can give opportunities to other people and help them rise out of poverty. But. But you have to save yourself first.
I'm gonna take a couple questions here. Yo, yo, yo. What's good, man? What's good, brother?
Talk to us, brother. That was amazing. You stuttered for like 0.2 seconds in a 15 minute rant. You're on one, you're channeling the divine light.
Thank you for sharing. Thank you, brother. Appreciate that. Much love.
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CALLER 1
What's up, yo? Real quick. I was just curious, what age were
HOST
you when you kind of woke up
CALLER 1
and you were like, I'm taking action and going after this. I'm just curious like what age that kind of like lit up in you.
HOST
Mine was early because I got the boot from my nuclear family when I was 17. So I was in survival mode for a long time. So I had, I had no choice, man. I mean, all my cylinders were revved.
I was redlining adrenaline and cortisol every day of my life. So it was, it was a matter of necessity. But I mean, dude, my favorite cliche is necessity is the mother of all invention and that's an easy one to forget, but that. I feel like there's nothing has been more true on this planet to me than necessity being the mother of all invention.
And like I said, man, corners are opportunities for creativity I've never seen. And primates love a good scrap. If you put humans against the wall and you back them against the wall, even the weakest animal is going to go for the jugular, right? So when we back ourselves into corners, it's an opportunity for creativity to see perspectives and try things that we haven't done before.
And me being back into corners has created more ingenuity and more success and more wealth and more abundance in my life than just about anything else.
CALLER 1
Excellent. Thank you, man.
HOST
Yep. True. Pac, talk to us.
CALLER 2
Yes, Sarah. What's up, Brute?
HOST
What's up, baby?
CALLER 2
Yeah, I read a little bit about your story about when you got kicked out from your nuclear family, went to Vegas, put everything on the table, took a risk, lost everything, and was going back to la. How is having your back against the wall, like, how has that motivated you? Because the way you speak about it gives us hope. Starting from the bottom, we don't know where to go, which direction to go.
Would you say gambling would be like a good starting point? Even though it is high risk is also high reward? So would you recommend that for other people?
HOST
No. No, I don't. I don't. I don't recommend my lifestyle to anybody.
I don't see myself as any kind of role model or idol or. Or messiah. I. I just.
All I do is share my experience, strength, and hope. That's all I do is share it. From my perspective. I don't think anybody should try to copy my path because my.
I've put myself through way more danger and hardship than any man ever should have. But. But I will tell you one thing. I.
I have never seen a man. I think all men subliminally are desperate for a fight. Every man wants to be tested. Every man wants to know what he's really capable of.
And I think a lot of guys are simply too scared to take the floor out from underneath themselves, and they know that's what they need to really kick it into gear. It's. It's like everyone has too many safety nets. Everyone has a mom or dad they can call.
If they can't pay their phone bill or they're late on their car pay, they just. You got too many people that'll bail you out. And what's crazy is once you take full responsibility for your life and you make it unacceptable to accept bailouts, you are destined to reach your final form. And it's probably going to take several iterations.
It's taken me hundreds, but, dude, there is not. Life on survival mode is where all the juice is. I don't give a what anybody says. I've been in permanent survival mode for 15 years.
I've never gotten out of it. It's. It's hard for me to relax. It's hard for me to decompress, but I don't want to because I love being revved up, dude.
I wake up with a zeal and a zest for life every morning, dude. I mean, I'm. I'm on constant attack mode. And I just.
I can't imagine life being pleasurable in any other way.
CALLER 2
Definitely staying in that mode. I feel like your tolerance for normies is at absolute zero.
HOST
It's at zero. And if you think about it, it's interesting. Billionaires are constantly in survival mode too. That's kind of, that's kind of where I pull that from.
It's like billionaires, people who are extremely successful and love the game, they don't get out of survival mode either, because they can't. The normal life, it's almost like the normal life is so jaded, it's like
CALLER 2
throwing in the towel, so to speak.
HOST
Correct. So they're constantly in that same state of being as a poor person. And that's a. And that's a mental mindset that they play with themselves.
But it's true. It's like once you reach a threshold of success and wealth, it's extremely hard to keep it because you have to keep. You have to keep yourself really in check. And so these guys are constantly stressed out and adding more to their plate and, and normal people don't understand that.
But when you love the game itself and you are here to respect the game itself, you're gonna play it until the bitter end. It's not even about the numbers anymore. You just love the fight because it keeps you youthful. That's what I'm.
That's what I talk about, dude, is, is there's good stress and bad stress, business stress and stress that is directly related to your goals and your aspirations. That's the stress that makes you age like a wizard. If you like, you'll see dudes who have wrinkles and cracks in their forehead and grizzled temples. Their hair's all white and.
But they still have like those egg white pupils and they just look healthy. They have an aura about them that's healthy. And they're. They're Clydesdales.
These guys just don't stop. I mean, all my wealthy friends, I have a bunch of wealthy friends in their 60s that I do business with. And these guys are unreal. These guys run circles around these 20 year olds.
