Dr. Peterson shares with us ancient wisdom which provides us with strength. His lessons help us clean up our rooms and be the person everyone can relyDr. Peterson shares with us ancient wisdom which provides us with strength. His lessons help us clean up our rooms and be the person everyone can rely on in the grief and misery of a funeral. He arms us with weapons of reason that will help us climb dominance hierarchies #lobsters. Hero!
p.s.: I strongly recommend buying the ebook + audiobook. You’ll get a discount and it’s absolutely worth it....more
The characters on this book are something else. They´re primal, powerful, and majestic. Each one of them is like an indomitable force of nature. I specially liked the harpooneers, and how some characters were developed through opposition. They personify conflicting emotions that define the human condition.
I highlighted and wrote down notes on the book itself, specially my thoughts on symbolism and imagery. I expect to re-read this in some years and compare the thoughts of my future self with my current ones.
Some of my favorite quotes:
"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it."
"... as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander´s soul."
"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozzening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare? Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm?"...more
-This training method has been the greatest source of general well being I've come across in my life. -This was an excellent reviSome thoughts on this:
-This training method has been the greatest source of general well being I've come across in my life. -This was an excellent revision of the 2nd edition. -Paid special attention to Press, Deadlift and Injury chapters. -I've been visiting a physical therapist for early injury detection, but the fact injuries are "the price we pay", as Coach Rip says, makes me weary. -I may stall progress on squat just for other stuff to catch up. Press and Power-clean are way behind.
"There are two more things that everyone who trains with weights will have: soreness and injuries. They are as inevitable as the progress they accompany. If you work hard enough to improve, you will work hard enough to get sore, and eventually you will work hard enough to get hurt. It is your responsibility to make sure that you are using proper technique, appropriate progression, and save weight room procedures. You will still get hurt, but you will have come by it honestly - when people lift heavy, they are risking injury. It is an inherent part of training hard, and it must be prepared for and dealt with properly when it happens."
"Most training-associated injuries affect the soft tissues; bony fractures are extremely rare weight room events. If pain occurs immediately in response to a movement done during training, it should be assumed to be an injury and should be treated as such."
Have also been looking lots into 'Bill Star Rehab method'
Last work set loads before reading this book:
Squat: 275 lb (have stalled for a couple of weeks, increasingly easier with good form) Deadlift: 285lb (pending doc visit - early hernia detection... ugh) Bench Press: 160lb (missed last rep from last set) Power Clean: 125lb (great improvements in form, specially racking) Press: 110lb (after push pressing for what seemed like months I was able to complete 3 sets of 5 with good technique last week YAY!)...more
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