The Goal Is NOT TO Peak (2422)

In this episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros break down why the goal is not to peak, but to keep becoming. They challenge the belief that age, past success, talent, or comfort should decide how much growth is still available to you.

This episode looks at personal development, self-awareness, purpose, identity, fulfillment, limiting beliefs, and the standards required to build a future that is stronger than your past. Kevin and Alan make a clear distinction between being proud of what you have done and using old wins as permission to stop evolving. Press play and stop letting yesterday’s wins collect interest on a life that needs new deposits.

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Show notes:
(3:17) Growth without falling into hustle culture
(9:13) The difference between past success and continued growth
(12:23) Why early talent stops being enough
(14:36) How to know your future is shrinking
(17:24) Breaking the belief that you have already peaked
(21:34) Turning regret into better choices
(23:06) Outro

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Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) I felt like a fairly large loser in high school for many, many, many reasons. (0:06) And one of the reasons is there were dudes that just were grown-ass men that got all the women that seemed super confident, that seemed put together, and I mean this with love, but now a lot of them are not doing very well because they peaked early. (0:21) They maximized early and then unfortunately it was kind of all downhill from there.

Alan Lazaros

(0:27) Recently on Book Club, I talked about how this is next level university. (0:32) This is not current level university. (0:35) Next level you, not current you.(0:38) I care more about your future than your feelings. (0:41) You never want to peak. (0:43) We have not reached our best yet.(0:45) Let's rock and roll.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:46) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:49) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:50) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.(0:53) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Alan Lazaros

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Kevin Palmieri

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Alan Lazaros

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Kevin Palmieri

(1:29) Welcome to Next Level University. (1:35) Next Level Nation, today for episode number 2,422, the goal is not to peak. (1:41) Peak, P-E-A-K, not P-E-E-K, right?(1:44) To peak, to maximize, to, uh, what's the word? (1:48) Summit. (1:49) Like, every day there's an opportunity to get a little bit better, is essentially what we're saying.(1:52) You had a bold statement. (1:54) You said, brother, you cannot have peaked and be fulfilled.

Alan Lazaros

(2:01) Why? (2:02) Because if the future is not brighter than the past, you have, you get nihilistic. (2:09) Nihilism.(2:11) It's a word for hopelessness. (2:13) This is why a lot of people who retire end up, uh, very unhappy.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:19) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(2:19) Or dead. (2:20) Because, yeah, exactly, exactly. (2:22) And again, I wish we researched this, but essentially, there's a lot of research that showcases that when you, when you stop aiming higher, when you stop having goals, when you stop having purpose, when you stop, a lot of people who retire end up dying earlier or really unhappy or unfulfilled, unfulfilled.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:47) Let me ask you a question. (2:48) What's the difference? (2:49) Because I can imagine, now, again, you're watching or listening, you're, you're next level.(2:55) You want to be next level. (2:56) You're into peak performance, all that. (2:57) I can imagine somebody might come across this for the first time and say, this is just like hustle culture.(3:02) It's like hustle porn. (3:03) Like, so you just never stop. (3:05) No.(3:05) So you just, so you can't ever get to a place where you look back and say, wow, that was, I had a really good run. (3:11) I'm really proud of what I accomplished then.

Alan Lazaros

(3:17) No, no, I, I, I'm being playful, but no. (3:19) No. (3:21) So, so I'm, I'm coaching a 71 year old and I'm coaching his team and he is potentially selling his company.(3:29) It's exciting. (3:30) And I'm helping his team do that. (3:33) And it's, I'm pumped.(3:34) He's 71. (3:35) He's still cranking, baby. (3:36) I said, how many years are you going to be working as CEO?(3:38) You're CEO, right? (3:39) He's like, fuck yeah. (3:40) No, he didn't say that.(3:41) He said, yes, I'm CEO. (3:44) And he's like, I'm going to keep going. (3:46) I said, great.(3:47) To me, fulfillment is a byproduct of, of climbing meaningful mountains.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:56) Okay. (3:57) I think this is the thing. (4:00) I think this is what makes it hard.(4:02) Okay. (4:02) I am good.

Alan Lazaros

(4:04) No, I think you should, you should debate this as someone who might be listening, thinking that that's stupid. (4:14) So if you think anything I say, Kevin nine years ago would have thought was stupid. (4:19) I want you to, it seems like you're debated.

