Giving yourself that 2-3 year window is so underrated! Purging toxic habits, relationships, work/living situations and replacing them with good ones really takes time. We gotta be patient with ourselves.
@Matthew Boyce you Gotta have openness. not to have a timetable because everything is now. Study your subconscious mind. Specifically subconscious fears.
@@Francisc_Ghighy 100% agree. I just think that most people tend to think in terms of months, not years. Which, once you’ve failed a few times you’ll realize - thinking in terms of years is a lot more practical. Granted everyone’s situation is different.
@Matthew Boyce Yeah bro! You can definitely start building good habits in a matter of weeks. Any real substantial change will probably take a little longer though.
No not me I'm like go go go there like stop stop stop and theeeeeeen I fall then forget it all has if it was some dream I'm awakening from never to take on what needs to be done to get where I was but not only that but even better just those words In my head thinking about them make me tired and weak you can only avoid it for so long until your addiction to winning and enjoying comes back but i think it's a good one a good addiction
Yup I start by making my bed every day, it is simple and gives me a minor feeling of accomplishment in the morning. Then I start taking on more throughout the day.
"12 rules for life, an antidote for chaos" it's 12 rules to help you grasp control of your life. It teaches you to balance chaos and order. It teaches you how to overcome the chaos and use it to improve yourself. It's truly awesome.
Aiming low is like what Firas Zahabi talked about on his first JRE podcast when he talked about "Flow State". Aiming too high takes you over the flow (anxiety) and not doing anything leaves you below the flow (boredom). You gotta find the right aim height to get into the flow!
Like they say at AA "one day at a time." Even if you're not an addict, that's wisdom worth taking. Before you overwhelm yourself by thinking about the next twenty years, think about what could improve your life today, and do it or atleast get started.
It's all about momentum There's this French UA-camr français authentique He explains this Japanese concept I don't remember the name of it But the idea is that If you're consistent in your progress No matter how little you're improving you're buond to make huge progress by the end Like if you want to learn french and each day you learn only 1 word It means that with that small ratio of improvement in one year you start to make little simple sentences and in 3 years you might be decently almost fluent with mastery over more than 1thousand french words
My personal belief system thinks you must establish a lofty goal to break you out of your comfort zone but remain focused on the short term goals of each day climbing to that goal... I.E. I have to lose a 100lbs but I need to lose 5 lbs this week to stay on my 20 week journey to that large goal !
Nice video! There were stories about sounds that changed many lives before they disappeared from platforms. If you want to discover what they were, Kuvelster still holds them.
I can’t believe how many people he has helped, me being one of them. The fact that his statements are politicized by media is just appalling. The ring of truth is in these words.
It really is. A man helps and inspires millions with a myriad of problems, and these people want him and his assistance cancelled and his books off the shelves. Narcissists. They need some JP.
A part of life is that you won't because then you are to just busy having fun. And you are to naive to understand that it doesn't have any negative impact.
@@MagicGamesRayted I know what he means. I'm 5'11 and before I started working out 6 years ago I was 120 lbs. Now I'm in the 180s. I have to eat a lot and I feel like it might be better worth it to cut back on the eating and reinvest that time into something else, but I really enjoy working out and growing so I'm sticking to it for now.
Love you Dr. Jordan Peterson, the amount of wisdoms you share with humanity is so valuable!!! It's part of the light guiding me through cluelessness and aimless life. Much appreciate Sir!!!
This strategy has worked well for me. Four years ago I got my bipolar disorder diagnosis. In the beginning, I would work on goals that were too big and stressful to attain. I would push as hard as I could, fail, and have a chance of getting a depressive, manic or psychotic episode. Two years ago I started incrementally achieving goals and it feels way more comfortable. Each step has a small amount of discomfort and energy depletion, which makes it easy to keep your spirit up. Over the years I have gone to high functioning in part thanks to this strategy. I got rid of multiple addictions: weed, tobacco, phone. Gained enough skills to get a nice job. Exercise three times a week. Improved my diet. Got over my social anxiety. Because of this, my illness has improved majorly. I'm am very thankful that this kind of information is spread, it helped a lot. Jordan Peterson has more videos on this subject and I encourage you to watch them.
