Automatically transcribed, so expect the odd wrong name or word.
Hey guys, welcome to the Virtus Performance Podcast and another episode of the Be Better series. The Be Better series is basically me talking rubbish about how I feel as though the world can be a better place and how you guys can hopefully be a little bit better and I can be a little bit better. As I've said in a couple of the past episodes, this is definitely not me sitting here preaching, this is me discussing the things that I struggle with and that I see, I guess, day to day about little ways of how we can be excellent and hopefully improve our lives whether it be happier or healthier or whatever it may be.
The things I want to talk about today are three phrases that definitely don't get utilised enough. Those three phrases are "I don't know", "I was wrong" and "I need help" and they're three things that I assume it's probably just an ego thing as to why they don't get used to often or whether it's not wanting to seem unintelligent or seem that you don't actually know the right answer or whatever but it's something that I definitely try hard to communicate when I don't actually know something because when you pretend you don't know something and you get found out, you seem and sound even sillier.
So I guess it's something that it's hard to do, we all want to be right, we all want to know everything and I'm probably one of the worst examples for someone that doesn't say those three phrases enough but when we finally open ourselves up and say "I don't know", you end up finding out, you end up learning and you end up improving yourself and growing as a person. When you say "I was wrong", it's the same thing. We constantly, I guess, get bogged down in our ideas and things like that and if we're wrong and
we're looking for those correct answers and those things that can improve us then saying you're wrong is only going to make you better and improve yourself as a person. And I guess the "I need help" thing is probably another one, whether it's something that we see a lot in terms of movement and how people move because we get a lot of people in here that are in pain that need to come out of pain and they don't actually say "I'm in pain", you ask the question "does that hurt?" and it's "oh no, it's not too
bad, it might be a little bit tired or tender", but it's something that if you have to think about that question you're probably in pain and it probably hurts and it's really, really hard, people find it really hard to actually ask for help and when it comes to nutrition and sleep and all of those kind of things as well, it's so difficult for us as a society to say "I don't know how I can make this better" or "I need to make this better" or "I need to improve". So just a really, really quick one
today, try and identify when you are stubborn and you don't say that you need help, try and not let that ego take hold, one of our rules on the wall in our gym is "leave your ego on the hook" and it's really, really simple, if you don't know something or you don't know how to do something or you don't have the physical capabilities or mental capabilities to be doing something, you probably shouldn't be doing it, we come back, you say you don't know, you say you're not sure, you practice, you grease the groove as Greg would say and you actually find the little things that you can do to help you get to that point.
So if you don't know something this week or if you were wrong or if you need help, ask, say it, put it out in the world and I promise you it's one of those things that you'll find instant improvement in a lot of different areas in your life. Thanks for listening, very short and sharp but I just wanted to get a really, really simple point across.