Kevin Palmieri

(4:23) Yeah. (4:23) Yeah. (4:24) Yeah.(4:24) From that place.

Alan Lazaros

(4:25) You know what I mean?

Kevin Palmieri

(4:25) It seems like you're running from something. (4:29) Like, why can't you just be, you can't ever be satisfied or content? (4:33) No.(4:34) With what you've accomplished? (4:35) No. (4:36) Okay.(4:37) What's your fucking debate?

Alan Lazaros

(4:39) Yeah. (4:40) I'm in a good mood. (4:44) No, it's the game theory thing.(4:46) It's, it's a finite game versus infinite game. (4:48) Life is an infinite game. (4:50) So I don't know what that means.

Kevin Palmieri

(4:52) Nine years ago.

Alan Lazaros

(4:53) Think about your legacy. (4:54) Think about your legacy. (4:55) Everyone out there watching a lesson, not just you, Kev, but like, think about your legacy.

Kevin Palmieri

(4:59) Very honestly, that never resonates with me. (5:02) That never, we had a, we had a team call last night and I, we were talking about meeting other people and, and having a good first impression. (5:09) Dude, my legacy is the hour I spend with somebody.(5:15) Cause they're never going to see me again. (5:17) That's how I think of my legacy. (5:19) No.(5:20) So that's not true though. (5:22) That's true to me though.

Alan Lazaros

(5:23) I was on with someone earlier and Santiago, shout out to you, brother. (5:31) I think he's going to listen. (5:32) He's like, I think I've heard of that.(5:34) And I, at first I was like, I don't think so. (5:36) Probably not. (5:37) But then when I found out he was really into certain podcasts and I think he probably has actually heard of our podcast, which is really cool.(5:44) Nice. (5:44) Shout out to Santiago. (5:45) Right.(5:45) Yeah. (5:45) So, um, but anyways, what's your, your work lives far beyond you. (5:51) Yeah, but I'm not thinking of it that way.(5:54) That's not how I think of it.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:56) But that's suboptimal thinking. (5:58) I'm not saying it's not, but again, nine year ago, Kev is not, brother. (6:02) Yeah.(6:02) Okay. (6:03) Nobody's going to listen. (6:04) Nobody's going to listen to this now.(6:05) Do you think I expect them to listen to it in a hundred years after I'm dead? (6:10) No. (6:10) Your body of work.(6:12) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(6:12) Okay. (6:12) Whatever. (6:13) All right.(6:13) But we got to go here a little bit. (6:16) We have to. (6:18) Where are we going?(6:21) I've been sending you all kinds of shit on Instagram. (6:25) I sent you the first... (6:27) Doom, bunch of old computers.(6:30) Yeah. (6:30) 1993 Doom. (6:31) Yep.(6:33) Doom is a video game company in 1993 that came out with one of the most successful PC games in history to date. (6:41) To date. (6:41) I was researching last night, Age of Empires.(6:50) Did you ever play Age of Empires? (6:51) No.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:52) Okay.

Alan Lazaros

(6:52) Age of Empires was a really famous game in 1996. (6:56) It's a real-time strategy game where you built an empire. (6:59) It's Stone Age, Iron Age, Bronze Age.(7:02) I did that in the wrong order, but you have clubmen and then axemen and you build a village and you farm and you hunt and you build resources and you conquer nations. (7:11) It's a whole thing. (7:13) And it's actually very historically accurate, the PC game.(7:17) But when I was researching, it was hilarious because it was like I was talking to A-L-E-X-A, the AI, and I was asking it questions. (7:26) And it was like, hey, because I said, tell me about Age of Empires because I was trying to share with Emilia my past. (7:34) And we do that all the time.(7:36) So we're just sitting there eating and we're talking to the AI and just researching because that's the best way to learn in my opinion. (7:42) Anyway, so I said, tell me all about Age of Empires. (7:45) It's like Age of Empires was a game in 1996, one of the most famous PC games, real-time strategy in history.(7:52) It sold 300,000 copies or something like that. (7:56) I think it might have been 30,000. (7:58) It was nuts.(7:59) And F-22 Lightning II was a flight simulator I used to play way back in Windows 95. (8:04) And I was just a little kid, but I remember thinking this is the fucking coolest game ever. (8:10) This is like the best.(8:12) It sold like 300,000 copies, which at the time was the most successful PC game of all time to date. (8:22) 300,000 copies now is a wild flop for a video game because there's now 8.3 billion people on earth and there's 6 billion on the internet. (8:31) Whereas back in the day, most people didn't even have a fucking computer.(8:35) So the market is much bigger. (8:36) So what's my point of this? (8:37) Legacy.(8:38) You, Doom and Age of Empires paved the fucking way for Call of Duty and for Halo and for you know what I mean? (8:47) There is no one video game or one PC or one anything. (8:53) There's no one person is like just one person.(8:58) You are your legacy that ripples outward. (9:02) To me, that's always been so obvious. (9:04) Well, that's your one word, one word legacy.(9:07) I think it's potential now, but yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:08) Well, that was your one word for a while.

