#2 Max Conserva, Find purpose through solving your personal problems

Max Conserva- Coach at San Francisco Crossfit. He is the creator of Adaptive Athletics and “The Good Leg Project”

Find Max at:

http://maxconserva.com/

LESSONS:

1) If you have a difficult or complicated problem you need to overcome, you need to be the driver of the process

2) Find purpose through solving your personal problems

Some Quotes from the Episode:

“If my opinion of myself is so great, why can I solve the biggest problem in my life, which is my own physical condition and my own perception of my physical condition?”

“Don't let other people define what you can and can't do; don't let other people define what's important”

“We're constantly taking nods from other people in order to build a framework of how we should operate in the world. Those are some basic guidelines so as not to run into major problems, but I think as you get older, it's incumbent on yourself to reassess those guidelines”

“If you just got into it because it was a prestigious position and people told you it was a good thing and people pat you on the back while you got there, you'll end up chasing something that you don't really think is important”

“If you're there telling yourself that some day, once I get X amount of money, I'm going to make the jump and do something else… That is a trap that most people fall into, that unfortunately is really hard to get out of”

“This is about taking control of your situation rather than allowing society... the doctors… whoever... to tell you what your options are-- you’re in the driver's seat”

“I went from being like patient “N” in a normal distribution of outcomes, to being the ideal patient to work with because I was taking the responsibility in my own hands”

“I can function so much better by just having a concrete understanding of what my body's supposed to be able to accomplish”

“Improvement is SO possible. There's always improvements to be made”

“I would do this and not get paid for it-- and that's what I started doing”

“I really enjoy finding people that have had nagging problems for their whole life. I like piecing the puzzle out for those people to help them build a physical practice, a way to be conscious of their body, to move their body in the world, and ultimately, just be more functional”

“You can feel purpose when it hits you”

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