The "Biomechanical Bias" is probably the biggest bias in the world

It states that everyone sees the world from the vantage of their own biomechanics

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I was watching the Jack Neel podcast today. He interviews lots of successful entrepreneurs.

Particularly the people who blew up relatively recently. So he has guests like Iman Gadzhi, Alex Hormozi, and the person I watched him today…. who was Luke Belmar.

At the end of the interview with Luke, Jack reflects on what is the consistent thing that makes all of his guests successful and says:

“What is the thing they’re all doing? Maybe it’s more about what are the things they’re not doing?

I noticed that all of the most successful guests don’t drink alcohol.

They sleep at a decent time.

They’re not becoming lazy and sitting in bed all day.”

And what he was realizing without knowing it was… all of his guests have extremely good biomechanics.

Biomechanics are the foundation for success

What is consistent about Alex Hormozi, Luke Belmar and Iman Gadzhi?

The thing that they have, which 90%+ of Americans do not?

It’s simple.

They’re structure? All three of these individuals would very easily be in the top 5% of Americans. And yes I know that some of them are not, in fact, originally Americans.

But the point is that they had terrific structure during their rise and still do now. Which is the biggest advantage in the world you can have on someone else.

Alex Hormozi

Because you are able to:

• Work harder and longer

• Think clearer, especially when under stress

• Develop relationships easier

• Be far more mentally strong for the ups and downs that come up with starting a business

• etc

This beats having wealthy parents. It beats graduating from a top university. And it beats those things by a LONG shot.

Sure a good education and having wealthy parents might give you a jump start in this race we call “life”… but success in life is about showing up to play hard each and everyday.

Both with healthy mind and healthy body.

And over longer periods of time I’ve seen how biomechanics takes the lead and then leaves those other things in the dust.

Iman Gadzhi

You can almost say that they make success look easy

When you study successful, young people the things that often jump out at you are their talents and how they overcame difficulties.

How they beat the odds.

How they seem to be the ‘chosen’ ones.

But what you consistently don’t hear is about them getting sick frequently, having very low energy, being depressed for long periods of time, etc.

You don’t hear those things because they rarely happen to them. They are typically in the biomechanically ‘elite’.

So yes they faced difficulties…. but they overcame them without even thinking much about them. That part of the game came easy to them.

It came natural to be able to outwork their more collapsed competitors. To exude more energy & charisma to their teams, their clients, etc.

It also came natural to form solid new relationships that became important pillars to the success of their businesses.

I am a perfect example of this

I grew up with many advantages. No my parents were not wealthy… just ordinary middle class Americans with a mortgage who worked hard to make ends meet.

But I had an Asian mother that drilled into me the importance of grades and working hard.

And that’s what I did. I finished near the top of my high school class, went to an Ivy league university, got a good job as a strategy consultant, etc.

But then it was in my mid-20’s that I felt like my health started screwing with me and I was plateauing. I was tight in my neck, upper back and throat almost 24-7.

I started drinking alcohol almost every night to relax it.

I also went to doctors or some type of physio about 2x a week from about age 23 all the way till about age 36. Sometimes I was taking powerful muscle relaxants or other pharmaceuticals.

This stuff was taking me off my game and it was taking a toll on my career. I was gradually lowering my expectations for myself. Particularly by my early 30’s.

I no longer had the confidence and determination i’d had in my early 20’s. Life and my health had beaten it out of me.

And it stayed that way for a long time. Except when I caught wind of these biomechanics in 2014 my job performance began to cycle up and down depending on how I was doing with these mechanics.

Now, however, for the past 4+ years i’m only on an uphill trajectory and it’s crazy what it does for your mindset.

To say i feel like I am more determined and more energized than my early 20’s would be a massive understatement.

Rather I feel like I transitioned from being the sheep to the wolf. From the prey to the predator.

My natural mindset now when i’m operating my business is… “There is nobody out there that can outwork me. Because I’m playin’ with a stacked deck. And my cheat code is these biomechanics.”

Everyday i come in stronger, healthier, more driven.

Despite having often worked 14+ hour days the day before.

Most people my age would have started gassin’ out a long time ago.

I not only don’t gas out… with each passing day I turn more into the beast.

Luke Belmar (left ) being interviewed by Jack Neel (right)

When you get this stuff… the whole game seems like a joke

As i ended the podcast I was just rolling my eyes.

Yet another guy with crazy good biomechanics (Luke Belmar) making it sound like success is all just good strategy and some hard work.

No Luke! You’re missing the most important ingredient.

The ingredient you always had and so you took it for granted. But most Americans do not have it. And that ingredient is biomechanics.

When you understand this critical component… you realize how all the other stuff he talks about is just the decoration on top.

It was all enabled by his biomechanics. Take away the biomechanics… and I guarantee you none of us would have ever heard the name “Luke Belmar”. Or “Alex Hormozi”. Or any of these guys for that matter.

Closing thoughts

Reviv is growing well. We’re bootstrapped, yet profitable.

It was not easy getting to this point we’re at now. It required a good amount of luck and hard work. And we still have a LONG way to go yet.

But if I were on some podcast and I was asked the question… “Ken…how did you build Reviv?”

I could ignore the ‘Biomechanical Bias” and talk about what a great team of freelancers we have, or all of innovative strategies we are employing, or how I am great at systems, etc

But that wouldn’t be the honest answer.

There is only one main thing that stands at the foundation of all of those things.

BIOMECHANICS.

You see… now it’s my turn to be the wolf.

And the people that were the wolves overtaking me twenty years ago… well as age catches up to them… it’s their turn to be the sheep.

And that’s just how this game works ;)