Latest / The You Project / #2212 What Are My Results Saying? - Bobby Cappuccio
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Can I team, It's Craig Anthony, It's Roberts, It's Tiffany.
- 0:06Speaker 1: What's your middle Roberts, Roberts? What is it?
- 0:09Speaker 2: Fuck? What?
- 0:11Speaker 1: Robert Joseph? Of course Tiffany, And sorry I know that
- 0:14Speaker 1: so well. Hi tiff Hi Harps, how are you? I'm
- 0:18Speaker 1: pretty good things. You just took your top off, not
- 0:22Speaker 1: her whole tops, but just the no, she's not sitting
- 0:25Speaker 1: there with a no, that's not happening, but she's wearing
- 0:28Speaker 1: a singlet. Is it a bit of hot over there
- 0:30Speaker 1: at cook Central?
- 0:31Speaker 2: Is it? Yeah, just because I've got the heat of
- 0:33Speaker 2: crankin And I was like, yeah, I don't want to
- 0:35Speaker 2: turn it off though, because my feet are very cold,
- 0:38Speaker 2: feet warm. But I also had a hot winter jacket on,
- 0:42Speaker 2: and I was like, this is not working for me
- 0:43Speaker 2: very well.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Singlet on heater on the ego. That's a tiff thing.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Think about that, Bobby. Is it starting to get a
- 0:56Speaker 1: little cooler over there? You're coming out of summer and
- 0:58Speaker 1: into fall or whatever you want to call it. I
- 1:02Speaker 1: was saying the same thing with doctor Bill yesterday. What's
- 1:05Speaker 1: it like where you are?
- 1:06Speaker 3: Well, you know, we're we're situated here in the wine
- 1:11Speaker 3: country of southern California, just a nice, comfortable eleven kilometers
- 1:16Speaker 3: from the sun. So right now, it's.
- 1:20Speaker 1: It's a little bit off.
- 1:22Speaker 3: During the day it cools down like in September. In
- 1:28Speaker 3: the evenings it will drop quite a bit. The evenings
- 1:30Speaker 3: are manageable, but it can get up to about forty here.
- 1:34Speaker 1: See what are we from the sun? Is it one
- 1:37Speaker 1: hundred and ninety three million miles or is that the moon?
- 1:39Speaker 2: No?
- 1:40Speaker 1: I think it's it's.
- 1:41Speaker 3: Ninety three million in miles. It's ninety three million approximately.
- 1:46Speaker 3: You can't take you a couple of moneys roight in there.
- 1:50Speaker 1: So how are you both? Tiff? What is news? What
- 1:52Speaker 1: is going on? Bobby? What is news? I said, everyone,
- 1:55Speaker 1: we have no plan and uh so we're just going
- 1:59Speaker 1: to see where we go. What's going on with you? Cook?
- 2:01Speaker 1: Good things, bad things.
- 2:03Speaker 2: A little bit of everything really like three parts insomniac,
- 2:07Speaker 2: three parts slam champion, sleeper, slampy, and cheaper. I was
- 2:10Speaker 2: going to say, whatever that is.
- 2:13Speaker 1: Yeah, as your dyslexia traveling, as your list dexia traveling.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, pretty much of that pretty much.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:22Speaker 2: So yeah, sometimes it depends what day you get me.
- 2:24Speaker 2: Sometimes good, sometimes just walking asleep?
- 2:28Speaker 1: What's your average? Like, I'm sure it peaks and troughs,
- 2:33Speaker 1: but what do you reckon you get on average per
- 2:35Speaker 1: night of quality sleep?
- 2:37Speaker 2: I think these days and fairly consistently for a while
- 2:41Speaker 2: now I do get seven hours, but lately, and it's
- 2:46Speaker 2: funny because sometimes I go, oh, sleep's been terrible, and
- 2:48Speaker 2: I'll look at the data that I sometimes look at
- 2:52Speaker 2: too much, and then I noticed that across the board
- 2:55Speaker 2: really over the recent years, it's it does even out
- 2:59Speaker 2: quite stable. But I'll have these, you know, like three
- 3:02Speaker 2: hours and twenty two minutes or something. The night before
- 3:05Speaker 2: last where it was just wide awake until two and
- 3:09Speaker 2: then bright and bushy tailed by five thirty in the morning.
- 3:13Speaker 2: I'm like, we should probably shoudn't wake up just yet.
- 3:15Speaker 2: We only just got to sleep. But then I'll have
- 3:18Speaker 2: a big night, a big night sleep the next night
- 3:21Speaker 2: and it even starts to even out. But it's very
- 3:24Speaker 2: it's hard. It's hard on you know, training and lifing
- 3:29Speaker 2: and recovery and trying to figure out how you how
- 3:33Speaker 2: and when you compensate for a ship night's sleep. I
- 3:36Speaker 2: think it makes recovery difficult. From that standpoint.
- 3:39Speaker 1: It's like sleep is interesting, like food is interesting, like
- 3:44Speaker 1: recovery is interesting, like training working, like because there's no
- 3:47Speaker 1: everyone wants a number, what's the number? How much sleep
- 3:50Speaker 1: do I need? Well, one, there's no number. There's even
- 3:55Speaker 1: for you. There's no number because your number will vary
- 3:58Speaker 1: depending on what you've done the day before, how much
- 4:01Speaker 1: sleep you had the night before and the night before that.
- 4:04Speaker 1: So your number tonight could be eight and a half
- 4:07Speaker 1: or it could be seven, you know, and Bobby's number
- 4:10Speaker 1: could be five or it could be ten or so this,
- 4:13Speaker 1: I mean, this is this whole thing of interroception, is
- 4:16Speaker 1: trying to understand our body and work with our body
- 4:18Speaker 1: and read the signs and signals and build a relationship
- 4:21Speaker 1: with our body so that you know, we actually understand
- 4:26Speaker 1: what it needs, because it's telling us rather than googling
- 4:30Speaker 1: fucking how much sleep do I need, which it cannot
- 4:33Speaker 1: tell you. All it can do is give you a
- 4:37Speaker 1: range of maybe what is normal. Maybe, But that yeah,
- 4:42Speaker 1: I think like all the AI staff, all the you know,
- 4:45Speaker 1: all the at our fingertip stuff that we've got is good.
- 4:50Speaker 1: But I think in the middle of all of that,
- 4:51Speaker 1: we've disconnected from our own biological intelligence. You know, where
- 4:56Speaker 1: your body's going, hey, mate, just fucking drink some water.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Looks like fucking fanta for God's sake, get hydrated. You
- 5:04Speaker 1: haven't had a Pooh since back in June. Eat an
- 5:07Speaker 1: apple you come. You know, it's like this, this is
- 5:12Speaker 1: the basic science. So what about you, mate? How are
- 5:16Speaker 1: you working?
- 5:17Speaker 3: I don't sleep. I don't sleep at all. I sleep
- 5:20Speaker 3: like three hours and eight four if I'm lucky. Earlier,
- 5:23Speaker 3: you're like, what's your middle name? I was like, shit,
- 5:25Speaker 3: I know this. I know this with a J. I've
- 5:30Speaker 3: said it. It's on my LinkedIn profile. Wait, maybe I
- 5:33Speaker 3: should look this up real quick. Well, Tiff and Craig notice, Yeah,
- 5:37Speaker 3: so my brain and body I'm completely fucked.
- 5:41Speaker 1: And what is the underlying thing or things that you
- 5:45Speaker 1: think drive that lack of sleep?
- 5:49Speaker 3: Probably cats? Mostly cats at the end of the day.
- 5:52Speaker 3: It's like three o'clock in the mornings, like ah, like
- 5:56Speaker 3: a question. It's like, shut up, whether they want to
- 5:58Speaker 3: go outside or they want to like be on the bed.
- 6:02Speaker 3: But in between one.
- 6:05Speaker 1: I know how to fix your sleep. That's really fucking interesting.
- 6:09Speaker 1: It involves the cats are roll, So.
- 6:16Speaker 3: You're just stained for cats is disturbing.
- 6:19Speaker 1: I don't disdain them. But this don't.
- 6:22Speaker 4: There's such thoroway creatures for you, although they do make
- 6:27Speaker 4: good moccasins. But I mean other than that, No, that don't.
- 6:31Speaker 4: Look I'm kidding. I do like cats, but I do
- 6:34Speaker 4: love dogs. I think cats are a little bit.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Some of them can be great, but the ones that
- 6:41Speaker 1: are like dogs.
- 6:43Speaker 2: It's what I said when I got a cat. I
- 6:45Speaker 2: wanted a cat, it was a dog, and I got bear.
- 6:51Speaker 1: No, for everyone who thinks I'm a cat hater, I'm
- 6:53Speaker 1: not really. But other than cats, I know you're kind
- 6:57Speaker 1: of taking the piece a bit, but other than cats,
- 6:59Speaker 1: be serious for a minute, Like for you, surely there's
- 7:03Speaker 1: a lot of h underlying kind of anxiety and overthinking
- 7:08Speaker 1: and rumination.
