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They break down self-awareness, goal setting, accurate thinking, fitness, finance, relationships, and the danger of generic advice. Kevin makes the case for practical knowledge that fits the goal. Alan challenges listeners to build deeper fundamentals and sharper discernment. Learn what matters. Use what works.

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Show notes:
(2:15) The knowledge gap behind inconsistent results
(4:30) How deep you actually need to go
(7:15) Fitness, finance, and family
(9:10) Why understanding creates control
(13:35) Unrealistic goals reveal missing knowledge
(20:10) The problem with generic advice
(27:25) Mastery creates long-term control
(29:17) Outro

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Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) My phone, there's something wrong with my phone. (0:03) I don't know what's going on. (0:04) It overheats.(0:05) It's been overheating when I charge it It's been overheating when I am using my camera and I don't know enough about the inside of my phone to solve the problem But what I did yesterday on my way to the airport is I turned the AC on full blast Stuck my phone up against it. (0:20) Everything worked the way it was supposed to I don't understand it well enough to fix the problem (0:24) But I have an inkling of what to do (0:26) So I guess that's enough awareness to to get me to the point of survival at least

Alan Lazaros

(0:31) This episode is about (0:34) Deconstructing things taking them apart decoding them (0:37) understanding the smallest components (0:41) We've talked a lot about (0:44) How knowledge is not power behavior changes (0:49) After behavior change the next most important thing is a deeper understanding because you can't make effective just decisions without

Kevin Palmieri

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Alan Lazaros

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Kevin Palmieri

(1:40) Welcome to next level University Next on the nation today for episode number 2483 you can't control what you don't understand you and I disagree on this a little bit You want to break things down to their smallest components always baby, I always think that's extreme and because most people Yeah, most people will never okay here. (2:11) So here's the sweet spot 10 pound and 10 week challenge. (2:14) Mm-hmm every time we do this and again This is not throwing shade at you if you're out there every time we do this we realize Oh people don't really understand fitness that much.(2:22) Yeah compared to the level that we do The here's the problem though You want to get some results? (2:30) So you're not gonna go break it down to its smallest possible components Why not because you want you want to get results to make it worth it?

Alan Lazaros

(2:39) So I think you would get results if you broke it down to its smallest components Yeah, but how long would it take you to break it down to its smallest components? (2:45) I think that's a blind spot. (2:47) Maybe not that long.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:48) How long would you think I mean, dude, it depends like For for Okay, get rid of fitness. (2:56) Okay, how long would it have taken? (2:59) new Kev To break finance down to its smallest components and understand it.(3:05) It depends. (3:06) Do you have a good teacher?

Alan Lazaros

(3:09) No Yeah, you'd have to focus on it for at least a year before you even had a remote Understanding of how it all connects probably that but so but what do I do for the year? (3:20) Keep trying and failing trial and error, baby All of life is trial and error I'm we're on different sides on this one for sure trial and error, baby.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:32) I think you break it down I understand trial and error, baby. (3:35) I think you break it down to a you break it down to smaller components I don't think the smallest components. (3:41) It's like the it's okay.(3:43) It starts is the Pareto principle It's 80 20 right 20% of your results produces 80% of your at 20% of your effort produces 80% of your results But you can get 20% 20% Which is fucking whatever one point four percent four point. (3:56) Okay, and then you can get 20% of four percent (3:59) Yeah, and then when it's 20 20 percent of point eight percent, which is point one six or whatever (4:04) It's nice point one six and then it just keeps going to point zero three two percent (4:11) If you want to be the most successful in the world at what you do you need that's what you need (4:17) If you want to do the 10 pound and 10 week challenge better next year than you did this year (4:23) Because we do we're having a lot of people that do this with us every time we do it (4:27) You need to break it down to smaller components

