Building a stronger body or getting spelt is like building the mind.

Whether it is the study of medicine or whatever you are trying to tackle,

to be great. Actually, forget greatness.

Just to be good, you have to have obsession.

It is something that even when you have success, you believe things are going slow. Glacial, man, right? I mean,

we think our childhoods went slow, but when you have kids, as an adult observer, it all happens

so fast. I mean, my firstborn is in seventh grade. What? It feels like yesterday he was learning

how to walk. So why am I saying

this? Because if you want to talk muscle, you have to acknowledge philosophy. One of the secrets

of changing the shape you are in is changing philosophy. All those folks out there with

overnight success, God bless you. I am not going to hate

on you, but the stuff I am involved with in my life has no overnight success. Clearly, the study

of medicine has no finish line at all. I became a medical doctor at a pretty young age, 25.

And yeah, that seems pretty young to me now.

But at the time, it didn't feel young, and it took some effort to get there.

But now I know the race had just begun.

I just turned 43, and I firmly believe in that one saying that says, the more you know, you realize how little

you actually know. But I would seriously be in a bad place if in my younger days I had true

overnight success. I cannot look back on a struggle without thinking that the struggle didn't somehow help me.

I am also not saying that people ultimately benefit from every bad thing that happens, because that simply is not true.

If it is a really bad event, it sometimes can only be defined as tragic.

You know, a death of a child or sustaining

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