- 7:09Speaker 3: And yeah, there's a bit of that, but that only
- 7:12Speaker 3: kicks in once they've been woken by one of the cats.
- 7:15Speaker 3: I'm fine. Then I get woken up, and then I
- 7:17Speaker 3: lie awake ruminating. And then I go ahead and I
- 7:21Speaker 3: tell people things like how to journal all of their concerns,
- 7:25Speaker 3: to do lists so you can cognitively take that out
- 7:28Speaker 3: of your head and displace it into another location, so
- 7:32Speaker 3: you could fall asleep. Do I do that?
- 7:34Speaker 1: No?
- 7:35Speaker 3: I just scream at cats all night long for about
- 7:38Speaker 3: a feel like hours, and then I stumble into the
- 7:40Speaker 3: world like half brain ded.
- 7:44Speaker 1: I feel like we all feel like fakes or frauds
- 7:47Speaker 1: or impostors at some stage. I definitely do at times.
- 7:51Speaker 1: But is there something that for you comes up where
- 7:56Speaker 1: when you're teaching people, or you're sharing or you're coaching,
- 8:00Speaker 1: where you feel fraudulent because you're not doing it, or
- 8:05Speaker 1: you feel a bit unworthy of saying it because you
- 8:11Speaker 1: think I don't even fucking walk my talk when it
- 8:14Speaker 1: comes to this particular thing tip, there's something that you go,
- 8:18Speaker 1: I'm full of shit because I'm telling them to do
- 8:20Speaker 1: this thing that I don't do, or I don't do enough,
- 8:22Speaker 1: or I don't do well.
- 8:24Speaker 2: I would say for me less so that version of
- 8:27Speaker 2: I feel like a fraud but more and this is
- 8:29Speaker 2: a really relevant one for me at the moment, is
- 8:31Speaker 2: when I learn something new that changes my operating system
- 8:37Speaker 2: and mind and relationship with something so much it makes
- 8:41Speaker 2: me reflect on everything that I think I know and
- 8:47Speaker 2: how I might teach it or recommend it or influence
- 8:50Speaker 2: people with that belief or understanding. So the latest one
- 8:54Speaker 2: for me is my nutrition because I'm building my app
- 8:59Speaker 2: and I started you using a nutrition tracker. I've never
- 9:01Speaker 2: tracked nutrition. I don't really love the idea of that
- 9:04Speaker 2: level of being fastidious over everything. But when I did it,
- 9:09Speaker 2: I've uncovered that I've just grossly underfueling carbs and always
- 9:14Speaker 2: I think I always have, and I find my natural
- 9:16Speaker 2: style of eating doesn't and that's a performance macro nutrient.
- 9:21Speaker 2: And so I reflect back at times on conversations I've
- 9:26Speaker 2: had or how I viewed nutrition, and I notice how
- 9:29Speaker 2: when I look at a menu when I went for
- 9:30Speaker 2: breakfast the other day, and I looked at a menu
- 9:33Speaker 2: and observed myself and how I scanned it and read
- 9:38Speaker 2: differently about what was nutritious for me and what I
- 9:41Speaker 2: wanted to have in that breakfast. Crazy.
- 9:45Speaker 1: That's when you talk about when you talk about observing yourself. Sorry, Bobby,
- 9:50Speaker 1: it's like that's a kind of awareness that is hard
- 9:53Speaker 1: to achieve, Like you know when we were spoken about this,
- 9:58Speaker 1: but like when you analyze yourself, it's you analyzing you.
- 10:02Speaker 1: You cannot possibly be objective, but it's I guess even
- 10:07Speaker 1: taking that knowledge into the Oh, I'm not objective, but
- 10:12Speaker 1: rather than judging these things, I'll just identify these things
- 10:16Speaker 1: without placing any good or bad value on it, you know,
- 10:20Speaker 1: just going oh, forget good bad, forget self love, self hate,
- 10:24Speaker 1: forget you know. But here's things that I am currently doing. Now,
- 10:30Speaker 1: When I just put that on a list and I
- 10:32Speaker 1: look at it, I can reasonably objectively ascertain what is good,
- 10:36Speaker 1: what is bad, what is helpful, what is hurtful? But
- 10:40Speaker 1: how do you, Bobby, how do you have that? Oh sorry,
- 10:43Speaker 1: tif you're going to talk. How do you have that
- 10:45Speaker 1: in the moment awareness? How do you? How do you
- 10:48Speaker 1: operationalize that knowledge?
- 10:52Speaker 2: What it makes me think straight away is what now?
- 10:55Speaker 2: What are my blind spots? Because I'm now I'm drawn
- 10:58Speaker 2: to processing of different angle of you know, what I'm
- 11:03Speaker 2: perceiving through this information. Well, now one are the blind
- 11:07Speaker 2: spots because they come up and I'm trying to be
- 11:09Speaker 2: aware of them. Before I just developed this new relationship
- 11:12Speaker 2: with that's important to me. Do you know what I mean?
- 11:15Speaker 2: Does that makes sense?
- 11:16Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 11:17Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a lot better reflection as well, where I
- 11:20Speaker 3: think in the moment. Sometimes when you're stressed, when you're overwhelmed,
- 11:24Speaker 3: when you've slept three hours because of bloody cats. You know,
- 11:29Speaker 3: it's so the emotional regulation and making certain choices becomes
- 11:36Speaker 3: a bit more complicated, but I'm really good at reflection.
- 11:40Speaker 3: Like at the end of the day or the next they
- 11:42Speaker 3: going okay, well what exactly happened? And the key is
- 11:45Speaker 3: don't tell yourself stories. Become a behavioral architect, don't become
- 11:50Speaker 3: a critic. So it's not like, oh, it was such
- 11:53Speaker 3: a lazy sloth or you know, oh god, I'm so fat,
- 11:56Speaker 3: I always grab that ice cream. Well sometimes I say
- 11:58Speaker 3: that to myself, but most of the time, it's like what
- 12:01Speaker 3: happened behaviorally where if somebody came in and they had
- 12:05Speaker 3: a camera and they took a photograph with their phone,
- 12:08Speaker 3: if they cannot capture what happened, it's just a story. Yeah,
- 12:15Speaker 3: So like what happened like like right before you went
- 12:19Speaker 3: to the fridge and you grabbed the hogandols instead of
- 12:22Speaker 3: the salad, Like, what went wrong there? What were you
- 12:25Speaker 3: feeling there?
- 12:26Speaker 1: Right? So what was the what was the scenario?
- 12:29Speaker 3: What was the environment? Like if I could do that again,
- 12:32Speaker 3: would I have made that choice? If you have great, well,
- 12:35Speaker 3: hogandas is awesome. If I wouldn't have made that choice, well,
- 12:39Speaker 3: what would I have done differently? And what within my
- 12:41Speaker 3: environment would help that So for me, I'm pretty good
- 12:46Speaker 3: around reflection, and I understand that sometimes in the moment,
- 12:49Speaker 3: I'm not exactly as resourceful as i'd like to be
- 12:53Speaker 3: one hundred percent of the time. And get back to
- 12:55Speaker 3: your earlier question. I think that when I'm teaching people,
- 13:00Speaker 3: I'm taking one or two frames. One is I'm not
- 13:03Speaker 3: telling you anything to do. I'm just saying here's what
- 13:06Speaker 3: the research says. I'm making an assumption that you're all
- 13:09Speaker 3: here trying to solve for this problem because the title
- 13:12Speaker 3: of the workshop of the seminar kind of addresses it.
- 13:15Speaker 3: So I'm assuming you're here for that and make your
- 13:18Speaker 3: own decisions. The other side of that, and this happened
- 13:21Speaker 3: last week at a webinar, I don't like taking high
- 13:25Speaker 3: status when it comes to behaviors where it's like, well,
- 13:30Speaker 3: if you would do this, and if you would be
- 13:33Speaker 3: better at this, and if you'd be more like this.
- 13:35Speaker 3: I don't feel that that's useful and I don't feel
- 13:37Speaker 3: that's respectful to an audience. So the fact that I
- 13:40Speaker 3: am imperfect everything that I teach, or I say like, hey,
- 13:44Speaker 3: i've gotten great results with this I've used I may
- 13:47Speaker 3: not use it all the time like that journaling thing
- 13:50Speaker 3: I was making a joke about. I used to use
- 13:52Speaker 3: that on the road all the time, because while I'm
- 13:54Speaker 3: supposed to be sleeping, I was running through my opening
- 13:57Speaker 3: story in my head. It's like, hey, dude, just all
- 14:00Speaker 3: that stuff down close the journal. And I was able
- 14:03Speaker 3: to fall asleep knowing all my concerns about the next
- 14:06Speaker 3: day's work. It's going to be there at four thirty
- 14:09Speaker 3: in the morning when I wake up. And that was amazing.