Alan Lazaros

(4:30) Nice. (4:30) Okay, fine Thoughts on I'm saying break things down to their smallest components. (4:34) You're saying break them down into smaller and smaller components over time to the level that you your goal requires Brother Go ahead.(4:47) I can't with it. (4:48) I can't hit me with it. (4:49) Let's hear you're not gonna build phones, right?(4:51) You're not gonna start a phone company can't No. (4:55) All right. (4:55) Well, then you don't need to Understand the phone the iPhone to its smallest components, however, you would deeply benefit from learning that for sure You'd understand how computers work.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:08) The iPhone is basically a small computer, but isn't it worth learning something? (5:11) That's more within what I'm doing You the amount you can learn is not infinite, right It is finite. (5:20) There's only so much you can learn.(5:22) It's semi-finite semi-finite. (5:23) Yeah, it's fine.

Alan Lazaros

(5:24) It's fine.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:24) That's fine I would rather somebody learn fitness at a level 5 and then go learn finance at a level 5 and then go then then do Fitness at a level 10 and then finance at a level 2 and relationships I am 36 years of age if average life expectancy was 37.

Alan Lazaros

(5:39) You're right I'm not saying you can't strive for more But I think that's a blind spot. (5:46) I think that's a blind I think the blind spot that you're sensing is I understand things very easily. (5:50) Yes, so it doesn't take me that much time Yeah, yeah, and I also love it.(5:55) So so you can collapse time and the absorption time. (5:59) I pulled up there's a (6:01) map of mathematics and there's a map of (6:04) engineering principles that there's this like really nerdy youtuber that you mean I like (6:09) And I pulled it up for one of my clients and I said how much of this do you understand it was the map of (6:13) engineering she said none of it I was like

Kevin Palmieri

(6:16) What do you mean you sent the map of mathematics to the team and you said we're gonna do a call on this (6:22) How much do you understand and I said the better question is how much I'm sorry (6:26) How much of this don't you understand?(6:27) I said the better question is like, what are the four things you actually do understand? (6:31) Yeah, because that's gonna be the percentage sad man.

Alan Lazaros

(6:34) It's like well, I don't know what you're leaving on the table then no, definitely not like I have a Client who's a multi-millionaire and I know you're listening brother. (6:45) So I you know, I mean this with love He just knows finance. (6:51) So he'll just win forever He doesn't like he's not that good at other stuff.(6:57) I Think you're good at stuff. (6:58) Don't don't take that the wrong way, but like he's not Extraordinary at everything. (7:03) He's just extraordinary at a few things So so maybe you don't have to do that with everything, but you better do it with finance Well, sure, but I'm not saying you have to be at level 10.(7:12) Yeah, it's just that's fitness finance and family It's not feasible. (7:17) It is for those three categories That is totally feasible. (7:22) I have 10 real quick.(7:24) I have seven pillars for each Good 21 pillars Does not an impossible feat make you can learn 21 pillars. (7:33) I'm not saying impossible.

Kevin Palmieri

(7:34) I'm saying But each pillar has like yeah, right so if only it was seven pillars, yeah, no 21 categories I Can't I can't do it sleep hydration. (7:47) Okay sleep Set your room at 68. (7:50) You gotta make sure you don't have caffeine three hours before you're not supposed to eat meals three hours Before you've got to make sure that you have blah blah blah fucking REM sleep and deep sleep And here's your REM score.(8:00) You can do that by the Bingba boom circadian rhythm You're gonna make sure you got blackout shades. (8:04) All right, that's ten and that's not even any of them That's one of them. (8:07) No, it is one of them Yeah, but I mean those ten are not even like the guns like there's another 50 of those Yeah, nutrition is one of the 21 pillars micros macros vitamins minerals fucking meal timing protein Jesus empty calories don't you want to master the game of life like the 21 pillars?

