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# Work to Disappear
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/work-to-disappear/
- Published: 2024-11-29T21:05:27.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-01T19:27:01.000Z
- Description: day 1
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: workout podcast

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Goals:  
1\. talk about interesting stuff  
2\. get fit  
  
[previous episode](https://www.bramadams.dev/are-genes-mutable/)  
[next episode](https://www.bramadams.dev/every-single-person-is-a-unique-configuration-of-the-human-experience/)

topics:

- fitness in individuals vs fitness in the species
- a deep dive into [Yukio Mishima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio%5FMishima?ref=bramadams.dev), his life and death
- a conscious effort to improve
- working on a form (the body) that you know will inevitably disappear
  - struggling hard to perfect a body you can throw away in a moment to achieve a goal
- i need to breathe more while under load
- i was strongest my junior year of college after study abroad (and a bit in 2021)
- you can only know whats possible for your body by pushing it to the limit
- training a fit body makes any clothing look better on you – a better investment in clothes
- things i got away with in my 20s are no longer the case now
- the hard answer of "how are you"
  - finances, emotional, goals in progress
- a commitment to adult learning and skilling up
  - trade consumption for production
- i want to be a polymath
- whats your sample size to be in the top n%
  - are you competing within your field or against everyone
- as an adult its too easy to stop learning – you need to force it
- we too quickly hyper fixate on parts of our person instead of the whole
  - we need to diversify
  - you are the only person stuck with the burden of your identity
- i'm actually liking this format
- in the future: comment sections, growth on social media, unlisted videos