Dan Matha

Many of us in the Super Human Nation identify with being a certain size or level of strength. Often things happen in our lives where giving up some human real estate is required. Injuries, changes in physical demand, getting older. Our identification with being big and strong may trap us. Place us in a box that doing what is best for us is not easy or comfortable. How do you reconcile with making these changes? Do you still have the same net worth as a person if you’re not as big and strong as you once were? How do you give up the human real estate without giving up who we are?

[4:00] How did downsizing affect Dan’s mind?

• It can mess with your self esteem and remorse about time investment if you aren’t emotionally prepared.

[9:35] Many physical culturists are trying to fill a void.- Getting over your attachment to strength and size.

• The mind is what got you strong. Imagine what that it can do in other areas of your life.
• Your skill is not being strong, it is applying your mind.

[17:30] Social media puts greater stress and expectations on those performing super-human feats.

[37:00] Spirituality requires you to look inward.

[42:30] The importance of building allostatic conditioning through weight training as you age.

• Helps you to work through pain when you get older.

[51;10] Coming off of drugs and not putting all of your eggs in one basket.

• Being jacked is not a personality trait.

[55:00] Being feared is not the same as being respected.

• Aggressive does not equal assertive.