HeyJaredNotes from Peter Shankman
A 53 year old ADHD single dad living in NYC with his 12 year old daughter and five year old rescue dog, trying to keep his sanity with the help of Peloton, bodybuilding, and 80s music.
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Comfort is Not a Growth Strategy (opens the original)
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Eight weeks ago, after fourteen long months of paperwork, background checks, letters of good character from city officials, and more bureaucracy than I ever knew, I joined the 0.21% of NYC residents who have been granted a NYC concealed carry permit by the NYPD.Let me get ahead of something right now, because I already know where some of your heads just went. I’m not about to become one of those losers strolling into a Starbucks with an AK-47 strapped to his back for no reason whatsoever. You kn
The World Currently Sucks. Keep Building Anyway. (opens the original)
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I’m going to say something we’ve all been thinking for quite some time:Absolutely every single thing in the world SUCKS right now.Off the top of my head… The people running the show are way more interested in their own bank accounts than the country they were elected to serve. Billionaires who could LITERALLY solve every problem in the world and still be billionaires are rigging elections and building bunkers underground to prepare for the next world war. Ground beef costs more than it did durin
The All-or-Nothing Recovery (opens the original)
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Fifteen days ago I had my hip replaced. Today I walked a mile to the gym, did an upper body session with my trainer, and walked a mile home. My chest press maxed out at 175 for 10 reps. Three weeks ago, before surgery, my one rep max was 255. My standard working set was 225 for 5.That’s a lot of strength gone in a very short time, but I knew it would be. I expected it. My brain understood it going in.Notes from Peter Shankman is a reader-supported publication. T
The Worst Patient I know is a Bad Delegator (opens the original)
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I’m not a terrible patient because I’m not following instructions. I’m doing everything the surgeon told me to do. I’m on the meds I’m supposed to be on, (and only the ones I’m supposed to be on.) I know myself well enough to know that “the good stuff” and my brain are not a safe combination, so I’m gritting my teeth through real pain on Tylenol, because I’d rather hurt for a few weeks than risk something that hurts for a lot longer. That part I’m proud of.The part I’m not proud of is everything
The Car Doesn't Need Junking. It Needs a Tune-Up. (opens the original)
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I’m 54. For the last 30 years, I’ve been the guy who trains. Ironmans, triathlons, hundreds of skydives. Stay active, don’t go soft, and you buy yourself out of the stuff that happens to other people. Even if I was carrying an extra twenty pounds, that training carried a lot for me. That was the deal, or so I thought.See, hip replacements happen to old people. I didn’t even know I believed that until I was sitting in an orthopedist’s midtown NYC office about six months ago, looking at my own X-r
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