Practice #46 - People Are Awesome

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,300 Picture in your mind, go into the gym, waking up at 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock in the morning, 2 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:16,340 go into the gym every single day. 3 00:00:16,340 --> 00:00:20,740 Basically seeing the same people doing the same things at the same exact time every single 4 00:00:20,740 --> 00:00:21,740 day. 5 00:00:21,740 --> 00:00:27,500 Day after day, after week after week, after month after month, after year after year. 6 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:28,980 Well that was my life. 7 00:00:28,980 --> 00:00:29,980 That is my life. 8 00:00:29,980 --> 00:00:33,720 For the past couple years, I've been doing that. 9 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,560 I wake up early, go to the gym. 10 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,760 I see pretty much the same people day after day. 11 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:46,320 I've gotten familiar with their faces, all their body movements, all their things that 12 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:47,520 they do. 13 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:55,820 I could point out where each person will be at a specific time at the gym. 14 00:00:55,820 --> 00:01:01,020 Actually, I could do that for a few people actually. 15 00:01:01,020 --> 00:01:03,960 I know where people are. 16 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:04,960 Just imagine that. 17 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:11,060 You have gone through that routine so much that you have actually memorized it subconsciously 18 00:01:11,060 --> 00:01:16,100 without actually trying. 19 00:01:16,100 --> 00:01:23,540 This morning, well actually this was a couple days ago, but I'm just going to say this morning 20 00:01:23,540 --> 00:01:30,280 I go to the gym, hit legs, because I only go to the gym for leg days now, but that's 21 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,800 a different story. 22 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:43,680 I hit legs, I get there and I get there around like 5.30 and I start hitting legs. 23 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,120 I get through this crazy hard set. 24 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:53,120 Pump and iron and I'm destroyed my legs in this set. 25 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:58,680 I'm literally on the leg press, pushing my legs to their limit. 26 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:09,160 I stand up after I finish that set and I'm like breathing and I'm taking a look around. 27 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:15,920 I've done that countless of times, that same exact drill countless of times over the past 28 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:17,920 years. 29 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:19,400 Today was different. 30 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:27,800 Today was insane because I stand up from that leg press and I see something totally different. 31 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:32,320 I am in awe. 32 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:37,720 I'm just looking around and I'm seeing all the same people. 33 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:44,200 The physical environment is the same as it was 10 seconds earlier, yet something is so 34 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,160 much different. 35 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:52,040 I'm looking around and I'm seeing all of these people. 36 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:57,360 I'm thinking to myself, man, these people are grinders. 37 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,000 They are putting in the work day after day. 38 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,320 They're extremely dedicated. 39 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:15,520 They are pumping iron at 5 in the morning, sweating, doing hard things. 40 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,080 It's snowing outside. 41 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,480 It's like negative 5 degrees outside. 42 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:28,600 All of these people are here at 5 in the morning in the dead of winter. 43 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:30,280 I'm just extremely inspired. 44 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:36,560 I'm like, wow, I'm around a bunch of awesome people. 45 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:41,200 That was the first time that I've ever actually had that epiphany. 46 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,640 I was always like, I didn't even think anything of it. 47 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,880 I was just like, whatever, just another day. 48 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:47,880 In the gym. 49 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:53,120 Now I'm just like, wow, all these people are freaking amazing. 50 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:58,400 I'm just looking around and they're like, here, I pull up to the gym at 5.30 in the 51 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:03,000 morning and they're already halfway done with their workouts. 52 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,400 They're probably getting here at 4.30 or 5 in the morning. 53 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,360 They're all here before I even get there. 54 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,560 I get there early, 5.30. 55 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,080 That's basically the story that I had today. 56 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,680 It was pretty cool. 57 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:26,720 If you're watching on YouTube, I hope you liked the new camera angle and me standing 58 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:27,720 up. 59 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:44,760 I hope you'll change in the environment.