Do the BASICs well enough, EVERYDAY and implement more and more...believe me, a year down the line - people start looking at you like you’re this amazing guy....focus and do the small stuff and then work HARD. LETS GOOOOOO
What he’s basically saying is that we have to be realistic and not rush towards a goal that is set so high. The goal is attainable but take those baby steps in order to reach there. Got it.👍🏾
its so simple and effective. it cuts through the bullshit and actually offers a realistic way for everyone who's life is in shambles or anybody who isnt happy where they are in their life! you dont need to prepare. you dont need to read a bunch of book or watch videos about self improvement. just start. simply amazing
Cleaning your room is something anyone should be able to do, but you can go even lower. Watching series or reading books you've been holding off instead of scrolling on social media endlessly, going to bed and waking up at a consistent time, trying a new or old hobby. Doing literally anything that makes you say "I'm glad I did that" with consistency is an improvement.
Jordan Peterson is a legend. Ive started to implement exactly what he's saying in this video and things really are starting to get better. 1 step at a time . I also recommend watching his older content on self improvement if you haven't already.
Stopped video 3 minutes in to say wow! So much truth in these words. In myself, in so many others. “I want to change. But its so hard” BAM... “aim lower”.. but you explain it beautifully. Now to watch the last minute!
I am just one of a million people who demanded more from themselves to reach out of our comfort zones to achieve self respect & self admiration...but to reach those lofty goals one must & I repeat MUST push through the short term goals to climb the mountain !!
The fact he says "Eating 6 meals a day just took too much time". Shows how his brain thinks: efficiency and time are prioritized. I wish I could make my mind work that way. I don't agree with alot of his stuff however I love the way his brain works and alot of his stuff, like this, is spot on.
small baby steps when you are starting new. i completely agree with JP where he said " if you start to fail, you fail rapidly and if you start to succeed you succeed rapidly."
I've taken the role of a teacher this year and the truth is, I'm an absolute wreck. I keep holding on, but the real reason I took the job was because of the pride it gave me to have the opportunity do it so early, while the rest of my course had to invest in the masters degree. The truth is, now I look back and this is exactly what I should've done, aim low, but steadily. Now here I am living miserably every day, so that I don't disappoint the superiors when all I want is to go back and tell myself to shut up about how great I am and aim low.
It's very hard to accept and implement small steps when you are impatient and in mid 20s. Because you want big improvements in less time. But you should always remember this that...... If something is important enough.... "Something is better than nothing." Don't let the time pass in egoistic approach of swallowing everything at once. ~Get better everyday.
At first I thought your profile pic was a lobster and you were paying homage to Jordan haha, but then read your username. But yea I get what you mean as the YT home page being a therapist sometimes.
jp you are incredible. Thanks for the great advice and actionable steps. Your book was a game changer in my life. Helped me on the road to recovering from my brain injury
I've always had a rough relationship with food and my body. The thing that really helped me was Forwago. Now I workout three times a week, and I started to eat much healthier. And the best thing about it is that I don't hate doing it but actually enjoy it.
1. Aim low in life because those goals are easier to accomplish. This doesn't mean don't aim, or don't aim up but set yourself a goal you can attain. If you're not in very good shape, the goal that you could attain tomorrow isn't probably very glorious, but it's better than nothing and bitterness. 2. The "Matthew Principle": to those that have everything, more will be given, to those that have nothing, everything will be taken. This is a pessimistic statement because it means that as you start to fail, you fail more, and more rapidly. But it also means that as you start to succeed, you succeed more and more rapidly.
Definitely agree. The smallest thing possible is always better than nothing. All those small things add up to massive change over time. Compound interest
I came across this idea of incremental steps to self-improvement from the book called "The Power of Habits". But JBP sees at aiming low enough to attain a gain, no matter how trivial, to snow ball into a habit. This idea has many names: compound effect, mathew effect etc
I was watching a child learn to ride a bike. She went a certain distance and was cheered and congratulated. She got back on and tried to go further, and further. I watched and thought to myself that this was the natural human condition. It was competition, even with oneself to be better. Society today with its “ everybody gets a ribbon” mentality is making us lazy. We need others to tell us how to be better.
