I mean, yes, sunlight and water are good for you, but professional athletes, like CEOS, seem to disproportionately believe that getting up at 6am or whatever is why they are successful. 🙄
I don’t get it. I have a pretty similar routine. I believe in taking care of myself, and a balanced diet and a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I’ll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial masque which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
Half the reddit thread is Bateman quotes lmao, even they know this is weird shit
That said, the number of :reddit-logo: that unironically think :bateman-ontological: is a role model and someone to emulate is too damn high.
:matt-jokerfied: made a point in an old Chapo episode about sports stars being pulled towards religious beliefs that seemed right to me. If you have the rare combination of talent, body type, and work ethic to reach the pinnacle of an international sport, then why the hell wouldn'tyou conclude that you were chosen by God, or that your lifestyle conferred upon you magical powers, or some other nonsense like that?
Something similar might be at play for those who fail upward due to their class position - our society doesn't preach Divine Right but if the conditions are right then people will reach that conclusion on their own.
If you have the rare combination of talent, body type, and work ethic to reach the pinnacle of an international sport
Don't forget dumb luck!
Oh yeah good point. Gotta be lucky enough to be born into a family that can afford to support critical early years training!
In my experience, the one thing those successful people can't stand to hear is that they didn't get to where they are by being hard-working and otherwise virtuous alone but that dumb luck played a huge role.
I'd assume that being able to dedicate your entire day, every day to training and conditioning might also play a minor role
i mean it's also because he practices. i assume he knows the practice is important since he keeps doing it.
i thought this was going to be the Danny Welbeck compilation , but it's even better
i have to get up at 530 for my school. I hate it, it doesn't make you a better person. I've had to do this for a year and a half now. Sleep until you're rested unless you have some obligation, fuck the 6 am rise and grind gang.
I have small children and get up at 6 AM every day. Believe me, waking up at that ungodly hour doesn't put me in my alpha success go-getter grindset. It just makes me exhausted.
Just depends when you go to bed. Going to bed at 9-10 and getting up at 6? Cool. Going to bed at 2AM and getting up at 6? Yeah just kill me.
Same here. In order for my daughter not to spend her entire day in a daycare, I have to get up at 5, so I can leave for work at 6, and be there around 7. Then 7½-8 hours of work, and then 30-45 minutes of traintime home, and then i pick up my daugher at 15:15 (3:15 PM). So far i've been doing it for a couple of months, and it's getting easier, though not any more pleasant.
I mean sunlight is very important for vitamin D production and liver is rich in vitamins, but it's not why he's so good obviously. Maybe it helps for physical maintenance, but he could maintain all he wanted to and would still be shit if he didn't have crazy levels of natural talent.
He's amazing because he's super tall, super fast and has a killer left foot and strikers instinct. You can't coach or diet your way into any of that.
First thing I do in the morning is scream at the sky to change color, for 3 hours, so I can get my Vitamin D
if you get up pre-dawn and do some cardio & stretching to get the blood flowing and loosen up, you will find it much easier to sneak up on people and do property crimes. it's a great way to bleed off the cortisol spike of waking up. as far as your body chemistry is concerned, thinking you're being snuck up and pounced on is about the same as sneaking up and pouncing on someone. so if you can get your cortisol down early morning, before dawn even, and then be out sitting quietly in their blind spot with your eyes adjusted as the light comes up... you are ready.
getting up early to work for someone else blows. getting up early to jack rich people and take their shit rocks.
For every Haaland, there's a million talented kids who do the same grind and get nothing out of it except having wasted their youth, spent their education on learning how to play ball and probably fucked up some of their bones as well. Getting into pro sports is always a gamble, and it may also ruin your families' finances if they're poor, too.
It can never possibly be luck, be it luck of when and where they were born or the luck of backing the right investment at the right time. They must be hard working geniuses. Anything less is an ego wound.
The top athletes have insane work ethic, born in the right place with the right resources, win the generic lottery, take care of their body (most of the time), and probably on some sort of PED.
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