024 How To Achieve Excellence: The Philosophy Of Fitness

0:44 Icebreaker: Your favorite pick-up lines! (Including some hilarious stories from our past!)

11:21 Intro: Showing Up (With Excellence)

12:52 Aiming high is good, but sometimes you just have to show up

17:27 Something is INFINITELY better than nothing

22:42 The Resistance; Steven Pressfield - Where does resistance come from and what can we do to overcome it?

32:53 Virtuosity

35:30 Sometimes just showing up is the same as giving 100%, despite what you thought your work "should" have been

37:05 Mike Woods, "Excellence is not perfection. Nobody's perfect, but anyone can strive for excellence." Excellence is simply you now being better than past you.

38:00 How to how up; setting intentions

39:06 Aristotle, "Excellence is an art, won through training and habit." Will Durant, "Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. We are what we repeatedly do."

39:16 Cody's difference between a "practice" and a "habit". You can be too narrow in your focus and be excellent in one area and a mess in another, so pay attention to being well-rounded.

46:22 Mario Andretti (famous race car driver),"If everything is under control, you're going to slow". Sometimes excellence needs a little slop.

47:50 Tawny Tikkala: An example of composure during the duress of hard work

53:10 Cody Looney, "Lift for today", How to handle a loss of composure, frustration, anger. Can these "negative" emotions be used as a tool for good?

58:03 An IMPORTANT message about the modern "radical self-acceptance" movement.

1:03:54 Mindset is important, but you cannot think yourself into improvement. You must take action.

1:05:15 Working Against Gravity

1:08:09 Don't just tell yourself that you're good enough or worthy- show yourself through your actions.

1:09:28 How to build confidence and virtuosity

1:14:06 Sometimes progress looks like stepping backward

1:24:22 Leveling-up fatigue, you can allow for seasons because they'll come anyway

1:31:49 If all you can do is show up, at least show up well

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