It does really remind me of wrestling in hs. Ill never forget my first season as a wimpy, 100lb freshman, brand new to competitive sports. I hated how hard my coaches pushed me past my physical capacity so frequently. Though I wanted to quit every week, I told myself I would at least finish one winter of this hell so that I can say without regrets that I finished a season of the most hypercompetitive sport Id ever tried. Even if I went 0-27 that year. So it was much to my surprise that on the very last day of our season, as I was packing up my shoes and clothes from my locker, my coach comes to sit down next to me. And using the gentle, sincere tone of voice I'd never heard before, he looked me dead in the eyes and said, "Do you have any idea how many new "tough" guys we get every year who lose all their matches, get discouraged from not seeing improvement fast enough, and then quit midway through the season?" To which I responded with a confused nod. My coach went on to tell me that regardless of not having won any matches that year, he was astounded that I continued to "get back up", after every loss, never complained and tried my best to learn from the seniors on my team after practices. He told me that heart + hard-work triumphs over talent, in every close matchup. He said I had proven to have an exceptional amount of heart, and the capacity to do the hard-work, so he felt obligated to let me know this upon finishing the season. As he implored me to come back the next season and give it another shot. Saying something about how much growth potential I had that was still untapped. I ended up deciding not to quit because of those encouraging words and came back for my 2nd season sophomore year. Finished that 2nd season with 22 wins, 12 losses. By my 3rd season I was made 1 of 2 co-captains and finished with a record of 27-10, and my senior year season I made it to the Semistate tournament at a higher weight class than i was used to, and got eliminated there with a record of 32-8. Kind of a rant I know, but my coach saw the same concept you're referring to with those gradual 1% increases, even when I was only focused on finishing what I started without caring about ever becoming "good", that first year. Its fascinating how far a little genuine encouragement can go when given to the right person at the right time.
It's like boxing with a boxer who trained for two years and you trained for two months you don't go in saying I'm going to knock him out. You go in saying I'll find what improvements I need to make and work hard to achieve my goals.
Think of life like a videogame. Would you start on the hardest mode? No! You start with easy, get a handle on things, and once you're comfortable you can start pushing yourself more and more!
I was watched a video that forever changed my concept on reality. Think of any difficult and break it up into smaller components that make up the end result. Focus on those and add them together. Anything confusing or hard at thought will instantly become clearer and more optainable. Example: Not feeling the muscle contract and expand during and exercise movement. Break it up: How am I moving it? Is there another way I can move it to feel better? How fast or slow am I going? Can I alter that to enhance the quality of outcome? Is the weight to light or too little?
The compounding effect! Continous small increments, over the time, gives exponential increase. Be it for any skill- sports, study, art. Nice motto- aim low, aim up
This philosophy also perfect applies to calisthenics I think this is why excersize is so applicable to self improvement because you can go through adversity and challenge and have tangible results from tangible actions
Yes definitely agree. Especially as a big proponent of calisthenics. The thing about tangible results from tangible actions is spot on! Henry Rollins has also said something very similar to you.
Giving yourself that 2-3 year window is so underrated! Purging toxic habits, relationships, work/living situations and replacing them with good ones really takes time. We gotta be patient with ourselves.
@Matthew Boyce you Gotta have openness. not to have a timetable because everything is now. Study your subconscious mind. Specifically subconscious fears.
He just said if you do that for 2 - 3 years you just start to stride...not that after 3 years you should have everything in place
@@Francisc_Ghighy 100% agree. I just think that most people tend to think in terms of months, not years. Which, once you’ve failed a few times you’ll realize - thinking in terms of years is a lot more practical. Granted everyone’s situation is different.
@Matthew Boyce Yeah bro! You can definitely start building good habits in a matter of weeks. Any real substantial change will probably take a little longer though.
No not me I'm like go go go there like stop stop stop and theeeeeeen
I fall then forget it all has if it was some dream I'm awakening from never to take on what needs to be done to get where I was but not only that but even better just those words In my head thinking about them make me tired and weak you can only avoid it for so long until your addiction to winning and enjoying comes back but i think it's a good one a good addiction
Jordan’s logic is spot on. Doing small doable tasks that you know you can do consistently builds the discipline you need to tackle bigger goals.