Alan Lazaros

(9:10) Yeah, it was. (9:10) For the longest time. (9:11) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:11) Okay.

Alan Lazaros

(9:12) Legacy would be a close second.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:13) Legacy is a close second. (9:14) Here, this is my thesis for this episode, okay? (9:19) I have peaked in fitness.(9:22) A hundred percent. (9:23) I was looking at pictures today. (9:25) I could send you the pictures right now for my bodybuilding prep.(9:27) No chance. (9:28) There's no way. (9:29) There's no way I ever go back there.(9:30) Oh, that's so depressing. (9:32) To me, it's not. (9:33) Super depressing.(9:34) It's expected to me. (9:35) And to me, peaking means you got to a point and you stopped. (9:43) I'm still pursuing goals in fitness.(9:46) Right now, I'm working on getting leaner. (9:48) I'm working on hitting a certain weight. (9:49) I'm working on lifting a certain amount of weight.(9:51) I'm working on that. (9:53) What's the difference between the two?

Alan Lazaros

(9:56) Emilia said, I always said, everyone does their best. (9:59) Because I remember, I've told you this story before, but one of my close friends growing up's mom, she said, Alan, everybody's putting their best foot forward. (10:08) I remember thinking, yeah, but some people have a shitty foot.(10:11) Better your fucking best. (10:13) If that was your best, that's not okay. (10:17) So again, I looked around as a kid.(10:21) I was like, this is not okay. (10:23) This is not okay. (10:24) Why is no one calling the fucking cops?(10:28) This is not good. (10:30) And my point of this is, and Emilia says, I used to say, so you better your best. (10:34) You always better your best.(10:36) My new worst is better than my old best in everything except for fitness. (10:41) And I'm working on that. (10:42) I will make that happen somehow.(10:44) I know you don't believe it, but I do. (10:45) I'm going to make it fucking happen. (10:47) But anyways, the point is, is bettering your best is what really it means not to peak.(10:55) So if your best in fitness is actually behind you in holistic fitness, physical fitness, then that sucks. (11:02) I'm not saying holistic. (11:04) Oh.(11:05) Yeah, holistic. (11:06) What do you just mean in muscle mass? (11:07) I mean, I'm never going to look the way I did.(11:10) So just aesthetics. (11:11) So that's just one narrow area. (11:13) Yeah.(11:13) Okay. (11:14) Well, that doesn't mean you peaked in fitness.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:16) I think that would be the, I think most people would consider that peaking. (11:20) Maybe. (11:22) Yeah, that's fair.(11:23) Right. (11:24) Like, I'm not, I don't know. (11:25) I'm not saying you shouldn't do this.(11:27) Okay. (11:28) I'm not throwing shit on you. (11:29) I don't think I'm ever going to get to the place where I say like, that's a PR in my 30s.(11:33) That's a PR. (11:33) I don't think I'm ever going to do that. (11:35) No, it's all right.(11:36) I don't think I should either. (11:38) It's annoying.

Alan Lazaros

(11:38) Well, there that goes. (11:40) Yeah. (11:40) I stopped doing that.(11:41) Oh, I didn't know. (11:42) You called me out for that. (11:44) And I was like, yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:46) Yeah, I'm gonna stop doing that. (11:48) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(11:48) Because it might be holding me back.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:50) For me, it's more. (11:51) If I have to justify it, it means something.

Alan Lazaros

(11:55) I thought about it. (11:56) I was either going to come back at you or I was going to change. (11:59) That's what I do every time you annoy me.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:01) Well, shit.

Alan Lazaros

(12:02) Usually it's the first. (12:03) Usually you come back at me.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:04) No, that's not true. (12:05) No, no, no.

