The Hilarious irony, is that in America, we all want to be the driver, and be at the head of the cockpit. However, abroad, if you’re actually really rich, you don’t drive yourself.
Therefore, the American desire to drive, and drive yourself, is a backwards one. A servant mentality.
For example, we are currently taking a van shuttle, a private one, a six seater to Angkor Wat from Phnom Penh. My joy of having a private driver is that he can drive and take us there safely, and I can blog on the way.
After great sleep, good coffee in the morning, and feeling of strength in your arms, legs and body. Feeling your arms, biceps as fuller, bigger, stronger, more capable, more supple, and more ready (for anything). Same in your legs and thighs (turbo thunder thighs).
The feeling of zen, calm focus.
Having done an epic one rep max lift a few days prior, great sleep and recovery, and great food and meat consumption.
After a one rep max, being temporarily weakened for a few days, but a few days after that … becoming stronger (hyper over compensation).
Achieving my dream of dead, lifting five plates; I did it in the most adoptable of conditions, jetlagged, while in Phnom Penh Cambodia. Also with foreign equipment in a foreign gym. And I used liquid chalk instead of normal chalk. Yet I was still able to do it.
Therefore, my interventional thought:
Perhaps, when we are always striving towards the optimal conditions, we achieve less.
That, instead of striving for the optimal conditions, just follow your gut. If you’re feeling gutsy enough to attempt it, just give it your all.
Heuristics and general rules of thumb in life are cognitively useful, but they also hold us back. For example, instead of attempting a one rep max just once a week, maybe you could try it in less than that. For example, maybe you only need six days to recover, or five days to recover, or four days or three days or even two days. Or even one day. You never know.
It doesn’t really matter how strong you are — what matters the most is whether or not you are at peak strength, and that your peak strength is continually rising. That you’re on top of your game!
Or another words, always stay at your peak, regardless of where you are.
And when you have already reached your peak, keep peaking further!
Greater physiological strength, greater stronger feelings of hope and optimism, and also physiological discharges of power (hypelifting).
Also, greater consumption of meat. I wish I could eat 5 pounds of meat in one sitting.
Then, my ultimate goal is greater physical strength, to indefinitely increase my one rep maxes for my lifts, and also, to indefinitely augment my muscles and demigod body.
In today’s world, a big key to success is standing out. How does one do this?
The first thought is adopt a color scheme, or a color, palette, which is unusual, and sticks out. For example, the vibrant blood Crimson red I adopt on this blog.
Another idea is go off script. Do things differently than the way others do it.
Third, act unexpectedly. Don’t follow formalities. In some ways, to act more “Asperger’s†is good.
I love traditional Japanese wabi-sabi design, hate their modern design.
For example, I have never seen or witnessed a Japanese car, that ages well. Also, when it comes to their technology, like their phones, and other devices, they age poorly.
It seems that the current creative workflow is too basic; too much focus on curating a single image, and uploading it to social media for likes, and the promise of new followers. What we must do instead is strive to innovate a new workflow; more self hosted, open source, focus on PDFs and files, and shareable links.
More things self hosted on your own server. Self hosted email newsletter services (sendy.co), self hosted websites and blogs, wordpress.org, and file sharing services.
The strong admire, aspire towards, or do something about it.
For example, everyone is always complaining about how China is stealing everything. Yet, they don’t understand that what the Chinese lack is ingenuity. And also, America and the west is too caught up over copyright; copyright is an unnatural thing. Consider how in the animal kingdom, all animals who seek ascendancy will copy, cheat, lie, and steal and rob from one another.
Therefore, instead of criticizing, critiquing, or complaining about things or others, best to simply change the variables.
Another reason why trap bar deadlifts makes much more sense; you are in the epicenter of the weight, with a maximum amount of leverage and force.
Also, why it is often useful to live in the capital city of a country. Like why I love Phnom Penh— living in a hotel in the extreme downtown, with the most vibrancy, excitement, and street life!
Your time in life is limited. Therefore, it seems in order to get the maximum out of existence, the goal is to best leverage your time, as wisely as possible.
For example, as much as I love going to the gym, it still seems the wisest mode of action it’s only go once a week, and just attempt my maximum lift, once a week. Then, all the other spare time I can have is to leverage my more unique abilities — the time to go through my photos, the opportunity to write, publish, share, vlog, etc.
Therefore, I don’t think we should be thinking about “being time efficient“, or even being “effective“. Time leverage is a more useful concept.
Even having technology with faster processors, which allows us to do more and less time. This is simply time leverage. Or being able to Uber everywhere instead of having to drive yourself, find parking, waste time, etc.
Therefore, it seems that the wisest and the best entrepreneur is he who is best able to leverage his or her time, the most intelligently.
Cambodia pretty much accepts US dollars everywhere. All of their products, services, food, and stuff is written in both in their local currency, and in US dollars.
Also, Cambodia is pretty much bilingual in English. Everyone here speaks some degree of English. They also love YouTube, Facebook messenger.
I also see a lot of Ford trucks here, a lot of F150 raptor’s.
The Chinese are very good at copying and brute force, but they’re not good with aesthetics and creating things with sex appeal (American innovation).
