Latest / The You Project / #2187 Can We Really Change? - Bobby Cappuccio
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Good eight Team taps Stiff, It's Bobby, It's for you project.
- 0:06Speaker 1: It's a Thursday as we record, Life rolls on. It's winter.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Tiffany Cook, how are you very good?
- 0:16Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
- 0:17Speaker 1: I love it when you salute and call me sir.
- 0:20Speaker 1: It's a little military, that's all right. So I love
- 0:24Speaker 1: it when you say to your bloke, oh, the boss
- 0:26Speaker 1: is calling me, or the boss wants this or that.
- 0:30Speaker 1: It makes me feel good too. Hi, Robert, how are
- 0:33Speaker 1: you well?
- 0:35Speaker 3: I'm not salooning you, but other than that, I'm doing okay.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Well, could you cuddle me?
- 0:41Speaker 3: I'll call you a boss if you really want me to.
- 0:44Speaker 3: But that's as fine.
- 0:44Speaker 1: I want to go here. I don't need to be
- 0:46Speaker 1: anyone's boss, that is for sure. It's too much responsibility. Ah,
- 0:52Speaker 1: what time is it over there? What is it like?
- 0:55Speaker 1: Twenty six minutes to six in the PM. It is
- 0:59Speaker 1: half past.
- 0:59Speaker 3: Five and the PM, well, I mean give her a
- 1:02Speaker 3: take seventeen twenty five.
- 1:05Speaker 1: To be exact. I wanted to talk to both of
- 1:08Speaker 1: you today and the thriving Did he just say did
- 1:13Speaker 1: he just say what I said but back in another way?
- 1:16Speaker 2: Yep?
- 1:16Speaker 1: Yes, when he could have just gone yes.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Several attempts of it too. It was quite disjointed and amusing.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, is it twenty six to six? Yes, Okay.
- 1:28Speaker 2: He actually made me look at the time and try
- 1:30Speaker 2: and figure out what the time was.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's it's ninety two to ninety ninety two
- 1:38Speaker 1: for him. So you know, it's like, Ah, do you
- 1:43Speaker 1: like modernity or do you wish you could rewind to
- 1:46Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight? Bobby, I would tell you know, I don't.
- 1:52Speaker 3: I don't want to be one of those people that
- 1:54Speaker 3: talk about the good old days, because when I was
- 1:57Speaker 3: a kid, nothing was sadder than listening to some old
- 2:00Speaker 3: bloke who's lost his hair talk about the good old
- 2:03Speaker 3: days and how big he was and how strong he
- 2:06Speaker 3: was and how.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Much he can lift over his head.
- 2:07Speaker 3: I don't know why that was the only lift that
- 2:10Speaker 3: people were proud of back then, but it was always
- 2:12Speaker 3: how much can you lift over your head? And I
- 2:14Speaker 3: never wanted to be one of those old blokes in
- 2:17Speaker 3: a Seinfeld episode, But looking back that the late nineteen
- 2:22Speaker 3: nineties seemed pretty amazing, especially.
- 2:25Speaker 2: When you're sitting there with a bald head and a
- 2:28Speaker 2: torn pick.
- 2:31Speaker 3: I've turned into the exact thing I tried to avoid being.
- 2:35Speaker 3: I am what I have feared my entire life.
- 2:40Speaker 1: This is you and I both because we've both got
- 2:42Speaker 1: a bald head and we've both got a torn pick.
- 2:45Speaker 1: So do you wait till you tell you got a
- 2:47Speaker 1: bit of hair going on up there? I shave it all.
- 2:50Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm not hanging on to any of it.
- 2:54Speaker 1: I feel I'm close to bald.
- 2:57Speaker 3: I think most people, unless you're turning soprano, I should
- 3:00Speaker 3: go that direction.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Do you think so it works? It worked for tony' smrana.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Either either I'm interrupting or I think I'm interrupting. Great,
- 3:12Speaker 1: don't interrupt if do you have any major injuries at
- 3:15Speaker 1: the moment.
- 3:16Speaker 2: No, I don't, which is a blessing. Oh you know
- 3:19Speaker 2: what I do have. I still have a niggling golfer's elbow,
- 3:24Speaker 2: But that is simply because when the severity drops, so
- 3:29Speaker 2: does my ability to continue doing the rehabilitation exercises to
- 3:34Speaker 2: resolve the issue.
- 3:36Speaker 1: I reckon some of the rehabit exercises of the problem
- 3:38Speaker 1: when it comes to tennis elbow aka lateral epicondolitis, because
- 3:45Speaker 1: what happens when you're lifting and you're putting Bobby jump
- 3:49Speaker 1: in on this because you're very smart in this space.
- 3:51Speaker 1: But is like you're building strength, but you're also shortening
- 3:56Speaker 1: the muscles, and then when you do things that are
- 3:59Speaker 1: more dynamic for you. So it works when you're say
- 4:02Speaker 1: bench pressing, but when you throw a punch, which is
- 4:05Speaker 1: really dynamic, and then that those muscles around the elbow
- 4:09Speaker 1: have got to be put on stretch, then you're just creating.
- 4:15Speaker 1: You're going from short and kind of really dense to
- 4:18Speaker 1: longer and more fluid. And I was listening to what
- 4:24Speaker 1: is his name, greatest quarterback of all time retired when
- 4:28Speaker 1: he was forty five, Bobby what's his name? Come on,
- 4:33Speaker 1: you're an American male? Forgot Tom Brady? Tom Brady? Fucking hell?
