Are You Unintentionally Playing Yourself?

Over the years, I’ve made it a point to observe mine and other people’s cognitive biases - the subconscious errors in thinking we make that lead to poor decisions and bad judgments.

And I’ve identified one mental bias that keeps a lot of people from making actual, tangible progress towards a leaner, healthier body.

It has to do with the fact that people honestly believe the phrase “knowledge is power”.

In other words, they equate KNOWING something with GETTING THE BENEFITS of it.

When, in fact, what you know and what you do consistently are two different things.

...Back when I was a teenager I was really into parkour, and I thought it would be super cool to be able to do a back flip in the air.

I must’ve watched a thousand how-to videos.

To do a back flip, most people think you need to jump back, when, in fact, I had learned you need to jump high up, and then tuck fast.

I had watched SO many videos that I knew what I had to do at each millisecond.

In theory, I should have been able to do a back flip!

But… could I do a back flip if you asked me to?

No, of course not.

To this day, I’ve never done one!

Because knowing something and doing it are. Two. Different. Things.

Often people complain that they don’t see results, yet when someone shares some advice with them, they say they “already knew that”.

Yet, if you were to spy on them for a day, you’d quickly discover they simply don’t DO it.

So, remember: action is the only potent thing in this world.

Sure, knowing how to eat well or how to exercise is important.

But only APPLIED knowledge leads to real, tangible, lasting change.