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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Most of what gets you into a gym is about something more surface-level than seeking personal growth
• Life lessons from weightlifting come in years after consistency and discipline when your focus is no longer looks, gains, aesthetics
• People who workout regularly: handle challenges better, see challenges as valuable, tend to be more successful in business, and are more resilient
• “Fitness is one of the best, easiest ways to enter into personal growth.” – Sal
• Highlight from ten lessons from weight lifting: fitness changes your relationship with pain; embrace failure as part of the process; focus on what you can change, ignore everything else; consistency is key; healthy self-criticism is good

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In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin cover ten lessons they have learned about life from their experience lifting weights.

• Why it takes a lot of consistency applying discipline towards a goal to see its benefits bleed into other aspects of your life. (1:57)
• What makes fitness so powerful? (5:02)
• The Ten Life Lessons from Lifting Weights. 
• #1 – Change your relationship to pain and struggle. (11:14)
• #2 – Embrace failure as part of the process. (14:55)
• #3 – Learn to care for yourself like someone you care about. (18:35)
• #4 – Learn to focus on what you can change and ignore what you can’t. (22:22)
• #5 – Perfect doesn’t exist. (25:46)
• #6 – Be humble. (30:30)
• #7 – Consistency is the key to success. (34:34)
• #8 – The journey is far more important than the goal. (39:34)
• #9 – Healthy self-criticism. (43:11)
• #10 – Balance. (46:08) 

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