- 14:11Speaker 3: But I can say, yeah, hey, you know what, last
- 14:14Speaker 3: week I meant to do this, but I did this instead,
- 14:18Speaker 3: and wow, have any of you ever done that? And
- 14:21Speaker 3: instantly you're on equal status with your audience. It's not like, well,
- 14:25Speaker 3: I've got my shit together.
- 14:26Speaker 1: And here's what you need to do. I don't think
- 14:28Speaker 1: that's good. I think that anyone who stands on a
- 14:31Speaker 1: stage or gets on a podcast, or runs a workshop
- 14:36Speaker 1: or seminar and essentially, either literally or metaphorically is finger
- 14:40Speaker 1: pointing at people telling them you should do, you shouldn't do,
- 14:43Speaker 1: you must start, you must stop. I mean, that would
- 14:47Speaker 1: have to be a dumbass if they don't realize that
- 14:49Speaker 1: creates more disconnection than connection. For a start, But I
- 14:52Speaker 1: think even with this show, I don't maybe I'll do
- 14:58Speaker 1: every now and then, but I definitely don't inten to. Well,
- 15:02Speaker 1: I never prescribe anything. I never direct anyone to go
- 15:06Speaker 1: and do something. But I think in that that's why
- 15:10Speaker 1: a conversation is good, because we're talking about things and
- 15:13Speaker 1: we're not we're not putting on anyone in the direction
- 15:17Speaker 1: or recommending a thing, but rather going this is what
- 15:20Speaker 1: I would do and it didn't work, or this is
- 15:23Speaker 1: what I did do that did work for me. But
- 15:25Speaker 1: keep in mind, you are not me. I am not you.
- 15:29Speaker 1: I want to come back to tracking and apps and
- 15:33Speaker 1: you know what is increasingly being adopted and adapted in
- 15:38Speaker 1: the general population, which is embracing some of the I'm
- 15:42Speaker 1: going to put an asterisk next to it, but the
- 15:45Speaker 1: science behind the behaviors where we now you know, I
- 15:50Speaker 1: know tif for you, you were tracking your blood sugar with
- 15:53Speaker 1: a monitor which proved to be somewhat problematic, and not
- 15:58Speaker 1: only was the monitor and the reading inaccurate, that caused
- 16:02Speaker 1: you psychological, emotional and physical issues. And you know, and
- 16:08Speaker 1: it's like, oh, first tell us about that, and then
- 16:13Speaker 1: I have a follow up question.
- 16:14Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting you've raised that because you'll be delighted
- 16:17Speaker 2: to hear I'm about to get another one and try
- 16:21Speaker 2: it again.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Great. Great, But formerly I've.
- 16:26Speaker 2: Tried them twice. I got a two weeks with a
- 16:29Speaker 2: glucose monitor and threw them into a tailspin because it
- 16:33Speaker 2: was showing every night that I was hypoglycemic with chronically
- 16:37Speaker 2: low blood sugars. And then my response to that was
- 16:41Speaker 2: kind of a very tiff response of like, oh my goodness,
- 16:44Speaker 2: and then I was feeling fatigued and rubbish and crazy.
- 16:49Speaker 2: But then when I tested with a pricktest from the chemist,
- 16:54Speaker 2: it was showing different readings, and I don't think it.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Was showing you were in a good range, not a range.
- 17:00Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was showing a difference at the
- 17:02Speaker 2: same time. So I was like, oh, well that doesn't
- 17:05Speaker 2: that doesn't work. But it happened on two pieces. But
- 17:08Speaker 2: the reason that I'm getting another one and gonna put
- 17:11Speaker 2: it on is just out of interest of since I've
- 17:14Speaker 2: changed my diet with carbs carb intake, I'm very interested
- 17:19Speaker 2: to see if there is any relationship or if it
- 17:21Speaker 2: just behaves exactly the same. And if it does, I
- 17:24Speaker 2: won't I will disregard it again. But if it happens
- 17:28Speaker 2: to show a difference in my blood sugars overnight, I
- 17:32Speaker 2: might assume that there was something there happening.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Just I've got a question for you, Bobby. I want
- 17:40Speaker 1: you to think about this question while I'm finishing with TIP.
- 17:42Speaker 1: I want you to think about the cons of apps,
- 17:47Speaker 1: like using all the tracking things. We know the good,
- 17:50Speaker 1: I want you to think about the bad or the
- 17:53Speaker 1: potential bad. So while you're talking about, you know, upping
- 17:59Speaker 1: your carbs, right, there are some people who and I
- 18:02Speaker 1: mean it's respectfully totally understand carbs are different. Carbs can
- 18:07Speaker 1: be high or low glycemic index. They can be absorbed
- 18:10Speaker 1: more quickly or more slowly in the blood and affect
- 18:15Speaker 1: blood sugar in the blood quicker. And even though oats
- 18:18Speaker 1: are carbohydrates, so is apple juice, you know, so are
- 18:22Speaker 1: lollies or they contain a lot of carbohydrates slash sugar.
- 18:26Speaker 1: So as does basmati rice which is forty GI versus
- 18:31Speaker 1: normal white rice which is eighty to ninety GI like,
- 18:37Speaker 1: and even a ripe banana like the same thing changes
- 18:40Speaker 1: GI over time glycemic index. I'm talking about everyone. Where
- 18:46Speaker 1: a ripe banana, sorry, not a ripe a what's the
- 18:49Speaker 1: opposite of unripe, unripened banana, like one of those green fuckers.
- 18:54Speaker 1: They're like a GI of twenty or thirty. But when
- 18:57Speaker 1: they're super ripe and going a bit brown, the GI
- 18:59Speaker 1: is about eighty Because the volume of the banana, the
- 19:04Speaker 1: water in the banana kind of dehydrates. The weight and
- 19:07Speaker 1: size of the banana comes down, but the sugar content remains,
- 19:10Speaker 1: so the GI goes up. Blah blah blah. So it
- 19:13Speaker 1: just when we go carbs, people go carbs bad or
- 19:17Speaker 1: carbs good. Well, carbs is a big conversation right when
- 19:22Speaker 1: you talk about carbs, increasing carbs specifically, what are you increasing?
- 19:27Speaker 2: So I'm increasing rice? Potatoes?
- 19:32Speaker 1: What kind of rice? What kind of rice?
- 19:33Speaker 2: I ate? Brown rice, brown rice, eat keen one, lentils, chickpeas,
- 19:40Speaker 2: some sour dough like, well, these are all things that
- 19:43Speaker 2: I just didn't eat a lot of. I ate a
- 19:46Speaker 2: lot of veggies, but they're cruciferous vegetables in there. I
- 19:49Speaker 2: wasn't eating a lot of a lot of potatoes and things.
- 19:52Speaker 2: I was eating a lot of cookies. Is plenty of
- 19:54Speaker 2: carbs there. So I never avoided carbs. And what's interesting
- 19:57Speaker 2: is years and years ago I went to a seminar
- 19:59Speaker 2: on and there was someone speaking on the low carb,
- 20:02Speaker 2: high fat diet, and I remember I was back boxing
- 20:06Speaker 2: at the time. I remember leaving that seminar and going
- 20:08Speaker 2: that showed some really compelling stuff and I like what
- 20:12Speaker 2: it seems to do for health, but as a boxer,
- 20:16Speaker 2: I couldn't. That is bad for me. I need that injury.
- 20:19Speaker 2: So I'm saying that, And at the same time, unbeknowns
- 20:21Speaker 2: to me, because I have never tracked macros, I simply
- 20:24Speaker 2: wasn't eating enough carbs consistently, not for how much I
- 20:27Speaker 2: was training, And I think that's gone on all my
- 20:30Speaker 2: life or for it.
- 20:31Speaker 1: So interesting are the eyes around carbs and protein and
- 20:36Speaker 1: it's so misleading And anyway, another conversation. So, Bobby, we're
- 20:41Speaker 1: talking about tracking all our data and our sleep and
- 20:46Speaker 1: our food and our body comp and our blood sugar,
- 20:50Speaker 1: and we know that the benefits. Is there a downside
- 20:53Speaker 1: to doing any of that? Do you reckon?
- 20:56Speaker 2: Well?
- 20:56Speaker 3: I think anytime you have a toil or as a
- 20:58Speaker 3: face where there are a market upside and benefits which
- 21:01Speaker 3: you know arguably there are several, being more aware of
- 21:05Speaker 3: what you're doing in and of itself is an enormous
- 21:09Speaker 3: value for behavior change, but there are also going to
- 21:11Speaker 3: be potential limitations or liabilities.
- 21:14Speaker 1: You know.
- 21:14Speaker 3: One that pops into my head is the research conducted
- 21:17Speaker 3: by Ibrahim Sene at the University of Illinois and his colleagues.