Alan Lazaros

(12:06) There's a million more times where I took it and didn't come back. (12:10) It just doesn't seem that way because the ones you're thinking of are the ones I came back. (12:14) That's fair.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:15) I think that's a hint, right? (12:16) If you have to like justify something.

Alan Lazaros

(12:18) Yeah, it is.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:18) That's why I was like, yeah, he's right. (12:20) I'm gonna stop doing that.

Alan Lazaros

(12:21) I haven't said it since, actually.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:23) Okay. (12:23) We were talking. (12:24) We often talk.(12:25) And again, I know it would sound shitty if you heard it out of context. (12:29) But we often talk about our high school experience and where people ended up. (12:32) Not from a place of judgment.(12:33) It's not like I wake up and I go. (12:34) Let me search somebody so I can shit on their life.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:37) That's not what it is.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:38) Yeah, it makes me less sad than you because that's. (12:41) I expect that to happen. (12:44) But there's a lot of people that were.(12:47) It doesn't have to happen. (12:48) I understand. (12:48) There's a lot of people that were extremely attractive, extremely popular, had a ton of potential.(12:56) I don't know what their family lives were like. (12:58) I'm not going to say they had it easy by any. (12:59) I don't know.(13:01) But a lot of them. (13:04) Didn't end up in great places. (13:06) And I think one of the reasons is they were given power that they did not actually have to earn, which did not force them to develop the skills necessary in order to do the thing.(13:16) So I know a lot of kids that were really strong when they were young. (13:20) But they never actually worked on mobility. (13:22) They never actually worked on mind muscle connection.(13:24) They didn't work on proper nutrition. (13:25) And now we're 36, 37. (13:28) We're nearing 40.(13:30) Right. (13:31) You're not just using genetics at this point. (13:36) Like their genetics just isn't enough as you get to your late 30s and early 40s.(13:40) It's just I know a lot of people that were genetically gifted. (13:43) It doesn't matter. (13:44) It doesn't matter.(13:44) It's not enough.

Alan Lazaros

(13:45) Yeah. (13:46) It's like when you're in middle school, all it is is genetics.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:50) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(13:50) And everyone kind of sucks anyway. (13:51) So there's not a huge separation. (13:52) And then in high school, it's like, OK, definitely genetics.(13:55) And then in college, it's like, oh, shit. (13:59) I don't know if my genetics are going to get me to the top of this game. (14:03) And then you get out in the world and you're like, nope, I'm fucked.(14:07) I can't rest on talent anymore. (14:09) I have. (14:10) Yeah.(14:10) And that's the truth, though. (14:12) When you get to the top of any industry, it's not just genetics. (14:16) Everyone's genetically gifted at the top.(14:19) I'm good looking. (14:20) I'm going to be an actress. (14:21) OK, you know, you need way more than that.(14:23) There's a lot of other really good looking people.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:26) The most attractive people in the world. (14:28) Exactly. (14:29) Exactly.(14:30) How do you know? (14:30) How do you know if you're on track to have peaked?

Alan Lazaros

(14:36) When your future isn't brighter than your past. (14:40) When you're nihilistic, when you're hopeless. (14:41) When you feel like your past is brighter than your future.(14:47) That is a very dangerous place from a psychological point of view.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:50) What if you delude yourself into, well, I mean, this is how it goes, right? (14:54) We've been married for 30 years. (14:56) This is what happens at everybody's marriage.(14:57) Or I'm almost 50. (14:59) Of course, I'm not going to be in as good a shape.

Alan Lazaros

(15:01) I think this is one of the reasons why it's really hard to be around certain people. (15:07) So I'll give you this example. (15:08) This is scary to talk about, but whatever.(15:10) So, okay. (15:14) This is a weird metaphor, but I think it'll land. (15:17) Beyoncé.(15:19) I guarantee you, I mean, there's people all over the world that love Beyoncé. (15:23) But her, Destiny's Child, I can almost promise you doesn't.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:28) Oh, the group Destiny's Child?

