 What's happening guys eyes are checking in the realized dining room and in today's video. I want to discuss ego lifting and why you shouldn't do it Okay, so ego lifting is basically when you're lifting purely from your ego When you're lifting purely just to please other people to show off to get that glory, right? and The biggest problem with what is too big problems with it The first one is you run the risk of injuring yourself, right? You run the risk of really fucking yourself up and the second problem is that it gets you in this mindset of trying to Please other people focus on external things and still internal focus focusing on your mission your grind The first problem the injuries When I start lifting I used to Stack on heaps of plates especially on the squats because I was pretty strong and I used to lift and before I lifted all these plates I used to check around the gym right and look around see if everyone was watching and once I knew that everyone was watching I'll kind of wait a bit. I would do my set then and The feeling I got this was a bit addictive right when people are looking at you And that's what feels the ego lifting right it boosts your ego having people given the approval, right? people being impressed so I did this frequently and Then take along for me to bust my knees up to Have a knee injury So this knee injury took me out of the game took me out of squats for like at least a whole year Now I still remember to this day The aching pain on my knee especially when I'd sit down like what I'm doing right now I'll have this terrible sharp pain in my knee. I'll just aching aching aching and we'll make it unbearable to sit down And this went on for a whole year. I tried to do stretches. I tried strengthening my hamstring I tried all kinds of things to fix this pain Eventually went away, but for a whole year. I was sitting there with this pain just thinking to myself Fuck was I stupid for trying to Impress other people the gain I got that Impressing of other people is no one near the pain I'm feeling over this whole year, right? So that's what you need to think of when you're ego lifting What are you trying to gain at this that I prove you're gonna get from other people? Is it worth the chance of you getting injured and not being able to do some of these exercises that you enjoy? Is it worth you being perhaps even? Wheelchair bounded or that was dead. Some people actually died from ego lifting, right? Is it worth it? Fitness is a long-term game. You think of it as a long-term game It's not a short-term game. If you can't lift the weight, don't lift the weight Build the strength up, be patient and eventually you will be able to lift the weight. You want to be able to be in the gym grinding Doing what you have to do until you're in your 80s, right? You want to be living this healthy lifestyle for a very long time You don't want to just have this as a short-term fling and then you get injured And then you know one of those people that could have done this could have been this way But the injury stopped them, right? You don't want to be that guy or that girl So that's the first reason not to ego lift The second reason as I said before is it gets you feeding off other people's approval, which is dangerous, right? You need to focus on your own missions, your own goals and still feeding off other people's approvals in the same way that people ego lift is kind of a parallel in the Money world when someone gets money, right? They win money or they start making a bit of money from their business or whatever it is, right? And they start buying flashy things and start buying Lamborghinis and start buying Gucci flip flops They want to live that lifestyle early Now they know they kind of afford all these things But these things give off the appearance they give off the facade that um You know that these people Let me show if I was right with it Masquerade It gives off the appearance that these people are rich when they really don't even have the Money the money right to Support the stuff lifestyle. So they're doing themselves more harm They're actually stabbing themselves with credit just to please other people in the same way as you in the gym Hurting your body hurting your mindset just to please other people. So you need to be careful of that, right? You need to always be thinking about Focusing on yourself. You don't want to get this habit of trying to See what other people are doing. Just keep that razor sharp focus on yourself and your grind And you'll feel better too when you get to that stage when you when you're actually able to lift these heavy weights comfortably Because you actually were patient and you build up the strength and it's no longer ego lift um You you'll feel good, right? You you actually be impressed and a good way to tell if your ego lifting is to think to yourself If no one was in the gym right now There are no cameras. Nothing is just me. Would I lift this weight? Would I continue with this? If you wouldn't Then you're probably ego lifting you should stop if you would Then you're not ego lifting. It's as simple as that. It's a simple test and you know, you can't lie to yourself And it's simple once you are able to actually lift the weight comfortably without ego lifting you feel so much better In the same way as once you actually build a business up it's lucrative and then you can buy these Nice things without having to hurt yourself with credit. You'll feel great So patience is a virtue guys Don't you go lift focus on your grind and you'll be far better for it And that's the video for today I'm going to be doing more gym videos because I realized I haven't really done or touched on a lot of these subjects Surprisingly because I've been lifting for like over five years and I haven't shared some of this, you know information I've gathered which is a big part of self improvement, right? It's a big part of sexualization It's not just the mind it's mind body and spirit. It's all combined. Everything is joined So more videos in the future. 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