They're on the phones, banging calls out all day. They're doing meetings from morning, lunch, dinner time, well into the night. And these guys are in their 60s and their hormones aren't even particularly impressive. Some of these guys have bellies.
Some of these guys are severely out of shape. But they are obsessed with the game and they don't stop. And that's what keeps them going, dude. People that are obsessed with the game don't die.
It's the closest thing to being immortal on this planet. If you want immortality, you respect the game till the bitter end.
CALLER 2
Definitely. I think the biggest misconception amongst normies is success is a final destination. Like it's a finish line success, that's where the pressure increases even more. Like you said, you have to stay on that level or even try to improve even more.
So definitely got to keep the fire under you.
HOST
It's true. And it's also the exact opposite. So it takes wild, chaotic energy to become successful and then you have to slam that gear into the exact opposite to maintain it. Then you have to be a lot more calculated and then you can be a lot more rational.
But I think rationality as a strategy to wealth, when you have nothing is the less you have and the lower your station in life, the more irrational moves you have to make. That's just, that's just, that's just honestly basic. That's. I think that's an elementary concept.
But I think a lot of guys are still trying to piece together this rational chess like strategy towards life when they literally have nothing. They have no baseline, they're broke, they, they're unimportant, no one respects their opinion and they're trying to put together these rational decisions. I think that's a death wish.
CALLER 2
Definitely. Like life is definitely learned in the trenches. All the lessons that you get along the way, that's what takes you over to the next level.
HOST
100 brother. I appreciate your question.
CALLER 2
Hey you, man. Thank you. Keep up the good work.
HOST
Drew Pearson. What's up man?
CALLER 1
Hey, Brew, just wanted to say I appreciate the space today. I had two questions for you. I was just curious. Where were you at in your life
HOST
when you were 23 years old?
CALLER 1
What was your mentality around this time? And if you could meet your 23 year old self like today, if he just walked in the room, what would you tell him?
HOST
Best piece of advice I can give, man, for my younger self is amnesia is king. You, you, you have to have a very short term memory and a very thick skin in this life. I do not waste any time worrying about events that have passed. If I've made a mistake or five minutes ago, something horrific happened, I do not dwell on it, I do not harp on it.
I move forward faster than just about anybody I know and I think gambling has trained me to do that. But I do not hold on to losses. And I have an incredible ability to detach from outcomes and from things that no longer serve me. And, and I would tell my 23 year old self to 100.
Stop thinking, worrying, or trying to corkscrew or manipulate the past. It's gone. You have to let it burn. It's one of the first concepts you learn in kindergarten is you have to let.
Sometimes you have to let things burn. Amnesia, baby, Short term memory. Moving on, moving forward. I don't want to hear about the problem.
What's the solution? What are we going to do now? What's next? That's what I do.
These young guys ask me questions all the time. They gripe to me, they groan to me, they moan to me about their problems. And my next question is always, okay, what's next? Not going to talk to you about the past anymore.
What are you going to do about it now? It's all that matters. So do you think, do you think
CALLER 1
that applies to success too? In the same realm?
HOST
Let's just move moving on from that as well.
CALLER 1
Or kind of keeping that in your
HOST
back pocket for 100. That's why I'm telling you, like, dude, I mean this is a personal story, but I got hacked in crypto for 1.4 million in the last five months. I had a hardware wallet hacked and I had a metamask hacked for a total of 1.4 mil. And my boy couldn't believe how fast I was able to let it go and move on.
He was like, dude, why aren't you pursuing this? Why aren't you hiring a cyber firm to try to track this down? I said, dog, you don't understand. I'm not gonna sit here and wait for anything to happen because I know if I get my into gear the next day after I got hacked, I will make far more than what I lost from the hacking just by sticking back to my mission and getting back on the horse.
And don't understand this. They're obsessed with cleaving onto the past and trying to recover. That's gone. And when you have the mentality that I have, which is that I will make three times that now because I'm so pissed, I'm angered by it.
But it's fuel. So I'm gonna embark on this crazy journey in the next six months to go double what the hacker took for me. I don't give a. I moved on right away, will not give it any mental real estate, will not try to chase the down.
Just gonna let it burn, baby, because I have conviction. I know who I am and I know I can recover that money. It's 2020. It's 2022, dog.
It's way too easy to build new ships. That's the whole point. In the 1800s, if you had generational assets that were. That were bequeathed to you by family, and let's say that your house got burned down, or a robber stole your chickens and your horses and you were royally fucked because the rebuilding speed in 1800 is next to zero.
In 2022, with the fucking phone in my pocket with a laptop, I can get an up. I can get a fucking business up and running overnight if I have to. It's just too fucking easy to replace shit to substitute shit. In 2022, relationships included.
People aren't working out. You're with a chick, you don't like, fucking kick her to the curb, dude. There's too much going on. There's.
There's too. There's just too much action. And I love action, so I like to put myself in the middle of it. And so I guess my point is, dude, we live in an era where the ability to rebuild is rapid fire.
You will never find a time on earth where men could rebuild from loss and hardship. You have nothing to lose. So I'm all about moving forward, dude, and just. I don't want revenge.
