I am not a psychologist or a person who has researched extensively regarding this but I have observed over the period of years that people take almost everything in absolute terms and not with a pinch of salt. People listen to one thing and make that particular notion in their mind that this is what it is, where is psychological flexibility? I will give you an example in training for running, now a days double threshold workouts are considered to be the go to thing for professional athletes to level up and reach their peak performance. Matthew Richtman(American) ran a 2:07:57 for marathon in March this year & it was his only second marathon and he said in his post marathon interview that he didn't ever do any double threshold workouts. Yeah I know there are exceptions to the rules for which Richtman might be the one. But the catch is the people who have started running or have been running for a couple of years start to incorporate double threshold workouts in their training not knowing the professionals doing this have huge aerobic base/engine on which their double threshold workouts thrive. They incorporate and don't see the changes or improvement and then they cuss this doesn't work. They don't have a the full ten thousand view to the last decade of those athletes- the way they trained consistently for a decade, did strength training & mobility workouts day in & day out, have properly nourished their body for how long. They just want to have this magic pill of Double Threshold, we should try not to take anything in absolute terms, everything is dynamic & not static. Even the years of research sometimes have fault in them, Lisa Feldman Barrett keeps on saying how people have gotten wrong about emotions over the last how many years & Ellen Langer says a lot about nothing is same for everyone.
Great stuff, as always Dr Milkman. I feel smarter just reading your work. Thank you!
I am not a psychologist or a person who has researched extensively regarding this but I have observed over the period of years that people take almost everything in absolute terms and not with a pinch of salt. People listen to one thing and make that particular notion in their mind that this is what it is, where is psychological flexibility? I will give you an example in training for running, now a days double threshold workouts are considered to be the go to thing for professional athletes to level up and reach their peak performance. Matthew Richtman(American) ran a 2:07:57 for marathon in March this year & it was his only second marathon and he said in his post marathon interview that he didn't ever do any double threshold workouts. Yeah I know there are exceptions to the rules for which Richtman might be the one. But the catch is the people who have started running or have been running for a couple of years start to incorporate double threshold workouts in their training not knowing the professionals doing this have huge aerobic base/engine on which their double threshold workouts thrive. They incorporate and don't see the changes or improvement and then they cuss this doesn't work. They don't have a the full ten thousand view to the last decade of those athletes- the way they trained consistently for a decade, did strength training & mobility workouts day in & day out, have properly nourished their body for how long. They just want to have this magic pill of Double Threshold, we should try not to take anything in absolute terms, everything is dynamic & not static. Even the years of research sometimes have fault in them, Lisa Feldman Barrett keeps on saying how people have gotten wrong about emotions over the last how many years & Ellen Langer says a lot about nothing is same for everyone.