Latest / The You Project / #2216 Identity - Bobby Cappuccio
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- 0:00Speaker 1: G'day team. It's a podcast. That is you, the TYP,
- 0:04Speaker 1: of course, Tiffany Ann Cook, Robert Joseph Capuccio, Craig Anthony
- 0:08Speaker 1: Harper every two weeks or thereabouts. Oh, every week. Is
- 0:11Speaker 1: it week? It is week. Every week we get together
- 0:14Speaker 1: and do this, I should probably know. We've just been
- 0:17Speaker 1: having a minor argument before we went live. I'll tell
- 0:19Speaker 1: you what the argument was about. The argument was about
- 0:22Speaker 1: the fact that Bobby wants to ask questions and steer
- 0:27Speaker 1: the show a bit at times, which he is welcome to,
- 0:30Speaker 1: as is Tiff. Then when I say, mate, let's make
- 0:33Speaker 1: this a conversation, not an interview, and I go, today's
- 0:38Speaker 1: your day to shine, he asks fucking zero questions. Then
- 0:41Speaker 1: we get post-show and he sends me a message saying,
- 0:46Speaker 1: I thought I was going to ask questions. And I say,
- 0:49Speaker 1: me too. But you didn't. So today's your time to shine, Bobby.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Well, here's a question then. I come over your house,
- 1:03Speaker 2: Casa de la Hopper.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:06Speaker 2: A beautiful, beautiful place for a little soiree, which I've
- 1:09Speaker 2: done on quite a few occasions. And I say to you, Craig, hey, mate,
- 1:15Speaker 2: you got some water?
- 1:17Speaker 1: I'm a bit thirsty.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Any problem with that? What are your thoughts on this
- 1:23Speaker 2: interaction so far?
- 1:25Speaker 1: See, I feel you're making something very simple, complicated right now.
- 1:30Speaker 2: No, no, I'm just saying, just saying, what are your
- 1:32Speaker 2: thoughts so far?
- 1:33Speaker 1: It's a question. I'm asking a question. Sure, Bobby, you
- 1:35Speaker 1: can have some water. Let me just get a glass
- 1:38Speaker 1: and I'll head over to the fridge and get you
- 1:40Speaker 1: some cold water. That's lovely of you.
- 1:44Speaker 2: Thanks, mate. Now, scenario number two, I just rock up
- 1:48Speaker 2: into your house. I open up the fridge and I
- 1:51Speaker 2: just start looking around. I move things around.
- 1:54Speaker 1: I grab a hold.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Next thing you know, I turn around. I got a
- 1:57Speaker 2: chicken hanging out of my mouth. What are your thoughts
- 1:59Speaker 2: about that?
- 2:01Speaker 1: Worst analogy ever. Move on.
- 2:03Speaker 2: You just don't walk. You just don't come into someone's
- 2:05Speaker 2: kitchen and start eating their chicken.
- 2:08Speaker 1: See, I feel like a podcast is a different thing,
- 2:12Speaker 1: both literally and conceptually.
- 2:14Speaker 2: For chicken, yeah, but the analogy works. There's a certain etiquette.
- 2:22Speaker 2: I'm your guest, mate. You are the maestro of this band.
- 2:28Speaker 1: You are definitely not my guest. We do a show
- 2:30Speaker 1: every week. You are definitely the co-host of the show. Oh, no,
- 2:35Speaker 1: I told you that. I got a guy on yesterday
- 2:38Speaker 1: called Christian O'Connell from Gold FM. We've never met. He
- 2:42Speaker 1: was a guest. And even then I said, mate, let's
- 2:44Speaker 1: have a chat. Let's don't do an interview. But so
- 2:49Speaker 1: what are you telling me? Are you telling me you
- 2:51Speaker 1: don't want to co-host? You want me to ask you
- 2:54Speaker 1: all the questions? Is that what you're telling me?
- 2:57Speaker 2: Yes, I'm lazy and I'm taking zero responsibility. No, what
- 3:01Speaker 2: I'm saying is if I'm co-hosting, I want to talk
- 3:04Speaker 2: about Dolly.
- 3:06Speaker 3: All right.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Well, there you go. There you go. That's fine. He
- 3:09Speaker 1: said before the show, everyone, I want to talk about
- 3:11Speaker 1: Dolly Parton. I said, I think it's been overdone. But
- 3:14Speaker 1: then he protested and I'm like, all right, if you
- 3:17Speaker 1: feel passionate about it, let's talk. See, this is what
- 3:22Speaker 1: I have to deal with, everyone. It's like trying to
- 3:24Speaker 1: fucking herd cats. It's just.
- 3:28Speaker 1: It's just, oh, God. But it's beautiful and exhausting. So
- 3:33Speaker 1: you told us before we went live that you literally
- 3:36Speaker 1: cried last night. So we're recording this Thursday morning in
- 3:42Speaker 1: Melbourne time, and Dolly died, I think, yesterday morning Melbourne time.
- 3:49Speaker 1: What was your affinity with Dolly Parton? Why did you
- 3:51Speaker 1: love her so much?
- 3:53Speaker 2: Because I thought she was awesome. an original who was
- 3:57Speaker 2: unapologetically herself. And the byproduct of being unapologetically Dolly Parton
- 4:06Speaker 2: was generosity, compassion, originality, and just a larger-than-life persona that
- 4:16Speaker 2: was incidental. She wasn't trying to be that. She couldn't
- 4:19Speaker 2: help but be that. And last night when I was
- 4:23Speaker 2: thinking about, you know, cause she's in, in the U
- 4:26Speaker 2: S arguably one of the most recognizable performers and figures
- 4:31Speaker 2: in music and in a lot of places around the
- 4:34Speaker 2: world as well. And, you know, she grew up in
- 4:37Speaker 2: a one room cabin, like abject poverty. And she had
- 4:42Speaker 2: something like she has accomplished so much, not only through
- 4:47Speaker 2: Acting and.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Performing, but songwriting. She's a masterful songwriter.
