Hey Athletes! This week’s episode of Ask Me Anything is how to retain information from all the study’s, books, podcasts, etc. Make sure you don’t miss it!
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Ask Me Anything: How Do You Process Information From Books, Podcasts, Etc?
On this week’s episode of Ask Me Anything Jerred and Joe answer Arlen’s question. He asks how to digest, absorb, and implement all of the content and information that we dive into. The guys give their tips on how to accomplish this!
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Transcript:
Jerred Moon
All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the garage mathlete podcast Jerred Moon here with Joe Courtney.
Joe Courtney
So Joe what’s happening and
Jerred Moon
you still got a Christmas tree back there?
Joe Courtney
Yeah, it’s it’s staying for a while I like I like having some sort of backlight and I just I don’t want to see a blank corner. I don’t know what to do back there.
Jerred Moon
Why don’t you make like a fitness tree? fitness with
Joe Courtney
the health and fitness tree?
Jerred Moon
I have just inspired
Joe Courtney
now. delegated. figure this out.
Jerred Moon
What is the fitness tree? I’m sure you’ll have something awesome. By the end of 2021.
Joe Courtney
Yeah,
Jerred Moon
I’ll put on my to do list like a small barbell. With like, other fitness things coming off of it like a foam roller, and a band.
Joe Courtney
That’s, that’s successful. I’m an arts and crafts person.
Jerred Moon
It would probably look pretty weird by the time you got it done.
Joe Courtney
Yeah.
Jerred Moon
All right. Let’s get into this. The name is Arlen. And here’s the question he said longtime listeners second time caller as someone who is consuming a lot of content slash information from a variety of different sources, books, journals, podcasts, etc. and topics training, nutrition, mindset and business. Any tips and tricks for digesting and absorbing all of that information? And of course, most importantly, implementation. Cheers. Joe, I want you to go first on this one, I have a very specific answer. So I want to see what you
Joe Courtney
saw. I’m gonna go with the at least the book and nutrition part because this is actually something that I when we talk about nutrition books and other people ask about nutrition books, most nutrition books, I usually have a like an asterick. And so this kind of goes along with this question is when you look at nutrition and things like that is you got to look at the source and what their intent is. And what I mean by that is even with like my top three top four nutrition books of all time, the people that wrote them, everybody still has their bias still has their the goal of what they want their people to go through. And I know there’s one specifically let’s just put out there like the plant paradox. The guy who wrote the doctor wrote it super smart guy explains everything extremely well. Really, really great things to learn from it. But the people that he his patients that what he’s striving for are people with like really severe, like autoimmune type diseases, they’re much older in life. He just wants them to live their best life and like, be healthy, not not fitness at all. So there’s aspects to that to work it Okay, what is what what are their clientele? What are they pushing you toward? And there’s another one that we wrote, read, that was all about longevity, living as long as possible, not even taking fitness into it. So I think you need to look at Okay, what applies to me, how can this benefit me from their context? But you have to add your cut you almost like a Venn diagram context. So you Okay, that’s they’re going for this for longevity, but I still need the fitness part. So I can include all of these things, but just kind of like, okay, just take those for what they are. And you see that a lot in nutrition in general. And well, first of all, also with nutrition, don’t watch documentaries, because that’s just the worst kinds of bias. But for new books and other sort of weeding, weeding through that, you have to look at what the intent is.
