Direct talking head mindset advicefrom @sensei.nick

Transcript

Have you ever noticed that the level of effort required for real success looks a little insane to most people? Someone training better day, working late consistently, or studying when everyone else is relaxing. From the outside, it looks obsessive. People say things like that's not healthy, you need balance, or you're doing too much. But the reality is that extraordinary outcomes usually require behavior that looks abnormal compared to the average. So most people measure efforts relative to what people around them are doing. So if the baseline is moderate worse and plenty of downtime, anyone pushing far beyond that baseline looks extreme. But the person chasing the goal isn't comparing themselves to average. They're comparing themselves to the result that they worst. And those two standards are very different. Now there's also something psychological happening. When someone sees a level of effort far beyond their own, it creates tension. Because if the level of work is actually necessary for big results, it'll raise a difficult question, which is, how much more could I be doing? And that's uncomfortable. So the mind often will try to reframe it. Instead of saying, that takes a lot of discipline, people say, that's unhealthy. So it's easier to label the behavior as excessive than to confront the gap. Now this doesn't mean everyone has to live that way. Some people value balance, stability, and free tier, and that's fine. But if someone is chasing something rare, the effort required doesn't look normal usually. From the outside, it will almost always look like too much. But from the inside, it often feels like the minimum, and that's the gap. And most people never cross it because the effort required looks unreasonable until you actually understand what it's actually for.