- 21:21Speaker 3: It's fascinating. I think Tiff and I have talked about
- 21:24Speaker 3: it from a different perspective with affirmations. So where people
- 21:28Speaker 3: were primed with, you know, I will, I will do
- 21:32Speaker 3: this around originally around enneagrams, and then that became a
- 21:37Speaker 3: little bit more expansive how they utilized that declative declarative
- 21:41Speaker 3: language versus will I, more interrogative language, and what they
- 21:47Speaker 3: found was the performance and the outcomes for the will
- 21:51Speaker 3: I people were greater than the I will And you
- 21:55Speaker 3: would expect like stating something in affirmative through a strong
- 22:01Speaker 3: declaration would produce the greater outcomes, and it didn't, like
- 22:04Speaker 3: in multiple different forms of this study, so that was duplicated,
- 22:08Speaker 3: and I think one of the things that happens especially
- 22:11Speaker 3: you got to take a look at two things. What
- 22:15Speaker 3: is my level of regulation versus disregulation and where am
- 22:19Speaker 3: I within a process of behavior change? So let's take
- 22:22Speaker 3: a look at disregulation, because right now there's a greater
- 22:26Speaker 3: number of people who are in danger of burnout or
- 22:30Speaker 3: they're currently experiencing burnout. And if I'm completely disregulated and
- 22:34Speaker 3: I have this declarative task, like I will start.
- 22:37Speaker 1: To monitor this.
- 22:38Speaker 3: I'm going to monitor that. You know, I'm gonna eat
- 22:41Speaker 3: this and not eat that. I'm gonna get up and
- 22:43Speaker 3: go for this run. You know, I'm gonna, you know,
- 22:45Speaker 3: take some type of drink. I'm gonna make sure it
- 22:48Speaker 3: has tumoric in it. And then I'm going to journal,
- 22:50Speaker 3: do yoga and do an ice bath. All these things
- 22:53Speaker 3: start to become tasks. It's like, so and I might
- 22:58Speaker 3: be adding more cognitive load and putting myself into a
- 23:02Speaker 3: greater state of overwhelmed rather than just what are some
- 23:05Speaker 3: of the big boxes behaviorally that I could focus on?
- 23:09Speaker 3: So that's one potential liability and number two, what do
- 23:13Speaker 3: I do with this information when I have it? So
- 23:15Speaker 3: it's like, holy shit, I haven't taken ten thousand steps today, right,
- 23:20Speaker 3: So that's my arbitrary marker, and maybe I'm at five thousands.
- 23:23Speaker 3: So I start going for more walks. I start going, ah,
- 23:25Speaker 3: you know what, let me park a little bit further
- 23:27Speaker 3: because it's exciting once I'm habitually doing ten thousand steps
- 23:31Speaker 3: every day, what do I do with that information? What's
- 23:33Speaker 3: the next step in the process, because I might stop
- 23:37Speaker 3: utilizing that app and maybe experience a bit of recidivism,
- 23:41Speaker 3: So that behavior has to be attached to something meaningful
- 23:46Speaker 3: and hopefully progressive. And then when you come into what
- 23:50Speaker 3: stage of change that you're in, I would imagine that
- 23:54Speaker 3: people who if you look at like, there are six
- 23:57Speaker 3: stages of change Quincho transfer model, and how you can
- 24:01Speaker 3: simplify that is the first stage is I won't or
- 24:05Speaker 3: I can't. Right, I'm just not engaging either because I'm
- 24:08Speaker 3: completely disinterested, can't be asked, or I have completely no
- 24:13Speaker 3: sense of self efficacy. I'm convinced it's not even worth trying.
- 24:17Speaker 3: But then when you move into contemplation, it's kind of
- 24:19Speaker 3: like a you know, I might do this, and then
- 24:22Speaker 3: you get into preparation I will, and then I am right,
- 24:26Speaker 3: you've been doing something for a bit. And then maintenance
- 24:29Speaker 3: is of course, I've been doing this for a while,
- 24:31Speaker 3: and then termination is it's this isn't what I'm doing,
- 24:34Speaker 3: this is who I'm being. I'm just this type of person.
- 24:37Speaker 3: I live my life like this. But If you're someone
- 24:41Speaker 3: who is at the fourth stage, I am well, then
- 24:45Speaker 3: your challenge and like optimizing physiology and taking a look
- 24:51Speaker 3: at some biometrics might be highly motivating, where in the
- 24:54Speaker 3: beginning it might be highly discouraging. If everything is a
- 24:58Speaker 3: pass or a fail, I didn't do this, so my
- 25:01Speaker 3: story about myself must be there in the early phases
- 25:05Speaker 3: of change. I think subjective measures around behaviors are a
- 25:12Speaker 3: lot better than let's say, objective measures around outcomes. So
- 25:19Speaker 3: if you're taking a look at how many steps am
- 25:21Speaker 3: I taking, that's a behavior. Yes, I did this number
- 25:24Speaker 3: of steps, but there also has to be leeway between
- 25:28Speaker 3: that what am I actually doing versus what have I
- 25:30Speaker 3: not done? So it's all a matter of how you
- 25:33Speaker 3: engage with it. For me personally, all this stuff would
- 25:37Speaker 3: make engaging and well being practices for me just so
- 25:43Speaker 3: much less enticing and fulfilling. Like I'm always going to
- 25:46Speaker 3: go out and exercise a few times a week.
- 25:49Speaker 1: If I had to.
- 25:50Speaker 3: Start tracking and optimizing, I might not be as motivated.
- 25:54Speaker 3: Eighty percent of the time. I'm going to make food
- 25:56Speaker 3: choices based on how I want to feel. If I
- 25:59Speaker 3: was if I was monitoring my blood sugar it would
- 26:03Speaker 3: become more additive and I would probably not make the
- 26:07Speaker 3: same choice as I'm making dietarily in a constructive way.
- 26:12Speaker 3: So I'm one of those types of people. I don't
- 26:13Speaker 3: want to optimize everything. I just have certain habits that
- 26:18Speaker 3: I feel good engaging in.
- 26:20Speaker 1: One of my challenges is because I can be Thank goodness,
- 26:26Speaker 1: I didn't open the drugs or alcohol door, but I
- 26:28Speaker 1: can be quite obsessive and addictive, and so my challenge is, well,
- 26:34Speaker 1: obviously I didn't do a good job when I was
- 26:36Speaker 1: younger because I was completely fucking obsessed and addicted to
- 26:40Speaker 1: like you were. Maybe I'm not sure, but training and
- 26:45Speaker 1: you know, there's pretty much nothing or nobody that would
- 26:49Speaker 1: get in the way of me getting to the gym.
- 26:51Speaker 1: It's like to the point where it was irrational at
- 26:54Speaker 1: the time, it made sense in my warped brain, but
- 26:59Speaker 1: looking back, I'm like, fucking hell, I had a problem,
- 27:01Speaker 1: and I feel for me And maybe you don't know
- 27:05Speaker 1: about ut if you'd have to tell us, But for me,
- 27:08Speaker 1: I've really had to always manage this space between being
- 27:11Speaker 1: disciplined and focused and being obsessed because they are about
- 27:16Speaker 1: fucking three millimeters apart for me. And then beyond that,
- 27:20Speaker 1: being addicted to the point where I would get angry
- 27:24Speaker 1: if someone or something stopped me from doing or inhibited
- 27:28Speaker 1: me from doing the thing that I was addicted to doing,
- 27:32Speaker 1: even though that response itself is completely fucking unhealthy. Yeah,
- 27:37Speaker 1: I've always had to manage that. That where you know,
- 27:41Speaker 1: I went through one of my many obsession slash addictions
- 27:45Speaker 1: was despite my background in strength, was running and I
- 27:51Speaker 1: spent there was probably a five year period where I
- 27:53Speaker 1: ran every day of the year, three hundred and sixty
- 27:56Speaker 1: five days. And I remember coming to the States once
- 28:02Speaker 1: and I figured out how I could not miss a
- 28:06Speaker 1: day so still run within the twenty four hour period
- 28:10Speaker 1: and I had to stop over at Lax and I'd ran.
- 28:14Speaker 1: Literally the last thing I did before I drove to
- 28:16Speaker 1: the airport was run, got in the car, went to
- 28:19Speaker 1: the airport, flew to Lax, got changed, went for a
- 28:23Speaker 1: run around the airport so I could. I mean, I
- 28:27Speaker 1: was completely fucking ridiculous. But the thought of it, I
- 28:32Speaker 1: know this, this is a very unimpressive aspect of me,
- 28:37Speaker 1: but you know, get in the queue. There's a few Yeah,
- 28:42Speaker 1: And it took me a it was literally like overcoming Well,
- 28:47Speaker 1: I don't know, but I've worked with addicts, and I
- 28:49Speaker 1: think my addictions were not that far away, you know,
- 28:53Speaker 1: not as destructive of course as many other things. But yeah,
- 28:57Speaker 1: what about you cook? Do you feel do you ever
- 28:59Speaker 1: strut all between that discipline, self control and being obsessed.
