One human mistake is psychological myopia – thinking our view of the world is the world.
When Andy Galpin trained future NFL players for the draft he noticed something “odd”. These players stood to earn huge sums of money, achieve the highest success in their lifelong pursuit, and had all the resources in the world behind them – yet they skipped workouts.
Rather, they skipped Saturday morning workouts.
Our view, as a non-NFL player is, “C’mon focus!”
Their view as NFL players is, “C’mon, Friday night!”
Fortunately, we can design our modern environment for our evolved brains.
Galpin wanted Saturday mornings to be recovery: massage, yoga, stretching. Hence the low attendance. But once he added biceps and triceps attendance increased. The guys loved the pump. After the athletes were in the gym it was easy to tack on the recovery session.
Galpin’s (3-hour!) Optimize Your Training Program for Fitness & Longevity podcast is about intentionality and that takes design. Want to live your best, strongest, healthiest life? Design it.