Greg was energized, “In the Army, the athletes flourished. The team spirit…they thrived. At the end of a day, you’d have forty minutes to yourself, and after working out all day, we’d use that time to work out.

If you want to get bigger, you need to work out until it hurts every day. You need to work out until you have complete muscle failure. A lot of people work out and it will hurt for three days and their numbers are getting bigger, they can put more up, but if you want to look bigger you need to rip your muscles every time. It’s the shredding and regrowth that makes you look bigger and more chiseled.

In high school football my coach said to us, ‘Work until it hurts and then keep going. I can’t be any more literal in what i’m saying. And i’m choosing my words specifically.’

It took me a little while to get what he was saying. Cause it always ‘hurt’. But after a few weeks in the gym at school i got it but i don’t think i really got it till i was in the Army.

But some people skate by in the Army. You know, there’s only 1 drill Sargent and 40 guys. You can make it look like you’re working hard during PT (physical training). And some people do. They didn’t get it - that they were in one of the greatest training programs in the world. So they didn’t use it.”

The same is true in most of life. As a reality bender the most important thing you can do for yourself is learn how you operate when you’re at your best. Learn the operating position and all it’s characteristics, including:

• The sequence and organization of your five senses (v-a-k-o/g)
• beliefs
• rhythms - of your speech, breathing, scanning, etc.,
• your posture
• the sequence and configuration of your muscles
• the story you tell yourself about yourself - your myth
• the frequency
• your assemblage point
• how the world ’shows up’
• how you relate to others in general and in relation to each specific person

Discipline is key to true mastery.