Post #1470985
2026-02-14 13:04 UTC
Many people seem to see "self-improvement" as "put in more energy, that you already lack, to burn out even quicker".
As if people imagine progress during working out more like them becoming able to force themself to do more, put in more effort and go through more pain.
In fact, the oppositie is true, as your fitness improves, working out gets easier.
It's as if many people have made this experience a lot, but never fully internalised it, never fully learned it.
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@hauchvonstaub@nrw.social 2026-02-14 13:10
I suspect that one reason is, that we get taught the opposite a lot, when growing up. We learn one subject in school, then write a test, then forget about it. When I think about my time in school, there was never anything I got to get "really good at". There also was never an incentive to really see the difference between where you started and where you arrived and how much improvement was between those points. Usually there wasn't much improvement, just "memorisation" instead of learning. 5/