Interesting thoughts.
Yes.
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It can be but, I would not make a blanket statement like that. It implies it is always negative. You can also say a constant optimist is stupid, naive and/or delusional.
Common brain āglitch.ā You see this a lot when someone is in a terrible dating relationship but doesnāt want to āwasteā the 4-year investment in it and move on, even when all signs point to a terrible relationship and a bad outcome.
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Another good one. Very common in fitness. Hard to get people to rethink what they heard first about a training or nutrition topic, even if that initial thing is proven false over and over again. (See: Protein is bad for the kidneys.)
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Even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contraryā¦ bizarre
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Itās not dissimilar from Jeff Bezosā ātwo pizza ruleā. No decision making group should be larger than that which can be fed by two pizzas.
I remember in āSphereā Michael Crichton had an interesting breakdown of why 6 people was the best size for a team to have enough specialized knowledge, but avoid most intraparty conflicts.
Admittedly time-traveling spaceships might mess with that though.
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By this metric, Iām an entire decision making group
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Then at least the decision of what pizza to order is easy!
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āI couldnāt agree with myself. We decided to get half āmeat extravaganzaā and half āspinach, feta, lamb and pestoāāā¦
So: Are you even a lifter? AYEAL?
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I consider myself a lifterbug.
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Iām glad Iām not the only one who read it that way initially.
That doesnāt mean I want to hear from all the folks into dadlifting, of course. You can do what you want in your own space, but keep it out of the gym.
Iām better at wench pressing.
I have been complemented on my front squirt. Some days are better than others for hitting depth and reaching parallel.
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