The funny realization I had:<\/p>\n
I am the most zen, peaceful and tranquil when my adrenaline and focus is at its peak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
For example, powerlifting before a one rep max attempt for deadlift or squat.<\/p>\n
Theory:<\/p>\n
The reason why we aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so tranquil and zen in everyday life is that everyday life isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t physically challenging or interesting enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
All modern \u00e2\u20ac\u0153feats of strength\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (how efficiently you can process your email inbox, check things off your todo list as insanely uninteresting, boring and hateful to us).<\/p>\n
Morale and lesson: Do more things which elevate your adrenaline in a positive, productive and creative way. For example the adrenaline rush I get from street photography or social interaction which is good. And deadlifting, and squatting and powerlifting!<\/p>\n
If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not afraid of potentially failing, it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t difficult, challenging or interesting enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The funny realization I had: I am the most zen, peaceful and tranquil when my adrenaline and focus is at its peak. For example, powerlifting before a one rep max attempt for deadlift or squat. Theory: The reason why we aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so tranquil and zen in everyday life is that everyday life isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t physically challenging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BEE4F0DB-80CF-4A36-A511-3FB0F1B71F82.jpeg?fit=1494%2C2048&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314573,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314570\/revisions\/314573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}