I don't want to go backwards. I'm not wasting my time on that, dude. It's time that could be spent building something new that could possibly be a lot more powerful than it was before I lost it. That's the other thing is you don't know what's coming around the corner.
You don't know. And so it's very arrogant to worry. I've always said this worry is preposterous because you never know enough to worry as a human being about anything. You never truly know enough about any scenario to worry as a human being.
So worry is one of the highest acts of hubris and arrogance. That was a great question, man. I'm moving on. Thank you.
CALLER 1
Appreciate it.
HOST
JC what's good?
CALLER 1
Yo, Brute. I got a question about training. So for the past year, I've been doing calisthenics. But recently I got back in the gym and I started doing Olympic lifts.
I learned when I was playing football in high school. And seeing you do the split jerk is just mad inspiring. So I started when I started the movement, and I noticed this when I started squatting and doing deadlifts again as well.
HOST
Like, my back.
CALLER 1
My lower back was super tight. So with the split jerk, I just go in there and I imitate the movement, and it's kind of like one big stretch right now. I was just wanting like some advice on like, like when you started with these movements, how did you start? And like, where would you go?
There's not a ton of people in this gym like doing these sorts of movements, so I'm kind of like the lone dog in there. But like just advice as far as like starting in that arena.
HOST
Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm pretty autodidactic, so I, when I first started, I didn't have any coaching. I didn't have anybody telling me what to do. I would just basically aggressively attempt lifts and then I would film them and I would study hours of my own footage because I, I had somewhat of a nice little primer. I, I know the anatomy really well.
I know all the Latin. I know what, I know the functional movement, I know what the tensor fascia lata is, I know the rectus femoris, I know the function of all the muscle groups, so I know what clean, beautiful movement looks like. So I was able to break down my own videos and see what I was doing wrong pretty easily and then just recalibrate like that. I don't know that I recommend that for everybody, but I just, it was a much more enjoyable process for me to learn the lifts on my own.
One thing I will offer to you is that when it comes to weightlifting and power sports in general, you, you will notice that you develop like little kinks and little quirks that are not necessarily anatomically perfect, but you kind of develop your own pulling styles which sort of creates sort of like a unique way of lifting for you. And like, I have plenty of imperfections. Like my right foot is a couple inches in front of my left before I take off. Coaches have critiqued that for me for years, but I just seem to be in a more powerful position starting that way.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is if you look at the best athletes in any sport, not just weightlifting, look at Usain Bolt. They have incredible overcompensation patterns. Their movement is not even close to perfect because if it was and you were perfectly symmetrical, you would actually be leaking energy. It would be a force leak.
So a lot of these guys have very bizarre over compensation patterns that actually help them create a lot more power, if that makes sense. So my advice to you is just find your unique positions. As long as you have that baseline and they're anatomically correct as far as your mobility is concerned, then you can put yourself in those end ranges and not have any problems. I mean, my lips are far from perfect, but they work for me, based on my body type.
And I've just sort of figured out how to get inside my body and do it more off intuition, if that makes sense.
CALLER 1
Word.
HOST
Yeah.
CALLER 1
That's kind of how I've been attacking it is just going in there based off, like, how watching your videos and other people's just trying to imitate that. And honestly, what you said about kind of finding your own way. Way makes me feel a little bit better because there are like, my right leg. I don't know what you would call it, like, cheats or like.
Yeah, it does. Weird. And so I'm like, you know, I get what you're saying. Like, don't necessarily focus.
HOST
Yeah, I got a movement. No, I got a bunch of funky going on. But one thing I'll tell you is that a lot of guys use technique as an excuse not to take big attempts and to mentally cop out. I know a bunch of dudes who will focus on technique for, like, three.
Three years. And I'm like, dude, what are you doing? I'm. I'm coming to the gym.
I haven't seen you make a lick of progress in three years. You're still lifting the same weight. He's like, well, I'm trying to fix my TFL or my it band is tight. I'm trying to foam roll it out.
I'm like, dog, at some point you have to just start lifting weight. Like, once you get the. And that's the thing too, is, like, once you get the basics down and lifting, the technique's easy, bro. Like, coaches don't.
Coaches spend about a month doing technique with people, and then it's about building the mindset of a champion. That's what coaches end up spending most of their time on. Like, if I was coaching a guy, I'd probably do a month of technique and then it would all about just being. Building the mindset of a winner because that's ultimately what separates you from everybody else anyway.
It's all the mindset.
CALLER 1
Tight. Thank you. Can I DM you? Because I've got a couple of videos.
Like, I've been already doing that, like, studying my form. Because I DM you some of.
HOST
Yeah, I can't. Yeah, I can't guarantee I'll get to it just because I get a. I get tons of dudes showing me technique videos and. But yeah, I mean, send it over and I'll.
If I get to it, I'll get
CALLER 1
to it for sure. Appreciate you, brother.
HOST
You know what, guys? I actually gotta run, but this was a sick spaces I appreciate you all. We'll do another one soon. It.