Hello and welcome back to another episode of Train for a Great Life. Just a quick one. Today we live in a world of distraction and comparison, where there are more people than ever before but perhaps less time spent figuring out who we actually are between all the name brands and influencing and FOMO and billionaires telling us about their morning routines. My son Leonardo reminds us all the time of the things that he loves Lions, dinosaurs, monster trucks and, of course, his Spider-Man PJs. Now, these are all fairly common three-year-old boy interests and I promise that that does not make it any less adorable. They could be anything, but these have been the constants and it's ever changing. At the moment, lions are the coolest thing going, whereas the last year and a half it's been dinosaurs.

When I ask why he loves any of them, I get the same answer in the sweetest little three-year-old voice Because I do, he tells me and the adult in me is still curious, like why you seem to you know, really enjoy these top of the food chain predators. Do you like the power? Is there something about sharp teeth? Do your friends like these too? But all I get is because I do. He's not trying to justify to me why he thinks they're cool, or wondering if I think they're cool too, and there's something beautiful in that. It's as if he's saying between the lines dad, I just told you, why Can we just get on with it?

And so the lesson I take from this is just be yourself. You can be interested in things that are seemingly opposing. Take me, for example lifting weights and introspective personal growth. This may seem a lot more common now, but it wasn't 25 years ago, right around when I started lifting weights and writing my thoughts. Let yourself be interested in what you are and let yourself say no to what you want to say no to. You can be a kindergarten teacher who watches MMA on the weekend. Who cares? Just be authentic. There has never been a better time in history to find a community of people who are into the things that you are into. The Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde famously said Be yourself. Everyone else is taken, and I wonder if he was observing either of his two children when he thought that See you in the gym.