Alan Lazaros

(8:24) I'm gonna build a Books on them and it's gonna be fitness finance and family and there's seven pillars of each and each one Holds up the whole building. (8:33) It's a really cool. (8:34) Love it.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:35) Love it you but I and I do I do but I also understand there's a When does it become impractical? (8:44) Yeah, when do you become overly optimized of like no (8:48) No, you have to understand everything like you have to know (8:51) Yeah that when this happens in this country then this happens in another country which affects (8:57) This which affects this which affects your paycheck like you have to know all that (9:01) I'm not saying it's

Alan Lazaros

(9:03) That wouldn't be beneficial (9:06) It's tough this whole fucking conversation stuff for me because if you don't know the difference between a private company in a public company (9:12) You don't know the difference in you know, the government versus a public company.(9:16) You don't know the hundred ninety-five countries and What GDP means it's very hard to understand. (9:22) You must just feel out of control This is it This is it the core of this episode is the more you understand it the more you can control it from the very first time We made fire. (9:33) We understood how to do it.(9:35) Now we could control the world better you are in control to the extent that you are both aware and capable of Like if you know how to build a house, you don't have to freak out when your deck is falling apart, you know It's not rocket science Yeah, I can't It's just not rocket science. (9:57) I don't feel like All right, no one is gonna know everything but everyone should Try to learn the fundamentals that matter. (10:08) Okay.(10:08) Well what fundamentals matter good? (10:10) Okay fitness finance and family health wealth and love. (10:13) I still love that health wealth and you have to learn and You have to break it down like you just okay You were making fun of it, which I understand because it's kind of funny But like you do have to know your hat like you do have to understand How to be a healthy human being you it's not rocket science.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:32) It's not I understand news, you know, I understand it's actually fairly fucking simple, but I like simple and easy and practical and Sustainable like those are all different things right now This month I will most likely make the most money I've ever made in my entire life 100% my fitness and my sleep are fucked My relationship my relationships good, but I just I was all I was away last week.

Alan Lazaros

(11:00) I'm gonna be away tomorrow I'm gonna be away Monday However, Tuesday, they won't when you say your sleep and your fitness are fucked. (11:08) You're still in the top 1% in fitness Maybe in fit. (11:12) Yeah, but that's a result of what I've done And my sleep but it also is a result of what you're gonna do because you and I just talked about this You know the 20% of 20% of 20% of 20% in each of those areas.(11:22) So even if I'm too busy, I Know Emilia's love languages to such a good first of all, I know what a love language is. (11:31) I Know her love languages. (11:33) So now if I can do more in less time, that's what that's why knowledge is potential power because You know what lever to pull?

Kevin Palmieri

(11:43) Yeah question for you question and this is a serious question This is not me. (11:47) Like I genuinely want to know your take on this. (11:49) Mm-hmm.(11:50) We talked about circle of concern. (11:52) No Yeah, love it with you so far. (11:55) Where where does Is it circle of concern circle of control circle of competency like where do those intersect for a conversation like this because Yeah How do you make it Not outside your circle of concern They how do you how do you align those?(12:20) That's where I get stuck. (12:21) It's like, all right So now you gotta watch the news No, you don't you got to figure out what the fucking what's happening over here and what's happening over here and what the dollars?