- 4:38Speaker 1: Are you sure you're American? Anyway? He was talking about
- 4:41Speaker 1: the same thing, Tiff, and he said that as soon
- 4:46Speaker 1: as he started to get in between strength sessions, because
- 4:50Speaker 1: his job as a quarterback is throwing, which is not
- 4:53Speaker 1: a lot different to punching in the movement, he started
- 4:58Speaker 1: to get basically deep tissue massage between every strength session
- 5:03Speaker 1: and every throwing session or regular practice. And when he
- 5:07Speaker 1: was twenty four or five, he was pretty fucked. And
- 5:10Speaker 1: then he went to play until he was forty five
- 5:15Speaker 1: in the NFL, so he played twenty more years after
- 5:18Speaker 1: he was thinking about having to hang it up because
- 5:21Speaker 1: he had this super restrictive, debilitating tennis elbow. So anyway,
- 5:28Speaker 1: but not over for me.
- 5:30Speaker 2: He's wanted to get out of that. It's not over yet. Well.
- 5:33Speaker 1: I tore my peck off the bone when I was
- 5:39Speaker 1: twenty eight, Bobby, when did you do yours? Oh? And
- 5:43Speaker 1: I was was I forty forty six? Forty seven? Yeah? Yeah,
- 5:48Speaker 1: so you can. I mean you end up like things
- 5:52Speaker 1: come back. Obviously, I've still got it, like I've had
- 5:55Speaker 1: to compromise my chess training for the last few decades.
- 5:59Speaker 1: But you do what you can do. But you've never
- 6:02Speaker 1: had a major injury, right.
- 6:03Speaker 2: No, But especially in combat sport, it's one of those
- 6:07Speaker 2: sports where you are never injury free. Never Like I
- 6:10Speaker 2: have my first novice title fight, I had a stress
- 6:13Speaker 2: fractured transvesse process, which is my spine, which was very painful.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Aside from on the day when I was fueled with adrenaline,
- 6:21Speaker 2: I had stress fracture in my right hand that I
- 6:24Speaker 2: didn't get diagnosed for it until it was already healing.
- 6:28Speaker 2: I tore my labor m in my shoulder. I had
- 6:30Speaker 2: to have a lot of time off all training and movement,
- 6:34Speaker 2: about ten months to rehab that hamstring teninopothies, there was knees, everything.
- 6:40Speaker 2: There was never a time when you aren't navigating an injury.
- 6:44Speaker 2: And that's just part of being an athlete. And I
- 6:46Speaker 2: think now as as a coach and trainer, it was
- 6:49Speaker 2: really important to have gone through that because you understand
- 6:53Speaker 2: that you don't have to fear. When you find the
- 6:56Speaker 2: right therapist, what right physiotherapist, or who helps you rehabilitate,
- 7:02Speaker 2: you realize that pain is not the enemy.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, exercise, get on it. That's great. All the
- 7:12Speaker 1: non exercises are like fuck that we're talking about. We're
- 7:17Speaker 1: talking about exercise or I don't think.
- 7:20Speaker 3: I think training is the more appropriate word training for
- 7:23Speaker 3: a sport versus exercise for optimizing some aspect of our health.
- 7:28Speaker 3: What's good for the sport is not necessarily good for
- 7:30Speaker 3: the body. But I think someone who's just regularly exercising
- 7:35Speaker 3: isn't training in the same way that a competitive fighter
- 7:38Speaker 3: would be training. And I don't necessarily believe in sports
- 7:42Speaker 3: specific training, but the type of sports conditioning training I'll
- 7:46Speaker 3: say that you would have to do is a completely
- 7:49Speaker 3: different game.
- 7:51Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody when I was up seeing
- 7:56Speaker 1: my mom and dad the other day and really interesting,
- 8:02Speaker 1: had a really interesting chat with a bloke and he
- 8:05Speaker 1: said to me, he was talking about my work. He's
- 8:07Speaker 1: quite interested in it, and he comes from a very
- 8:12Speaker 1: different space and background and kind of world to me.
- 8:17Speaker 1: And he said to he asked me this really profound question.
- 8:21Speaker 1: And the lead up to his question was, I said, Look,
- 8:24Speaker 1: in simple terms, I kind of help people change. And
- 8:28Speaker 1: he goes change what? And I go, oh, you know
- 8:30Speaker 1: how they think, habits, behaviors, outcomes, operating systems. And he
- 8:36Speaker 1: goes to people to what extent can people actually really change,
- 8:42Speaker 1: not just change their behavior temporarily and change their operating
- 8:46Speaker 1: system or their outcomes, but actually become a genuinely different
- 8:53Speaker 1: version of who they were? I reckon that's not a
- 8:57Speaker 1: bad thing to explore, because I don't know that. I
- 9:01Speaker 1: don't think it's easy, and I don't think it's super
- 9:04Speaker 1: common that people actually reinvent themselves the way that they
- 9:09Speaker 1: perhaps want to.
- 9:10Speaker 3: Well, how do you explain, Madonna?
- 9:13Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're thinking about esthetics. I think is
- 9:19Speaker 1: constant reinvention.
- 9:21Speaker 3: I mean because look at her and look at Cyndea Lapper, right,
- 9:24Speaker 3: both of those people were iconic in the nineteen eighties, but.
- 9:28Speaker 1: As time went on, not so much.
- 9:30Speaker 3: Cyndey Lauper and Cidea Lauper is every bit as talented
- 9:33Speaker 3: as Madonna.
- 9:33Speaker 1: I think.
- 9:34Speaker 3: Actually, Cidea Lauper is one of the most underrated artists ever.
- 9:38Speaker 3: She's incredible. But let's not go down that path. This
- 9:42Speaker 3: is not a podcast about what does Bobby think of Cindy.
- 9:45Speaker 3: We're talking about reinvention.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Well, you were just talking about basically how people look
- 9:53Speaker 1: or their their brand or their image or yeah. That,
- 9:57Speaker 1: but that's not who someone is. That's not there identity,
- 10:01Speaker 1: that's not enough.
- 10:02Speaker 3: Don't the ultimate knowledge of like the personality traits in
- 10:06Speaker 3: worldview that Madonna had throughout her thirty years of being
- 10:10Speaker 3: a music icon. But she might have made some significant changes.