Yup I start by making my bed every day, it is simple and gives me a minor feeling of accomplishment in the morning. Then I start taking on more throughout the day.
Yes, that's why he says, "clean your room"
@@paterson90 Was taught that in 1977 and still a staple of my every morning...Old school teaching never failed!
You are aspie
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Even Steve Harvey knows better
Peterson's book has changed my life for the better. I wish I would have had his book a decade ago.
12 rules for life
"12 rules for life, an antidote for chaos" it's 12 rules to help you grasp control of your life. It teaches you to balance chaos and order. It teaches you how to overcome the chaos and use it to improve yourself. It's truly awesome.
@Eternal Wanderer that's a good point
but now you have it, and you can do things to improve, better late than never
wow your'e life must've been pretty boring to think this is wisdom
Aiming low is like what Firas Zahabi talked about on his first JRE podcast when he talked about "Flow State". Aiming too high takes you over the flow (anxiety) and not doing anything leaves you below the flow (boredom). You gotta find the right aim height to get into the flow!
Thank you for sharing this! Cheers.
Well said, good connection there
Spot on
Da last sentence ❤️🙏🏿🙏🏿 you have to find the right aim height to get into da flow 🙈wow well said 🙏🏿
Never heard this before, thanks.
Like they say at AA "one day at a time." Even if you're not an addict, that's wisdom worth taking. Before you overwhelm yourself by thinking about the next twenty years, think about what could improve your life today, and do it or atleast get started.
wish bert chrysler went to AA, he looks like shit
It's all about momentum
There's this French UA-camr français authentique
He explains this Japanese concept I don't remember the name of it
But the idea is that
If you're consistent in your progress
No matter how little you're improving you're buond to make huge progress by the end
Like if you want to learn french and each day you learn only 1 word
It means that with that small ratio of improvement in one year you start to make little simple sentences and in 3 years you might be decently almost fluent with mastery over more than 1thousand french words
@@dancalvano8702 Some cults are more practical than others.
@@dancalvano8702 it’s a lifeline for many people, much like cults, however it is a wholesome and healthy form of following similar to religions.
My personal belief system thinks you must establish a lofty goal to break you out of your comfort zone but remain focused on the short term goals of each day climbing to that goal... I.E. I have to lose a 100lbs but I need to lose 5 lbs this week to stay on my 20 week journey to that large goal !
I'm just binge watching all of their podcasts together, they're something different!
Nice video! There were stories about sounds that changed many lives before they disappeared from platforms. If you want to discover what they were, Kuvelster still holds them.
I can’t believe how many people he has helped, me being one of them. The fact that his statements are politicized by media is just appalling.
The ring of truth is in these words.
It really is. A man helps and inspires millions with a myriad of problems, and these people want him and his assistance cancelled and his books off the shelves. Narcissists. They need some JP.
I wish I could have listened to Jordan Peterson's advice and wisdom when I was a teenager. But at least I have it now.
A part of life is that you won't because then you are to just busy having fun. And you are to naive to understand that it doesn't have any negative impact.
@@cleverr4523 shitty English
You're such a good person.
God damn, yes.. there's also a reality, that we all must learn to face. He talkes about that too. Would have been great if we had such 'woke' teachers
Imagine if peterson stuck to his 6 meals a day and gym routine. A guy that jacked and this smart would be a force 😂
"taking up too much time" I love this guy
@@MagicGamesRayted I know what he means. I'm 5'11 and before I started working out 6 years ago I was 120 lbs. Now I'm in the 180s. I have to eat a lot and I feel like it might be better worth it to cut back on the eating and reinvest that time into something else, but I really enjoy working out and growing so I'm sticking to it for now.
the person you’re looking for is derek MPMD
He probably would have failed his PHD though, imagine the amount of time that kind of routine takes up.
@@DalekKaan101 also blood from the brain lol
Love you Dr. Jordan Peterson, the amount of wisdoms you share with humanity is so valuable!!! It's part of the light guiding me through cluelessness and aimless life. Much appreciate Sir!!!
