Ep. 139 - Why Try Harder Fails

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Hard work is undeniably an essential element of success in the iron game and life. Yet, while that is true, just like telling someone who is depressed to “cheer up”, telling someone struggling with their progress to “try harder” doesn’t help. Despite that, so much of our signaling on social media, our shared community values, and our identities as lifters come down to expressing, celebrating, and worshipping that exact sentiment. In this episode, we explore why this happens, and the rare cases when telling someone to simply try harder actually might be helpful, in what context, for whom, and also discussing all the times this advice falls flat at best, or at worst, is actually harmful. Get ready to dive deep on this one folks, as we take a hard look at the motivations of the lifter.

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0:00.0	Eric, we have an episode today.
0:05.5	You know, that's probably the truest thing you've said at the start of any Iron Culture podcast.
0:10.2	You know, we got to lead with truth before we get into truthiness.
0:14.3	And we can talk about a lot of different controversies that try and surround us every single time we put out an episode.
0:20.5	Because when you're
0:21.4	atop the pyramid, everyone's gunning for you. Very true. Yeah. It's very true. Not the true statement.
0:28.0	And should I start with an apology, Omar? Why not? We got we got a bunch of them coming anyways.
0:36.0	Yeah. So to start off our apology tour, the first one would be that
0:42.0	we thought that the episode that came out last week would come out next week. So we jumped the gun.
0:48.4	We jumped the gun. We said at this point, Jessica Bittner would be a world champ. We were wrong by 48 hours.
0:56.0	Now she's a world champ at the time of recording this.
1:00.1	So, in fact, we didn't just get it wrong.
1:05.0	We accidentally predicted the future, which wouldn't be the first time, Omar.
1:07.6	Yeah.
1:08.4	You know?
1:09.0	And is this reality imitating art or a case of us just being on that level that what we speak,
1:17.6	thus spoke Zarathusha, that it came to fruition, that what we said came true and that she became
1:24.6	a champion and there's no other possible path in reality for that to take place, Eric.
1:29.9	It's a tough one. You know, I want to stay humble because there's only two options here. One is that we can
1:34.7	predict the future, that we have a true sight, that we are precogs, if you will.
1:41.2	Guild navigators in Dune.
1:45.1	Exactly.
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