- 10:15Speaker 3: She might have changed internally as well as externally. You know, now,
- 10:19Speaker 3: you know what, maybe every one of those brand shifts
- 10:21Speaker 3: were reflective of a deeper, more meaningful intrinsic shift.
- 10:26Speaker 1: You got to get her on the show, talk to
- 10:28Speaker 1: her about it. Well, okay, so everyone who talks to
- 10:33Speaker 1: us three in a coaching capacity, wants to change something.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Can I get an agreement on that or no? Yes, Bobby, Yeah,
- 10:43Speaker 1: So that's what I'm talking about, that capacity to change,
- 10:48Speaker 1: to be different, do different, but also become different. So
- 10:52Speaker 1: this different thing that I'm now doing is my new default.
- 10:58Speaker 1: This is my normal operating system. This is me now
- 11:02Speaker 1: because we can't. We can, but we can't productively spend
- 11:06Speaker 1: the next fifteen twenty years trying to get there by
- 11:11Speaker 1: crossing our fingers and relying on willpower and inspiration and
- 11:16Speaker 1: focus and discipline and self control. But when I actually
- 11:21Speaker 1: change who I am and how I relate to these
- 11:25Speaker 1: things that I need to do, that need for focus
- 11:29Speaker 1: and discipline and high level resilience, it kind of goes
- 11:33Speaker 1: away because I've reprogrammed me. Does that make sense or not?
- 11:38Speaker 3: My short answer is, I obviously believe people can change.
- 11:41Speaker 3: Why would I do to what I do if I
- 11:43Speaker 3: don't believe that people fundamentals?
- 11:45Speaker 1: Okay, but I get that, But let's talk about the
- 11:47Speaker 1: process of it. Well, I talk about doing it.
- 11:52Speaker 3: I think there's some nuance there because if we're going
- 11:54Speaker 3: to talk about people's capacity for change, one, I don't
- 11:58Speaker 3: think it's a yes or no answer, just to cut
- 12:02Speaker 3: to the to the bottom line of it. On my opinion, yes,
- 12:06Speaker 3: I believe people can change, but I don't think everybody
- 12:08Speaker 3: has the same capacity. I mean, what are all the
- 12:11Speaker 3: variables that go into change and make up who someone is?
- 12:15Speaker 3: So you have you have genetic factors, right, There's there's
- 12:19Speaker 3: got to be hereditary factors.
- 12:21Speaker 1: That come with it.
- 12:22Speaker 3: Heredity, natural selection, gene mutation, all of these things got
- 12:27Speaker 3: to play into it. Paul Taylor had a great conversation
- 12:30Speaker 3: with Sonya Lubermirski, the happiness researcher, and.
- 12:34Speaker 1: You know, in her research, she points.
- 12:36Speaker 3: Out quite readily that fifty percent of someone's level of
- 12:40Speaker 3: happiness is innate. It's not going to shift. So me,
- 12:44Speaker 3: I'm on far more of the curmudgeonous side. But ten percent,
- 12:49Speaker 3: according to her research, has to do with your conditions
- 12:51Speaker 3: and circumstances, and forty percent is behavioral, and forty percent
- 12:55Speaker 3: has a lot of room to play with. So I
- 12:58Speaker 3: might not become, in essence, the happiest person in the world,
- 13:01Speaker 3: but I can be happier, and I don't know will
- 13:04Speaker 3: that happiness change my worldview? So you have social influences,
- 13:10Speaker 3: you have your values, your beliefs. I mean, I have
- 13:12Speaker 3: a cat, I can get toxoplasmosis tomorrow and buy a
- 13:16Speaker 3: motorcycle and drive it at super speeds getting myself killed
- 13:20Speaker 3: on the motorway. So it's kind of complicated. But if
- 13:24Speaker 3: you look at the trans theoretical model of change James
- 13:27Speaker 3: Petraska and his work, you know there are six phases
- 13:32Speaker 3: and the last phase of change is not I am doing.
- 13:36Speaker 1: Something, but I am being something.
- 13:39Speaker 3: This has become part of me to where relapse is
- 13:42Speaker 3: either not going to happen or the chances of relapse
- 13:45Speaker 3: are so small because it's not something that I'm trying
- 13:48Speaker 3: to do on a behavioral level. This is become who
- 13:51Speaker 3: I am intrinsically.
- 13:54Speaker 1: But so my takeaway is everybody has the capacity for change.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Whether or not they will change is a different question,
- 14:02Speaker 1: and how much capacity they have changed varies person and person. Also,
- 14:10Speaker 1: people who use motorbikes ride them, they don't drive them. Bobby,
- 14:14Speaker 1: if you should have told him that nobody drives a motorcycle,
- 14:19Speaker 1: neither do they ride a car. But so exactly anyway,
- 14:29Speaker 1: I'll take your words for it. So knowing this, somebody
- 14:35Speaker 1: is listening to this and they go, right, I want
- 14:37Speaker 1: to change. I've tried before it didn't work or I
- 14:40Speaker 1: didn't work or whatever, whatever it is, I'm kind of
- 14:43Speaker 1: in the same place, whether it's with my body or
- 14:46Speaker 1: my career, my habits, or my emotional state or my
- 14:51Speaker 1: relationships or my lifestyle. How does it? And I know
- 14:56Speaker 1: this again is complex, and I know there's lots of
- 14:59Speaker 1: factors and very so you don't need to qualify that,
- 15:02Speaker 1: But how do we or how do you? Anyway? How
- 15:05Speaker 1: do you know where to start so that you might
- 15:09Speaker 1: find for that individual with those genetics and those dynamics
- 15:13Speaker 1: and that personality and those needs, wants, goals. What's the
- 15:17Speaker 1: starting point for you as a coach?
- 15:23Speaker 3: What does borrow from Simon Sinek starting with why is
- 15:27Speaker 3: not a bad place to be? Like, what's really underneath
- 15:31Speaker 3: that change? Like, what's the value there? What's the meaning
- 15:35Speaker 3: of changing? Am I changing because I feel that other
- 15:39Speaker 3: people will find me more acceptable? Am I changing because
- 15:42Speaker 3: there's something pragmatic that will help me advance in my career?