- 4:53Speaker 2: And all of those things are only the second best
- 4:57Speaker 2: thing she's known for. That's not even what she's known for.
- 5:01Speaker 2: What she's known for is her humanity. And her love
- 5:06Speaker 2: and how she made people feel. Think about that. We're
- 5:10Speaker 2: in a society that has this thing with celebrity, whether
- 5:14Speaker 2: it's hatred or whether it's an affinity. We're kind of
- 5:17Speaker 2: obsessed with it. And her celebrity wasn't even the thing
- 5:20Speaker 2: that she was famous for. One of the most recognizable
- 5:23Speaker 2: celebrities in the world. She's recognized as being someone who
- 5:27Speaker 2: epitomizes the best in us.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Holy shit.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Wow. That's what a loss.
- 5:32Speaker 1: The thing we lost is the thing we need more.
- 5:36Speaker 2: More of.
- 5:38Speaker 1: Most of the time in the world today. We need
- 5:41Speaker 1: a little bit more Dolly in the world. Yeah, I
- 5:43Speaker 1: loved her too. I thought she was amazing. And when
- 5:48Speaker 1: I first saw her early days, you said the word persona,
- 5:52Speaker 1: which is an interesting word, right? In that because she
- 5:59Speaker 1: had this larger than life personality, appearance and presence and
- 6:04Speaker 1: energy and generosity and love. And it was almost like,
- 6:10Speaker 1: I just think nobody can actually be like that, but
- 6:14Speaker 1: she never showed a crack like that. That seems to be,
- 6:18Speaker 1: or seemed to be in whatever it was, a 60
- 6:21Speaker 1: year career that just seemed to be a constant. And
- 6:25Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, nobody can act that well for that long.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Like this is just who she is. And also the
- 6:32Speaker 1: fact that she came from, as you said, complete, like
- 6:36Speaker 1: she had, not only did she have no advantages, she
- 6:40Speaker 1: had all the disadvantages. Like, was she one of 13 kids? Yeah.
- 6:46Speaker 2: So like her background was something absurd like that. Like
- 6:49Speaker 2: just not someone who you typically would bet on, which
- 6:55Speaker 2: is a horrible statement, but it's not someone like, oh, well,
- 6:57Speaker 2: this kid definitely is going places.
- 7:00Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I wonder how much... What's the word?
- 7:07Speaker 1: The self-pity was going on with her. I would think
- 7:11Speaker 1: not much. She just didn't have time or energy because
- 7:15Speaker 1: she was trying to survive.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Talk about that a little bit more because what I
- 7:21Speaker 2: noticed in that is you saying she just didn't have time.
- 7:25Speaker 2: And that's an interesting distinction.
- 7:27Speaker 1: What do you mean? Well, I think... Well, I don't
- 7:32Speaker 1: mean that literally, but I mean, when you are one of, say,
- 7:34Speaker 1: 13 kids, say 15 people in the family, dad, I
- 7:39Speaker 1: know dad couldn't read or write. Dad was illiterate. You're living.
- 7:42Speaker 1: So she was born 80 years ago, which is 1946-ish.
- 7:48Speaker 1: The war has just ended. There's a depression. I think
- 7:55Speaker 1: you're so busy just surviving that Like you're so busy
- 8:00Speaker 1: just trying to figure out how not to die or
- 8:02Speaker 1: freeze or starve that most of your energy and therefore
- 8:07Speaker 1: time goes to surviving and trying to thrive in the
- 8:12Speaker 1: middle of the worst. I don't think there's too much
- 8:15Speaker 1: sitting around and contemplating the quality of one's life or
- 8:20Speaker 1: the opportunities in the context of other people in the world.
- 8:24Speaker 1: I think... I think it's much bigger than that, but
- 8:27Speaker 1: I think we have, look, people will argue this because there,
- 8:32Speaker 1: of course, there are lots of people in the world
- 8:34Speaker 1: who have it very difficult, but there are also a
- 8:37Speaker 1: lot of people who have it very easy. I would
- 8:39Speaker 1: put myself in that group. I think I have it
- 8:42Speaker 1: very easy, very comfortable, and I didn't deserve or earn
- 8:47Speaker 1: any of it. It's just where I grew up, how
- 8:49Speaker 1: I grew up, and who my parents were.
- 8:53Speaker 2: That's why I'm your co-host, because like I'm your karmic debt.
- 8:57Speaker 2: I'm the adversity that you needed in your life. But
- 9:02Speaker 2: I love this conversation because a lot of people are
- 9:06Speaker 2: struggling and we have to acknowledge that the world seems
- 9:11Speaker 2: like it's in a particularly complex and difficult place. And
- 9:15Speaker 2: rightfully so, I understand this, the advice that we're given,
- 9:19Speaker 2: and it's empirically valid as well, is to look in.
- 9:25Speaker 2: Like when things are really rough, like look in, self-care,
- 9:29Speaker 2: be mindful, breath work, emotional regulation. Good, good, good, good.
- 9:37Speaker 2: I think it could get stuck there, though. And when
- 9:40Speaker 2: you're talking about Dolly, like when you're like, OK, she
- 9:43Speaker 2: didn't have time. It's not about her. It's about anybody
- 9:46Speaker 2: who has all of this responsibility and urgent and emergent
- 9:51Speaker 2: pressing needs involving other people. And on top of that,
- 9:55Speaker 2: you think about a performer. There's this thing pulling at
- 9:58Speaker 2: you that becomes. all-encompassing like this one thing i kind
- 10:04Speaker 2: of feel like when you're down sometimes the only way
- 10:09Speaker 2: up is looking out not in yeah uh.
- 10:16Speaker 1: I i In that context, I agree. Where I would
- 10:22Speaker 1: disagree is if it was like, I've got all these
- 10:24Speaker 1: problems and it's not me. It's that thing over there.
- 10:29Speaker 1: It's that person. It's that teacher. It's this where we
- 10:32Speaker 1: try and rationalize all of our suffering having nothing to
- 10:39Speaker 1: do with us. It's just all the people. It's the circumstance.
