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Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably ex [Coach Tony]( Coach Tony [@tonystubblebine]( Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. ~ Teller _ Stay focused on using productivity advice for actual impact.Â
I file in the category of the busy trap, where people pursue productivity without being clear-eyed about their end goal:
Itâs so much more important to me to be productive about the things that matter than to be productive for its own sake. Having more meetings on a given day does not make you more productive in a life purpose kind of way unless those meetings are actually worthwhile.âââApril Rinne
From [Srinivas Rao](âs Unmistakable Creative episode with her [about thriving amidst constant change](. Feeling that you are enough makes it easier to become more.
Also from [that episode]( is that a sense of âenoughnessâ helps you navigate a world in flux.Â
I say, but not often enough, that self-improvement doesnât have to start from a place of shame. Obviously, we all have shames that we first try to make disappear through denial and then through achievement. But thatâs not the only way or even the best way to motivate yourself. If you can find a way to feel that you are enough, you wonât then lose your motivation and give up on living. It actually would help you achieve more, grow more, do more for the people around you. Eye-roll âScience.â
Iâm not anti-science, but I am definitely on a kick lately of reminding you that the vast majority of studies that matter to this newsletter paint a very incomplete picture of the truth.
Somewhere around the 29:50 mark of this [Huberman Lab episode on fasting](, Andrew tells the backstory of one of the big intermittent fasting studies. It turns out that the reason they studied an 8-hour feeding window instead of a 9-hour window or even an 8-hour and 1-minute window is that the researcher didnât have more than 8 hours to stay in the lab.Â
My eye roll here is less with the researcher and more with the culture we operate in where these studies get regurgitated to us as gospel when they really shouldnât be.
This is what I mean by saying, âTrust your own results.â Research studies pick up interesting ideas and are often directionally correct. But itâs still up to you to do a lot of the work of filling in the gaps. A personal victory.
I had a personal victory yesterday, hitting 1000 watts on my bike at the end of one of the virtual bike races that I do on Zwift. This was a short-term goal of mine and Iâm psyched to hit it.Â
But Iâm sharing it here as an example of how much of strength is neurological. Itâs not that I grew new muscle fibers or did much to strengthen my existing muscle fibers. Itâs much more that I took a couple of practice sessions to focus on the coordination required to recruit as many muscle fibers as possible and then to make the movement as efficient as possible.
This goal is also related to our longevity discussions in past newsletters where I like to pull out videos of elders in their 80s or older and then show you their athletic feats. That got me thinking about personal goals and what I came to was that I wanted to be able to hit 1000 watts on a bike in my 70s. If I could do that, then Iâd be in a good position to set other athletic goals for my 80s. Of course, first Iâd have to be able to hit 1000 watts in my 40s. So checkmark to that. __ Have you had any personal victories recently? Drop me a note and let me know. Donât miss out on the other issues by Coach Tony [Become a member for $5 per month]( Did you enjoy this issue? [Yes]( [No]( [Coach Tony](
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