I'm trying to get harder and tougher mentally and physically every day in my life.

You're either the growth mindset or you're the fixed mindset.

If you're trying to be the best, you need to look at who the best is and see what they do.

Relentless pursuit of progress.

There is a difference between the best and the rest.

Welcome to the Brute Strength podcast.

Champions are built in the morning first.

Where we interview scientists, world champions, doctors, and experts in just about every

area of health and fitness.

What do you care enough about?

What are you fascinated enough about to go so deep and learn so much that you'll know more about it than anyone else.

And now here's your host, Michael Cashew.

And today I want to talk to you about the problem with taking an extreme stance on something.

And especially being really dogmatic with that stance and being unwielding in that stance.

What I've learned in several different experiences in life is that when I've taken extreme stances and been unwilling to see the other side,

it cuts off all possibility.

It cuts off human connection and it shuts me down and prevents me from

learning from the other side. And the most potent example I can give you is my experience of religion

growing up. I grew up going to a Catholic school. My entire family is Catholic. And for as far back as I can see,

my family was Catholic. And I never really resonated with, you know, Catholicism growing up. I didn't

enjoy going to church. I didn't like religion class. I really disliked a lot of it.

And when I went to rehab when I was 17 and became an adult and kind of got the opportunity

...