- 10:43Speaker 1: It's the government. It's the weather. It's everything but me.
- 10:47Speaker 1: I am zero part of the problem. Like, I think
- 10:51Speaker 1: it's not... unreasonable to suggest that suffering comes from within
- 10:57Speaker 1: as well as from without. We can literally create our
- 11:01Speaker 1: own suffering with overthinking, with rumination, with storytelling, you know,
- 11:08Speaker 1: and with beliefs that we hold on to that are destructive,
- 11:12Speaker 1: not productive. And So I think, but both is true.
- 11:17Speaker 1: Like you live in a war zone. Well, fuck, that
- 11:20Speaker 1: is hard. That is suffering. That is pain. You didn't
- 11:23Speaker 1: cause it. That is real. You have a disease. That
- 11:26Speaker 1: is real. That is something that you didn't choose or
- 11:29Speaker 1: want or create. You have a partner who's a fucking
- 11:33Speaker 1: violent prick, right? That's not your fault. That's external. That's
- 11:40Speaker 1: I get it. There are these external factors that can
- 11:43Speaker 1: fuck up lives. Totally get it. And also, sometimes I
- 11:50Speaker 1: sit and tell myself a story that isn't true and
- 11:53Speaker 1: I inflict pain upon myself. It isn't one or the other.
- 11:58Speaker 1: These things can coexist, I think. Yeah.
- 12:02Speaker 2: I feel like it's about Being psychologically in the middle
- 12:08Speaker 2: of that bell curve of an internal and external frame
- 12:11Speaker 2: of reference, kind of like the Yerkes-Thompson curve. A little
- 12:14Speaker 2: bit of stress is good for you. A little bit
- 12:17Speaker 2: of more stress elicits high performance. Too much of that
- 12:22Speaker 2: for too long is deleterious to your mindset, your mental
- 12:26Speaker 2: and physical health in every way you could possibly imagine.
- 12:29Speaker 1: Yeah. Not everything is my fault, right?
- 12:32Speaker 2: I think I've been told that that's a trauma pattern
- 12:35Speaker 2: with a lot of people where everything that happens is
- 12:37Speaker 2: my fault. And I guess because especially with early childhood trauma,
- 12:43Speaker 2: that becomes a safer way of processing things than the
- 12:47Speaker 2: reality of the situation. But, you know, everything might not
- 12:52Speaker 2: be your fault or you're doing, but a lot of
- 12:55Speaker 2: things are. So there are things that you might not
- 12:58Speaker 2: be able to do anything about, acknowledge that. But what
- 13:00Speaker 2: are the things that you can do something about? And
- 13:02Speaker 2: what are the things that's pulling.
- 13:03Speaker 1: You towards that?
- 13:05Speaker 2: Even in the midst of struggle, what are the things
- 13:09Speaker 2: that elicit engagement, meaning, purpose, connection? I think obsession matters.
- 13:17Speaker 2: can be a very healthy thing if it's not something
- 13:21Speaker 2: you do out of avoidance, but you do it out
- 13:27Speaker 2: of meaning. Like, wow, this is so important. And this
- 13:31Speaker 2: takes up my time. It crowds out everything else. I
- 13:34Speaker 2: literally don't have as much time or tolerance.
- 13:38Speaker 1: I think obsession, I know what you're saying, and I
- 13:41Speaker 1: actually agree with you. I would reframe obsession into... focus.
- 13:48Speaker 1: Like I'm completely focused. Cause I just think obsession has
- 13:53Speaker 1: negative connotations, but you said something else that I fucking love.
- 13:56Speaker 2: Right.
- 13:58Speaker 1: And you know, when we talk about drugs, we talk about,
- 14:01Speaker 1: you know, it, Not so much the thing that we're doing,
- 14:04Speaker 1: the exercise or the food or the drug, the medicine,
- 14:08Speaker 1: but it's about the dose. It's about finding the right dose.
- 14:12Speaker 1: And you were talking about certain amount of comfort is good.
- 14:15Speaker 1: A bit more comfort maybe correlates to high performance, but
- 14:18Speaker 1: too much comfort is deleterious. It's bad. It's going to
- 14:22Speaker 1: create negative outcomes. It makes me think about finding the
- 14:26Speaker 1: right dose of discomfort or the right dose of pain.
- 14:31Speaker 1: What's the right dose for me? And then how do
- 14:34Speaker 1: I build my threshold or my tolerance, right? So that
- 14:39Speaker 1: eventually I can deal with a lot of pain without
- 14:42Speaker 1: too much of a negative consequence.
- 14:44Speaker 2: I mean, you know my take on this. We've talked
- 14:47Speaker 2: about this a lot. I think that there's a lot
- 14:51Speaker 2: of misunderstanding or regurgitation around certain themes. I feel like
- 14:57Speaker 2: reward is in the striving. I feel like struggle is
- 15:00Speaker 2: something that is built into fulfillment.
- 15:03Speaker 1: I think seeking.
- 15:05Speaker 2: Comfort and like, you know, a little bit like you've
- 15:07Speaker 2: worked an 80 hour week. It's like you got a
- 15:09Speaker 2: day off, like seek comfort. It's the best thing you
- 15:12Speaker 2: could do for you and the world around you. But
- 15:15Speaker 2: I feel like comfort is what people default to when
- 15:20Speaker 2: they don't know what the next step is, when they're confused,
- 15:24Speaker 2: when they're overwhelmed, when they're unclear. I think when you're
- 15:27Speaker 2: really clear about what it is you want, like there's
- 15:30Speaker 2: that meaning. I don't think people shy away from that. Well,
- 15:34Speaker 2: I'd rather deal with comfort because comfort, like at the
- 15:38Speaker 2: far end of it, is excruciating.
- 15:40Speaker 1: It's extreme boredom. Yeah.