Asians are good at following directions and being subservient, but Americans care more for individuality and uniqueness. There is still a reason why rich Chinese still prefer Apple and iPhone 10000x more than Huawei or any Chinese technology brand.
The good thing about physics thinking is that, besides the rules of physics, almost anything, and everything is possible.
for example, Elon musk, having the vision of creating the grasshopper rocket, something that was very possible from the physics perspective, but a lot of people did not believe that it was achievable.
Then, almost anything is possible. The better question is how badly you desire to strive towards it.
The difference between labor in Asia and America; Asians do not believe in “workers rights“ for cheap labor. Nor do they care for safety.
In America, it looks like the bulk of the cheap labor come from Mexico. For Americans, who partake in cheap labor, tend to be lazy and entitled.
Also, too many regulations in America, means that things get built slower. Compare this with Asia, where there is more overt under the table dealings, which allows for greater speed and productivity.
A simple way to barbell your attention: with other people, either give them 100% of your undivided attention (no phone) or 100% ignore them.
Maybe this is even a better way to interact with your kids, or parenting. Either 100% ignore them, and let them do their own thing, or if you’re actually playing with them or engaging with them, put away all your devices and give them 100% of your undivided attention.
Perhaps the best way to leverage yourself is to know and realize that nobody “needs your helpâ€. Towards a more non-interventionalist approach. Also, this is the best way for you to conserve your physiological energy, to maximize your own leverage of yourself.
My new notion of “hypeliftingâ€, which is essentially hyping yourself up, and attempting a very very heavy weight. Something that you are not certain whether you can do or not.
Failure is not even a concept. Because it doesn’t really matter whether you succeed or not, rather, your degree of courage and manliness comes from how much you attempt, without fear.
Exceed yourself, exceed your own preconceived notions of what your “limits“ are.
For example, mental blocks. When I’m back home in the states, I think I often get psyched out or intimidated by the traditional red 45 pound plates. When I am abroad, where everything is in kilograms, things seem a bit foreign, carte blanche, and uncertain in a good way. Funny enough, because I don’t really understand how to convert things into kilograms, and don’t have a certain sense of how heavy the weights are, actually end up being able to attempt more, and lift more heavier weights. And this is a huge way I’ve been able to level up my strength.
Therefore my first interventionalist thought:
We often limit ourselves, because we put certain mental blocks on ourselves.
Being prudent is for suckers
Another thought, or some thing I’ve learned from powerlifting (I call it â€hypeliftingâ€), it is better to do bigger jumps in weight, than to be a “prudentâ€.
For example, a technique or a mode of doing things which I got stuck in back in the states is the notion that when powerlifting, one should be prudent and jump in weight steadily, starting with a 25 pound plate, and then jumping up to the 45 pound plates. For example, if you’re warming up with squats, starting with warming up with just the bar, then adding a 25 pound plate on one side, then taking off the 25 pound plate and putting on a 45 pound plate, then stacking on another 25 pound plate on top of the 45 pound plate, etc.
However, I personally discovered that in spending too much time warming up, and doing too many repetitions or lifts, I lose or drain my hype energy. Therefore, better to do as few repetitions as possible, in order to preserve my energy for the heaviest weight I will attempt. For example, with deadlift, starting with one plate on each side, then stacking on another plate, then stacking on another plate, until I get up to five plates.
Numbers are mental blocks
Maybe this is where numbers, and goals, and limits are bad. For example, we often psych ourselves up with round numbers.
For example, my personal goal of obtaining 10 bitcoin. Why is it that we set goals for ourselves, in round and even numbers? Maybe a better goal is to just indefinitely get more.
Or with men and weight, striving to obtain a certain body weight?
Or with powerlifting, we use the plate concepts to set certain goals. For example, a two plate benchpress, a four or five plate deadlift, or a four and five plate squat. Or a 500 pound that lift, which is hilarious, because it is a 5 plate and 2 1/2 pound potato chip on each side.
Or with social media, first striving to get 1000 followers, then 5000 followers, then 10,000 followers, then 100,000 followers, etc.
Then, maybe a better way to approach things is to just set an insanely high audacious goal for yourself, and steadily truck towards that. For example, I like that idea that before I die, I could do at least a 700 pound deadlift, a 600 pound squat, and a 400 pound (floor) benchpress. Or a even more robust way of doing things is to not even care about the number, but, to just keep testing your limit, and play around your limit, without fear.
For example, I am currently here in Phnom Penh Cambodia, and because I have no idea of kilograms, I test my strength. I just try a random heavy weight, and if I cannot lift it
Tallness as a desired thing. Tallness in human beings, and also tallness in buildings. Skyscrapers and hotels and condos.
Also, tallness for our cars and vehicles; the reason why people like SUVs, is that if you’re taller and more superior on the road.
Also, with the “overlanding†trend, the trend is to lift your vehicle, and make your car as tall as possible, instead of as low to the ground as possible (sports and hyper cars).
How is it that we become stronger? Progressive overload. That means, at the week level, you always add a little bit of difficulty or weight, and in the long run, your body learns to overcompensate, and thus becoming stronger.