Sometimes I can get up to 6 meals a day, too. One of these days I may even start exercising.
🤣🤣🤣🤭🤭
LMAO
Aye fr tho
Lol! 😄
😂😂😂
2:46 "The wretched creature that you are." The only man that can slay those words and make any sense to me.
Sad
I listen to this every week, It makes so much sense that it's funny how people don't think about it at all
exactly
This strategy has worked well for me. Four years ago I got my bipolar disorder diagnosis. In the beginning, I would work on goals that were too big and stressful to attain. I would push as hard as I could, fail, and have a chance of getting a depressive, manic or psychotic episode.
Two years ago I started incrementally achieving goals and it feels way more comfortable. Each step has a small amount of discomfort and energy depletion, which makes it easy to keep your spirit up.
Over the years I have gone to high functioning in part thanks to this strategy. I got rid of multiple addictions: weed, tobacco, phone. Gained enough skills to get a nice job. Exercise three times a week. Improved my diet. Got over my social anxiety. Because of this, my illness has improved majorly.
I'm am very thankful that this kind of information is spread, it helped a lot.
Jordan Peterson has more videos on this subject and I encourage you to watch them.
Thanks God that I learned English and now I have the pleasure to listen these men. The last part is powerful
Do the BASICs well enough, EVERYDAY and implement more and more...believe me, a year down the line - people start looking at you like you’re this amazing guy....focus and do the small stuff and then work HARD. LETS GOOOOOO
What he’s basically saying is that we have to be realistic and not rush towards a goal that is set so high. The goal is attainable but take those baby steps in order to reach there. Got it.👍🏾
its so simple and effective. it cuts through the bullshit and actually offers a realistic way for everyone who's life is in shambles or anybody who isnt happy where they are in their life! you dont need to prepare. you dont need to read a bunch of book or watch videos about self improvement. just start. simply amazing
Aiming too high is self sabotage, setting oneself up for failure
Not necessarily. Aiming too high without breaking the vision down into smaller goals, is what leads to delusional self sabotage.
He is the reasonable voice in my ear I needed so badly at a young age. Better late than never, I suppose.
Same.
Cleaning your room is something anyone should be able to do, but you can go even lower. Watching series or reading books you've been holding off instead of scrolling on social media endlessly, going to bed and waking up at a consistent time, trying a new or old hobby. Doing literally anything that makes you say "I'm glad I did that" with consistency is an improvement.
Improvment must be a gradual thing if it's rushed then it won't be as good
"A small step today means puts you in a position to take a slightly bigger step the next day''
Jordan Peterson is a legend. Ive started to implement exactly what he's saying in this video and things really are starting to get better. 1 step at a time . I also recommend watching his older content on self improvement if you haven't already.
self help guru
Can you recommend any videos in particular???
The things we already know are the things that change us the most . Thank you Dr J Peterson
love this.. to boost a child's self belief improvement by completing these incremental steps is a great strategy in parenting.. thank you!
Stopped video 3 minutes in to say wow! So much truth in these words. In myself, in so many others. “I want to change. But its so hard” BAM... “aim lower”.. but you explain it beautifully. Now to watch the last minute!
I do that stop thing with his videos all the time.
I am just one of a million people who demanded more from themselves to reach out of our comfort zones to achieve self respect & self admiration...but to reach those lofty goals one must & I repeat MUST push through the short term goals to climb the mountain !!
The fact he says "Eating 6 meals a day just took too much time". Shows how his brain thinks: efficiency and time are prioritized. I wish I could make my mind work that way. I don't agree with alot of his stuff however I love the way his brain works and alot of his stuff, like this, is spot on.
“Aim low”
I’ll remember this for a fight
small baby steps when you are starting new. i completely agree with JP where he said " if you start to fail, you fail rapidly and if you start to succeed you succeed rapidly."
This logic is so simple. But it blows my mind that I’ve never thought about it this way and neither have most people. Love Prof. Peterson
I've taken the role of a teacher this year and the truth is, I'm an absolute wreck. I keep holding on, but the real reason I took the job was because of the pride it gave me to have the opportunity do it so early, while the rest of my course had to invest in the masters degree. The truth is, now I look back and this is exactly what I should've done, aim low, but steadily. Now here I am living miserably every day, so that I don't disappoint the superiors when all I want is to go back and tell myself to shut up about how great I am and aim low.