- 15:43Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I tend to think that people
- 15:49Speaker 1: choose comfort. Like you say, if they know what to do,
- 15:52Speaker 1: they'll generally do it. I disagree. I think people choose
- 15:55Speaker 1: comfort because the thing that they should do is hard
- 15:58Speaker 1: and people avoid hard. People choose instant gratification, quick fixes,
- 16:03Speaker 1: magic pills. Like you want to get in shape, there
- 16:06Speaker 1: is a pretty fucking simple but difficult answer to most
- 16:11Speaker 1: people's problems. And it's just that it won't be fun
- 16:15Speaker 1: or painless.
- 16:17Speaker 2: Well, you don't have to look too far to get
- 16:18Speaker 2: evidence for that argument. I feel like while I agree
- 16:24Speaker 2: with that, I feel like a lot of people don't
- 16:26Speaker 2: know what it is they truly want and why. And
- 16:31Speaker 2: I feel like when your values kind of align with
- 16:39Speaker 2: what it is you're doing, All of these attributes that
- 16:42Speaker 2: we associate with being successful within your health and fitness,
- 16:47Speaker 2: within your family, your relationships, your work, a lot of
- 16:51Speaker 2: them do tend to show up. I've just seen that
- 16:55Speaker 2: with people. A great example of this is this lady
- 16:59Speaker 2: I used to work with. She was an executive in
- 17:03Speaker 2: the organization and she was exceptionally driven. Like when you
- 17:08Speaker 2: talk about someone who shows up, does the work, even
- 17:13Speaker 2: when it's.
- 17:13Speaker 1: Hard, it was her.
- 17:16Speaker 2: And she had that personality type as well. But you
- 17:18Speaker 2: get to know her and she was talking about how
- 17:22Speaker 2: she was just insufferable to people when she was younger.
- 17:28Speaker 2: She was one of those people that could not get
- 17:30Speaker 2: her shit straight, could not hold down a job. Like
- 17:33Speaker 2: it was always about the next party, the next fun thing,
- 17:36Speaker 2: the next comfortable thing. and then, you know, she got
- 17:39Speaker 2: pregnant and they.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Thought, oh, we should get married.
- 17:43Speaker 2: And the day of her wedding, she shows up like
- 17:47Speaker 2: conspicuously pregnant in her wedding gown, no groom, never showed
- 17:53Speaker 2: left at the altar.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Now think about that.
- 17:56Speaker 2: Right. And she's raw. And obviously she's feeling a lot
- 18:02Speaker 2: of horrible feelings, but, The rest of her pregnancy, she's
- 18:06Speaker 2: just going, that's it. My life is over. Like, God,
- 18:09Speaker 2: I don't want to be a mom. I love my life.
- 18:11Speaker 2: I love my lifestyle. And then she has her baby
- 18:15Speaker 2: and they put her baby on her chest and she
- 18:20Speaker 2: just looks at this kid and it's like, oh my God,
- 18:25Speaker 2: I never knew I could be this.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Deeply in love. I never even knew this existed.
- 18:30Speaker 2: And like, The next day, she didn't wake up and
- 18:33Speaker 2: put her life together, but that was it. She was like,
- 18:37Speaker 2: I am going to be the best mom for this kid.
- 18:40Speaker 2: You know, she was an executive. She flipped houses. I mean,
- 18:44Speaker 2: she was like doing everything that we would look at
- 18:47Speaker 2: and go, well done there. And it showed up when
- 18:52Speaker 2: something aligned.
- 18:54Speaker 1: With a deeply rooted value system. Yeah, I love that.
- 19:00Speaker 1: I think that That is a good story. Thank you.
- 19:02Speaker 1: Believe it. And that is genuinely an example of somebody,
- 19:10Speaker 1: you know, turning their life around and kind of displays
- 19:13Speaker 1: our potential. Also, at the same time, let's say you
- 19:19Speaker 1: do a gig and you're in that gig and you've
- 19:21Speaker 1: got 100 people in the room and you say to
- 19:25Speaker 1: the room, without overthinking this question at all, How many
- 19:29Speaker 1: of you would like to be healthier, fitter, trimmer than
- 19:35Speaker 1: you are right now? Probably you'll get 90 hands. So
- 19:39Speaker 1: the vast majority of the room, one of their goals
- 19:43Speaker 1: or something they would definitely like to achieve is a healthier, leaner, trimmer,
- 19:47Speaker 1: maybe not leaner, healthier, more functional body. Now, those same
- 19:51Speaker 1: people who want to be healthier consciously choose booze five
- 19:55Speaker 1: days a week, consciously choose food that doesn't align with
- 20:00Speaker 1: how they want to be. So the truth is that
- 20:05Speaker 1: we can say, yeah, I want to be this, but
- 20:08Speaker 1: I'm not going to do the work. I know I
- 20:10Speaker 1: shouldn't eat junk food. Nonetheless, I eat junk food. I
- 20:13Speaker 1: know I shouldn't drink booze multiple days a week. I
- 20:15Speaker 1: drink booze multiple days a week. I know I shouldn't over-medicate.
- 20:19Speaker 1: I over-medicate now. I'm not trying on any level to
- 20:23Speaker 1: be judgmental. I'm just being practical. The real world truth
- 20:28Speaker 1: is that many of the people who want to create
- 20:30Speaker 1: change know what to do, or at least in part
- 20:35Speaker 1: know what to do, but consistently don't do what they
- 20:39Speaker 1: know because it's hard or it's not instant. It's not quick, painless, easy,
- 20:44Speaker 1: all those things. So I just, you know, and you
- 20:49Speaker 1: look at If we looked at charts of information, education, research,
- 20:54Speaker 1: science around obesity, wellness, high performance, blah, blah, blah, since
- 20:58Speaker 1: 1970s till now, you would see a kind of a relatively,
- 21:03Speaker 1: maybe not so linear progression of research and science around
- 21:07Speaker 1: how humans work and how to optimize the human body, blah, blah, blah.
- 21:12Speaker 1: What else you'd see if you looked at another graph
- 21:14Speaker 1: is a very similar progression in obesity.