- 15:46Speaker 3: There's there's a why underneath that, But what's the real
- 15:49Speaker 3: reason that's driving that? And what does that look like?
- 15:53Speaker 3: What's different once you change? Then getting that level of
- 15:56Speaker 3: clarity and I believe I believe once you have that,
- 16:02Speaker 3: a lot of change occurs behaviorally. I know a lot
- 16:06Speaker 3: of people will disagree with me, and I've spoken to
- 16:08Speaker 3: them and I think they have a lot of good points.
- 16:10Speaker 1: But I think once you identify.
- 16:13Speaker 3: What exact, So let's take motivational interviewing, the phases would
- 16:18Speaker 3: look something like this one. We would have to be engaged.
- 16:22Speaker 3: I don't mean like engaged to be married. That's really
- 16:26Speaker 3: a violation of ethics in a coaching situation, but I
- 16:29Speaker 3: mean engaged to where there's rapport, there's responsiveness, there's psychological safety,
- 16:34Speaker 3: because otherwise we're not gonna be able to accomplish anything together.
- 16:38Speaker 3: But then there we start with the what. First, I know,
- 16:41Speaker 3: I said start with why, but what exactly are you
- 16:44Speaker 3: looking for? Clarity really matters. Second is evocation, like why
- 16:51Speaker 3: is this particularly important? And then the last phase is
- 16:55Speaker 3: the how, what's the planning? What's the actual shift in behavior?
- 16:59Speaker 3: I believe strongly that by engaging in a series of behaviors,
- 17:04Speaker 3: you reshape, reframe your beliefs and your attitudes, not only
- 17:09Speaker 3: to your level of capability, but to who you see
- 17:12Speaker 3: yourself as. That's a big part of it.
- 17:16Speaker 1: I like that I do a similar thing. Not that
- 17:18Speaker 1: I do much goal setting per se, but I used
- 17:21Speaker 1: to do quite a lot. And we'd say that there's
- 17:22Speaker 1: the same thing. I'd say to people, So what do
- 17:24Speaker 1: you want? What do you want to do? Be? Create? Change?
- 17:27Speaker 1: What's the thing that you want to you know, what's
- 17:29Speaker 1: the goal you want to reach? And then we do
- 17:31Speaker 1: the why you know, Like say, for example, somebody says,
- 17:37Speaker 1: you know, I want to change my body. I want
- 17:38Speaker 1: to look different, feel different, and function different, which are
- 17:42Speaker 1: all physiological outcomes and emotional outcomes I guess, feel but
- 17:48Speaker 1: also physical. And I'd say, right, why, Like what's your
- 17:52Speaker 1: reason for that? And then I'd say, oh, well, sometimes
- 17:56Speaker 1: it'd be something like I want to be able to
- 17:57Speaker 1: play with my kid, or I want to be able
- 17:59Speaker 1: to get in then out of the car, or want
- 18:01Speaker 1: to be able to wear different clothes, or I want
- 18:04Speaker 1: more confidence, or I want you know, all of these
- 18:07Speaker 1: things that they think will be a byproduct of the
- 18:12Speaker 1: physical transformation. And then I'd say, why do you want that?
- 18:18Speaker 1: Like why do you want a better job and more
- 18:20Speaker 1: do why do you want to be able to wear
- 18:21Speaker 1: different clothes? Why do you want to be more attractive?
- 18:25Speaker 1: To someone, why do you want all of these which
- 18:27Speaker 1: are not None of those are bad wise either, But
- 18:30Speaker 1: eventually it comes once you go through the level or
- 18:33Speaker 1: the layer of wise. It's like I want to be happy,
- 18:38Speaker 1: or I don't want to be anxious, or I want
- 18:40Speaker 1: to be like Ultimately, nearly every goal, I think is
- 18:44Speaker 1: in a quest to change some internal state, and it's
- 18:49Speaker 1: that external thing, that external shift that people believe is
- 18:53Speaker 1: the pathway to the internal thing that they really want.
- 18:57Speaker 1: I think nobody has a big goal thinking I hope
- 19:01Speaker 1: this makes me less happy.
- 19:03Speaker 3: Yeah, I think happiness comes to happiness significance. I mean,
- 19:07Speaker 3: if you look if you look at any of the
- 19:09Speaker 3: basic human needs, I think it's all aimed around that.
- 19:12Speaker 3: I feel like happiness is definitely up there on someone's list.
- 19:17Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's.
- 19:19Speaker 3: Also meaning, I feel like, And I personally think that's
- 19:24Speaker 3: a more enduring way of supporting happiness because people who
- 19:28Speaker 3: pursue happiness were horrible at predicting what's going to make
- 19:31Speaker 3: us happy. So much of the time we pursue something,
- 19:34Speaker 3: we get there were like, oh my god, is that
- 19:36Speaker 3: all there is?
- 19:37Speaker 1: Like I thought this would be completely.
- 19:39Speaker 3: Different, kind of like Matt Emmons back in the Olympics
- 19:43Speaker 3: has gone back many years ago. So Matt Emmons was
- 19:45Speaker 3: the marksman for the US team, one of the best
- 19:49Speaker 3: shooters in the world, and by the end of the
- 19:52Speaker 3: competition he was so far ahead of everybody else that
- 19:55Speaker 3: all he had to do was hit anywhere on the
- 19:58Speaker 3: target and instantly he would go home with a gold medal.
- 20:01Speaker 3: But that sounds personality type. You don't get to be
- 20:03Speaker 3: one of the best marksmen in the world by not
- 20:07Speaker 3: really putting in work and effort into every shot. So
- 20:10Speaker 3: he wanted to get a bullseye, so he focused, aimed,
- 20:15Speaker 3: exhaled shot, hit the bullseye dead center, and with that
- 20:19Speaker 3: went to last place in the competition, went home with
- 20:22Speaker 3: no medals. Now the look you're giving me is the
- 20:25Speaker 3: look I had on my face, which is.
