Trading places with the biomechanically advantaged

They fall over time as you rise.

Not long ago I was looking at a Linkedin update from an exec of a company I used to work at over a decade ago.

He’d raised a bunch of money for a new venture.

And he was leaving a previous company where he’d spent a solid 4-5 years.

While I don’t know all the details…. I don’t think his time there can be deemed as a success.

I had numerous ex-colleagues that had worked there and almost all of them had been laid off for some time already because the company was struggling.

This person, who was among the biomechanically elite when I knew him over a decade ago, seemed to be struggling a bit now. Whereas the initial decade of his career seemed like a meteoric rise with a string of nothing but successes.

I’d also heard rumors that he had softened a fair bit, whereas back then he was known for how strong and intimidating he was. Note that he’s also quite a tall and well built person, though less now than back then.

At the same time I remembered how I felt at that time when I knew him as I was struggling with my health. He only met me a handful of times but if asked honestly i’m sure he would probably recollect me as being a sort of wuss.

Not someone strong enough for the rigors of upper management.

Because I was on a neurological roller coaster back then. Most of the time I was thinking more about survival than trying to move up.

And so I smiled as I reflected on how we were now on two very different trajectories in my view.

He was on his way down… and i’m on my way up baby!

And today I’m gonna talk a bit about this because if you stick this out over the longer term, I think it is something that you might experience too.

And in my experience…. it’s like a drug.

Many of us started as biomechanically disadvantaged

A lot of the folks doing this biomechanical process now have probably felt disadvantaged at some point in their past.

Perhaps they did braces or extractions as a teen and were struggling from an early age.

Perhaps their struggles started later in life in their 30’s or 40’s like me.

Or even later than that.

Regardless of when it started, many of you have probably experienced what it was like to struggle. Because those are the people that tend to find me the most often in these early days of biomechanics.

The people that struggled, tried many of the things the traditional medical system recommends, and never found answers with it.

Folks like us know what it’s like to feel like we’re putting in a lot more effort for a lot less result.

We know what it’s like to feel like some others just seem to find success so much easier than us.

We made up excuses in the past like “oh it must be genetics” or “his/her parents are wealthy and paved their path.” And in doing so we got accustomed to a world where we needed to settle for being somewhere in the middle of the pack.

The biomechanically advantaged rule over the disadvantaged

At the same time there was this elite group of biomechanically advantaged to whom life just seemed to come easy.

Almost whatever they did success seemed to come easily.

They attracted people to them and were popular by default.

They had more attractive girlfriends, boyfriends, wives, husbands, etc.

They moved up in their careers easier than us. Almost as if some invisible force was pushing them up while the same invisible force was pushing us down.

We learned to accept these people as being our natural leaders. They simply had something we did not.

And we knew that if we challenged them we’d typically lose.

So rather than be embarrassed, we stopped challenging them and accepted the pecking order that life seemed to organize us into.

When you improve your biomechanics, you change the playing board

But then I came upon these biomechanics and as I learned to harness its power I realized that not all is as it once seemed.

It wasn’t genetics or a wealthy family that was the true driving force behind these ‘elite’.

Rather it was biomechanics.

And biomechanics has a set of rules that if you follow in a disciplined way, you should steadily progress.

It will take time and you will need to be patient.

But as the years pass you will notice something strange happening.

These biomechanically ‘elite’ will slowly start to slide down back to earth and you will start to ascend. Thus closing the gap.

These ‘elite’ will seem less and less untouchable. And more and more human.

With flaws and weaknesses that seem to get bigger as time goes on.

You will start to mentally challenge their status above you and think to yourself “screw them… they’re not any better than me!”

And in saying this you’ll know that you now have the tools to close the gap. Time is on your side… not their’s.

Eventually you trade places

As time passes on and you continue waging your biomechanical war…. you will change for the better.

Not just physically but mentally.

You’ll probably get more confident. You’ll think quicker. You’ll be less emotional and more logical.

You’ll stop putting these former ‘elite’ on a pedestal because you now understand their secret weapon and are using it against them.

I look at myself today and i’m still very much work in progress. But i’m a very different person than I was in late 2021 when I started my ascent.

I have an internal confidence that comes from five solid years of only getting better across almost everything. I have more energy, i think faster and deeper, my memory is better, I talk faster/clearer, etc

You will operate as a different person effortlessly

Let’s take an example to show you what I mean in a bit more detail.

These days it’s a lot harder to win an argument against me.

Unlike the past i’m unlikely to raise my voice or get frustrated.

Rather i’m more likely to stay calm and logical. And think strategically about what my end goal is and the best path to get there.

And perhaps i’m going to conclude that I don’t even need to be in that argument as it is not worth my time.

Unlike the past, it won’t matter to me that I didn’t get the last word in because I know that it is to my advantage to simply disengage.

And I also know that I will often not even think about that argument/person again because that’s just how my system works these days. Which is a far cry from how I used to dwell on such things for a long time after the fact in the past.

This is how I don’t trip on my own feet the way I used to in the past when I was collapsing.

This is part of how the biomechanically ‘elite’ always beat people like me and you in the past. But now we’re using their own playbook against them.

And they are becoming more like the people we were.

We’re trading places.

Closing thoughts

I’ve been observing the impacts of biomechanics on society since about 2015. It has been over a decade.

And the relationships are very clear.

Across pretty much any industry or profession it is the same pattern over and over again. The biomechanically advantaged rule over the biomechanically disadvantaged.

It is the ‘secret sauce’ that you will find more consistent in successful people than anything else (eg. education, money, etc).

Star business people, star athletes, star actors…. they pretty much all had solid biomechanics during their rise or they would not have risen. The number of exceptions you find to that rule will be very small.

And so now we are democratizing it.

This elite group that thought they were given some special, almost God-given, right to rule over the rest of us will now come under attack.

We will rip them from their places and toss them overboard like some weak captain during a mutiny.

And in a way I almost think a new world order will be created over the longer term.

One that is far more equitable.

One that will be driven by hard work far more than the current system.

And i gotta say… I think i’m gonna love it.