Alan Lazaros

(12:30) We're here that that's a tornado of misinformation for sure. (12:33) Okay, so then how how do those studying is different than watching information? (12:37) So how do a lot of the internet like you I was with a client earlier and we Deleted tik-tok and I said tik-tok is just a bunch of nonsense.(12:46) I mean, there's very little on their value. (12:48) It's mental candy This podcast is a way better use of your time Reading that he is entertaining Who cares? (12:56) No, that's what I'm saying.(12:57) Yeah, okay. (12:58) Well How dare you? (13:02) This podcast is entertaining as shit.(13:04) No, I but that's Circle of concern we'll go back to that and I love this episode by the way, I'm not actually mad at you No, no. (13:11) Yeah, but I I don't know how to ask the question But like I'm thinking how do you align a circle of concern circle of competence and circle of control it also even your goals okay, but the problem is and this is where your Argument will be and not not not argument negatively like You actually this is the fucking problem. (13:32) Okay, there was someone In the fitness challenge and if you're listening all good not throwing shade all good he put 70 pounds in 10 weeks and I said I cannot condone that like we got to talk and He's like it was a typo.(13:50) I Actually meant 50 and I was like, I can't condone that either brother. (13:54) Like we he's like, alright, I'll do 10 I said, can we just do 10 for the this 10 weeks and then and then we can go from there So we're good but in my head it's like, okay if you want to lose 70 pounds in 10 weeks there there are layers of understanding that are missing and and Why? (14:14) Why like why would those layers of understanding be missing?(14:18) Let's let's dig into that Someone has not taught that person Okay, let's do it why is 70 pounds in 10 weeks bad, let's just go through the layers If I mean it's It is metabolically going to destroy you What you will have to do is wildly unsustainable. (14:42) Yeah, speak like a scientist for a second metabolically destroy you Like what does it act what is actually happening? (14:47) You're gonna lose mostly muscle.(14:48) You know, there's mostly muscle your metabolism is gonna tank.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:52) Yeah You're definitely what all it's not sustainable. (14:55) You're gonna build a horrible relationship with both dieting and fitness Yeah, and you're gonna fail and feel bad about it.

Alan Lazaros

(15:02) Yeah when no one can it's heavy pounds in 10 weeks. (15:05) It's very It's very detrimental right it's not constructive it's dangerous. (15:11) It's dangerous.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:11) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(15:12) Okay, so we know that and Why do we know that?

Kevin Palmieri

(15:19) Because we had goals that required us to know that yeah, and years and years of But the years and years are predicated on goals, yeah, but I mean years and years of seeing other people Like there's a there again. (15:33) It's not about the comparison, but it's like well, how many people have I met that were like? (15:36) Yeah, I'm gonna lose X amount next and it's like there's no (15:39) There's no way (15:42) There's no way there's no way you you can't you can't it's not gonna work like that's not (15:47) That's like saying I'm gonna make a million dollars tomorrow (15:48) It's like that's not gonna in very very very very like if you weigh 600 pounds (15:53) You could probably lose 70 pounds in 10 weeks (15:55) Yeah fair, but that's a very very very very very very small percentage just like there's people there's somebody right now

Alan Lazaros

(16:00) Who's gonna make a million dollars today, but it's not but what comes first goal or understanding they're connected (16:06) So when you say circle of concern what you mean is like what you concern yourself with (16:09) Okay (16:10) What you concern yourself with is based on your goals (16:12) And if you don't have goals what you concern yourself with is you just stumble upon knowledge or not? (16:17) Like one of the things that I'm frustrated with and I would say this to my mother's face too is how little they taught me It's not because they didn't want to teach me it's because they knew very little You can't teach what you don't know and it turns out.(16:31) She doesn't know that much and and that bothers me (16:36) Okay, and it should fucking bother you, but it doesn't bother you as much, but the point is is like (16:42) Well, why does that matter because if if I was taught very little I lost opportunities that I could have had (16:50) and and (16:52) Luckily, I had goals that forced me to go to schools and get straight A's and like, you know (16:57) I mean like if I didn't have goals, I would have been fucked.(17:01) I mean my goals forced me out of Environments that are not optimal Dude, my goals Saved my life. (17:11) I've heard Because I had self-belief now That's why we harp on self-belief so much so like your circle of concern is predicated on how much you believe in yourself and what? (17:20) You aim at and what you aim at should determine who you're around But if you don't have goals You're just gonna stumble upon persons places things and ideas and they might know very little and think they know a lot and That's what I see all the time.(17:33) Like you're not gonna listen to NLU if you don't have cool But how do you set how do you set up an optimal goal if you haven't set the goal before? (17:41) Yeah, don't set a shitty one and hope it's within Hail Mary distance of optimal So going back to what we talked about yesterday, yeah That's the thing it's that's Jeff it's like, okay and Again, I don't know if this person listens.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:54) This is just an example. (17:55) We're not talking shit about you. (17:56) Let's say they tried it 70 pounds in 10 weeks.(17:59) They tried it. (18:01) It went horribly wrong. (18:05) They may never try it again

