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00:00 Introduction to Building Mental Habits
00:13 The Power of Belief: Noah Lyles' Story
01:01 Understanding Manifestation and Self-Limiting Beliefs
04:02 The Gym Habit: Small Steps to Big Changes
08:24 Conclusion and Membership Invitation
Ash Roy's and Chris Do's Video Transcript (This transcript has been auto-generated. Artificial Intelligence is still in the process of perfecting itself. There may be some errors in transcription):
Ash Roy:
In this video, Christo, the founder of The Futur, shares a simple but powerful approach to building mental habits that will lead to your success, be that in sports, business, or life.
Let's do this.
As you were talking about the athletes, what I thought about was Noah Lyles in this Paris Olympics and Noah Lyles has this almost unreasonable assumption that he's going to win, because some of the other athletes are pretty good.
There's one tall guy whose name I can't remember, and he looked to me to be more likely to win. But Noah Lyles, when he came out into that Paris Olympics, he was, like, jumping. He jumps really high, acting like he'd already won. And I was like, man, this guy's, this guy's arrogant. But he won by a hair, and you've got to ask yourself, well, what was the difference between him and the silver medalist?
Probably nothing in terms of physical ability and training. But he still managed to pull it off. You know, you have to now start asking yourself, well, did he manifest it? I'm very skeptical about manifestation, but it makes you wonder, right?
Chris Do:
Well, I'm gonna make hopefully you a little less skeptic about manifestation and it's a fancy word, right?
So let's let's get into that the race you're talking about they had to do replay because they first thought the other guy won race that way. Wait, hold on a second We need to review the tape and they looked at this and I think it was that no one expected him to win because the other guy was just taken off I remember there was a little catch up that he had to do so physically he might not even be the same despite the results that his mentality said I’m going to win this guy who's ahead of me, it's okay because I’m going to take him in a second.
I'm just going to overtake him in a little bit and he was able to do that. Let's talk about manifesting a little bit here we only go as far as we tell ourselves that we're capable of, I remember what Seth Godin says before he has this exercise and he does it quite often he's like everybody raise your hands as high as you can and then everybody's trying to raise their hand and he goes now raise a little bit higher and then he raised a little bit higher.
What just happened? Why did we do that? Right and his explanation is like we have expected in our lives We've become accustomed to knowing that people always ask us for more. So, we subconsciously hold back a little bit let's just do this right now. I exercise so when I say to myself, I'm gonna commit to doing 30 or 40 push-ups or 15 pull ups or 10 or 12 or 4.
It doesn't really matter It's kind of weird right before I get to my number, I start to feel a little tired, right? So, like 10. Oh, I don't know if I can do this 11 and then 12, I drop off the bar and why does that happen? Now? There's an exercise I think it was vim hoff who did this with somebody who he's like, okay let's see how many push-ups you can do and they do this, right?
And theoretically, the lactic acid is building up in your chest or your pectorals and you should not be able to do as many or even more because you're fatigued. So he goes, let's do this again, but I'm going to do the counting this time. He goes 1, 2, 7, 4, 17. So he's scrambling the guy's brain. So, he's lost track.
of how many push-ups he's doing. And then they stopped and he did more than he previously had done. So, we're understanding that a lot of this is self-limiting beliefs. We're holding ourselves back. When we call someone and we're, we're going to ask them for an opportunity, a new business opportunity, we tell ourselves.
There's no way they're going to hire us. They don't want what we got. And so, when they say, I'm not going to hire you. I don't want what you have. Then we're like, I knew it. I just knew it. But if you're Noah Lyles and you're walking in there, like, it's just a formality when I'm going to collect the gold medal.
And I have to go through this just so everybody knows it's, it's not like me cheating. So, he then he runs and he wins. And it's incredible. So, I think you, you might want to rethink or investigate a little bit about this idea of your belief system and how they control your worldview, which then dictates your actions, your thoughts, the way you carry yourself.
Ultimately, your body, your body is going to be held back.
Ash Roy:
Man, I love talking to you. This is just so much fun. I'm, I'm feeling so much joy in this conversation. By the way, since we last spoke, you mentioned that you work out a lot in the post interview conversation, and I've since joined a gym. I used to be a gym junkie in my early 20s, and my body remembers.
