So welcome to episode 16 of season two of the James Smith podcast. This episode of

called Pocqua, which is French, and it means why or for what. And the reason

this podcast is that I've come up with quite a lot of ideas, obviously writing

the second book, and there's been a lot of topics that I've spoken about that

have had not a lot to do with fitness, and one of the more salient ones was to do

with with why. And I actually thought this would make a very good topic of a

podcast because there's so many things that have spoken about with regards to

what or how, you know, what is the menstrual cycle? How do you build muscle? But

very rarely do we ever stop and really think about why. And this is a very powerful

question. I know that Simon Sinek, who is a very good author, has done a lot of

work about it. But today, what I wanted to do was have a short hopefully succinct

podcast about why I've done some of the things I've done, and hopefully this will

help you understand why you do some of the things that you do. To begin with,

why French? I thought it just looked a bit cliché, having why as an

interval podcast. And French is also the highest grade that I attained in school.

And why was that my highest grade? Family enough. One of my teachers, Mr. Ricard,

she obviously could tell that I could do quite well if I would apply myself.

So she's probably one of the first people in the world to have realized that.

So she sat me next to her daughter and pretty much bullied me for two years.

That was in that high set. The reason I got into the high set, because I was in

bottom set for everything, was because I was string together sentences to abuse

my classmates. And the way I would structure and pronounce the sentences, my teachers

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