Alan Lazaros

(18:07) That's that's the thing that a lot of people get so they might assess it and think there's something wrong with them when in reality (18:13) There's something wrong with the goal, which is why coaches and mentors are so important for sure the least full of shit ones (18:21) Because I was watching earlier there was something on YouTube with a big influencer who I can't stand and (18:29) He was talking to one of the sharks on shark tank (18:31) He's like, what would you do with your last million? (18:33) And it was like if you only had a million left It's like yo, that's not useful for 99% of people if you only Down you only have a million Okay, your last million.(18:46) What would you do with it? (18:47) I buy his answer was I'd buy real estate It's like, okay. (18:51) Well that answer is relevant to (18:54) 7% of us in the u.s. 0% of us globally, so I (19:01) Just think that sucks (19:02) I think that really sucks and a lot of people who are listening to that are actually broke and they're there (19:09) They're trying to learn from someone who is playing a completely different game and who isn't honest about it (19:14) it's it's really been hard for me and that's part of it to like (19:20) I (19:20) Use this recently. (19:21) I know we gotta go. (19:22) I Told my client I said if if I transfer a hundred grand into your bank tomorrow, everything you're doing is suboptimal Like why because right now you're trying to get out of debt and everything you're doing is would be detrimental If you had the money you wouldn't lose sleep.(19:38) Like why wouldn't you? (19:42) Everything is circumstantial if someone asked in the fitness group or something No, no group coaching and you literally said it depends on the goal. (19:49) Every answer should start with it depends on your goal and your circumstances Every answer needs to start with that now Podcasters can't do that.(19:57) So what would you do if you were down to your last million? (20:00) well, it depends on your goal and your circumstances, but for me like we're not gonna but I realize now that (20:08) The internet is basically full of information (20:12) But none of it is catered to you and I think that that has really hurt (20:17) People a lot more than I ever realized and here's one of the things that's scary to say (20:22) But I'm good at sifting through horseshit (20:24) like I can read through the lines and (20:28) Like I don't need to be told what is not being said (20:32) I've been in the rooms with those millionaires.(20:34) I know what's not being said like And I also think that that's a gift that I have like I can read between the lines and I can dissect things really Well, so so this whole conversation is predicated on a blind spot. (20:46) I have I don't really know how hard it is to actually understand things (20:49) I have a (20:50) Client who's been doing finance and I could pass that test tomorrow (20:55) I've never studied finance like in a formal setting (20:59) You know, I mean, I got my MBA so I guess a little bit but finance just always made perfect sense to me

Kevin Palmieri

(21:04) Yeah, it's hard the other thing I was thinking is, you know, how people are like if I took all your money away (21:09) What would you do? (21:10) It's like that's the dumbest thing ever because the ideas are what made the money so the money is it doesn't matter You have all the lessons that you learned so it doesn't matter a better question would be if I took all the lessons away What would you do start over and we have to start you'd have to start over and I'd read Jim Collins books first like we would nothing else comes of this episode.

