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The Reason You Can't Think Your Way Into Change
You don't think your way into a new self. You move your way there — and then you turn around and the person who started walking isn't the person who arrived.
???? Read the full article: https://www.weareollin.com/articles/you-are-not-who-you-think-youre-how-you-stand
A client stands in front of me and says, "I'm just not an athletic person." He says it like he's reporting the weather. For years I heard a belief and reached for an argument — and lost every time. Because that sentence was never a belief. It was a body describing itself.
This episode is about what happens when two roads meet: a theory I built over years on the gym floor — that movement changes how you feel, and feeling changes how you think — and the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who arrived at the same truth from the opposite end of the earth, studying social class. He called it habitus: history turned into nature. Your past, settled into your body, then mistaken for who you just are.
We get into:
– Why the "think → feel → do" model fails almost everyone
– The real difference between exercise and training (most people have it backwards)
– Why exercise is accumulation and training is leverage — and why you can't skip the order
– Bourdieu's habitus and bodily hexis, explained without the academic fog
– Why information almost never changes anyone
– How optimization and image sell you a body arranged to be seen instead of trusted
– How people actually change: the field, hysteresis, and the cleft habitus
– Five corrections you can apply immediately
If you've ever done everything right and changed nothing, this is why.
—
CHAPTERS
00:00 "I'm not an athletic person"
01:47 The theory I built before I had the word for it
03:37 Exercise vs. training — the two directions
05:55 Exercise accumulates, training leverages
08:41 Bourdieu and habitus: history turned into nature
10:44 Bodily hexis — the body as the way in
11:52 Why information never changes anyone
13:42 Optimization, image, and the wrong game
17:38 How people actually change: change the field
19:35 Hysteresis and the cleft habitus
22:35 Five corrections
24:29 Isn't this just determinism?
25:22 The man, again
—
More from OLLIN:
???? Website & articles: https://www.weareollin.com
???? Read this episode as an essay: https://www.weareollin.com/articles/you-are-not-who-you-think-youre-how-you-stand
New here? OLLIN is training as a lifetime practice — not sport optimization, not aesthetics, not the endless pursuit of a body arranged to be seen. Subscribe if that's the direction you're headed.
#habitus #Bourdieu #trainingvsexercise #fitnessphilosophy #OLLIN #selfdevelopment #strengthtraining #GPP
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By Michael BlevinsYou don't think your way into a new self. You move your way there — and then you turn around and the person who started walking isn't the person who arrived.
???? Read the full article: https://www.weareollin.com/articles/you-are-not-who-you-think-youre-how-you-stand
A client stands in front of me and says, "I'm just not an athletic person." He says it like he's reporting the weather. For years I heard a belief and reached for an argument — and lost every time. Because that sentence was never a belief. It was a body describing itself.
This episode is about what happens when two roads meet: a theory I built over years on the gym floor — that movement changes how you feel, and feeling changes how you think — and the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who arrived at the same truth from the opposite end of the earth, studying social class. He called it habitus: history turned into nature. Your past, settled into your body, then mistaken for who you just are.
We get into:
– Why the "think → feel → do" model fails almost everyone
– The real difference between exercise and training (most people have it backwards)
– Why exercise is accumulation and training is leverage — and why you can't skip the order
– Bourdieu's habitus and bodily hexis, explained without the academic fog
– Why information almost never changes anyone
– How optimization and image sell you a body arranged to be seen instead of trusted
– How people actually change: the field, hysteresis, and the cleft habitus
– Five corrections you can apply immediately
If you've ever done everything right and changed nothing, this is why.
—
CHAPTERS
00:00 "I'm not an athletic person"
01:47 The theory I built before I had the word for it
03:37 Exercise vs. training — the two directions
05:55 Exercise accumulates, training leverages
08:41 Bourdieu and habitus: history turned into nature
10:44 Bodily hexis — the body as the way in
11:52 Why information never changes anyone
13:42 Optimization, image, and the wrong game
17:38 How people actually change: change the field
19:35 Hysteresis and the cleft habitus
22:35 Five corrections
24:29 Isn't this just determinism?
25:22 The man, again
—
More from OLLIN:
???? Website & articles: https://www.weareollin.com
???? Read this episode as an essay: https://www.weareollin.com/articles/you-are-not-who-you-think-youre-how-you-stand
New here? OLLIN is training as a lifetime practice — not sport optimization, not aesthetics, not the endless pursuit of a body arranged to be seen. Subscribe if that's the direction you're headed.
#habitus #Bourdieu #trainingvsexercise #fitnessphilosophy #OLLIN #selfdevelopment #strengthtraining #GPP