Alan Lazaros

(15:29) Yeah. (15:30) The point is, is like, okay, just like who's the NSYNC or whatever? (15:35) Justin Timberlake?(15:36) Was it Timberlake? (15:37) Yeah. (15:39) People all over the world like JT.(15:42) JT. (15:42) What the fuck am I talking about? (15:43) Justin Timberlake.(15:45) But I guarantee you, NSYNC, there's some estranged relationships there. (15:50) It's harder to look in the mirror. (15:52) Okay.(15:52) I have an example. (15:54) I was on a podcast that was very close to home, literally, not a metaphor. (16:00) Actually, I could throw a rock.(16:02) I couldn't, obviously. (16:03) It's like 10 minutes up the road. (16:05) And I'm not going to disclose where that is.(16:07) But what I am going to say is, once this man got to know me, I sensed that it was worse for him. (16:17) Because it's easier to believe. (16:19) It's harder to make excuses for yourself.(16:22) Because, okay, all the kids I grew up with, if I do go on to achieve all my goals and dreams, it's a bigger mirror when I do that than if Justin Timberlake does. (16:32) Because we were the same at one point. (16:34) As a matter of fact, these people I'm thinking of were better than me back then in sports and whatever.(16:41) So it's harder. (16:42) For me, I get sad when I see someone from high school who is very clearly peaked. (16:49) Clearly peaked.(16:50) I mean, whoa, did they peak. (16:52) That's sad for me because it doesn't have to be that way. (16:56) Maybe they didn't have someone to believe in them.(16:58) Or maybe they didn't have this podcast. (16:59) Or maybe they didn't get into personal development or didn't get into self-improvement or personal growth. (17:03) Maybe they didn't have the right mentors or coaches.(17:05) Or maybe they just let it all go because they're lazy. (17:08) I don't know the answer. (17:09) But I do know that you don't have to peak.(17:11) Certainly not at 37. (17:14) If you're 67 and you're, of course, I get it. (17:19) But I want to share some research so that I'm not just fucking talking.(17:24) I watched a Steven Kotler interview recently. (17:29) And he talked about how they used to think the brain stopped developing at 25. (17:33) And how they used to think that VO2 max maxed out at 25.(17:37) That is so much horseshit. (17:39) It's not even funny. (17:40) My brain, I'm way smarter than I was at 25.(17:43) And I'm not only smarter, but my IQ is higher and I'm sharper and quicker. (17:46) Like you can get better for a very long period of time. (17:51) And we are now proving that.(17:52) Back in the 90s, people thought you peak. (17:55) Oh, well, you remember that bullshit of, well, you lose your brain. (17:58) Cells after 25.(17:59) Those things don't regenerate. (18:01) That is completely false. (18:03) Neurogenesis.(18:04) There's an entire research collective that guarantees that you can regenerate brain. (18:09) You can like have a massive traumatic brain injury and or stroke and come back even better. (18:14) Like one of the persons we interviewed, Bella.(18:18) She commented on something recently. (18:20) She is like running, walking, weight training. (18:23) She was told she would never walk again.(18:24) This is all horseshit. (18:26) It's not real. (18:27) Like the human brain and body is so motherfucking adaptable.(18:31) It's not even funny. (18:33) It's it's mind blowing how limiting these fucking beliefs are. (18:37) I love of all ventures because Emilia, obviously, but she I love what they stand for.(18:43) Evolving human consciousness, one limiting belief at a time. (18:47) Limiting beliefs are the problem. (18:50) They are the problem.(18:51) And if you think you are peaked at 36 because you can't fucking do better, that is not true. (18:56) That's a fucking excuse. (18:58) And it's not real.(18:59) Be honest. (19:00) You haven't peaked. (19:01) You've peaked because of your poor choices.(19:04) Because you don't believe in yourself. (19:05) Because you haven't read the books or or done the things. (19:09) You didn't peak because it was inevitable, right?(19:12) There's an expiration date on blaming your past for your own future not being brighter. (19:17) You are in control of your own future much more than you're not. (19:21) However, there are some things you're not in control of.(19:24) But we over focus on that at the expense of what we actually can do. (19:27) And I know I'm extreme with this. (19:28) But here's the fucked up part.(19:30) Even if you don't like me or like what I'm saying, it's not going to help you if you don't believe me. (19:36) There's nothing anyone can do for you other than you. (19:39) So if you don't believe me, your future is going to suck.(19:43) The truth is the empowering, constructive feedback you need is you can be better. (19:48) And you fucking should. (19:50) And if you don't, you will regret it even if you don't admit it to yourself.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:53) The hardest thing about it is it gets harder as you go because you have to continue the momentum that you've. (20:00) That's the thing. (20:01) It's like, well, yeah, I've read 100 books.(20:02) It's like, all right, that's that's great up to this point. (20:05) But there is no you don't cross a chasm where it's like, ah, that's enough. (20:09) Why do people care about that?