- 20:27Speaker 1: On a confusion. How this guy can I get? Go ahead?
- 20:31Speaker 1: Guess what? He shut at the wrong board.
- 20:35Speaker 3: He hit the bullseye on the target in the lane
- 20:37Speaker 3: next to him. Yeah, perfect shot, wrong target. How many
- 20:44Speaker 3: of us end up there at one point in our
- 20:46Speaker 3: lives or another.
- 20:47Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting. That's a nice little story, dude.
- 20:51Speaker 3: I got that from Martin Rooney actually, And.
- 20:55Speaker 1: The thing that we want the thing that we want
- 20:59Speaker 1: an aim for is not always the thing that we
- 21:02Speaker 1: actually need. Right. And also when you get the bulls
- 21:06Speaker 1: either literal or the metaphoric bulls eye, and you win
- 21:08Speaker 1: the literal or metaphoric gold medal, it's not like, oh
- 21:13Speaker 1: good now I'm good. Now I'm happy, I'm content. Yep,
- 21:18Speaker 1: it's all good. I can just chill out now. There's
- 21:21Speaker 1: always something else. There's always more anxiety, more restlessness, you know,
- 21:29Speaker 1: more whatever.
- 21:32Speaker 3: Aside from having your basic human needs Matt, and I'm
- 21:35Speaker 3: not just talking about food and shelter. You know how
- 21:37Speaker 3: you have people in your social network, You got your
- 21:40Speaker 3: mates that you care about them, they care about you.
- 21:42Speaker 3: So I think all of those things contribute enormously to
- 21:46Speaker 3: our level of well being, a satisfaction. But beyond that,
- 21:49Speaker 3: I feel like it's it's not having, it's in the pursuing.
- 21:53Speaker 1: It's going after something.
- 21:54Speaker 3: I don't really know that it's having something that makes
- 21:59Speaker 3: all the difference. And this is just from conversations that
- 22:02Speaker 3: were one. We're wired for pursuit, right, We're not wired
- 22:06Speaker 3: for having. We're wired for pursuing because I think most
- 22:09Speaker 3: of the things we needed for our survival weren't enduring.
- 22:13Speaker 3: You went out in a hunt, found something, you brought
- 22:15Speaker 3: it back to the tribe. Well, you're going to have
- 22:17Speaker 3: to go do that again very soon if you want
- 22:19Speaker 3: the trife to survive. But it's also my personal conversations,
- 22:24Speaker 3: like when you ask somebody what was the best time
- 22:25Speaker 3: in the life. So you're saying, you want this, this,
- 22:27Speaker 3: and this. Can you remember a specific time where you
- 22:32Speaker 3: feel you've had it, And a lot of people go, yeah,
- 22:35Speaker 3: I remember this, and we'll tell me about that. And
- 22:37Speaker 3: so often it's like, oh, I was living in this
- 22:39Speaker 3: one bedroom apartment, I was just married and just the
- 22:41Speaker 3: beginning of our career, and it's about this thing where
- 22:44Speaker 3: we didn't have much, but we had these big dreams
- 22:46Speaker 3: and we were going after it and we were together.
- 22:49Speaker 3: Togetherness people always show up in those stories most of
- 22:54Speaker 3: the time, not always.
- 22:56Speaker 1: And what's interesting is sometimes when you're in the middle
- 23:00Speaker 1: of that awesomeness, you don't realize how great it is,
- 23:05Speaker 1: but then ten years later, you know, or ten thousand
- 23:09Speaker 1: miles away from it, it's like, how good was that
- 23:13Speaker 1: One of the guys that used to work in one
- 23:15Speaker 1: of my gyms, the one that we train in tiff
- 23:18Speaker 1: and you've trained in Bobby the one on Bluff Road,
- 23:22Speaker 1: or used to be a Harper's. He came up there
- 23:26Speaker 1: the other night and trained. I think you've met him,
- 23:28Speaker 1: Tiff John, the Massoua guy, the myotherapist guy. Anyway, he
- 23:33Speaker 1: said to me, because he used to work at Harper's.
- 23:36Speaker 1: He had his own little office there and did all
- 23:38Speaker 1: this therapy stuff. He said. When we worked here, it
- 23:42Speaker 1: was the best time of my life, he goes. It
- 23:44Speaker 1: was the best place I ever worked. It was the
- 23:46Speaker 1: best culture, It was the most fun. Everybody loved being here,
- 23:51Speaker 1: and that was I'm sure there was the odd exception,
- 23:53Speaker 1: but in general terms that was true. Like it was
- 23:57Speaker 1: just a fun, awesome environment to be But at the time,
- 24:02Speaker 1: while I enjoyed it, but I didn't realize how great
- 24:06Speaker 1: it was. You didn't realize how good something is until
- 24:09Speaker 1: you get away from the good thing sometimes. But yeah,
- 24:14Speaker 1: I love that time.
- 24:16Speaker 3: I think that was a whole point at Midnight in
- 24:17Speaker 3: Paris with Owen Wilson, where it's about everybody romanticizes specific
- 24:25Speaker 3: times in their life, like certain periods, and when you
- 24:29Speaker 3: get there it might not be as good as you
- 24:32Speaker 3: think it was. And really, the best time in your
- 24:34Speaker 3: life is what's happening right now. That's the only time
- 24:37Speaker 3: you have control over. But I think reflection is really
- 24:39Speaker 3: important because what was it about that environment that made
- 24:44Speaker 3: it so great for that person at that time? I mean,
- 24:47Speaker 3: it wasn't the building. There wasn't anything magical about the
- 24:50Speaker 3: four walls, you know, you weren't you know, like giving
- 24:55Speaker 3: people mushrooms within their water bottles.
