CrossFit MindFit
CrossFit is a great initiative.
Get people outside, get them to see their bodies are far more capable than they think, extend themselves, get fit, get some extra sunlight, get some vitamin D3.
You know we don’t have a flu season; we have a vitamin D deficiency season.
It's hard to start
What is hard about CrossFit is when you have never stretched your body.
When you have never had sore muscles from extended use, never had the stitch while running 4 km, never felt your muscles shake as you find their limit, and then find a new limit tomorrow.
All these things are really hard, and your brain, body, and emotions work against you as you push the boundaries.
But the reward is unbelievable as you break barriers, set new personal bests, and give your body an endorphin pat on the back.
Do this more, and the simple things will become easier: climbing stairs and carrying boxes. And your body feels good, looks good.
The same is true for your mind.
Being body fit is more than just being fit; you become more self-aware and can care for yourself with greater capacity and confidence.
Being mind fit is the same.
The lies that exist to hinder you from getting body fit are the same for the mind.
You are not dumb.
“You don’t understand numbers” is a lie.
“Reading is hard” is as much a lie as “lifting weights is hard” is a lie.
Just as your diet works against you for fitness, so does it for mind fitness.
Brain fog is a real thing, and sugar is the culprit. Food coma does happen, and post-lunch learning blocks do happen.
Certain times of the day are better for physical exercise than others, and the same is true for mental exercise.
Do you know your learning style?
Are you a kinetic learner? Or visual, audio, or more traditional read-write?
Here is a very important thing I want you to consider: Have you ever said to yourself, “I’m dumb?” Or, worse, has a teacher ever said that to you?
Teachers, by definition, are teachers because they respond to the primary method of teaching that schools have always used: read and write. Read-write is only one of the four VARK learning styles: Visual, Audio, Read-write, and Kinetic. Yet read-write is the most prominent method used in schools as it requires the least amount of resources, it can be pushed at the most amount of students at the same time, and it provides an easy feedback loop (paperwork) and proof of success or failure (the written word). It can be scored and tabulated easily for review and evaluation.
Read-write is its own force feedback loop that perpetuates its strengths and weaknesses.
People who succeed in a read-write educational system will become teachers and perpetuate the read-write educational system (over all other systems). People who fail don’t become teachers, so change never happens. People who learn differently are absent as teachers, which creates an echo chamber of Read-write teachers confident that they are right. The proof of the success of new teachers gives a false confidence that just as they succeeded, anyone who tries can.
Become ReadFit
You may not read simply because you are just plain lazy.
Or you may not read because you have never found a compelling book on a compelling subject presented compellingly.
You may not read because it involves a set of muscles beyond your normal range of use, just like a person who has never been jogging.
Well, you are reading this now. That is a start.
If you don’t read, you are hugely limiting yourself.
You are exactly the kind of person our new world orders want. DEI / SCS / ESG.
If you don’t learn, then you will be sold.
You will have no idea where you have become the product and are having the life sucked out of you. We are either sell or be sold. We either surf on top of the waves or get rolled in the rocks underneath the waves. Get rolled enough times in these rocks, and you will begin to think this is normal.
Everything is after your money.
The sugar addiction in coffee shops is huge. Overpriced shots of sweetness that reward during the time you are in the coffee shop and a little after. The sugar crash comes later, with no reference to blame your downed emotions on the drug-dealing coffee shop.
Yes, I am very down on sugar.
Your morning sugar cereal might get you going (of course, it will have up to 50% sugar), but it leaves you needing a 10 am, 12 pm, 2 pm, 4 pm re-up.
Think of all the money you are spending on your sugar addiction.
I dare you to tabulate a week’s worth of your sugar intake. This includes any coffee or frap, donut, candy bar, especially health bars, energy drinks, rehydration fluids, and your morning cereals and evening desserts. Anything with sugar in it. If you really want to get aware, tabulate your fruit intake, which to is sugar. and sweet vegetables: carrots, peas, beets, potatoes and corn.
What is the purpose of all this?
I kind of got away from my main topic, becoming a reader. But this does tie in.
Become a learner.
Don’t walk through life like a ball in a pinball machine, bounced around by external forces.
Do you exercise with aim?
Then eat with an aim, not an addiction.
You have a resource of money that is going down a sugar drain to the advantage of others. There really is a sugar cartel running things.