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The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson.

And is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Great Expectations. Why, good health is awesome, but not a panacea.

How often do we bemoan people's lack of expectations around their health, their passivity, their inertia, their apathy, and perhaps our own?

They just don't seem to care or even expect that

good health would offer them enough to justify the effort. I can feel your heads shaking out

there as I say that, and personally, I don't get it either. On the other hand, there are those people

who hold good health on an all-encompassing pedestal.

Maybe you know a few, or maybe you have identified yourself as one at some point.

They're the folks who believe that if they can only lose X amount of pounds,

or get into great shape, or achieve washboard abs, that everything else in life will

finally come together for them. They'd finally be happy, successful, or otherwise worthy,

and their thinking becomes a distortion that tells them they flat out can't be those things

until they've achieved their physical end goals, as if there is such a thing.

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