I've tried things before and they didn't work. Therefore, I'm going to stop trying things.

So this is what we would call fatalism or defeatism in our terminology of the agency.

We get the most satisfaction, not when we achieve something, but when we are pursuing something.

So when you talk about training, always having something that you're training for, in many ways what you're saying is you want people to have faith that the training that they are in now

will benefit them in achieving not only the goal that they're training for, but in achieving

other benefits as well.

That's exactly right.

And what I love about health and fitness specifically.

You have this thing that you teach me, Alex, where I should always be training for something.

I should never let myself just be, just exercise, always be training for something.

Why do you teach me that?

So there's this thing in our brains that we get the most satisfaction, not when we achieve

something, but when we are pursuing something.

And so when it comes to our training together, one of the things that I really want for you

is one, for you to enjoy it and know where it's headed. But two, so that in your life, when you're

doing all these things that you're super interested in, that your training is a complement to the

thing that you're training for. We can keep you in good health. We can keep you in good fitness levels

and growing muscle as a man over 40. Like we can do those things. But at the end of the day,

you don't want to wake up and want to go like, why am I doing this? Like what's the point? And you can

generate some points, but it's really helpful to have something on the calendar that really puts

all those things into

perspective. CIA knows very well exactly what you're talking about. The whole idea that the pursuit

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