Ep. 10 White Belt Brain

from The Stillpoint Podcast Hosted by Angelo Coates

I have been training at the same gym for ten years. I know the room, I know the people, and I know what I am capable of on the mat. Three weeks ago I walked in for my first Muay Thai class and forgot a four-count combo mid-drill while everyone around me kept moving. And then I did something I have never done in that building before. I apologized. In this episode I get into what was actually underneath that reaction, what the Stoics called preferred indifferents, why competence in one area creates blind spots in another, and what the dichotomy of control has to do with being the most experienced beginner in a familiar room.

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