That is advice from a true educator - don’t overshoot it , improve one thing, but then keep improving.
Jamie got an A in psychology.
It's very hard to accept and implement small steps when you are impatient and in mid 20s. Because you want big improvements in less time. But you should always remember this that......
If something is important enough....
"Something is better than nothing."
Don't let the time pass in egoistic approach of swallowing everything at once.
~Get better everyday.
videos like these need more attention
Sometimes it seems like my YT home page is my therapist.
Same
Not the worst one to have
At first I thought your profile pic was a lobster and you were paying homage to Jordan haha, but then read your username. But yea I get what you mean as the YT home page being a therapist sometimes.
jp you are incredible. Thanks for the great advice and actionable steps. Your book was a game changer in my life. Helped me on the road to recovering from my brain injury
I'm 17 and I never really read any books to completion so I started commitment to read over using the phone and my life has been so much better 🤙🏽
We have all heard this before but sometimes we need to here it again and again and again.
This is important for everyone to hear!!!
This is the guy that they try and stop from speaking at college campuses
Sad But True
Peterson's words are so inspirational! I could listen to him talk all day!
Wow, when he said “aim low, I don’t mean don’t aim up” I got it.
I've always had a rough relationship with food and my body. The thing that really helped me was Forwago. Now I workout three times a week, and I started to eat much healthier. And the best thing about it is that I don't hate doing it but actually enjoy it.
I needed this
Love You .
Same !!!
The famous Dr. Leo Marvin says something similar in his book "Baby Steps".
“Roses are red, violets are blue I’m a schizophrenic and so am I”.
0:30 for all the parents pressuring their 9 year old to become a doctor.
Jordan Peterson's words have really helped through some tough times.
1. Aim low in life because those goals are easier to accomplish. This doesn't mean don't aim, or don't aim up but set yourself a goal you can attain. If you're not in very good shape, the goal that you could attain tomorrow isn't probably very glorious, but it's better than nothing and bitterness.
2. The "Matthew Principle": to those that have everything, more will be given, to those that have nothing, everything will be taken. This is a pessimistic statement because it means that as you start to fail, you fail more, and more rapidly. But it also means that as you start to succeed, you succeed more and more rapidly.
So powerful
Definitely agree. The smallest thing possible is always better than nothing. All those small things add up to massive change over time. Compound interest
I came across this idea of incremental steps to self-improvement from the book called "The Power of Habits". But JBP sees at aiming low enough to attain a gain, no matter how trivial, to snow ball into a habit. This idea has many names: compound effect, mathew effect etc
Man I need this book
Like Los Tigres Del Norte say..." Un dia a la vez" 🎶🎶🎶
Haha los tigres del norte
You are not wretched! We are all here to be great to people in our own stretch of life
I was watching a child learn to ride a bike. She went a certain distance and was cheered and congratulated. She got back on and tried to go further, and further. I watched and thought to myself that this was the natural human condition. It was competition, even with oneself to be better. Society today with its “ everybody gets a ribbon” mentality is making us lazy. We need others to tell us how to be better.
Jordan is a great man, he's very wise.
I learn so much every time I listen to Peterson. I love it but it’s kinda exhausting like work.
I live by this Philosophy...EVERYDAY!
99% of us overestimate what we can achieve in a single year but 99% of us also understimate what we can achieve over 5 years.
Best advice I’ve ever heard.
I’m gonna listen to this everyday!!! ❤️
I find myself just nodding my head in agreement whenever I hear Jordan Peterson speak.
Best motivation hearing the truth.
It's about the joy of growth .Not just happiness reaching a goal.
He is amazing
Everytime I listen to Jordon I wanna go all the way up!!!!
FUCK IT IMA GO ALL THE WAY UP
AND ALL THESE LIARS ARENT COMING
This fella is a bloody gem
Beautifully put.
IF YOU CAN DO SOMETHING SMALL. YOU WILL DO SOMETHING BIG
Wow.... immeasurable quality 💪🏼
I think Dr. Peterson is the best!