Jerred Moon
I think that’s a great answer. Also with deep nutrition. Kate Shanahan know, what was her second book? What was the other one? fat burn? It’s Yeah, yeah. So she started to slightly get into energy systems. Just slightly, she talked about how people were bad at burning fat and everything. And I got so excited. When I was listening to the book, I was like, awesome, awesome. You know, this is we talk about this stuff. But then she did such a surface level, like not in depth approach to bioenergetics. And everything. And it’s not, it wasn’t because she doesn’t know that stuff, or she didn’t want to dive into it. It’s to what you said, That’s not the population she wrote the book for. She didn’t write it for me. Or people like me, she wrote it for people who are having trouble burning fat, they don’t know what the real issue is. And so that’s why she wrote the book. So I think that’s great. You have to know where people are coming from. And that’s the same with let’s go to social media influencers, you know, people with a really large Instagram following telling you the stupid stuff like this is the best way to squat. If anyone says squat differently than this, they’re wrong and they should die and go to hell like, and that’s how everyone is just like politics. People are trying to be super polarizing, just to get a response from you. And the reason these things frustrate me is because going back to intent, what’s the intent of that person publishing information that the intent of them publishing that information is to get you fired up and to get you commenting and engaged and and tagging people and all this stuff, that’s what they want. They don’t necessarily care as much about what the best information to put out there is. You know, that’s To be honest, why we’ve struggled at times because There’s very little entertainment factor. With me at least that I think Joe actually call you guys help without on the on the main podcast episodes. But if it was just me it would be straight education hour. And we probably have like nobody listen to the podcast because I could seriously just sit here and read from a textbook and think that I’m helping the world. But you know, it is a balance of all these things. So you have to look at the intent of, of what everyone’s doing. Now, I will say from the implementation standpoint that he asked, this is where I go, a little bit more tactical for you. I think if you’re trying to achieve something, and you found somebody that like resonates with you the information they’re putting out, you kind of trust them, I really feel like you need to go all in on that person. That idea, that topic. Because if you do scatter your effort in too many directions, you’re going to make no progress. So like, if you really love the information we publish, and what we say in our programming, are there other ways to do it? Are there other places to get programming? Absolutely. But if you think that, you know, we’re using our brains enough to have intelligent programming, and we’re putting out good information, then go all in on our information, follow our programming, see results. But if you’re trying to like half ass, do someone else’s program and kind of kind of do hours and half listen to our fuels course, but also this other nutrition course, it’s just going to get you on a path to nowhere. And this is the same with like business stuff I found like if I try and take four or five different business strategies, it just confuses everybody, and nothing really happens. But if we go all in on one thing, and then put all of our efforts behind it, you’re going to achieve it faster, whatever that goal may be. So I think that’s true of almost anything. If you go all in on somebody’s strategy, if you’re trying to achieve a very specific goal. If you’re just trying to educate yourself, which it sounds like you are take Joe’s approach. I think if you stuff yourself, stuff your brain with as much information as you can, that’s a good thing. It’s going to make you smarter. You’re going to have little tidbits that help here and there on your journey of this educational process. But when it is time to implement or achieve something you need to go all in on one thing.
Joe Courtney
Yeah, I think that pretty much sums it up.
Jerred Moon
Cool. Well, that’s it for this one. Thanks for the question. I think that’s really, really good. Because I know a lot of people are like that. We always joke about Joe Rogan, right? Someone listened to a Joe Rogan podcast and now they’re a fitness or nutrition expert, because they listened to one interview on the Joe Rogan podcast and this this stuff happens to us all the time. You know, we see people pulling information from too many sources. And then they challenge us because they heard one interview somewhere that was out of context. You You really got to know your stuff. And you got to do your research. To I don’t know, just to succeed in any any of this. Like, it’s
Joe Courtney
pretty open to the whole picture.
Jerred Moon
Yeah, like, anyway, thanks for the question. And I really do appreciate it. If anybody else has a question. Go to garage gym athlete.com slash ama, and we can get that question answered. And we would love to do that. If you are watching our smiling faces on YouTube. Go ahead and subscribe to the channel. Give us a thumbs up and leave us a comment. Let us know how we’re doing. And let us know if there is a Joe Rogan podcast out there. That is something that we should have paid attention to that we
Joe Courtney
don’t know. Anyway, there was one we listen to as a team and that just that was a real Firestarter. I
Jerred Moon
don’t know when we can do that again. So anyway, thank you for that. And then if you are listening on your favorite podcast player, if you could give us a five star review and a positive comment. I would appreciate it a lot. I know Joe would as well. So thanks for watching or listening