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We've been sold a story about performance that says greatness is a matter of force – more volume, more intensity, more suffering. Break enough eggs, the logic goes, and what's left standing is excellence. I believed that story for most of my life. Turns out it's mostly wrong.
What the best in the world understand is quieter, and for someone who spent decades equating training with suffering, a little disarming: the body isn't a machine to optimize. It's a biology to respect.
The brain isn't really built for greatness – it's built for safety. And until some part of it decides you're okay, it holds a little back, quietly rationing what it'll let you do. Feed it, rest it, take away the fear, and it gives you far more than you'd think.
Here to talk about the science – and the lost art – of building a durable human is Dr. Kelly Starrett.
Kelly's a Doctor of Physical Therapy and the co-founder of The Ready State, and he's spent decades working with pro athletes, Olympians, and special forces. He's also written a stack of New York Times bestsellers, the latest being Built to Move, which runs through a lot of what we get into today.
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