Brain Trickery and Gym Misery

 Jack Harlow has some bangers.

Atomic Habits has gotten me falling in love with the idea of positive habit reinforcement. It's the idea that when you're taking up a new habit (like jogging, or reading these blog posts every day) you pair it up with an immediate reward (like watching a quick YouTube video, or texting your girlfriend.) And the idea is that after a while you'll come to associate the new habit with the reward, and you'll do it automatically.

There's a little bit more to it, but I'm not about to go in-depth about neuroscience and evolution.

That gym was fucking awesome. Going into that shit telling myself that I wasn't going to quit, might've helped me out. There was a point where it felt like my arms were about to give up on me.

But I thought of the dead people that I love and miss. They don't get the opportunity to exercise and build their bodies because they're six feet under the ground. Their stories are over. And honestly, it gives me the motivation to keep writing my own story. Hell, two of them would've gone further than I ever could. But their lives got ended early and their stories got cut short. It can happen to any one of us.

I'm being intentionally vague. But I was surprised when I dug deep, that's what I found. And I damn sure didn't give up.