Alan Lazaros

(21:29) I hope everyone out there watching or listening stops. (21:32) I (21:33) Only listen to people who strike you as as not at all full of shit (21:37) Like you you cannot listen to people who are full of it (21:41) You can't and I know dozens of millionaires dozens (21:46) If not a hundred plus a lot of them are very close to the hip with what they really did to make it (21:53) Some of it is just privacy not wanting, you know to reveal that stuff not wanting to brag is another (21:58) I have one millionaire who literally will drive a worse car on purpose because he doesn't want people to know (22:04) And then some of them did it in ways that are maybe not great (22:09) There's a lot of reading between the lines that needs to happen. (22:12) But if you don't know how to read metaphorically How are you supposed to read between the lines when you don't even know? (22:19) the (22:19) You know if you're brand new you are in so much trouble if you're if you have mentors and coaches that are (22:25) That are full of it, so (22:27) If you develop no other skill (22:30) Figure out who's full of shit and who's not and you need to avoid the people that are full of it (22:34) This would be my takeaway and it's just based on this

Kevin Palmieri

(22:39) at all times (22:41) learn about health wealth and love nice if you need a new book and you haven't read one on money in a while go do (22:47) That if you need a new book and you haven't read one on relationships in a while go do that.(22:51) There you go You'll be set you'll be ahead of 99% of people if you just do that. (22:55) That would be my takeaway.

Alan Lazaros

(22:57) I find it difficult I know we gotta go I find it difficult when I see someone reading something people who read a lot and it's like why that book, you know Is it a growth book?

Kevin Palmieri

(23:09) not usually like (23:13) That's I mean because I think some people like well, it's just to read yeah some people like to just read

Alan Lazaros

(23:21) Yeah, you know (23:23) Yeah, if it's for entertainment like that's fine I just (23:27) You only have so much time and effort (23:30) You should be in that like we're reading peak in book club (23:33) Like if you look at the book club books (23:35) There's a couple, you know in there that I wouldn't read again couple misses for the most part of the 26 (23:39) There's no book in there. (23:40) That's not in the top Probably top 5,000 books ever written like I'm very careful. (23:48) Maybe we've never talked about this We should at some point like I don't waste time on stupid shit.(23:53) I don't I won't even watch Maximize you want to maximize? (23:56) Yeah, I think it's important. (23:58) You can't just stumble upon great information.(24:00) You have to go seek it.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:01) Yeah It's it's again to your point. (24:05) It's harder than it's ever been it's easy There's more information than there's ever been but it's harder to sift through it. (24:09) Yeah agreed.(24:11) That's because that's a good topic Yeah, but the problem with that is how do we fucking that it would be one of those episodes where it's like what we might Give you a lot of good information, but I don't know how you go find it. (24:22) I don't know where I could recommend YouTube channels but I haven't done enough research to figure out if they're fully vetted and if everything they talk about is Yeah, actually scientifically correct. (24:33) Like I don't a Lot of the that's the thing we're seeing right now is a lot of the channels and a lot of the places and a lot Of the people that have had trust over the last decade or coming out people don't trust them anymore I know because they're kind of fucking charlatans Yeah You know stay as close to accurate thinking as humanly possible.

Alan Lazaros

(24:53) Like if you're if you're learning try it Emilia goes right to the reference section on books. (24:59) How thick is the reference section like science and mathematics and Peer-reviewed research papers like these these things are have a lot of value the some book where someone's like Girl wash your face. (25:17) I'm gonna pick on that one like no Like no, don't know don't build your life on that Under no circumstances.(25:24) Are you supposed to build your life on what Rachel Hollis thinks like no offense Rachel? (25:31) No Absolutely not right. (25:33) It's like (25:35) It might give you a nugget or two (25:38) But don't like take it as this is the answer (25:42) You know, it's it's only one book, you know in a lifetime of books (25:46) that you should be discerning of like (25:49) I have every every year I have books in my head that get better and better and and ones that get worse and worse (25:54) The art of impossible is coming out on the top (25:56) The art of impossible is a rock-solid (25:59) just fucking (26:01) unbelievable book I (26:03) Like the book better than Steven. (26:04) I don't dislike Steven but The books unbelievable. (26:07) So it's very sound.(26:09) It's very accurate to me. (26:10) That's what a good book is one.

