1148-Lessons Learned From Dozens of Unsuccessful Attempts to Get Lean and Healthy

I think this is because when you look at people who are at the very top of the success ladder in some field, it can be hard to identify one specific causal factor that have, have created that success.

So, you know, you'll be talking with a movie star who is talking about, you know, his, his, his, how he got so buff for this latest action figure, uh, role that he's playing.

And he said, well, it was just all the chicken and the rice.

Well, it was the chicken and the rice, and it was also the trend, right? It was also the drugs.

Or you'll talk to somebody who is incredibly athletic, a sports superstar, and you say, how is it that you are so athletic and so capable? And they'll say, man, it's just discipline and hard work.

Well, it absolutely is discipline and hard work.

It's also having world-class genetics.

Or, you know, somebody who's extremely wealthy and you say, how did you get so wealthy? And they say, man, I scrimped and I saved and I was really careful and I watched every dollar.

Well, that's true.

But it's also true that you hit a lucky part in the market, right? Or a rising market that helped you with a lot of the mistakes and you hit a technology curve.

Now, that doesn't take anything away from...

the successes of that person.

I don't think it's any less impressive that the person was able to achieve great success just because there are multiple factors more than the person was able to identify.

But what is hard to know what to do is how do I apply that person's success to my own life? After all, how do I recreate that market condition that led to that success? And it's really true that studying from failure in many cases is more productive.

Because I think that while not all of us can be number one in any particular field...

Most of us can be pretty good in a field, right, middle of the road or higher, if we could simply avoid the big mistakes, avoid the failures.

And so we do know that while we can't determine whether you for sure have elite genetics or not.

We do know that if you quit and you don't practice stick-to-itiveness and practice grit and keep on going at something, well, then you're certainly not going to win.

So we can file that away and know that that's true.

We can't know exactly what drug dosage you should take to help improve your muscles, but we can know that if you don't stick to your diet, then it's not going to be as successful and you're probably not going to be ready for the big screen.

So I actually do believe that this theory is a useful theory and a useful idea because for most of us, all we really need to do is just avoid the long-term failures.

Now, it's easy to say that when you're the one interviewing people about their failures.

It's harder to want to say that when you're the one who has failed.

And yet I believe that it's my responsibility to, if I'm going to ask people about their failures, to also talk about some of the lessons that I have learned.

And so I'll share with you in today's podcast, I want to share with you some important lessons learned from dozens of my own unsuccessful attempts to become lean and healthy.