Just listened to a fantastic Radiolab podcast called Limits.

What I took from it was that we, as humans, really don’t have any limits… or at least we don’t know what they are, which is really the same thing.

Our brains and muscles have developed many methods to tell us to stop doing what we’re doing far before we actually need to, as a safety mechanism. So that means if we just come up with ways to counter those little nay-sayer voices we can do a whole lot more/better/stronger than we have been doing.

I have been a firm believer in “mind over matter,” but now I realize that I have to find something to trump both of them.

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