- 29:04Speaker 2: I remember back when I worked in hospitality years and
- 29:07Speaker 2: years ago, one of the regular customers dubbed my motto
- 29:11Speaker 2: if and this was this was food behavior everything. If
- 29:14Speaker 2: a little bit's good, a lot must be better. And
- 29:16Speaker 2: he used to always say, tiff, if a little bit's good,
- 29:21Speaker 2: not always is a lot must be better. Like chili
- 29:24Speaker 2: on every you know, like the amount of chili I'd
- 29:26Speaker 2: put on food is I would have tears, My eyes
- 29:28Speaker 2: would be bleeding from chili. But yeah, and I think
- 29:33Speaker 2: part of the problem is when I start something, there's
- 29:38Speaker 2: there has been with boxing, there's been an end goal.
- 29:40Speaker 2: But some then I can move into an activity and
- 29:43Speaker 2: we don't have an end goal or this picture of
- 29:46Speaker 2: the reason or the destination. We don't have a specific
- 29:50Speaker 2: dose to kind of measure by it. So it's yeah,
- 29:54Speaker 2: up and run every single day. What are you running for?
- 29:56Speaker 2: I don't know, just because I'm running because that's what
- 29:58Speaker 2: I do. Now what's the purpose? Do you to get faster?
- 30:00Speaker 2: Do you want to get further?
- 30:01Speaker 3: Do you like?
- 30:02Speaker 2: How old are you? How much you need to do this,
- 30:04Speaker 2: how much energy do you have, how much time do
- 30:07Speaker 2: you have? What does the end result need to be?
- 30:10Speaker 1: Yes?
- 30:11Speaker 2: And that would drive I'm doing that now. Like writing
- 30:14Speaker 2: a program for other people in my age bracket has
- 30:18Speaker 2: made me go, how many times a week should you train?
- 30:23Speaker 2: And what should that training look like for you? And
- 30:26Speaker 2: what should your cardio look like? Now we have to
- 30:29Speaker 2: review that and it's been really interesting.
- 30:33Speaker 1: I think the healthy kind of space in the middle
- 30:37Speaker 1: of you know, trying to in the old days, people
- 30:42Speaker 1: were even me probably at times, like it's all about
- 30:45Speaker 1: fucking discipline, self control, willpower, fucking white knuckling. You can't
- 30:49Speaker 1: do that, right, you can't. Or it's about motivation, and
- 30:52Speaker 1: it's not. It's sometimes it is, and it's definitely been
- 30:54Speaker 1: of willpower, discipline, et cetera. All good, but you can't
- 30:59Speaker 1: rely on that state being in that state for the
- 31:01Speaker 1: next forty years, right, So that's one end. The other
- 31:05Speaker 1: end is now I'm completely obsessed and I do it
- 31:07Speaker 1: all the time, but it doesn't actually produce a psychological
- 31:10Speaker 1: or emotional healthy outcome because I'm this crazy person who
- 31:14Speaker 1: is addicted to this behavior, which is that's not good either.
- 31:18Speaker 1: But in the middle, I think is this space of
- 31:22Speaker 1: I have created healthy habits which are not obsessions. But
- 31:28Speaker 1: the fact that it's a habit means I don't need
- 31:30Speaker 1: to get pumped, excited, focused, determined every day because it's
- 31:35Speaker 1: kind of hardwired into who I am. You know. Now
- 31:38Speaker 1: that's not always a perfect paradigm or operating system, but
- 31:43Speaker 1: for me, that thing where I go, well, these are
- 31:45Speaker 1: my habits. This is what I do every day. You know.
- 31:48Speaker 1: I go to the gym every day. If I can't go,
- 31:50Speaker 1: that's fine. If I can go, I will go. Do
- 31:54Speaker 1: I need to sit at home and get focused and
- 31:56Speaker 1: motivated before I get in the car? I do not.
- 31:59Speaker 1: Do I walk out of the gym feeling like I've
- 32:01Speaker 1: just made a massive accomplishment. No, I don't. But it's
- 32:05Speaker 1: just that, how do we build an operating system where
- 32:08Speaker 1: our behaviors are consistent and consistent with who and how
- 32:12Speaker 1: we want to be, but not in a way where
- 32:15Speaker 1: one we're obsisted or at the other end of the
- 32:17Speaker 1: scale too, we have to be perpetually disciplined, which is
- 32:21Speaker 1: just inconsistent with being a human.
- 32:25Speaker 3: When I listen to to Tiffany, like every time you
- 32:28Speaker 3: speak about how you engage with anything in life, I'm like, wow,
- 32:31Speaker 3: we have so many similar behaviors. Like the way tiff
- 32:34Speaker 3: engages with the world, it's kind of like the way
- 32:36Speaker 3: I engage with the world. A lot of times. For me,
- 32:40Speaker 3: it's not a matter of getting myself to do something,
- 32:44Speaker 3: it's how do I not become so pathologically obsessed with
- 32:48Speaker 3: something that I can't stop myself from doing it. I mean,
- 32:51Speaker 3: hence all of my physical issues and my severe osteouthritis
- 32:56Speaker 3: in most of my joints at this point. So there's
- 33:00Speaker 3: definitely a cost to that, especially when a lot of
- 33:04Speaker 3: your quote unquote behaviors are behavioral in nature, and on
- 33:08Speaker 3: the surface they're socially acceptable, even socially encouraged. That's kind
- 33:14Speaker 3: of a little bit different. But I think you hit
- 33:17Speaker 3: the nail on the head. You're not going to be
- 33:19Speaker 3: any one state. I think motivation as a reason for
- 33:22Speaker 3: doing something or behaving in some ways critically important. Why
- 33:26Speaker 3: would I dedicate a decade or the rest of my
- 33:28Speaker 3: life to doing something with no reason for doing it.
- 33:32Speaker 3: But if you're going to do something sustainably, you have
- 33:35Speaker 3: to set the structures and the systems and the environment
- 33:40Speaker 3: that facilitates that behavior, because everything else will fail. You're
- 33:44Speaker 3: not I mean, when you're low in blood sugar, you're
- 33:47Speaker 3: not going to be nearly as disciplined as you are
- 33:49Speaker 3: when you're not. And that's a physiological thing, that's not
- 33:52Speaker 3: a character thing. So at the end of the day,
- 33:54Speaker 3: what can.
- 33:55Speaker 1: You rely on? You can rely on how.
- 33:57Speaker 3: You set up your environment. So I open my fridge
- 34:01Speaker 3: or my my freezer and I'm looking for that hogined us.
- 34:04Speaker 3: But all I have and there's vegetables, Well, can I
- 34:06Speaker 3: still get hogined us? Yeah, but that's gonna be a
- 34:08Speaker 3: lot more deliberate, intentional steps in that process in order
- 34:15Speaker 3: to get it. If I have certain structures and rituals
- 34:18Speaker 3: in my life, they just set me up. They set
- 34:20Speaker 3: up my day, and they structure and guide me through
- 34:23Speaker 3: my day in a way that supports certain outcomes and states.
- 34:27Speaker 3: And who do I believe I am or who do
- 34:29Speaker 3: I believe I'm not? My identity is pretty critical. So
- 34:32Speaker 3: I think those three things, over time do more to
- 34:36Speaker 3: drive your behaviors than anything you tell yourself a story
- 34:40Speaker 3: about or anything that you're emotively experiencing in the moment.
- 34:46Speaker 1: To if you ugan to say.
- 34:47Speaker 2: Something, yeah, I was just say I'm thinking about how
- 34:51Speaker 2: luck that the tracking and measuring pace. I think if
- 34:55Speaker 2: we have a timeline on that, look, we make a
- 34:59Speaker 2: decision to do this, I'm going to walk ten thousand
- 35:01Speaker 2: steps a day. But what we normally do is do that,
- 35:04Speaker 2: and then in thirty days we're like, oh, yeah, great,
- 35:07Speaker 2: that worked. I'll keep doing that, and then I'll do something,
- 35:09Speaker 2: and then we have this layer upon layer upon layer
- 35:13Speaker 2: of things that are obsessively in our consciousness that we're
- 35:16Speaker 2: tracking and thinking about instead of going I'm going to
- 35:20Speaker 2: track my sleep on my watch for the next thirty
- 35:22Speaker 2: days and I'll have a look at it, and then
- 35:24Speaker 2: I'm not going to track, and I'm going to hold
- 35:26Speaker 2: that and I'm going to try and maintain the behaviors,
- 35:28Speaker 2: and maybe in three months I'll put the watch back
- 35:30Speaker 2: on for sleep and I'll see how where I've landed.
- 35:34Speaker 2: And then we're not holding onto the tracking and thinking,
- 35:38Speaker 2: and they're like cognitive land mines. I reckon because then
- 35:42Speaker 2: sometimes like I'll get invited to something like this Friday,
- 35:47Speaker 2: We're going to see a gig and I go, oh,
- 35:50Speaker 2: eight pm start, and it's like, that's not a beautiful
- 35:55Speaker 2: vantage point to view your excellent social life of seeing
- 35:59Speaker 2: a gig that you love is going Oh but me
- 36:01Speaker 2: sleep mean what?
