What I mean is that I wish people (including myself) did not have biases, rely on heuristics or make dumb decisions based on emotion or weird subconcious stuff
For example, the world would be so much better if ppl were not biased by first impressions, fail to think long term, prone to overconfidence, fall for confirmation bias
psych, behavioural economics, decision sciences, stuff like that
This was my thoughts too. I have yet to have a study quoted at me form behavioural science that told me something I didn’t already know from being around people for 35 years.
I’ve echoed this sentiment many times…
We attach fancy names to common sense
with that said, there’s still some pretty cool stuff. For example, most ppl would, at face value, probably deny some of the stuff about first impressions
Plan was to make up the devils presses… not happening.
I don’t feel that crap, but mentally not there
Another thought:
I was reading a thread in the 5/3/1 forum and it got me thinking.
5/3/1 is revered by a lot of members here and for VERY good reason; however, it doesn’t really resonate with me. idk if it’s “not my style” or if I’m just being stubborn.
My press has never failed to improve doing 5/3/1 type programs, but I’ve found it disappointing for lower body lifts. I’m also not a big fan of all the upper back work
I sometimes feel pressured.
Note: I do NOT think I know more than Wendler or any of the other posters
It’s worth appreciating that 5/3/1, as a methodology, is so incredibly modular that there shouldn’t be anything it doesn’t improve. Similar to conjugate. It’s about making the programming work for you, vs you work for the program.
You’re likely pretty dialed in on behaviors then.
There are some interesting things about people that are pretty useful.
Like, the fresh popcorn thing where when a place vents the smell of freshly popped popcorn into the entry way, concessions sales go up.
One supermarket chain does this with fried chicken. You walk in and Boom! You’re drooling.
Now we all know that you shouldn’t grocery shop when hungry or you’ll over buy stupid junk stuff, so…
There’s that chicken. Hot and crispy just waiting for you.
I blame those bastards for at least one or two stents.
I started reading Forever yesterday. Maybe I’ll change my mind when I’m done with the book
I’d count on it happening after the 3rd or 4th readthrough.
My little bro is unbelievably dialed.
He seems to naturally “get it” without anyone ever teaching him. THe way he talks/interacts with ppl is textbook
There’s no obligation to do it. If it doesn’t resonate with you, you won’t get results from it. This is valuable information. As @T3hPwnisher frequently says, there’s so many different ways to get bigger and stronger, try them until you find one that resonates.
For me, I’ve tried a fair few different approaches and have a reasonable toolbox of methods that work for me for different goals. Some of those tools are 531-based, some of them aren’t. I’ll probably never run 531 for deadlift again for example.
I’m curious, what do you run for deadlifts?
On an individual level? I’m nowhere near as good as I think I am. Averaged across a population? Much better. But I think we all know that people are:
Yup. I get way more out of the principles of 5/3/1 vs the workouts themselves.
That said though, running his programs AS IS were valuable learning experiences in and of themselves. I got a LOT out of BBB, BtM and God is a Beast. And, in turn, learned how to use them to my own means.
People have literally won nobel prizes for discovering that common sense should be considered in econ models… It’s actually quite ridiculous if you think about it
I don’t, at the minute. If I were to start again, I would use Krocs simple deadlift program, and make sure I was doing plenty of supplemental and accessory work for my squat. I may, one day, run a cycle of ROM progression again but it was massively taxing to me, and I’m not sure I care enough about my deadlift numbers to do that again.
I agree with everything in this post. I tried to add something useful to it, but you covered everything.
“Common sense” is a very vague and easily shifting subject. Also one of my least favorite phrases in existence.
Like “common sense” changes depending on whether you’re driving the car or crossing the street. Or pouring concrete, cutting aluminum, conducting a survey…
I’m sure you get my drift. After all, it’s common sense. 
Common sense only seems to be common to people who’ve had very similar upbringings and exposure to yourself.
It’s common sense to me that I don’t open a link from amazone.co.uk asking me to update payment details. It’s not common sense to my 91 year old grandma. It’s common sense to her to keep receipts for every purchase she makes so she can balance her chequebook at the end ofnthe month, it isn’t to me.
IN his book, Thaler wrote about how hard it was to get psychologist on board. Turns out one of the issues was that the psych ppl didn’t understand why the econ ppl were so amazed by the concepts taught in Freshman classes and the econ ppl were frustrated by the lack of maths among the psych ppl
That’s a live link! Now my phone has an std!
Yeah. Like, did you know that if you dump a wheelbarrow of concrete it splashes, but when you pour one it slumps? 
If you don’t, you’re gonna learn real quick!