How Fitness Saved a Life and Became a Livelihood – Doug Bopst with Dave Asprey – #806

• What I like about your work is that you talk about self-destructive cycles people get stuck in. Why did you get thrown in jail? – 1:22
• “How did a kid who just wanted to be loved, how did a cute to just wanted to be good at sports, how did this kid get here?” – 7:41
• What’s funny is that, when I walked through jail, I cried because I didn’t want to go in, and when I left, I cried because I didn’t want to leave because a massive transformation happened. – 9:26
• I was like, “Ah, my parents got divorced, or I was picked, or the girls didn’t like me.” And he said, “Dude, quit being a victim, man.”- 11:36
• I never thought I could do a pushup. Now, I can do one pushup.” Then what happens? You want to do more of that. – 13:56
• I felt this light bulb go off in my head that for the first time of my life, I was finally going to be able to change my life.  – 14:37
• I could now pay it forward and pass the torch and show other people what the power of fitness has done for me to them.  – 17:15
• If you could, say, pick the four things that were the biggest cause of the trauma that messed with you. – 20:39
• I had the courage and overcame my fears to step away from that circle and stepped into a new circle that was with people that had common futures and not common past. – 23:25
• You’ve managed to stay clean for 12 years. Do you ever worry that you’re going to relapse?   – 26:48
• Not only do I feel better at myself because I moved my body, I feel better at myself because I didn’t turn to drugs to numb my pain. – 28:42
  
• My identity isn’t wrapped around how I look in the mirror because if I did, it’s just a recipe for disaster.  – 33:47
  
• I was clean, I was doing all these things, but I started noticing a pattern. I started noticing that I couldn’t forgive myself for my past. I still was hung up on the fact that I was a former convicted felon. – 37:04
  
• I said a prayer and we prayed together. And the same monkey that came off my back when I was doing drugs, came off my back again there. – 39:24
  
• I felt like my big spiritual awakening happened when I was in jail and I was really made new.  – 40:28
  
• How did you figure out how to do forgiveness? It’s one of the hardest skills there is.  – 42:08
  
• Instead of putting 95% of their energy on how I can learn from these and use these to grow, they spend 95% of the time focusing on the mistake and how they could have done it differently. They just stay in this same destructive cycle. – 46:15
  
• How do you train people? How has it shifted from your time learning in the hardest place actually as you could think of to where you are now? – 48:55
  
• Give yourself other metrics to focus on other than just the scale, that’s where lifting weights come in. – 52:42
  
• If somebody said, “Hey, go do 50 pushups,” when I couldn’t do one. I remember what it would’ve felt like, I was intimidated, I was scared, I was like, “There’s no way.”  – 56:22

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