Nicolas Cole argues that starting is the real win. Run a mile after 20 years away, show up scrawny at the gym, write every day for six months. Your unconscious mind improves you through repetition, not perfect technique or equipment.
If you have never run before, or it's been 20 years since you ran a mile, and then you run a mile, we don't have to talk about anything. We don't have to talk about the shoes. We don't have to talk about the way you run. We don't have to talk about training. We don't have to talk about anything. The only thing we have to talk about is you ran a mile for the first time in 20 years. You should probably run that mile 10 more times, 20 more times, because when you're starting from basically zero, doing anything leads to growth. The same is true with weightlifting. I remember the first time I showed up at the gym and I was super scrawny. I didn't need the perfect diet. I didn't need the perfect training routine. I literally just needed to go to the gym more times than one time. So, people really underestimate how much growth happens just by doing it. Like, you actually don't need to think about it that much. Every day you do it, some part of your unconscious is learning. You're like, "Oh, that little thing could be improved, that little thing could be improved." And you don't notice it on a day-to-day level, but if you wrote every day for 6 months in a row, I guarantee you that the thing that you wrote 6 months later compared to the thing today on some level is already going to better, cuz that's just the nature of doing anything. Yeah.
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