- 36:02Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 36:03Speaker 2: Time.
- 36:05Speaker 1: I think all these things are tools, not solutions, like
- 36:10Speaker 1: you're the solution, like, because ultimately change, growth, improvement, learning
- 36:18Speaker 1: comes down to behavior and the thing can't behave the
- 36:23Speaker 1: things just a tool that you use around your behavior
- 36:26Speaker 1: that tracks your behavior or your outcomes or your physiological
- 36:32Speaker 1: output or whatever. But it's yeah, I think it's even
- 36:36Speaker 1: the relationship that we have with those things. You know,
- 36:40Speaker 1: where we you know, where we go. Oh my god,
- 36:43Speaker 1: I left home without my whatever. I've got to go back.
- 36:46Speaker 1: I can't leave home without my fucking step count. I've
- 36:49Speaker 1: got to you know. And it's like and yeah, yeah,
- 36:53Speaker 1: you know.
- 36:53Speaker 3: The Times's kind of the analogy for me is health
- 36:58Speaker 3: is like oxygen.
- 37:00Speaker 1: It's a good thing, it's critical.
- 37:03Speaker 3: You can't live without it, but it's not the purpose
- 37:06Speaker 3: of my entire existence. Were just talking about, you know,
- 37:10Speaker 3: optimizing sleep versus I remember I made that decision where
- 37:13Speaker 3: I had a chance to go see Leonard Cone and
- 37:15Speaker 3: concert love Leonard Cone. I was like, nah, I've got
- 37:18Speaker 3: to be up early for work. I've got to get
- 37:20Speaker 3: a good night's sleep. And my friend Joe, she was like,
- 37:24Speaker 3: are you serious right now? I was like, yeah, that
- 37:27Speaker 3: would be irresponsible for my clients. And he passed away
- 37:30Speaker 3: a short time after that. I was like, okay, wow,
- 37:33Speaker 3: like twenty years from now, I'm not even going to
- 37:35Speaker 3: remember what day that was that I went to work
- 37:38Speaker 3: or what happened. But I definitely would have remembered being
- 37:40Speaker 3: at a Leonard Code concert right before he died. So
- 37:43Speaker 3: it's like, really, what do you want out of life
- 37:47Speaker 3: and just making those decisions? Now, if you've see in
- 37:50Speaker 3: a concert every night, that's a problem. But like it's
- 37:53Speaker 3: just like.
- 37:54Speaker 1: Here's my version of that. It's fi less glamorous. So
- 37:58Speaker 1: I was living in Western Australia place called Bunbury, which
- 38:01Speaker 1: is south of Perth. I was nineteen years old. I
- 38:04Speaker 1: was working on a construction site called Worsley Aluminium Refinery.
- 38:07Speaker 1: I was working in a gym called New Image Health
- 38:10Speaker 1: Studios and I was bouncing in a pub three nights
- 38:14Speaker 1: a week. Anyway. I was out one night, which I
- 38:17Speaker 1: never really went out, but I was out with some boys.
- 38:20Speaker 1: We're just hanging out drinking beers. I don't drink beers,
- 38:24Speaker 1: so I was drinking fucking mortar or whatever. I was
- 38:27Speaker 1: drinking diet coke if it was around then. And we
- 38:31Speaker 1: ended up talking to these There was four of us,
- 38:34Speaker 1: four girls. They're all very nice ladies, and they say,
- 38:40Speaker 1: why don't you guys come back to our place? And
- 38:43Speaker 1: the other three guys are like fucking spinning their wheels
- 38:47Speaker 1: getting out of their chairs right, They're like fucking running
- 38:50Speaker 1: out the front door. So mister fucked in the head
- 38:56Speaker 1: looks at his watch and I go, ah, it's ten o'clock.
- 39:01Speaker 1: I'm going to train at five. I go and they're
- 39:04Speaker 1: like what. I go, yeah, I've got to And all
- 39:07Speaker 1: of my mates are like, what the fuck are you saying?
- 39:14Speaker 1: And yeah, I liked yeah, sorry, I got it. I
- 39:19Speaker 1: need I've already. It's too late, already, I can't go
- 39:22Speaker 1: back to you. Yeah, So Captain Excitement went home I
- 39:28Speaker 1: can have a little sleepy poop, and the other three
- 39:32Speaker 1: went back. I'm not suggesting anything would have happened everyone.
- 39:37Speaker 1: I'm just talking about and I know you you're all thinking, Craig,
- 39:41Speaker 1: you made the right decision.
- 39:43Speaker 2: Especiale could have been three kids.
- 39:49Speaker 3: You could have went back to missus Harper's house that night.
- 39:52Speaker 1: Oh wow, well we'll not.
- 39:55Speaker 3: But I need to google this. Carry on, I need
- 39:57Speaker 3: to google something.
- 39:59Speaker 1: At least my squats were good the next morning, you know.
- 40:04Speaker 2: Because you think about the hierarchy of you know, like
- 40:07Speaker 2: human needs and loneliness is social life is number one.
- 40:13Speaker 2: But it doesn't ever get like nothing goes through that lens,
- 40:15Speaker 2: does it.
- 40:16Speaker 1: Oh, and I'm not saying this is I'm not proud
- 40:21Speaker 1: of that. Like I was. Nothing would get in the
- 40:25Speaker 1: way of training, nothing would get in the way of
- 40:28Speaker 1: what I needed to eat, Like I was just an
- 40:31Speaker 1: obsessed bodybuilder in life.
- 40:34Speaker 3: You know what, though, like not to be contrariant, but
- 40:37Speaker 3: I think when, especially when, that does a lot for
- 40:42Speaker 3: your mental stability and well being to be that structured
- 40:45Speaker 3: and that regimented and care that much about something going
- 40:49Speaker 3: back to someone's house with a couple of girls versus no,
- 40:53Speaker 3: this is who I am, and I'm waking up to it.
- 40:56Speaker 3: Like sometimes I I think that is the better choice.
- 41:02Speaker 3: Like as you were saying that, I remembered how many
- 41:04Speaker 3: times I went home when I had a chance to
- 41:08Speaker 3: hang out, and there were a lot of people there
- 41:10Speaker 3: and I might have had a lot of fun, and
- 41:12Speaker 3: I don't think I went out. I went home because,
- 41:15Speaker 3: oh my training. That was just my excuse. I went
- 41:17Speaker 3: home because there was girls there and I was afraid.
- 41:20Speaker 3: So I was like, Okay, I don't know, I don't
- 41:22Speaker 3: know anything about girls training. I feel comfortable there. I'll
- 41:26Speaker 3: go to the gym. But it's kind of like I
- 41:29Speaker 3: feel sometimes that structure helps. And by the way, diet
- 41:32Speaker 3: coke came out in nineteen eighty two. I just had
- 41:35Speaker 3: to look that up. I thought I thought it came
- 41:37Speaker 3: out out in like the nineteen fifties. I was like,
- 41:39Speaker 3: what is he going on about. I don't know if
- 41:41Speaker 3: dia coke was invented, but yeah, just right around World
- 41:45Speaker 3: War two, right before the war started, we were hanging
- 41:48Speaker 3: out on the construction site.
- 41:51Speaker 1: Well this no, But ironically or interestingly, the year I
- 41:55Speaker 1: was there was nine to eighty two. I was nineteen.
- 41:57Speaker 1: I was born in sixty three, so.
- 41:59Speaker 3: You might have been high a day at coke.
- 42:01Speaker 1: Can I tell you another weird story. This has got
- 42:04Speaker 1: nothing to do with the show. This is no self
- 42:07Speaker 1: help value whatsoever. This is going to help nobody in
- 42:11Speaker 1: the world anyway. One other night, I was at the
- 42:14Speaker 1: same pub and there was you know, a few girls
- 42:18Speaker 1: around straight one eighty harps drink and his diet coke apparently,
- 42:23Speaker 1: and this young lady who's quite attractive, ends up sitting
- 42:26Speaker 1: on my knee and just at a table. It's like
- 42:30Speaker 1: there's people everywhere. Nothing was happed. She's just sitting on
- 42:32Speaker 1: my knee and had her arm around my neck and
- 42:36Speaker 1: we're all just everyone was talking. I'm nine en years old.
- 42:38Speaker 1: I'm fucking a bit special needs in the relationship department,
- 42:43Speaker 1: you know. I'm like just anyway, there was lady sitting
- 42:48Speaker 1: across from her, who was also attractive, but older, and
- 42:55Speaker 1: she introduces me to the lady sitting opposite and whatever
- 42:59Speaker 1: her name is Donner. She goes, this is my Donna.
