A martial arts champion who won a Chinese full-contact competition 35 years ago didn't conserve energy like other fighters. Instead he spent it all to overwhelm opponents, saying the more energy he used, the more he generated. The speaker argues this turbocharger effect applies to growth: push past discomfort and your body catches up to your mind.
Do you ever wake up in the morning and your mind says, "Let's go get 'em," and your body says, "I can't get out of bed"? We have to get the body with the mind. And if you'll push yourself, you'll think you'll get tired, but I worked with a gentleman that was the first Anglo-American to win the Chinese full-contact martial arts competitions 35 years ago. And I interviewed him because they in those days had those fights often went to the death in China. And he won. First Anglo-American to ever do that. And so I interviewed him, I said, "How do you do it?" He goes, "When you go into these competitions," He goes, "Most people know they're going to be having 5 fights today, so they try to conserve their energy and hang on." And he said, "While they're conserving, I destroy them." He said, "What I do is my belief is the more energy I expend, the more energy I have. It's like a turbocharger." If you'll trust yourself beyond what you're feeling in the initial moments and do what's uncomfortable, you'll discover the other side of it, which is tremendous growth and expansion.
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