Kevin Palmieri

(26:11) That's very accurate Now more than ever. (26:14) I really appreciate how long it takes to write it Not because the person's lazy but like Jim Collins spends years writing books. (26:21) Yeah Yeah, like he's been 11 years writing one book.(26:25) That's that is next level and I get to read it in five hours, right? (26:29) All right, cool (26:30) as mentioned one of the best ways to figure this out one of the best ways to (26:34) understand something at a deeper level is to have a coach that can bounce you can bounce ideas off of and will actually tell you (26:39) What it took behind the scenes Alan can help you with that (26:41) And then if you're looking to get jacked next little fitness accountability group the 10 pound and 10 week challenge is already running (26:46) But you can join at any time the group and you can be part of whatever journey you want to be (26:51) It doesn't have to be the 10 pounds in 10 weeks. (26:53) You can do it on your own.(26:54) Whatever.

Alan Lazaros

(26:54) We're in there every single day posting We're getting lean one day at a time Kevin and I are considering doing a master class on how to crush the 10 pound and 10 week challenge is news to me and This is news to you you didn't see that I saw I mean you said we would discuss it We there was no discussion. (27:12) I said we're considering it.

Kevin Palmieri

(27:14) You said we were gonna discuss Yeah, I know I'm not saying we're gonna do it, you know, we there's no discussion not yet Yeah, so as you guys are hearing this is the discussion.

Alan Lazaros

(27:23) This is the most discussion that has happened so far What I was gonna say is let us know if that's something would be of interest. (27:29) Yeah, let us be Emma's I'm not I'm not promoting it I'm saying shoot us a DM if you want that well, if you're in the next level fitness accountability group, let us know too because yeah, obviously that would make sense what we should do is Really break it down to its smallest components. (27:43) That's what got me thinking about this.(27:44) Let's break that down just losing weight 10 pounds in 10 weeks. (27:49) Let's break it down to its smallest fucking component and Teach it. (27:53) I mean and then you're in control of weight loss for the rest of your life You have the superpower now like Kev.(27:59) Yes. (27:59) Imagine you and I we don't talk for five years It's a hypothetical and then I come to you and you're you somehow are like overweight. (28:06) I would just say brother How the fuck did you let this happen and you'd say what do you mean man?(28:12) And I'd say, okay Do you still know how to lose weight? (28:14) You'd be like, yeah All right, let's do it and then the next two three four years you just you just get back in shape why because you know how to do it and you've done it and you understand the smallest components and You can change your behavior effectively because because you've done it before so I like to give people those superpowers You have a superpower in fitness. (28:34) So do I that's one of the reminders this 10 pound and 10 week challenge Reminded me of it's like oh, I can't remember the last time.(28:40) I wasn't in control of my own weight Can you remember the last time you were afraid of losing weight? (28:45) No, no, I mean, I can't remember even the last time I struggled to gain or lose weight like I (28:51) Playfully put the scale wherever you want it within reason within a timeline right with all that stuff (28:55) but dude (28:55) That's a superpower that other people don't have and it's like imagine how awesome your life would be if you felt fully in control of (29:00) your own weight (29:02) When you can you can you can it just has mastery in time where I'm nothing special

Kevin Palmieri

(29:07) When it comes to that like, you know, I'm not I was not gifted with that (29:10) I have good genetics, but Alan you don't necessarily have the best genetics for that like agreed (29:15) Not at all takes just like everything else it takes time (29:17) All right (29:17) As always love you appreciate you grateful for each every one of you if you are as committed as you say you are to get (29:21) Into the next level make sure you tune in tomorrow because we will be here every single day to help you get there (29:25) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential (29:28) Thanks for joining us for another episode of next level University (29:32) We love connecting with the next level family

Alan Lazaros

(29:35) We mean it when we say family if you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly (29:40) Everything you need to get a hold of us is in the show notes.

Kevin Palmieri

(29:44) Thank you again, and we will talk to you tomorrow