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[00:00:00] ColinStuckert: [00:00:00] I know, I know the title, how to lose fat gainmuscle look, good naked and build an awesome life. I mean, that's literallywhat I, my title is video, and this is all about environment. I said a whileago that I was done making videos for the algorithm. I still follow a animalbased way of eating. You could say, I still believe that a pure carnivore dietis probably the healthiest diet for the human animal.
[00:00:20] I just don't really want to talkabout it that much anymore, because there's not a whole lot to say. I feel likewhen I'm putting out videos for that, I'm a dancing monkey dancing for thealgorithm. I'm not, I'm just going to do that, but I'm always gonna give yousomething that you can use to better stick to your carnivore diet, if that'swhat you're doing or your animal diet or paleo or keto or whatever it is.
[00:00:38] And if you want to lose fat gainmuscle look, good, naked build awesome life. What you need to accomplish. Thosethings are all based on foundational principles. That's actually why I'm movinginto a new direction with my content around mindset. And the mastermindprogram, which you learn more@betterhuman.school.
[00:00:53] It is the best price it's evergoing to be price going to be going up. So if you want to get in there and getaccess is forever, you should do that. So as a human, you become yourenvironment. Now let's just go back to Darwin for a second. A lot of peoplewould say, Oh, Darwin said that the stronger survives, you know, so you thinklike the strongest animal, the buffets, no.
[00:01:09]Somebody else said survival offittest Darwin through his theory of natural selection suggested that the organismthat best adapts to its environment is the one that's most likely to survive inprocreate animals, humans. We're trying to respond to our environment so thatwe can survive and procreate.
[00:01:29] And then obviously in the caseof humans, raise offspring children to then do the same thing and then go onand on and our genes want to stay alive. So they keep propelling themselvesforward. Using us as basically vessels. Our modern environment is ill matchedto our biology because as most of you probably have know this already for about99% of human existence.
[00:01:49] And even beyond that and primateexistence and on and on there was just wild, just nature. There wasn't cars,trains, automobiles, technology, phones, [00:02:00] cameras, wifi signals, dirtywater, processed food, et cetera. There was just a wild and humans dominatedway. We figured that out was actually group cohesion. We grew big brains, whicha lot of the theory is just to understand the relationships and to be able tobetter work together because in groups, humans were unstoppable.
[00:02:19] A single human could actually bean easy meal for any big game cat, but a group of humans. No chance, especiallyhumans with sticks and stones and Spears or fire. So humans thrive in thatenvironment. And now we have this modern environment. Okay. Well, we havethings on demand. I don't know if you've ever been camping, but go walk out inthe forest and tell me how much food you find.
[00:02:42] I mean, think about that. It'sactually pretty, a pretty interesting concept to just consider a thoughtexperiment. There's food everywhere. I mean, even in this room and office, Isee food and bags. I got my coffee right here. I think I got some back to tuneover there. Cause I want some protein one day. And, but in the wild you gocamping.
[00:03:01] I mean, you might come acrosssome berries and they might actually kill you. It might be poisonous. And howoften do you see animals? Like other than squirrels that you're never catchingyour environment, shapes you, if you don't have a plan for your environment, Imean, it will be just happenstance. It will be just blind luck.
[00:03:16] What you become, what happens toyour health, your biology, your future. And I can tell you right now, I canshow you your future. I can go look in your pantry and your fridge, and I canshow you the health and body that you're going to have in the future. I canshow you what you're going to be. I would say financially, I would say healthwise, and I would say mindset wise by looking at the people in your life,whether that's coworkers, friends, family, whatever.
[00:03:39] And then I can look at how youspend time on a device. What videos you watch, what content you consume,articles, books you read, and I can get a pretty good idea. Who you are now andwho you're going to keep being to keep this video short and not just ramble onand on non I w I would say that the core thesis here is anything that you wantto become in your future, in anything that you're struggling with [00:04:00]right now that you want to get through, you have to look to your environmentfirst.
[00:04:03] And most people don't do this.Most people go actually to some new book, habit thing, whatever. They tried toadd something to their life, and they think that's going to fix it. Instead ofactually trying to improve by removing things, which is way more impactful forthe human animal. Because again, remember, we are just responding to ourenvironment.
[00:04:20] We are byproducts of ourenvironment and our environment includes people. It includes technology and ACand all these other things around us and includes the information we let intoour eyes and ears. If you don't have a mitigation strategy for those, if you'renot cautious, security, those on purpose to get the effect and to become theperson you want to become, who knows what could happen?
[00:04:38] Like literally no idea someoneelse is going to end up dictating your future. And if you want an idea of whoyou're gonna be in the future, if you don't change anything, now keep in mind.This is not destiny. I'm saying if you don't change anything in yourenvironment, it's very likely that you're going to stay exactly where you areright now.
[00:04:53] Because it's likely the thingsaround you, you do through habit and your environment around you is somethingyou've just adapted to and you've built habits within. So unless you take astep out, analyze that environment and the habits within it, nothing's going tochange, but this is such a fundamental important concept.