- 43:01Speaker 1: This is Donna, my mother in law. And I'm like, oh, hi,
- 43:04Speaker 1: how are you and she goes, yeah, good. And then
- 43:07Speaker 1: I'm like, like I said, not super sharp. I'm like
- 43:12Speaker 1: mother in law, mother in law. I go, she's your
- 43:16Speaker 1: mother in law. I go, you have a husband. She's like, yeah,
- 43:21Speaker 1: we have an understanding. I'm like fuck, and I don't
- 43:24Speaker 1: get off. I was not a word of a lie.
- 43:28Speaker 1: And I'm like, what who lives like that? Who does that?
- 43:33Speaker 1: So she went out sitting on Bloke's knees or my
- 43:37Speaker 1: knee and Bobby boo, that's what makes the world go around.
- 43:43Speaker 3: And I left fucking burn together. And you decided not
- 43:47Speaker 3: to become a private investigator.
- 43:49Speaker 1: Oh dude, shut up, shut up, stop making fun of me.
- 43:54Speaker 1: Well tell me one. Let's finish with this one thing
- 43:59Speaker 1: that you've changed your mind about or done a one
- 44:01Speaker 1: ady on in terms of personally, not just general thinking
- 44:06Speaker 1: about something, but that you've stopped doing and started doing
- 44:12Speaker 1: something different, Like a thing you used to think that
- 44:15Speaker 1: you don't think anymore. That's led to some kind of
- 44:19Speaker 1: significant behavioral lifestyle whatever, nutritional training, but some kind of
- 44:26Speaker 1: decision or behavior that you've done a one ady on
- 44:29Speaker 1: pretty much for you.
- 44:32Speaker 2: Tiff, every almost everything about both how I train and
- 44:41Speaker 2: how I eat now like and that's just still an
- 44:44Speaker 2: ever evolving process, but huge one eighties.
- 44:46Speaker 1: And so give us a snapshot of how you used
- 44:49Speaker 1: to train versus now.
- 44:52Speaker 2: Well back obviously years ago boxing like crazy person box,
- 44:57Speaker 2: lots of high intensity boxing, but every thing outside of
- 45:01Speaker 2: that I did was high intensity and explosive. I loved it,
- 45:04Speaker 2: felt great, you know, like box jumps, plier metrics, anything
- 45:09Speaker 2: explosive where I was pushing to one hundred percent. There
- 45:13Speaker 2: was an aversion of training that I did it a
- 45:20Speaker 2: nice conversational, steady state, which is now part of my
- 45:25Speaker 2: plan with doing some cardio training is sitting in that moderate,
- 45:28Speaker 2: easy space. And when I was doing it the other day,
- 45:31Speaker 2: sitting on a piece of equipment just between clients, I
- 45:35Speaker 2: was like wow, Wow, Like I had to be conscious
- 45:39Speaker 2: of not pushing because my mind was like, well, if
- 45:41Speaker 2: we're doing this, it's not doing anything unless we're pushing
- 45:45Speaker 2: ourselves to let's.
- 45:47Speaker 1: Do some intervals while we're on here.
- 45:49Speaker 2: Fuck it. Yeah, So that's a big one for me,
- 45:52Speaker 2: and I guess maybe also my relationship with food. You know,
- 45:57Speaker 2: there's still has been a very much a relationship between
- 46:02Speaker 2: moving and eating, and if you're eating, you've got to
- 46:05Speaker 2: be moving, you know, Like there's that tool with that,
- 46:09Speaker 2: you know. So I just had a dload work out
- 46:11Speaker 2: of rest week where I did very little training, and
- 46:13Speaker 2: when I did train, it was fifty percent of volume
- 46:16Speaker 2: and weights that I would normally use just to recover.
- 46:20Speaker 2: But I kept eating like I would eat every other day,
- 46:23Speaker 2: and I was like, this is I mean, this is
- 46:25Speaker 2: one week so for the body to refuel and recover.
- 46:29Speaker 2: So normally I would think there would be something in
- 46:32Speaker 2: my mind going, we're not training, so you're better, you know,
- 46:35Speaker 2: like like everyone does. We're not training, so you be
- 46:37Speaker 2: not eat much and judging It was like, this is
- 46:39Speaker 2: one week, mate, give your body some for fuel.
- 46:44Speaker 3: What about you, Kapuch, Well, there's a lot of examples here,
- 46:49Speaker 3: but I think what I'm noticing is I'm going back
- 46:53Speaker 3: to a selective philosophical practice and being a little bit rigid.
- 47:01Speaker 3: So going back when I was younger, I feel like
- 47:06Speaker 3: I was hard to be around for a lot of reasons,
- 47:10Speaker 3: and a lot of that was like I was a
- 47:14Speaker 3: walking self help book. Everything for me was about thinking optimistically, right,
- 47:21Speaker 3: thinking wrong, thinking, the winners in the world versus the
- 47:23Speaker 3: losers of the world, and like like what we would
- 47:28Speaker 3: call signal versus noise. I had very little patience for
- 47:33Speaker 3: the noise. But what I didn't realize is a lot
- 47:36Speaker 3: of that noise really does facilitate the power of the signal. Anyway,
- 47:41Speaker 3: So what I started looking at or my colleagues around me,
- 47:46Speaker 3: and not my immediate colleagues because they were amazing, but
- 47:49Speaker 3: my colleagues a couple of degrees of separation from me
- 47:52Speaker 3: that were kind of harsh with people, and I was
- 47:56Speaker 3: I got into a couple of conversations with my clients
- 48:00Speaker 3: set me straight, and it created this openness where I
- 48:04Speaker 3: think meeting Paul Taylor was kind of one of the
- 48:07Speaker 3: influences that pushed me over to this where it's like, dude,
- 48:12Speaker 3: you don't know a single thing about human behavior, why
- 48:15Speaker 3: people do what they do, chill out with people. And
- 48:19Speaker 3: then it became well, I'm not going to believe in
- 48:21Speaker 3: something unless I have sufficient empirical evidence to embrace this.
- 48:26Speaker 3: And now in my old age, I'm going, yeah, you
- 48:28Speaker 3: know what, when you have certain practices and when you
- 48:31Speaker 3: were really hard to be around, like Boydy used to
- 48:34Speaker 3: tell me, dude, you got to get better socially. It's
- 48:39Speaker 3: not enough to be really good at your job, because
- 48:41Speaker 3: these students, like they come up to you in the restaurant,
- 48:43Speaker 3: in the bar, and they saw you on stage, they
- 48:45Speaker 3: want to meet you, they want to get to know you,
- 48:47Speaker 3: and you freak people out because you have zero social
- 48:50Speaker 3: skills whatsoever.
- 48:51Speaker 1: You're awkward.
- 48:52Speaker 3: It's like, you got to get better at that. And
- 48:54Speaker 3: I was like, ah, yeah, I kind of do. And
- 48:56Speaker 3: I was on a couple of tours where I was
- 48:59Speaker 3: not the social and you kind of needed to be.
- 49:03Speaker 3: And I became so open around why people do what
- 49:07Speaker 3: it is that they do. And I think in trying
- 49:10Speaker 3: to be open and compassionate and lead with empathy, I
- 49:14Speaker 3: forgot that sometimes rigidity as long as you are aware
- 49:19Speaker 3: it's rigidity, and you acknowledge that, and you don't close
- 49:23Speaker 3: yourself off to ideas on other people, but you hold
- 49:27Speaker 3: a certain certain set of rules for yourself more tightly.
- 49:31Speaker 3: I love to living like that.
- 49:33Speaker 1: That was give me another give me another word, give
- 49:35Speaker 1: me another word for rigidity that sounds less negative I feel.
- 49:40Speaker 3: I feel I was highly structured, but not just in
- 49:44Speaker 3: my behaviors and practices, within my philosophies and my beliefs,
- 49:50Speaker 3: and there wasn't much wiggle room outside of that. And
- 49:53Speaker 3: I didn't like how that touched other people. So I
- 49:57Speaker 3: feel at this stage right now, I find myself elf
- 50:01Speaker 3: working to hold that level of awkwardness for others, but
- 50:05Speaker 3: get back into that structured philosophy and way of being
- 50:11Speaker 3: in the world for me just a little, because I
- 50:14Speaker 3: don't think that can flex with being a free spirit.
- 50:17Speaker 3: Or freedom. I think that's mutually reinforcing. I think that
- 50:21Speaker 3: structure facilitates that a little bit.
