
Noah
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An affliction of the times: Rushing What a bogus way to live. Rushing out of bed to the coffee machine to the desk. Rushing to finish one book so you can read another on your list. Rushing to finish the month so you can get to the holiday. How aweful. Living for the peaks and ignoring everything inbetween. Slowwwwww down you baboon. Enjoy today. Enjoy now. Breeeathe you fool. Enjoy the joe. Enjoy your dinner. Enjoy the security you have. Enjoy the round of golf youre playing. Enjoy the book youre into. Why does it always have to be next next next next. Chill out. Its right in front of you.





There is no shortcut to strength and this is why most men are weak. they want muscle without the tearing, they want wisdom without the years of being stupid, they want God without the desert. the body does not lie. you cannot fake a squat, you cannot charm a deadlift. the weight does not care about your story or your childhood or your excuse, it is just there and either you move it or you dont. and in that moment every lie you told yourself that week dies, because iron does not negotiate. iron is a prophet that only speaks one word, truth. and every rep is true and every set is true. and when you finally walk out of that room you are cleaner than you were when you walked in, because you are more honest. the weight took the lies out of you



The suburbs are where energetic young men go to fade into obscurity. I have watched it happen dozens of times. A man with real potential and momentum signs a mortgage in a development 10 minutes from every strip mall and chain restaurant, and inside of 5 years you cannot find the man who was there before. The environment shapes you more than you shape it. Most people have this twisted backwards. They believe their character is fixed and the environment is simply the setting. It is the exact opposite. The setting is actively producing the character every day. Live in the thick of the action or get completely away from it all. Both are environments that demand something from you. The middle zone asks nothing and that is exactly what it produces.