This dude rocks... !! Great Podcast!
self destruction-ego, fight club
Reminds me of hs wrestling. The idea of improving 1% everyday carried a lot of weight on me.
It does really remind me of wrestling in hs. Ill never forget my first season as a wimpy, 100lb freshman, brand new to competitive sports.
I hated how hard my coaches pushed me past my physical capacity so frequently.
Though I wanted to quit every week, I told myself I would at least finish one winter of this hell so that I can say without regrets that I finished a season of the most hypercompetitive sport Id ever tried. Even if I went 0-27 that year.
So it was much to my surprise that on the very last day of our season, as I was packing up my shoes and clothes from my locker, my coach comes to sit down next to me.
And using the gentle, sincere tone of voice I'd never heard before, he looked me dead in the eyes and said, "Do you have any idea how many new "tough" guys we get every year who lose all their matches, get discouraged from not seeing improvement fast enough, and then quit midway through the season?"
To which I responded with a confused nod.
My coach went on to tell me that regardless of not having won any matches that year, he was astounded that I continued to "get back up", after every loss, never complained and tried my best to learn from the seniors on my team after practices.
He told me that heart + hard-work triumphs over talent, in every close matchup. He said I had proven to have an exceptional amount of heart, and the capacity to do the hard-work, so he felt obligated to let me know this upon finishing the season. As he implored me to come back the next season and give it another shot. Saying something about how much growth potential I had that was still untapped.
I ended up deciding not to quit because of those encouraging words and came back for my 2nd season sophomore year.
Finished that 2nd season with 22 wins, 12 losses.
By my 3rd season I was made 1 of 2 co-captains and finished with a record of 27-10, and my senior year season I made it to the Semistate tournament at a higher weight class than i was used to, and got eliminated there with a record of 32-8.
Kind of a rant I know, but my coach saw the same concept you're referring to with those gradual 1% increases, even when I was only focused on finishing what I started without caring about ever becoming "good", that first year.
Its fascinating how far a little genuine encouragement can go when given to the right person at the right time.
Be 1% better tomorrow then you are today. And in 1 year you'll be 3 times the person you were!
It's like boxing with a boxer who trained for two years and you trained for two months you don't go in saying I'm going to knock him out. You go in saying I'll find what improvements I need to make and work hard to achieve my goals.
Brilliant advice. Will try it out
Low bar to start, jump bar to bar through life like gymnastics. Now I just gotta try the first jump myself.
Think of life like a videogame. Would you start on the hardest mode? No! You start with easy, get a handle on things, and once you're comfortable you can start pushing yourself more and more!
Came out 2 years ago idk how it ain’t got more views.
Prolly UA-cam algorithm blaming it on him Peterson’s profanity
I was watched a video that forever changed my concept on reality. Think of any difficult and break it up into smaller components that make up the end result. Focus on those and add them together. Anything confusing or hard at thought will instantly become clearer and more optainable. Example: Not feeling the muscle contract and expand during and exercise movement. Break it up: How am I moving it? Is there another way I can move it to feel better? How fast or slow am I going? Can I alter that to enhance the quality of outcome? Is the weight to light or too little?
The compounding effect! Continous small increments, over the time, gives exponential increase. Be it for any skill- sports, study, art. Nice motto- aim low, aim up
DAMN THIS IS CALLED THRIVING
This philosophy also perfect applies to calisthenics I think this is why excersize is so applicable to self improvement because you can go through adversity and challenge and have tangible results from tangible actions
Yes definitely agree. Especially as a big proponent of calisthenics. The thing about tangible results from tangible actions is spot on! Henry Rollins has also said something very similar to you.
God bless you
"to those who have everything more will be given, those who have nothing everything will be taken"
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Gotta love Jordan Peterson.
Could listen to him all day.
Self improvement takes time. You have to keep working Kings 🤴🏻
I died at 1:27 🤣🤣🤭
This resonated.
Imagine if Jordan Peterson was the president.
This definitely resonates with me! Many people could learn from this
I can't believe these subliminals are gone! But luckily, Kuvelster still offers them. No one knows how.
Beautiful ❤️