Aravind Padmaraju uses a weedland analogy to show why mindset is the foundation for any goal. Without transforming a negative mindset into a positive one first, exercise and nutrition alone won't work. Once your mind shifts, effort and discipline can actually take root.
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So I want to, before we go to the today's actual assignment and other stuff, I wanted to explain you with a small analogy. So just imagine that you have a land, okay, where you want to plant a tree, but that land is a weedland. Weedland means it doesn't grow the trees because it doesn't have a capacity to grow the trees. It doesn't have that fertility to grow the trees. So what happens is you planted a seed and you kept on pouring water, you're doing every single thing. Do you think that seed will grow as a tree? Do you think that seed will grow as a tree that the land itself doesn't have a fertility to grow the tree? When the land doesn't have fertility to grow the tree, you are planting a seed and pouring water and you're doing every damn thing, doing everything, putting all kind of chemicals, all kind of everything you're giving it, but land itself is not meant to. It will not, right? So what if the scenario number 2, I give you a land where it is fertilized completely, it can grow the tree to the next level, and you just planted a seed and you just given what is the minimum required for the tree to grow. Do you think the tree will grow? Yes or no? Yes. So right now what is happening with your fitness journey is the mind right now, what is there? It's in the weed, that mediocre, that monkey mind, that that negative mindset and all of them. And what you're trying to do? You're trying to force doing exercise, doing activity, doing all of them. Do you think you will become fit ever? Do you become fit ever? You will never become fit ever because the weed land, how it cannot grow a tree. If a negative mind, a mediocre mind, if that crappy mind or that monkey mind will never allow you to grow and reach to your goal. What you need to do? First, you need to transform this weed, this negative mind, to a positive mind, this fat mind to a fit mind, for you to start focusing on building that health and fitness. Clear? What you're going to do is once you have this positive mindset, then you pour water, then you give your nutrition, then you include your strength training, then you include your hydration, all of them. You automatically grow over a period of time. Until and unless this mindset you're not fixing it, nothing is going to change in your fitness. So you're becoming smarter, healthier, stronger, energetic, happier, growing in your career, self-confident, happy, and lifestyle all happens when you have the first ingredient. What you require is that the mindset, fitness mindset is required. Then all these activities will contribute you to grow that tree stronger and that roots will grow. Clear? How many of you are understood where you are lacking? So this is what is going to be the focus for today. We're going to see how you can make this weed land, weed mindset, that negative mindset, to a positive mindset is what we're going to talk about. So how many of you are, you, you actually able to relate and it was aha moment? Type AHA in the chat box. This is what is happening as every part of your life, if you're not growing until and unless your mindset is not aligned with the goal what you want to attain, nothing is going to change.