Alan Lazaros

(20:11) Like the point of the point of life isn't to stop lifing.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:15) I think it's so silly. (20:17) The point of working isn't to stop working. (20:20) It is when you don't like your job.(20:21) Well, then get a new fucking job. (20:23) It's again, but it's not that simple. (20:25) It is.(20:26) It's not. (20:27) It is and it isn't. (20:28) I will go toe to toe with you on that.(20:29) We got to. (20:31) It's again, if everybody had your level of belief, yes, the world would be different. (20:35) Of course.(20:37) If and so many of the people when you give that advice is not going to resonate because they know it's like, yeah, fucking easy for you to say. (20:44) You just. (20:45) I know it's not.

Alan Lazaros

(20:46) Come coach with me. (20:46) I'll get you another job.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:48) That's fair. (20:48) That's fair.

Alan Lazaros

(20:49) 100 percent.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:50) That's fair. (20:50) But I'm just saying. (20:52) I'm just saying.(20:53) I know.

Alan Lazaros

(20:53) I know. (20:54) And like it's like, man, I know it's it's brutal because just because I believe in myself doesn't mean I'm wrong. (21:01) I 100 percent.(21:01) There's no one I know who can't do better.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:04) No one. (21:04) Also 100 percent agree with that.

Alan Lazaros

(21:06) And I think we focus on what we can't do more than what we can do.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:09) And I 100 percent agree. (21:10) And I 100 percent agree on all of that. (21:13) And I think that you will regret it if you don't continue to grow.(21:16) It just might take a long time. (21:19) Last thing before we go. (21:20) What happens in high school?(21:22) People don't know how good they have it and they think it's going to last forever. (21:25) And then eventually it gets to the point where they say, holy shit, something has gone wrong, but I never developed the habits to understand what was actually working. (21:32) I don't know what the fuck to do now.

Alan Lazaros

(21:34) But that's when they're supposed to fate to the last episode, face the shame, regret and guilt and then transform it into positive change. (21:41) Even if you're not, you know, certain industries, right? (21:44) What dancing you have to start when you're I was just on with someone who started tennis when they were a little kid.(21:49) They were in a full time tennis academy at 13 and they got to the peak and they're like, I can't. (21:55) They literally told me, like I said, good for you for aiming high. (21:58) He's like, it just gets to the point where you realize you're just not good enough for the top of the top of the top of the top.(22:04) And I said, that's very different than, uh, it's not going to work anyway, so I'm not even going to try. (22:09) And and. (22:11) I just I believe in people that self-awareness.

Kevin Palmieri

(22:15) How many people, how many people get to a certain age and they say, oh, that's just that. (22:18) That's just what happens. (22:19) You know that.(22:20) That's that's not even that you need. (22:24) Yes. (22:24) But you need to get a more just a deeper understanding of what's possible.(22:29) Yeah. (22:29) Maybe that's what happened 50 years ago. (22:33) Sure.(22:33) Yes. (22:33) Yeah. (22:34) You retired at 60 or not 50 years ago.(22:36) But yes, you retired at 62 because you died at 68. (22:39) So you had six years to fucking live. (22:41) Strong work.(22:42) Enjoy your remaining years. (22:43) It's not like that anymore. (22:44) Different game, different game.(22:46) So you got to play differently. (22:47) All right. (22:47) Cool stuff.(22:48) Good stuff. (22:48) If you want to play the game differently and you actually want to win the game, coach with Alan. (22:51) If you want to play the game of fitness and be the most consistent, most accountable version of yourself, the next level fitness accountability group, reach out to me, reach out to Alan.(23:00) We will send you the link for the WhatsApp group. (23:02) Totally free. (23:02) It's just because we love fitness and we want to be leaders in fitness.(23:05) So that is the way we do it. (23:06) As always, we love you. (23:07) We appreciate you.(23:08) Grateful for each and every one of you. (23:09) If you are as committed as you say you are to getting to the next level, make sure you tune in tomorrow because we will be here every single day. (23:14) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential.

Alan Lazaros

(23:17) Next Level Nation.

Kevin Palmieri

(23:19) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. (23:23) We love connecting with the Next Level family.

Alan Lazaros

(23:26) We mean it when we say family. (23:28) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (23:31) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.(23:35) Thank you again.

Kevin Palmieri

(23:35) And we will talk to you tomorrow.