[00:05:11] I mean, I dunno sometimes Istruggle with this because I feel like. I'm not dealing with thinking aboutthese things. I'm not the only one talking about them, but this is the type ofstuff is just not mainstream. And maybe that's why most of America's sick andgetting sick every year. I mean, it's anyways, if you want to control who youbecome, if you want to have some, your future.
[00:05:32] You have to look to yourenvironment and you have to become ruthless. I'll give you a couple examples.Okay. Become ruthless with your environment. I don't spend time with negativepeople. If somebody's complaining bitching and moaning, I usually actually havesomething to say sometimes not so friendly, or I call them out on it or I justimmediately change the subject depending on kind of their constitution, howsensitive they are.
[00:05:50] He knows people like some peoplecan give it to straighten, just be like, dude, stop bitching. And some peopleyou have to kind of like subtly change, like change the subject. I'm onTwitter. As of recently, I used to [00:06:00] think Twitter is the worst thingever. I think it is very bad for America, especially with censorship, butTwitter is also an amazing tool.
[00:06:05] I knew going into it that if Ididn't have a strategy for it, that it would end up using me and that's notokay. So I block anything politics. I follow some people for Bitcoininformation, for example, and if they retweet things that are political or gotoo much into that realm, I'll just unfollow them.
[00:06:21] There are certain keywords youcan even block. I think there's apps like heme that can hide the sidebar thatlike the trending stuff. I never go into trending and never go into that kindof crap. I pretty much only follow people that already knew about, and then Ifollow people that those people retweet and or recommend or tag.
[00:06:37] Right. And that's, that's mostlyit, I'm not following a ton of people. And my thread is pretty carefullycurated. I'm actually trying to figure out how to expand it a little bit bykind of going into different topics. Cause there's a lot of financial stuff, alot of Bitcoin stuff, a little bit health stuff.
[00:06:49] But that's completely okay. Butmy YouTube feed, I no longer go into the kind of recommended channels. It'sjust because it's just so bad. And I unfollow so many people because I mean,most of us now music and like music I work too. Right. So that's just oneexample and yes, some of these apps might be ruined for you like Instagram.
[00:07:07] I don't really go in the feed. Idon't really go into people's stories or anything. I mostly just use it to postand interact with people that comment on my account. And that's okay. Because Ithink Instagram generally is not that healthy of a pastime. So that's anexample of controlling my digital environment, which is just massive.
[00:07:23] Now if you are somebody that,you know, knowledge worker remote work or whatever, if you have notificationsthat pop up, if your phone's on, when you're working, you're doing a disserviceto yourself, you're doing a disservice to whoever hired you or whoever you'reworking for, or it's your own business.
[00:07:35] You're doing a disservice toyour own business. You need to have a deep focus, work routine, read deep workby Cal Newport. That's all I'll say on that, but it's just another example ofcontrolling your environment. If you let technology dictate your environmentand throw things at you, one at once, and you don't have a strategy for that,you're being used, like you're the product.
[00:07:53] And then obviously, like I said,food, if you want to control what you eat, you can't keep it in the house.[00:08:00] Right. Or you got to hide it or ask your spouse or friends or familymembers to hide it from you or whatever this chair, what is this chair?
[00:08:06]See what I mean by controllingyour environment to finish, finish this video? Well, I guess I'm going tostand. Okay. So let's, let's recap real quick. If you don't control your, yourenvironment, it will control you. If you want an idea of your future self, lookat your environment, look at the people around you.
[00:08:20] Look the information youconsume. Look at like the food in your environment, the people you eat with, etcetera. If you want an idea of who you're going to become, look at the peoplewe spend the most time with and talk to the most. Like you're going to be theaverage of them. The video is how to lose fat gain muscle look, good, negativebill, awesome life.
[00:08:36] Because if you control yourenvironment and you set up in a way that you will become somebody that losesfat gains muscle looks good, and then it builds an awesome life. Then oncethat's in place in your environment, you will lose fat gain muscle and at, andbuild awesome life. And I'm not joking. This is not magic.
[00:08:52] This is literally one plus oneequals two. This is how it works. Subscribe, please like to those things I'mgoing to. Be doing more videos like this. Cause she's not the studio setup. Imight allude to health and nutrition stuff here and there because it's stillobviously a mine. It matters to me, but you're probably not going to be seeingme do a lot of videos or podcasts on the carnivore diet or five tips for thisor whatever.
[00:09:11] There's plenty of other peopledoing that. And honestly, a carnivore diet is as simple as get it home in thekitchen source, really good animal foods, and then eat those as the bulk ofyour diet. And if you want to mix it up Thrones, some Berry, I mean, honestly,if you want to mix it up, eat anything you want, as long as you make it athome.
[00:09:26] And that's what I've been doing.I've been actually eating quite a few more carbs lately. I'm actually lookinginto sourdough bread and making our own Einhorn sourdough, and like all thesedifferent things. And it's really fun. And I love it. And I freaking lovebread. I love bread. I said today as I was eating a bite of sourdough withbutter and salt on it that I told Allison, I think my life's going to change.
[00:09:41] So think going would become veryobsessed with bread. Maybe I'll do a video on that in the future, whatever, butI hope to see you in the next video and get the better human newsletter over atconduct coach and the podcast and everything. I appreciate you watching thisand just being an awesome human.
[00:09:55] I'll see you in the next one.
