👊🥊UFC x Boxing × Rant: Gym Motivation, Joseph Parker's Chef, My Rant re: Entitlement

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Happy Monday. Monday motivation. Thanks for joining me. It was good to see Reggie. Uh appreciate you showing up on the live. What are you gonna do to keep yourself motivated and disciplined enough to show up for yourself for your own gym dates? Make a date with yourself to go to the gym. What I've noticed is that uh people sometimes uh want to depend on someone else uh to go to the gym with them. So they make a tentative gym date and then they bail out for whatever reason. I'm feeling sick or I have something else I need to do, or uh whatever that is. But uh don't do that to yourself. You know, it's uh if you make a date a gym date with someone else, you should show up. But more importantly, don't bother making a date with someone else. Just make a date with yourself and then show up for yourself. All right, so tell me what you got planned for the week. What are your training sessions gonna look like? And I look forward to hearing about it in the comments and the fan mail. Thanks. Joseph Parker's nutritionist was doing coke in the same room where he was prepping Jo Joseph Parker's food. So that's apparently what made Joseph Parker test positive for trace amounts of cocaine. This caused him to have to sit out of fighting for about three months. Parker has since been cleared to fight, but my question is, why is nobody calling out Joseph Parker's nutritionist? In fact, Joseph and no other boxing reporter has even called out the nutritionist by name, so I'm going to. I have to assume the nutritionist is the same nutritionist Joseph Parker has always had, which is George Lockhart. I I truly wish that the nutritionist would out themselves and make a statement, at least maybe a public apology. The reason I'm saying it's George Lockhart is because he is the nutritionist that has appeared in most of Joseph Parker's own social media posts or YouTube channel leading up to his fights. George Lockhart has worked with a number of MMA fighters, including Connor McGregor, Holly Holme. I believe George Lockhart also worked with Chris Cyborg when she did that horrible weight cut with footage of her crying in a bathtub. Regardless, one of the reasons I highly suspect it is, in fact, George Lockhart is listen to George's voice. That's not a natural baritone, that's not a natural bass. Those of us who are OGs know exactly where that raspy voice comes from. And it's not from smoking cigarettes. But the bigger question is, regardless of whether this nutritionist at fault is actually George Lockhart, and if they actually used to smoke something other than cigarettes, why on God's Green Earth would you do coke in the same room where you are prepping food for anybody, let alone a high-profile athlete whom you absolutely know without with certainty that they're gonna get tested for PEDs? Of course, cocaine is not a performance-enhancing drug, but it's on the banned substance list. So it's gonna get that athlete a suspension. It's gonna be a strike against them, and they will have to sit out, just as Joseph Parker had to sit out. I would imagine Joseph and his team also had to invest a certain amount of time and money to clear his name. So I really wish that this nutritionist would just out themselves, make a public apology, you know, do the requisite statements like I promise it'll never happen again, etc. etc. But quite frankly, I don't think any professional athlete should ever work with this nutritionist again. I get it, they made a mistake. We all make mistakes, but if you're gonna make mistakes that affect you personally, that's one thing. If it's gonna cost your clients part of their professional career, that's I'm a professional educator, and several of my friends have brought a couple of news stories to my attention lately. One is a an English call, I guess, a college professor who's in tears because or sorry, it's a high school teacher who's in tears because his seniors cannot write coherent sentence. And there was also an article about a University of California, Berkeley math professor, who's lamenting the fact that she has to basically teach middle school math, meaning operations with fractions and integers, to her calculus students. So without delving into the details of math and math education, I think we this is just another sign of a couple of phenomena that have taken place over the past few decades. The first is the sense of entitlement, in that everyone gets a trophy. And then, specific to academics, what that turns into is grade inflation. So let's start with the everyone gets a trophy. That apparently started with soccer, from what my understanding, in which there they actually created these soccer leagues for kids where, in quotations, we don't keep score. Everybody wins, everybody gets a trophy. But the irony and the lie with that is of course the kids know who scored a goal. They can count. There's it's not gonna be a number higher than 10, probably, that they have to count to, but they know darn well who got the ball in the goal more times. So to then turn around and try to lie to them and tell them, oh, we