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Sometimes the secret is in the open, but seeing it takes a series of long slog steps which most people just can't get themselves to do(for many reasons).

If you see the most fitness and nutrition advice, and you go through it, most of it sounds like pseudo science that would never work. Yet if you go running in the morning, most parks around your home will have these people who are very fit, eating the right things and doing the right stuff.

Its just doing all of this is hard, painful and demands some serious discipline on the very long run. This process in essence now acts as a filter to 99% people out there. Among the 1% degree of success again varies based on other parameters(timing, luck, overall effort in continuous improvements etc). By the time you arrive at 0.1%, the process basically acts as ruthless filter to eliminate people who just can't measure up.

So many times the what works, can be easily learned and known. Doing it, is just a whole different beast altogether.




People in general just want shortcuts instead of doing the long and hard process that is most likely to succeed.




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