If you want to understand our attitude to risk head to a gym and wait for the questions.
How much can you lift?
What’s your 1 RM?
This is Bro shorthand for what is your point of failure?
We build our hopes, attitudes, and systems around being able to nudge our point of failure slightly further north.
The assumption (and it’s a poor one) is that our point of failure points towards our improvement (often unspecified).
Or worse still we feel like we have a point to prove.
But what if we concentrated on building systems that improve general qualities, like breathing patterns, lifting techniques, and stress levels that allow us to show up each day.
Would that not build a better human?