- 50:25Speaker 1: Thanks. That's been what's shifted for me. Yeah, it takes
- 50:27Speaker 1: so much courage to articulate that, but it also takes
- 50:31Speaker 1: so much courage to own up to the shit that
- 50:34Speaker 1: you naturally do that doesn't work or the way you
- 50:37Speaker 1: nat you know, like where you go and it's not
- 50:40Speaker 1: self loathing, its awareness again, but we go this is
- 50:43Speaker 1: how I typically am around other people, for example. It
- 50:47Speaker 1: doesn't work like that takes courage because you want to
- 50:51Speaker 1: be right. We want to be right. It's like a
- 50:53Speaker 1: human desire. We don't want to be wrong. Nobody wants
- 50:56Speaker 1: to be wrong. Everybody wants to be right. Wanting to
- 51:00Speaker 1: be right, but also capable of being wrong and being
- 51:04Speaker 1: okay with it and being able to acknowledge it and
- 51:08Speaker 1: just see it as a thing that you can get
- 51:10Speaker 1: better at or change. Is that's I mean, that's almost
- 51:16Speaker 1: at the top of the list of real personal growth,
- 51:20Speaker 1: human behavior, self how whatever we want to call it.
- 51:23Speaker 1: It's like, if you are not willing in this journey
- 51:26Speaker 1: of personal growth and self development or whatever, if you're
- 51:29Speaker 1: not willing to go, these are the things that I
- 51:32Speaker 1: believe or have believed that are wrong wrong, or these
- 51:36Speaker 1: are the things that actually do me a disservice, not
- 51:39Speaker 1: a favor, or these are the things, these are my limitations.
- 51:42Speaker 1: I don't hate myself because of it. There is no
- 51:45Speaker 1: self loathing. I'm just acknowledging it and I'm going to
- 51:49Speaker 1: work on it. I think that's the because actually changing
- 51:54Speaker 1: yourself is not some mystical, magical, beautiful, enjoyable, fun fucking process.
- 52:00Speaker 1: It's a cunt. It's like it's I'm going to get
- 52:04Speaker 1: a T shirt. Self help is a cunt. Like the
- 52:06Speaker 1: business is great, but the actual process of change. People
- 52:11Speaker 1: who go, people who don't tell you that it's actually
- 52:14Speaker 1: a motherfucker, they're just lying to you because the majority
- 52:18Speaker 1: of it, it just sucks the fatty you know, and
- 52:21Speaker 1: then you know, but it gets easier and you get better,
- 52:26Speaker 1: and then the thing that sucked it doesn't suck eventually.
- 52:30Speaker 1: Oh so many things.
- 52:33Speaker 3: And then there's that realization of what's right for you,
- 52:37Speaker 3: because I understand that the conclusions I arrive at might
- 52:41Speaker 3: not be right fundamentally across the board or for a
- 52:45Speaker 3: lot of people, but what is right for me? And
- 52:49Speaker 3: I think to borrow from a Star Wars analogy with
- 52:51Speaker 3: Anakin Skywalker. Sometimes you gotta have to go all the
- 52:54Speaker 3: way over to that dark side to find out your
- 52:58Speaker 3: power when you're try really balanced.
- 53:02Speaker 1: Well, ironically, things come to light often in the darkness,
- 53:05Speaker 1: So I don't think the darkness is always the enemy's.
- 53:08Speaker 1: If you're going to say something.
- 53:11Speaker 2: I can't remember what it was now, but I want
- 53:12Speaker 2: to know what your latest thing is. What have you changed,
- 53:17Speaker 2: what do you believe? Oh?
- 53:18Speaker 1: What have I changed?
- 53:19Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 53:22Speaker 1: I guess if we look historically, the need to lift
- 53:24Speaker 1: heavy all the time, but obviously I changed that quite
- 53:26Speaker 1: a while ago, Like I wouldn't like I didn't have
- 53:30Speaker 1: easy workouts, I didn't have light days. I didn't really
- 53:34Speaker 1: periodize my training, and that was all about my bullshit.
- 53:38Speaker 1: That was nothing to do with logic or science. Yeah,
- 53:43Speaker 1: and I guess, like I've never I used to run
- 53:47Speaker 1: all the time. So the idea of going for a walk.
- 53:49Speaker 1: I can't even say what I thought about walkers because
- 53:52Speaker 1: it's terribly insulting, right, Like, fucking walkers, What are you ninety?
- 53:57Speaker 1: If you're ninety, okay, but if you're going from a
- 54:00Speaker 1: walk and you're younger than ninety What the fuck are
- 54:02Speaker 1: you doing? That's what I used to think. Now I
- 54:04Speaker 1: fucking walk all the time, So I've certainly changed my
- 54:08Speaker 1: practice and my thinking around that. But for me, like
- 54:12Speaker 1: the walking, just getting the steps done every day is good,
- 54:14Speaker 1: But the greater benefit for me is my mind. Because
- 54:20Speaker 1: I'm just out doing, I'm either listening to nothing or
- 54:25Speaker 1: listening to something I enjoy, and I don't give myself
- 54:30Speaker 1: that space when I'm in inverted commas at work, which
- 54:34Speaker 1: is home, home is work, work is home, or as
- 54:37Speaker 1: in I've had my office from home. But yeah, and
- 54:41Speaker 1: I completely got walking wrong. I completely because I was
- 54:45Speaker 1: looking through a certain lens. And then now that I
- 54:49Speaker 1: do that, I like, after I had coffee this morning,
- 54:53Speaker 1: I walked seven k's, so I've done my ten thousand,
- 54:57Speaker 1: give or take, you know, but there was nothing in.
- 54:59Speaker 3: It sharper like I find it makes such a difference
- 55:02Speaker 3: for my mood and my cognition when I'm out in
- 55:05Speaker 3: the world moving.
- 55:06Speaker 1: One hundred percent. Bro. And also I try not to,
- 55:10Speaker 1: but every now and then I have meetings when I'm
- 55:11Speaker 1: out walking, I crush. I crush those meetings so fucking good.
- 55:16Speaker 1: Because I'm out my mind's clear, I'm not glimpsing or
- 55:21Speaker 1: glancing at other shit. Nothing else is taking my focus. Yeah,
- 55:27Speaker 1: and I try not to. Yeah, because I live on
- 55:31Speaker 1: a main street, I always head kind of back inland,
- 55:34Speaker 1: so I'm just walking through quiet streets. Yeah. Anyway, we
- 55:40Speaker 1: got to do.
- 55:41Speaker 3: Like a walking podcast, the three of us just just
- 55:44Speaker 3: walking about.
- 55:45Speaker 1: Imagine if we did a walking workshop and we met
- 55:48Speaker 1: at the beach near my joint. You'll have to wait
- 55:51Speaker 1: till you're over again, and we just went for a
- 55:53Speaker 1: ten k walk and while we were walking, we're all
- 55:56Speaker 1: just sharing and reflecting and a bit of teaching, bit
- 55:59Speaker 1: of coaching.
- 56:01Speaker 3: So that would be amazing. And I thought I was
- 56:03Speaker 3: going to get one of those workshops every week. I
- 56:05Speaker 3: was just going to take you out for a walk
- 56:07Speaker 3: every once in a while and just let you gotta
- 56:10Speaker 3: get like a free walking workshop, Craig might cost you,
- 56:14Speaker 3: might cost you.
- 56:14Speaker 1: A bit to uh to fly out here each wake.
- 56:19Speaker 3: No, I was talking about when I thought I was
- 56:20Speaker 3: going to be out there for like two to four years.
- 56:22Speaker 3: Oh yeah, right right, Yeah, that whole thing I just
- 56:26Speaker 3: want to say before we go, Like the Anakin analogy,
- 56:30Speaker 3: like that was just an analogy. I think Anakin took
- 56:32Speaker 3: it too far, you know, with the choking and the
- 56:35Speaker 3: thing that happened with the younglings and taking that job
- 56:39Speaker 3: working for that complete asshole Palpatine. I just want to say,
- 56:43Speaker 3: it's just, it was just.
- 56:44Speaker 1: You have an amazing gift for pulling defeat out of
- 56:46Speaker 1: the jewels of victory, don't you, Hey a tuck, And
- 56:50Speaker 1: now you were going so good to then so good.
- 56:55Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, how to lose to go to
- 56:58Speaker 3: the art side, Like that's going very very dark.
- 57:01Speaker 1: That's that's an extreme dark side. Now, I feel like
- 57:06Speaker 1: Star Wars is not a female dominant audience. I could
- 57:13Speaker 1: be wrong in that, but we have a female dominant audience.
- 57:18Speaker 1: So maybe if now I get in trouble, I don't know,
- 57:22Speaker 1: let me know. Let me know on the Facebook page.
- 57:25Speaker 1: And women in.
- 57:26Speaker 3: Geeks like me. On your show, what are geeks talk about?
- 57:29Speaker 3: We talk about Star Wars and Comic Box and being
- 57:33Speaker 3: scared of going out with girls when we were younger,
- 57:35Speaker 3: so we had to make excuses that we had to
- 57:37Speaker 3: be up at the gym. So that's what you get, like,
- 57:39Speaker 3: you got nobody to blame it yourself. Ops.
- 57:41Speaker 1: Hence sports you'll be known as Sheldon and Tiff can
- 57:46Speaker 1: be Penny Penny all right? Everyone? Thanks, thanks Bubby, thanks,
- 57:53Speaker 1: thank you, thanks,