- 24:58Speaker 1: There must have.
- 24:58Speaker 3: Been something that for that individual really made that time
- 25:03Speaker 3: worth it and engaging upon reflection.
- 25:06Speaker 1: So it was it's important, sorry to I think about
- 25:11Speaker 1: some of the things that went on back then, like
- 25:13Speaker 1: nothing horrendous, but just you know, the just the conversations
- 25:19Speaker 1: because there were no iPhones, so like it was the nineties,
- 25:23Speaker 1: it was late nineties, so there was you know, the
- 25:25Speaker 1: odd motorola, bloody brick with a big rubber aeria or something,
- 25:30Speaker 1: but there's none of the stuff we've got now. And
- 25:35Speaker 1: I don't know if I should say this, No, I
- 25:38Speaker 1: won't say it. But anyway, we had a few things
- 25:40Speaker 1: go on there that were just just out of control,
- 25:45Speaker 1: but nobody got offended. Everybody was in everybody laughed. But
- 25:51Speaker 1: now I will say this, I won't our listeners might
- 25:56Speaker 1: figure it out, but one of my clients was a female.
- 26:02Speaker 1: For my thirtieth birthday, which is thirty two years ago,
- 26:07Speaker 1: enlisted the services of a young lady to come up
- 26:14Speaker 1: into the gym and share for the afternoon. Yeah, it was.
- 26:22Speaker 1: It was just, you know, here's your birthday present. Now,
- 26:25Speaker 1: what's funny is first that was organized by a woman. Secondly,
- 26:30Speaker 1: and people go, oh you fuck I loved it. I
- 26:32Speaker 1: didn't love it. I hated it being in my gym.
- 26:34Speaker 1: All I could think about was fucking what's going to
- 26:38Speaker 1: happen now? This is I'm fuck, this is bad for
- 26:40Speaker 1: my business, bad for me. I didn't enjoy it, but
- 26:45Speaker 1: there was This was like nine point thirty in the morning.
- 26:47Speaker 1: It was primarily, if not all women in the gym.
- 26:52Speaker 1: They fucking laughed so hard and had so much fun.
- 26:57Speaker 1: And that was so out of control. And now I'm
- 27:02Speaker 1: not suggesting this is a good thing anyone, but one,
- 27:05Speaker 1: I didn't create it. Two I didn't enjoy it. But
- 27:09Speaker 1: I think about those times when everyone went, this is
- 27:12Speaker 1: just a funny thing, Like nobody's twisting anyone's arm. Craig
- 27:16Speaker 1: is clearly embarrassed. Yeah, but I think about stuff like
- 27:21Speaker 1: that now. Fucking hell. Imagine the imagine the upshot of that.
- 27:28Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's one person with an iPhone. I'm fucked.
- 27:32Speaker 1: The business is fucked. Everybody's. Even though I didn't organize it,
- 27:37Speaker 1: didn't want it, didn't do it, somehow I'd still be fucked.
- 27:41Speaker 3: I mean, even though, yeah, things are a little bit
- 27:45Speaker 3: different today.
- 27:46Speaker 1: But it wasn't that.
- 27:47Speaker 3: And we could probably guess in no more than two
- 27:49Speaker 3: gases what happened, what that day was about. But it
- 27:52Speaker 3: wasn't that. You didn't even feel comfortable with that. It's
- 27:55Speaker 3: just being in an environment where people are connected, they're
- 27:58Speaker 3: present with one another, they're taking the piss out of
- 28:01Speaker 3: one another. Maybe things that are happening seem a little
- 28:04Speaker 3: bit crazy at the time. I remember one of and
- 28:06Speaker 3: this is nowhere near as scandalous is your situation, but
- 28:10Speaker 3: one of my clients, he used to have these ridiculous
- 28:14Speaker 3: conversations and somehow we were talking about vampires and Jack
- 28:21Speaker 3: Russell Terrier's and he had hired somebody to walk into
- 28:24Speaker 3: the gym dressed as a vampire and with a Jack
- 28:28Speaker 3: Russell Terrier. Actually no, not him, my other client who
- 28:31Speaker 3: worked for him. So he got to Jack Russell Terrier
- 28:34Speaker 3: for the day and he was walking around with this
- 28:35Speaker 3: rented dog given to him by a vampire, and I
- 28:39Speaker 3: thought that was kind of It's just this light kind
- 28:42Speaker 3: of sense of humor and fun, and it's the elements
- 28:45Speaker 3: like we didn't have iPhones.
- 28:47Speaker 1: That's important. So you know, you remember Nick Jarvis, right, yeah,
- 28:52Speaker 1: and say the British dude. Yeah.
- 28:54Speaker 3: So he's like an NLP master. He's done a lot
- 28:57Speaker 3: of coaching work out in the UK for a couple
- 28:59Speaker 3: of industries and he worked really closely with us. And
- 29:03Speaker 3: right in the middle of COVID, I had spoken to
- 29:05Speaker 3: someone who I used to work with quite a bit,
- 29:07Speaker 3: and she was going through a bit of a rough
- 29:09Speaker 3: time and she had gone out with Nick and they
- 29:12Speaker 3: were just grabbing a pint and you know, this is
- 29:14Speaker 3: when you could sit outside, like when the regulations loosened
- 29:19Speaker 3: up a little bit for a couple of weeks, and
- 29:22Speaker 3: she was talking about what she was struggling with, and
- 29:24Speaker 3: he asked her that question, well, was there ever a
- 29:27Speaker 3: time in your life where you felt things really were
- 29:32Speaker 3: the way you wanted them to be and you were
- 29:33Speaker 3: truly happy? And her response made me a little bit
- 29:36Speaker 3: emotional because she said, yeah, it was when we were
- 29:38Speaker 3: all together and I remember listening to that and thinking
- 29:42Speaker 3: in my head, oh yeah, that was it for me too.
