Overall: Frustrating start to the week. Went to train on Monday and my R hand was swollen and I couldn’t grip a barbell. Some of this was from aggravating my hand arthritis and the other part was not getting any quality of sleep going into the week. Was supposed to be a 95% load on squat and was frustrating not being able to go into a higher intensity on that. Rest of the week things felt pretty good. Felt nice feeling like most of the training maxes are generally accurate.

Incentives Drive Outcomes — In Health Too Charlie Munger famously said: "Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome." That principle applies just as much to your health as it does to business or investing. Most people don't struggle with knowledge. They struggle with alignment. Their daily incentives aren't structured to support the behaviors they claim to value. If you want better health, you don't need more information — you need a better incentive system. The Pro

Overall: Training has been poor the past 4 weeks. Was hopeful post tax day that things would calm down and that hasn’t been the trend. Overall challenging 6 months and recovery has been very poor the past week. The week following drill weekend is generally taxing and this was the case. Flared up my wrist arthritis pretty significantly at BJJ which was frustrating because training has been poor over the past month. Think it was just the combination of poor sleep, shooting a

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