- 21:17Speaker 4: Right.
- 21:18Speaker 1: So one doesn't correlate. It's not like, oh, we know
- 21:21Speaker 1: more now. So we're doing better. I think quite possibly
- 21:25Speaker 1: the opposite is a bigger correlation. The more we know,
- 21:29Speaker 1: the dumber shit we seem to do. So, you know,
- 21:33Speaker 1: and the more resources.
- 21:35Speaker 2: There's a lot of variables that go into that. But,
- 21:38Speaker 2: you know, to pull out some wisdom that you had
- 21:42Speaker 2: brought into this conversation earlier. Not everything has to apply
- 21:46Speaker 2: to every single person. I mean, yes, there are a
- 21:48Speaker 2: lot of variables. It's very complex. But sticking with this
- 21:51Speaker 2: particular thing about, OK, I know that if I do
- 21:55Speaker 2: certain things, and mostly around diet, sleep, food, stress management,
- 22:01Speaker 2: maybe a bit of that, in the future, there's going
- 22:04Speaker 2: to be positive consequences. And if I don't do it, well,
- 22:07Speaker 2: it's likely that there are going to be some not
- 22:09Speaker 2: so positive consequences. So do I have that ability to
- 22:15Speaker 2: delay gratification and say, right, I'm going to align my
- 22:19Speaker 2: behaviors with my desired future outcomes?
- 22:22Speaker 1: See, I'm one of those.
- 22:23Speaker 2: People in that audience that would go, yeah, yeah, I'd
- 22:26Speaker 2: love to be healthier. And then like at the bar,
- 22:30Speaker 2: I feel great having a conversation and drinking a bourbon.
- 22:34Speaker 2: So I'm that person in the audience. And it's like, wow,
- 22:38Speaker 2: I came up in the health and fitness industry. And
- 22:41Speaker 2: I might be projecting, but for me, the intellectual understanding
- 22:48Speaker 2: of benefits in the future never really compelled me to
- 22:51Speaker 2: turn my life around. In the beginning, it was, I'm
- 22:54Speaker 2: in so much pain. I just want to be isolated,
- 22:58Speaker 2: left alone. And I'm going to torture myself physically to
- 23:02Speaker 2: kind of like, distract myself from what I'm going through emotionally, psychologically.
- 23:10Speaker 2: And then, wow, if I could just, if I could
- 23:13Speaker 2: just exercise, maybe people look at my body and not
- 23:17Speaker 2: my face, but then it became something different for me.
- 23:20Speaker 2: It wasn't, well, what benefits do you want in the future?
- 23:24Speaker 2: Would you like to be healthy? It was like, oh
- 23:26Speaker 2: my goodness, I want to participate in learning and development.
- 23:31Speaker 2: I want to help build people. Well, Who do I
- 23:35Speaker 2: have to be to do that? That's exhausting.
- 23:38Speaker 1: Yes. Doing what I want to do.
- 23:40Speaker 2: There's a lot of time on the road and not
- 23:43Speaker 2: aligned with great health outcomes. Sometimes there's not a lot
- 23:46Speaker 2: of sleep because you've got plane delays.
- 23:48Speaker 1: You've got to wake up early in the morning. It's like, oh, hey,
- 23:51Speaker 1: you're on at 7 a.m. No, thanks. I need eight
- 23:53Speaker 1: hours sleep.
- 23:54Speaker 2: Can I take the 11 o'clock slot? No, you're opening. Okay, great.
- 23:58Speaker 2: I guess I'll, you know, sleep four hours instead of eight.
- 24:02Speaker 2: So I totally get that. But for me, it was like, what,
- 24:05Speaker 2: not what do you, what health benefits do you want
- 24:08Speaker 2: to have?
- 24:08Speaker 1: Who do you want to be? And that's like, oh, okay.
- 24:11Speaker 2: Well, that's what's required because the second I engage in this,
- 24:16Speaker 2: I'm being who I want to be in that instant.
- 24:21Speaker 1: If that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Lock it. I think
- 24:25Speaker 1: you mentioned something I can't specifically remember, but it prompted
- 24:29Speaker 1: me to think about like we're always moving towards something
- 24:33Speaker 1: we want or away from something we don't want. And
- 24:37Speaker 1: I feel like with a lot of things, until we
- 24:42Speaker 1: associate more pain with staying in this thing than doing
- 24:46Speaker 1: the thing we should do to get out of this
- 24:48Speaker 1: thing or potentially help us, we'll keep doing the thing.
- 24:52Speaker 1: Because we're like, where I am right now is not optimal,
- 24:56Speaker 1: but it's familiar and it's okay. And I'm all right.
- 25:01Speaker 1: And there's a level of comfort and predictability that comes
- 25:04Speaker 1: with it versus I've got to stop these habits and
- 25:09Speaker 1: behaviors that give me pleasure in the short term. And
- 25:13Speaker 1: I've got to go and step into this process, which
- 25:15Speaker 1: won't give me pleasure in the short term. but it
- 25:18Speaker 1: will make me a better version of me over the
- 25:20Speaker 1: long term. I think it's almost that pain point of, yeah,
- 25:25Speaker 1: I'm just in too much pain now. Fuck it. I'm
- 25:27Speaker 1: going to go do it.
- 25:30Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 25:34Speaker 1: And those are all valid points.
- 25:37Speaker 2: And my question for someone in that situation is, yeah,
- 25:40Speaker 2: I understand. These are hard things to do, right? You
- 25:44Speaker 2: want this, but you're so conditioned to behave this way.