don't know, everybody won, everybody's a winner, here's a trophy. It's just completely devalues the value of a trophy. And it sets them up for failure in life because now they think that even if they didn't win, that they still deserve to be deemed a winner. Well, you're not a loser for life just because you lost a game, but the fact of the matter is you and your teammates lost a game. It doesn't mean you're losers. What do you do? If you want to win the next one, you train a little harder, practice a little harder, or just execute a better game plan the next time. But the point is it's you can't just take away the pain of losing because that's part of the growth. That's reality. It also completely devalues hard work. Of course, you have to face, we all have to face the fact that you could work really hard as you possibly could have, and you could still wind up not winning. You could wind up losing. That's life. So you gotta just suck that one up and move forward, or you could quit. But those are basically your two choices in the face of not getting what you wanted as an outcome. Quit or keep going. I don't know what else there, I don't know what other choice you have. I mean, lying about it is not is not really a choice that changes anything, but if you want to just lie about it, then I guess you can. But I think that sense of everyone gets a trophy, I mean you're entitled, everybody's entitled to an A at the very least. I mean, kids in high school now expect to get higher than a 4.0 grade point average. Those of us who are Gen X, we recall that anybody who got like 3.9 something, we just looked at them in awe. Like if you were just super close to getting a 4.0, you were incredible. But now high school has gamified the whole grade point average because classes that are labeled honors, whatever, if it's an honors high school class, your your grade point average gets weighted slightly more gets graded higher. So it's inflated because you took an honors class. And if you take an AP class, advanced placement, here in the US, that's a whole separate thing that doesn't probably happen in Europe, but or maybe maybe there are European kids who take the AP exams because they want to come to the US for university. There's definitely students in Asia who take the AP exams specifically for that reason. But those are weighted even more highly than the honors classes. Now, is the actual content like 20% harder than it was when we were struggling to try to get a 4.0? No, I don't think it's 20% harder than it used to be. But it also seems to be ridiculous to just say, well, the 4.0 is the cap, but now there's people earning higher than five. Now, in general, I feel this whole grade inflation, everyone gets a trophy, sense of entitlement. This all goes back to one phenomenon, and that is that people just aren't willing to suffer anymore. Like suffering is bad, so we should take away the source of suffering. So we won't grade you as hard. We won't tell you that you lost a game. We won't tell you that you got less than a 4.0. And in the fight game, guess what? You don't have to spar hard if you don't want to. You don't have to train hard if you don't want to. We'll do all sorts of things that look good for social media, like hit the myth really fast, but we won't put you through any grilling heavy bag work and we won't make you spar really hard rounds to get prepared for a fight. Now I'm jumping around a bit with this, but I feel like this whole business of entitlement and not suffering also go ties back to education in that everybody's entitled to become a certified teacher, or everybody's entitled to get an a master's degree and then a PhD, and everyone's entitled to become published. And so the criteria for becoming the college professor has also been watered down. The criteria for being for having your paper published has also become watered down because there's so many journals where you could publish now. So it's not just the curriculum and the rigor at the elementary, middle school, and high school level that's that's gotten watered down. It's it's the whole thing has run amuck. And of course, if you look beyond the actual educators in the classrooms, then there's the administrators. How did they get where they are to make the these great decisions on in terms of curriculum and budgeting and evaluation of the educators, etc.? This phenomenon has also carried over into journalism. You may recall like several years ago, I think it was a New York Times journalist who got busted for blatant plagiarism. They're not the only one. I mean, again, why suffer through the hard work and grit that it takes to come to write your own material when you could just plagiarize, right? After all, you're you're entitled to be able to get your article done in time so you can go out and enjoy yourself. Why suffer through the process when you could just take it from someone else? Well, let me know what you think. Do you think this is a generational phenomenon? Do you think we can ever get back to the point where people are willing to embrace hard work and suffering to reach a higher goal? Let me know your thoughts about this in the comments and in the fan mail. Thank you so much.