MOTW #74: Discipline vs Motivation

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

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0:00.0	And the Good Tuesday morning everybody welcome back to Mind of the Warrior. How is
0:18.9	January treating you? How are those New Year's resolutions coming along?
0:23.6	We talked about that last time out.
0:25.4	Now, I'm not a resoluter, but I know a lot of you are.
0:28.2	And this is actually the point
0:29.2	when a lot of people start to buckle.
0:31.8	Right, this is the point where you're either like, wow, I'm really digging this or you start
0:39.2	finding excuses to not do whatever it is that you were going to do.
0:45.0	And we're going to talk more about that.
0:46.4	That's kind of, that kind of directly or indirectly
0:49.7	is the focus of what we're going to talk about today.
0:53.2	First thing that I want to get out there, for those of you that have been following the
0:58.0	podcast, follow me on social media and of course keeping an eye on the Greybeard Performance website. The supplements are here. The supplements have
1:06.4	launched. I put a lot, a lot of my time and effort into coming up with these.
1:27.2	As I've said before, basically what I did is I took the stuff that I've been piecemealing for a long time, you know, going to these supplement stores and going, okay, I need X I need Y I need Z and just laying them all out and taking them in the proportions that I needed to and I'm like
1:31.8	wow you know I know exactly what I want to take and what I don't want to take.
1:35.0	I really like to combine it, kind of streamline it, make it a little bit more formulaic as far as what I think works and the purpose that I want to take it for.
1:45.0	And I saw that I was getting a ton of emails asking these questions,
1:51.0	Doc, what supplements to take, which supplements should I take, most of them from guys right around my age.
1:56.0	So, you know, did all these years I've been doing the research looking at what has clinical trials behind it what has science behind it that isn't crap you know every time something new comes on the market that people are swearing by
2:09.1	The first thing I do is I go to the literature I go to pub med
2:16.4	And I start looking for studies on it and I can tell you that everything I put in my supplements has studies behind it there's
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