- 25:49Speaker 2: If you were already, let's say like in the multiverse,
- 25:53Speaker 2: there's a version of you right now that is the ideal,
- 25:58Speaker 2: the epitome of what you would ideally want to become
- 26:01Speaker 2: if it required nothing at all. What advice would that
- 26:03Speaker 2: person give you? Future successful you having a conversation, just
- 26:08Speaker 2: grabbing a coffee with current version of you. What's that
- 26:13Speaker 2: conversation like? Like what's the sage advice there? Like, and
- 26:17Speaker 2: if you could just, I feel like when we have
- 26:22Speaker 2: starting points that allow efficacy to seep into our lives,
- 26:28Speaker 2: it opens the door. It's almost like... It's probably not
- 26:31Speaker 2: a bad analogy. My cat flips out when my door
- 26:34Speaker 2: is shut. So I leave it open just a jar.
- 26:37Speaker 2: Because if it's open just an inch, he could push
- 26:41Speaker 2: that door open a lot wider. But he can't if
- 26:44Speaker 2: that door is completely shut to him, which leads to
- 26:46Speaker 2: him screaming his head off.
- 26:48Speaker 4: Right? So.
- 26:49Speaker 2: Like one meal a day. Be the best version of
- 26:56Speaker 2: that person. The other ones, stay the person you are.
- 26:59Speaker 2: Just experiment with being that person. Not 24 hours today.
- 27:03Speaker 2: Just one hour today.
- 27:05Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 27:05Speaker 2: Just experiment with being that person two nights a week
- 27:09Speaker 2: when it comes to sleep hygiene. Because I think once
- 27:11Speaker 2: we start to do that, because a loss aversion is like, wow,
- 27:15Speaker 2: I do feel better. Wow, I can do this. I
- 27:18Speaker 2: think two meals a day becomes far more possible.
- 27:24Speaker 1: So Malcolm Gladwell wrote The Tipping Point, which is not
- 27:27Speaker 1: about what we're talking about right now, but an interesting book, everyone,
- 27:30Speaker 1: if you haven't read it, one of my top 10.
- 27:33Speaker 1: What is the– is it an emotional– feel free to
- 27:38Speaker 1: jump in. Is it an emotional and or psychological tipping
- 27:43Speaker 1: point that we get to or something else perhaps where–
- 27:48Speaker 1: We just go, fuck it, I'm doing it. Like it
- 27:51Speaker 1: seems like something has to happen that moves the needle.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Like for me, I would think nearly every time I've
- 27:59Speaker 1: done something significant, there's been an event, big or small,
- 28:06Speaker 1: that has prompted that change before the change.
- 28:10Speaker 2: Yep.
- 28:10Speaker 1: Like I could have done it at any time, but
- 28:13Speaker 1: I just didn't. A real-world practical used too much on
- 28:17Speaker 1: this show, so I apologize. The example is year eight
- 28:20Speaker 1: swimming sports. I was morbidly obese. I'd been morbidly obese
- 28:24Speaker 1: for years, so it's not like this was new. And
- 28:26Speaker 1: I had this time where I was just wildly, wildly
- 28:30Speaker 1: embarrassed and humiliated. The next day, the same guy with
- 28:35Speaker 1: the same genetics and the same potential and the same
- 28:38Speaker 1: knowledge totally changed fucking everything internally. That experience led to
- 28:45Speaker 1: an inner revolution that led to a physical revolution. Had
- 28:50Speaker 1: I not stood on the blocks and had that moment
- 28:52Speaker 1: in time, I don't think it would have happened. Definitely
- 28:55Speaker 1: not then anyway.
- 28:58Speaker 2: Yeah, that is so because I feel like when you
- 29:00Speaker 2: look at a lot of people who have turned their
- 29:02Speaker 2: life around and we see that in the health and
- 29:04Speaker 2: fitness industry where somebody was one way and then they
- 29:09Speaker 2: completely transformed like everything about them. They were that person
- 29:14Speaker 2: where it's like, oh my goodness, this guy's going to
- 29:16Speaker 2: go on about health and fitness and diet and exercise.
- 29:19Speaker 2: And you would see them as salespeople. They would come
- 29:22Speaker 2: into the fitness industry and they would either make the
- 29:25Speaker 2: worst salespeople ever because it's about them and their story
- 29:29Speaker 2: and what you should do. And I know your problem
- 29:31Speaker 2: and I know how to fix you. Or they would
- 29:34Speaker 2: become this empathetic champion for other people. to where you
- 29:41Speaker 2: sit down and talk to them for 10 minutes. You
- 29:42Speaker 2: feel like you can do anything. But in a lot
- 29:45Speaker 2: of cases, when you spoke to these people, there was
- 29:47Speaker 2: this activating event. Like, this is it. Like, I can't
- 29:52Speaker 2: deal with this level of pain anymore.
- 29:54Speaker 1: It was like their.
- 29:55Speaker 2: Ebenezer Scrooge moment where it's like, this is not help.
- 30:00Speaker 1: Me in my past.
- 30:01Speaker 2: I am miserable today. And if I keep going, my
- 30:04Speaker 2: future is more of the same.
- 30:06Speaker 1: Like, screw this. I'm going to change and I'm going
- 30:08Speaker 1: to do it right now.
- 30:10Speaker 2: And that can kind of go the other way. based
- 30:13Speaker 2: on how you interpret those activating moments.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Tiff, was there a point in time for you, because
- 30:21Speaker 1: it's not that you were a party animal, but you
- 30:23Speaker 1: were just a regular late teen young woman who was
- 30:29Speaker 1: doing life and hanging out and socializing and having the
- 30:31Speaker 1: odd drink, but you weren't really an athlete or anything.
- 30:35Speaker 1: And then over time, you became a relatively high level
- 30:38Speaker 1: athlete with quite amazing skills and physical performance and capacity,
- 30:46Speaker 1: or was that a gradual evolution?