- 29:46Speaker 3: But it was because you had all of your mates,
- 29:49Speaker 3: but you weren't just hanging out taking the piss and
- 29:52Speaker 3: having a lot of fun. You were doing that, but
- 29:54Speaker 3: you were also co committed to one another. There was
- 29:57Speaker 3: a sense of partnership to create something beyond all of us.
- 30:03Speaker 1: We had a mission.
- 30:04Speaker 3: We were learning, we were growing, we were challenging one another.
- 30:08Speaker 3: We're out doing meaningful stuff that we enjoyed.
- 30:12Speaker 1: It need to exline to our audience. You need to
- 30:15Speaker 1: explain to our audience who the ways of which you're speaking.
- 30:18Speaker 3: Oh, I'm thinking back in PTA Global, back in the
- 30:22Speaker 3: fit pro days, so fit Pro in the UK. You know,
- 30:25Speaker 3: we had just launched recently PTA Global, which was a
- 30:30Speaker 3: personal training and leadership development company certification. So it was
- 30:36Speaker 3: a couple of us from NASM, a couple of us
- 30:39Speaker 3: like Richard from the founder of PT on the net.
- 30:42Speaker 3: So we had all these really great people that got
- 30:46Speaker 3: on really well, that came together and said let's do something.
- 30:49Speaker 3: I think I think it's just that idea of like,
- 30:52Speaker 3: let's do something, let's be present with one another and
- 30:55Speaker 3: looking back you know, so well, what's getting the way?
- 30:57Speaker 3: Like you said, our mobile phones? How much time do
- 31:00Speaker 3: we really spend present with another person versus lost in
- 31:05Speaker 3: the screen world?
- 31:06Speaker 1: Yeah? Did you and I present in New Zealand or
- 31:10Speaker 1: was that just me? I know I went there for
- 31:13Speaker 1: them once. Also London? That was you and I together
- 31:17Speaker 1: in London? And yeah, we've we've presented in London. I
- 31:20Speaker 1: don't know if we I know I was in New
- 31:22Speaker 1: Zealand presenting for like a couple of events. I don't wait, No,
- 31:28Speaker 1: I don't think you were there. What about what about Melweden?
- 31:32Speaker 1: Were you with me when we went to Sweden for
- 31:34Speaker 1: the weekend from London? No?
- 31:37Speaker 3: No, I was not with you in Sweden.
- 31:40Speaker 1: And then he died in Sweden because I underestimated how
- 31:43Speaker 1: cold it was. And I went for a run and
- 31:46Speaker 1: I went downstairs in this hotel we're at. It was
- 31:49Speaker 1: minus six and I had on shorts and a black
- 31:51Speaker 1: T shirt nothing else, and the concierge told me I
- 31:56Speaker 1: should not go, I shouldn't go outside like that, and
- 32:00Speaker 1: I'm like refreshing, Fuck, yeah, fuck it, I'm in Australian
- 32:03Speaker 1: I'm good. And then I ran out the door and
- 32:06Speaker 1: I ran I just thought, I'm going to because I
- 32:08Speaker 1: don't know where I am. I'm going to run in
- 32:10Speaker 1: a straight line for like three k's turn around, run back,
- 32:14Speaker 1: So I did so. I eventually ended up out of
- 32:17Speaker 1: the town that we're in and into this rural area
- 32:22Speaker 1: and I was just running past basically fields and bush
- 32:26Speaker 1: and I'm in the middle of nowhere, and it was
- 32:31Speaker 1: like cold, cold, cold, but I went, it's freezing, but
- 32:35Speaker 1: I'm fine because I'm going to keep moving. I'll turn around.
- 32:39Speaker 1: I'm running like five minute k's turn around, fifteen minutes back.
- 32:43Speaker 1: I'm good. And I turned around and I hand on heart.
- 32:48Speaker 1: This is true. I did not realize I was running
- 32:51Speaker 1: with a significant wind assistance. So I turned around and
- 32:57Speaker 1: I'm just running into a headwind. And I went from
- 33:01Speaker 1: cold to fuck. I think I'm going to die soon.
- 33:06Speaker 1: And by the time I got back to the hotel,
- 33:10Speaker 1: like I got in and just all of these people
- 33:13Speaker 1: looked at me and came to help me. What the
- 33:16Speaker 1: fuck have you done? Like my lips were blue, my
- 33:19Speaker 1: fingers were blue. And then I finally got up to
- 33:23Speaker 1: I think it was Boydie maybe who let me into
- 33:28Speaker 1: the room and I went and had a shower, to
- 33:31Speaker 1: warm up, but I had to put on I put
- 33:34Speaker 1: on the cold water because the hot water I couldn't stand.
- 33:39Speaker 1: So I put on the cold water and it felt
- 33:41Speaker 1: warm compared to my body.
- 33:43Speaker 3: And it just the funniest thing about that whole story,
- 33:46Speaker 3: because it's not funny except for when she said I
- 33:49Speaker 3: wouldn't go out there, and you're like, oh, I'm Australian.
- 33:51Speaker 1: No one. I didn't say that. I just thought it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 33:57Speaker 1: that's exactly true. No, well, that's just says to himself,
- 34:03Speaker 1: like he's a penguin. If you look back and think
- 34:07Speaker 1: there was a time in your life where it was
- 34:08Speaker 1: fucking amazing and you'd like to go back there, or
- 34:11Speaker 1: maybe that time is now. I feel like for you
- 34:14Speaker 1: it might be around now where you're having some of
- 34:17Speaker 1: the best days.
- 34:18Speaker 2: Yeah, now is definitely definitely a time. There's there's other times.
- 34:24Speaker 2: I think of a particular gym's where the community and
- 34:28Speaker 2: the and the space was just incredible and the people
- 34:32Speaker 2: around me, Like when I was involved in my first
- 34:37Speaker 2: fight and it was interesting. I was thinking about it
- 34:39Speaker 2: as you go to talking, and that particular gym it
- 34:43Speaker 2: was so special when I joined it, and then it
- 34:45Speaker 2: moved to a bigger place, and everything changed and some
- 34:50Speaker 2: people left, but this, this space that housed this beautiful
- 34:54Speaker 2: thing was gone forever. It was never the same. It's
- 34:59Speaker 2: really interesting.
