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Too Little of What You Need, Too Much of What You Don’t Most of the mistakes you can make on the way to achieving your goal fall into two broad categories of wrongs. The first is what psychologists call underregulation,1 not doing enough of something you need to do for success. So far the mistakes I’ve talked about in this chapter, missing opportunities and not self-monitoring, are examples of this kind of error. Lacking the self-control to avoid temptation and control your impulses is another kind of underregulation.
Succeed
Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D. and Carol S. Dweck
He spent ten days in and around Phnom Penh and left feeling good about his new friends’ ability to work the gene machine. It was the flight home, on January 10, 2020, that he found unsettling. He changed planes again in Guangdong—the province from which the Chinese doctor, the superspreader of SARS, had come. The airport was transformed. There were now lots of security people wearing masks. Passengers were required to step, one by one, inside an acrylic stall and be scanned for fever. “They weren’t fooling around,” said Joe. “I thought, What the hell is going on?” He’d never seen a fever box and, as he stepped inside, he had a feeling in the pit of his stomach. “I thought, These people know something we don’t.”
The Premonition
Michael Lewis
Trainers well steeped in soft-tissue injury prevention are so rare that at P3, they refer to them as “unicorns.” The future Marcus envisions has much less time watching TV or stuck on Zooms, or even working out on the elliptical—and a lot more time surfing, climbing mountains, and jumping into water. When you go to the gym, though, Marcus says, let it be prescriptive to your exact body. Histories and movement patterns carefully assessed. Your MRI in the gym file. The workout hard-core, challenging, fun, and entirely designed and overseen by a trainer with a piece of paper detailing your exact issues—skilled eyes on your body as it moves. Marcus watched me walk around a few minutes before noting I had the body type of a blender, which in NBA players comes with a 300 percent increased likelihood of lower-back issues. Everyone knows we land with three moving parts—ankle, knee, hip—that can absorb force. The news is that some bodies recruit a fourth, the lower back, and start moving things around there. The injury and the solution are both movements.
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