- 30:49Speaker 4: So I was just thinking about this when you guys
- 30:51Speaker 4: were talking, because I think one thing that we don't
- 30:54Speaker 4: do is put any awareness or curiosity around what influences
- 31:03Speaker 4: what I am and who I am now and how
- 31:07Speaker 4: I do life. And I think I look at how
- 31:10Speaker 4: people would have looked at me over the years when
- 31:13Speaker 4: I was fighting and when I was training, and they
- 31:18Speaker 4: would say, you're so disciplined, you're so dedicated and motivated
- 31:23Speaker 4: and all of the things. Good on you. Good on
- 31:25Speaker 4: you for changing. Because, yeah, I smoked cigarettes when I
- 31:28Speaker 4: was young. I would go out drinking. I wasn't fitness
- 31:34Speaker 4: or health-minded, but I was fortunate because– I found myself
- 31:41Speaker 4: putting my hand up for a ridiculous boxing challenge and
- 31:44Speaker 4: that challenge just happened to be something that it wasn't
- 31:47Speaker 4: that I walked into a gym and said, oh, I
- 31:49Speaker 4: want to be the best version of me. I said,
- 31:51Speaker 4: I want to fight. And a part of doing a
- 31:53Speaker 4: fight camp, when I looked at the people around me,
- 31:55Speaker 4: they were all going off booze and doing the thing.
- 31:59Speaker 4: So you go, oh, I have to get really uncomfortable
- 32:02Speaker 4: for these 12 weeks and I'm not going to have
- 32:05Speaker 4: a glass of wine with dinner because that's not what
- 32:08Speaker 4: fighters do. And then I fell in love with a
- 32:11Speaker 4: sport and many of my choices and behaviors became supportive
- 32:15Speaker 4: of prioritizing that. It wasn't a health and fitness mindset thing.
- 32:20Speaker 4: So sometimes we look at people and we think that
- 32:25Speaker 4: they're lucky or they're dedicated or they're whatever, and we
- 32:29Speaker 4: don't realize what influenced. I could have very easily stayed
- 32:32Speaker 4: the cigarette smoking, drinking at bars, and I'd be a
- 32:36Speaker 4: very different person today.
- 32:39Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and choosing bad men.
- 32:43Speaker 4: I could have kept doing that, definitely.
- 32:49Speaker 1: Well, you've got a ripper now. So, yeah, I guess
- 32:51Speaker 1: sometimes it's a little bit depends on who you're around
- 32:56Speaker 1: and what you're around and, you know, it's like people
- 32:59Speaker 1: that I love and respect and look up to. I
- 33:03Speaker 1: remember when I was in my early 20s idolising a
- 33:06Speaker 1: few people and just wanting to be more like them.
- 33:10Speaker 1: But what I really wanted was I wanted the attributes
- 33:13Speaker 1: that they had. I wanted the calm, the confidence, the intelligence,
- 33:18Speaker 1: the impact. Like, that's the stuff. But they just embodied
- 33:24Speaker 1: kind of a version of who I wanted to be.
- 33:27Speaker 1: You know, I think that's why, I.
- 33:29Speaker 3: Don't know, Bobby, that's maybe why you and I were
- 33:32Speaker 3: very much addicted to or enamored with, you know, all the,
- 33:38Speaker 3: the early pioneers of self-help because I used to believe it.
- 33:41Speaker 1: Like I used to watch Tony Robbins and go, I
- 33:43Speaker 1: don't know, people laugh now, but it's like, how clever
- 33:46Speaker 1: is this dude? Or, you know, whoever it was, Deepak or,
- 33:50Speaker 1: you know, Stephen Covey or any of these dudes doing that.
- 33:54Speaker 1: Go on, Tiff. I feel like you've got, yeah.
- 33:55Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's funny that you mentioned Tony Robbins because
- 33:58Speaker 4: when you guys first started talking about people changing or
- 34:01Speaker 4: not changing, I looked up the six core human needs
- 34:05Speaker 4: and And two of the top ones are certainty, the
- 34:09Speaker 4: need for safety, stability, and knowing what to expect, and variety,
- 34:14Speaker 4: the need for change, novelty, and excitement. So two completely
- 34:17Speaker 4: polarizing things. And we are getting put there two of
- 34:20Speaker 4: the four main human needs, and we're getting pulled by
- 34:25Speaker 4: those unconsciously in that decision-making, I want to change process.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Yeah. It's something of a dichotomy because they are quite–
- 34:34Speaker 1: You know, certainty comes with a level of predictability, not unpredictability,
- 34:40Speaker 1: but variety comes with unpredictability. So it almost seems confounding. Robert?
- 34:48Speaker 2: I think when you understand these things, you can step
- 34:50Speaker 2: back a little bit more clear and go, how did
- 34:52Speaker 2: these things impact me? Especially in reflection. Because I think
- 34:57Speaker 2: we tell ourselves a lot of stories when we're in
- 34:59Speaker 2: the midst of a certain pattern, but stepping back and
- 35:02Speaker 2: looking at it and going, oh, wow, I wonder what
- 35:04Speaker 2: drove that. I wonder what the need was behind that.
- 35:07Speaker 2: You said people laugh like with Tony Robbins. I found
- 35:09Speaker 2: Tony Robbins to be extraordinarily helpful when I was younger.
- 35:12Speaker 2: And here's the thing. Everybody I know that follows Tony
- 35:19Speaker 2: Robbins are exceedingly successful people. I mean, people that are millionaires,
- 35:25Speaker 2: deca millionaires, and people who have passed that point a long,
- 35:28Speaker 2: long time ago. Like they'll spend 30 grand to go
- 35:31Speaker 2: to a weekend seminar with Tony Robbins, which they're not
- 35:34Speaker 2: going to do if there's not value. So I think
- 35:38Speaker 2: Tony Robbins has a lot to offer. And I just
- 35:41Speaker 2: want to circle back to a theme here that I
- 35:44Speaker 2: know Tony Robbins has talked about. I know James Clear
- 35:47Speaker 2: has talked about it.
- 35:48Speaker 1: Identity.
