It is all about we are ingrained into this calorie preservation into this survival mechanism,

which does not service in today's society, which says seek out pleasure now.

What these super high achievers have done if they have had that biological system,

and they have gone, no, I'm going to seek out the short-term pain now.

And the way I'm going to do that is keep me focused on that is by saying like,

screw you guy that wrote this about me in the Washington Post, I'll prove you wrong when the

guy didn't actually write that. Michael Jordan's example. It is, you know, Matt Fraser going

me against the world. You don't think I can just, and Matt Fraser, like, put himself as the

underdog. Like, no one thinks Matt Fraser is not a dog, except Matt Fraser.

We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control.

That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think, and connect with each other

is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. That chasing excellence is how we grab hold

of what is possible. Our mission is to live on the run. Always chasing, never stop.

Let's go. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. How are you, Ben?

Doing really well. Thank you, Patrick.

Good. How are you doing? I'm doing good. I'm doing well. We're getting ready for winter up

here. So we're doing all right. Where's up here? I don't know the eight-way knows where you are.

Where's up here? I live on the main coast right over the New Hampshire border.

I heard a fact about Maine. I think Maine is the only state that borders only one other state.

I don't know if that's true, but I don't know if it's true that it's the only state, but I

believe yes, that is the case. Yes, I think that is true. Yeah. No other state borders

only one state. Hawaii and Alaska border zero. Yep. Every other state borders at least one more.

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