- 35:02Speaker 1: There are times when I look back at like we
- 35:05Speaker 1: used to run Bobby, you came and spoke at one.
- 35:07Speaker 1: We used to run a yearly camp at Mount Eliza,
- 35:11Speaker 1: And it's funny how like you spend two and a
- 35:13Speaker 1: half like Friday night, sad Day, Sunday morning and afternoon,
- 35:19Speaker 1: and even just those three days a year were really memorable.
- 35:24Speaker 1: It's like, how can three days be so memorable?
- 35:27Speaker 2: That was the best? Can we do that again?
- 35:30Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been thinking about that.
- 35:33Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 35:33Speaker 1: You came to a feud, didn't you. Yeah.
- 35:35Speaker 2: I came to one and then I asked you. That
- 35:37Speaker 2: was when I first asked if I could come and volunteer,
- 35:40Speaker 2: just to be at it again.
- 35:42Speaker 1: Yeah. And such a good time and such good energy
- 35:45Speaker 1: and no dickheads.
- 35:47Speaker 2: And I have so many connections with people that I
- 35:51Speaker 2: met at that event, because there's something specially in a
- 35:55Speaker 2: space like that.
- 35:57Speaker 3: Also, when you go hey By, that's where mattn too.
- 36:01Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. If you look at the top of
- 36:03Speaker 1: Bobby's bookshelf, a cat.
- 36:05Speaker 2: I was trying to figure out earlier if that was
- 36:07Speaker 2: a real cat or just a pretend cat laying on
- 36:10Speaker 2: the shelf.
- 36:12Speaker 1: That's a roal one?
- 36:13Speaker 2: Is that who Deani?
- 36:15Speaker 1: That's who Deani? Yeah? Canal look at him? He looks
- 36:20Speaker 1: like he's in the selarium. He's almost got his head
- 36:22Speaker 1: on that light beside. This is terrible podcasting for anyone,
- 36:30Speaker 1: because now he's gorgeous.
- 36:32Speaker 3: This is amazing podcasting. Yeah, maybe don't share the videos.
- 36:37Speaker 3: This is nice, it's adorable.
- 36:43Speaker 1: He's looking at you like, can you talk quieter? Or
- 36:45Speaker 1: I'm trying to sleep?
- 36:47Speaker 3: And we got over the hypothermia and Sweden. Now we're
- 36:49Speaker 3: just talking shit for like the past twenty years.
- 36:53Speaker 1: Well, I feel like we've gone around in circles for
- 36:55Speaker 1: forty minutes. I offered next to nothing, but that's okay.
- 36:58Speaker 1: Sometimes we do that, Bobby. How can people find you
- 37:03Speaker 1: and connect with you? I moved, so it's a lot harder. Yeah, okay,
- 37:09Speaker 1: Well maybe let's just stay in the virtual context. Fuck
- 37:12Speaker 1: your random some days today? What did he say about
- 37:17Speaker 1: that Nicholas Cage movie or something something in Paris? And
- 37:22Speaker 1: I'm like, where the fuck did that come from?
- 37:25Speaker 3: Ohen Wilson was in that. But what is wrong with
- 37:28Speaker 3: quoting a film? You watch films, right.
- 37:31Speaker 1: I know, But here's the thing. You go, it's like
- 37:34Speaker 1: Owen Wilson in the Weekend in Paris or whatever the fuck, Like,
- 37:38Speaker 1: we all know what that is.
- 37:41Speaker 4: You know that sent yeahs don't know and yeah so
- 37:48Speaker 4: and then he did this in that film and that
- 37:50Speaker 4: was the mean point of the film.
- 37:52Speaker 1: There you go a little bit of backstory. Wow, we
- 37:54Speaker 1: all feel so enlightened.
- 37:56Speaker 2: I wish the listeners could say, because sometimes when Bobby responds,
- 38:00Speaker 2: you look like you get whiplash.
- 38:02Speaker 1: You're like, what the fuck is going on here? I
- 38:05Speaker 1: don't know. I just go, I go. I'll get no
- 38:08Speaker 1: idea what that means. So I'm pretty sure neither do
- 38:11Speaker 1: our audience, because I know the little weirdo pretty well.
- 38:14Speaker 1: I'm like, you know that answer, that's not helping. But
- 38:18Speaker 1: in his the little world, it all makes sense.
- 38:23Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some things that I need to like work through.
- 38:25Speaker 3: I just realized people need some comments to me. It's
- 38:30Speaker 3: like I've gotten some constructive feedback as of late.
- 38:35Speaker 1: Well, we know it all makes sense in your head,
- 38:37Speaker 1: that's the main thing. But if you could let us
- 38:40Speaker 1: not always on, then what did you say?
- 38:43Speaker 3: Not always doesn't always make sense in my head. Sometimes
- 38:48Speaker 3: I'm trying to work it out. That's why I'm saying
- 38:50Speaker 3: it out loud. So let me say this if it
- 38:52Speaker 3: makes any more sense. Sometimes I ask you again? Could
- 38:55Speaker 3: I ask you again?
- 38:57Speaker 1: How can people contact you? The self help antidope?
- 39:01Speaker 3: You can leave me a message?
- 39:05Speaker 1: Okay? No? Oh, oyes, you're so difficult. Do you know
- 39:11Speaker 1: how conversations work? Self help antidotes, dot com help? Dear
- 39:23Speaker 1: sweet baby Jesus you mean patience?
- 39:27Speaker 2: Oh God?
- 39:28Speaker 1: All right, boys and girls, thank you both. Say goodbye. Fair.
- 39:35Speaker 1: I had fun