The feelings of exhilaration and the dopamine, the serotonin, whatever, you know, happens in the body when you work out. But the feelings of confidence are starting to come back. I've tried this many times before, and I've fallen off the wagon. So, this time, I decided to take a leaf out of James Clear's book.
In episode 175, we talked about building habits. And so, I just set the bar really low, and I said, you know what? I'm just going to get to the gym every day, and I'm just gonna walk into the gym. If it means I step on the treadmill and step off the treadmill and come back home, fine. But I'm going to get my backside to that gym every day.
And I have been doing that. I'm listening to music that I used to listen to back then. It's all coming back.
Chris Do:
There was an ad, and I'm not an athlete by any stretch of the imagination. I started working out pretty late in life. And there was this ad for Adidas. And it was on a street. It's a double page ad.
And it's just like one road going off into the horizon. And kind of like, disappearing into the horizon and it's just a normal suburban neighborhood and there's little bits of type and it would say, and it says just to the car, just to the mailbox and the type got smaller and smaller. It says tracing along this imaginary road that was disappearing into the horizon, single point perspective, and it would say just the end of the street, just to the next signpost, just to the and so it was really interesting because I'm not a runner, but I think they perfectly captured the essence of what it feels like to run.
And it's, it's just to the, whatever it is. And then when you get there, you can make a new goal. And then this is how you trick yourself into doing things that you previously dread. So, you're absolutely right. And I'm spacing on the guy's name right now. But I read an article about him, Terry Crews. You know who Terry Crews is?
Big muscular, um, uh African-American man. He's on America's got talent as the host on the side He's not the judge but he's like, you know, and he's also the spokesperson for old spice and he used to do the peck poppers like He's a very fit man used to play for the nfl I believe became an actor afterwards and you think a guy like him loves the gym So I’m reading an article about him in men's health or men's fitness and it says I hate going to the gym I hate it.
It's the worst thing ever. I'm like what? You How's this possible? He goes, you know what all I do in the morning is I put on my gym clothes That's all that's just all I want to do and then I go have breakfast and I’m like, what am I doing? I'm an idiot. I'm in my gym clothes. Why don't I go to the gym, but I’m just gonna sit in the parking lot So he goes to the parking lot.
He sits there. It's like well, there are a lot of people going in and out I'll just go in for a few minutes he goes in and he goes. Well, I’m here He walks around and he's like, I'll just pick up one weight, just one. And then an hour and a half later, he's like, whew, finished my workout. And it's very true.
Right? So, if we sit there and say, I'm going to go do a whole ab routine, or I'm going to go through one circuit, high intensity training, we're like, I'm not doing that. And we'll find a way out. We'll find a way out. But if you're like, I'm just going to stand in the gym and turn on the TV. That's all I'm going to do.
And then once you're in there, like, uh, what is this weight? I'll just pick it up for a little bit. So, it's kind of really interesting how we can train ourselves. To just take one small step and that is a chain reaction that leads to amazing results I think and so I think this could be rippled through everything.
I'm not gonna read the book today I'll just read one page the first paragraph and if I don't feel good, there's another guy. His name is Michael Chang and he used to like be like six pack ab shortcuts guy but he's totally reformed now And he's much more holistic the way he looks at health and fitness and he goes, you know, what?
People get this all wrong, you know, what you should do is commit yourself to doing just one good rep and see how you feel So just don't that's it. Don't commit to doing 100 or 300 whatever just one good rep and then if it gives you joy if you if you feel exhilarated if your heart's pumping and if the inner talk is I'm doing something good, then he goes do one more and then stop and say I do I still feel good and if I feel achy if it doesn't feel right.
I'm pushing myself too hard then stop, but if it feels good Do another rep so you see this idea This philosophy is rippled throughout lots of different things and this is how I think we can in a way navigate ourselves to greatness
Ash Roy:
So, there you have it You can achieve just about anything you set your mind to provided you build the right mental habits Cultivate the right beliefs and follow up with incremental action, where you set yourself little goals that get you to the big one.
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