- 35:50Speaker 2: Like who you think you are or who you think
- 35:54Speaker 2: you are not is so powerful. in terms of sustainable
- 35:57Speaker 2: behavior change. Tiff said it and she reminded me of
- 36:01Speaker 2: someone I know and love when she said, well, I'm
- 36:04Speaker 2: a fighter. The second you are like, I'm a fighter
- 36:08Speaker 2: and fighters don't do this. It's not like, well, do
- 36:11Speaker 2: I want a wine with dinner tonight? You know, I
- 36:14Speaker 2: really like it all, but you know, it's not really
- 36:16Speaker 2: gonna help me get ready for the fight. No, I'm
- 36:18Speaker 2: a fighter and fighters don't drink when they're preparing for
- 36:21Speaker 2: a fight. Like one of the most effective discipline, like
- 36:25Speaker 2: this person, again, force of nature. She was one of
- 36:30Speaker 2: the most effective fitness managers I've ever worked with and
- 36:34Speaker 2: just driven and super successful. She could walk into any
- 36:39Speaker 2: health club that's top performing and get them to perform
- 36:44Speaker 2: at such a higher level financially, right? due to her
- 36:48Speaker 2: cultural development, team development. That's hard to do. You walk
- 36:51Speaker 2: into a mediocre club and you turn it into a
- 36:53Speaker 2: high performing club. Well done. You walk into a high
- 36:56Speaker 2: performing club and you double anything they've ever done. She
- 37:00Speaker 2: did that consistently. Like that was her track record, but
- 37:04Speaker 2: she smoked. And that was the dirty secret. And she
- 37:07Speaker 2: was so she was one of these people that would
- 37:10Speaker 2: like smoke a cigarette and like the perfume, like spraying around.
- 37:15Speaker 2: You could smell that like everybody knew what she was doing.
- 37:18Speaker 1: And she would.
- 37:20Speaker 2: Try to use willpower and discipline because that was what
- 37:23Speaker 2: worked for her in every other aspect of her life.
- 37:28Speaker 2: But it wasn't working. And then she moved. So she
- 37:31Speaker 2: moved across to a different part of the country. And
- 37:35Speaker 2: she had no friends, no social life.
- 37:38Speaker 1: She was lonely.
- 37:39Speaker 2: First person she met belonged to a running club. I
- 37:44Speaker 2: was like, hey, you want to come to the running
- 37:45Speaker 2: club this weekend? She's like, shit, I've got nothing else
- 37:49Speaker 2: going on socially. Yeah, I'll go running. Well, what do
- 37:52Speaker 2: you think happened? Like coach pulled over and said, you know,
- 37:56Speaker 2: if you could do anything else, like literally anything, I
- 38:00Speaker 2: would consider it because running is not for you. I mean,
- 38:03Speaker 2: just smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. You know,
- 38:06Speaker 2: smokers don't typically make great runners. But like she just
- 38:10Speaker 2: grew up in an environment where I think that was
- 38:12Speaker 2: like her dad. Well, you can't do that. You're not
- 38:15Speaker 2: good at. So she developed this rebellious.
- 38:17Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
- 38:18Speaker 2: So eventually, she started getting better and better and better.
- 38:21Speaker 2: She became pretty much in the middle of that team.
- 38:25Speaker 2: But something shifted. She started to consider herself a runner.
- 38:29Speaker 2: She was a track athlete. Problem is, track athletes don't smoke.
- 38:34Speaker 2: So after years and dozens of failed attempts at quitting,
- 38:40Speaker 2: that's it. Boom. Cigarettes went away. Never lit up again.
- 38:45Speaker 2: Because runners don't. So identity is that thing that we
- 38:51Speaker 2: do not talk about enough.
- 38:54Speaker 1: I love that. That's a good story, dude. You should
- 38:57Speaker 1: have wheeled that out years ago.
- 38:58Speaker 2: Well, I just, when I heard Tiffany say like, no,
- 39:02Speaker 2: I like it. I'm a fighter. I was like, yes,
- 39:05Speaker 2: of course.
- 39:06Speaker 1: I've never looked at it like that. It is, that
- 39:09Speaker 1: is such a, it's such an interesting thing. And when
- 39:13Speaker 1: you tie in, When you kind of own that identity
- 39:17Speaker 1: or you feel like that is a big part, not
- 39:19Speaker 1: the total, but a big part of who you are
- 39:21Speaker 1: and you go, yeah, well, runners don't smoke. So I'm
- 39:25Speaker 1: either a smoker or a runner. I can't be both.
- 39:29Speaker 1: You know, that's. oh, well, it's been a good chat.
- 39:33Speaker 1: You too. I quite liked it. And despite the, uh,
- 39:37Speaker 1: the volatile start, you.
- 39:40Speaker 2: Know, now we accept your apology about that. Everyone has
- 39:45Speaker 2: those days.
- 39:45Speaker 1: It's all right, man. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying
- 39:48Speaker 1: I was the problem. I am so sorry. Bobby, where
- 39:51Speaker 1: can people find you?
- 39:55Speaker 2: Well, I've restarted my podcast episodes, so you can find
- 39:58Speaker 2: me anywhere that podcasts can be found. You find a podcast,
- 40:02Speaker 2: I'm there as well. I'm right there in the queue.
- 40:07Speaker 1: You might want to tell them what it's called just
- 40:08Speaker 1: to help out.
- 40:11Speaker 2: Oh, my podcast. I was like, okay, yeah, I thought
- 40:14Speaker 2: you meant podcast.
- 40:15Speaker 1: I was like, well... It's like a radio show, but
- 40:17Speaker 1: it's virtual.
- 40:18Speaker 2: Anyway, yeah, the self-help band to do.
- 40:22Speaker 1: Fucking hell. Have you ever heard anyone make something so simple,
- 40:25Speaker 1: so complicated? It's like literally what's the name of your show?
- 40:29Speaker 1: And he looks dumbfounded. Tiff, what's the name of your show?
- 40:35Speaker 4: Roll with the punches, Harps. Thank you for asking.
- 40:37Speaker 1: See, there you go. So easy, Bobby. So easy. I've
- 40:42Speaker 1: got such great role models. So good to catch up,
- 40:46Speaker 1: you two, everybody. I hope you have a good evening
- 40:49Speaker 1: or day, whatever's ahead of you. Thanks for tuning in.