There’s an old joke.
“How do you know someone’s a vegan?
“They’ll tell you”
Based off the theory that vegan’s like to push their thoughts and beliefs around their way of eating onto everyone they speak to.
Is it true?
I’ll conduct a quick, rudimentary experiment.
I have 2,500 friends on Facebook.
All of them I know to some degree in real life – friends, family, members, former members, fellow FitPros, people I’ve encountered in different parts of my life.
None of them are complete randoms who I know nothing about.
A quick google suggests that, currently, 3% of the population consider themselves vegan.
This would mean 70 of them are vegan.
I reckon I’d struggle to get much past 5 who I know for sure are.
Now I know that’s not the best experiment ever, but makes you think, doesn’t it?
Out of the people I know who are vegans and encounter regularly I’m not sure I’d say any of them “bang on about it”.
It’s just something I’m aware of.
The concept that vegans endlessly go on about veganism………
Is something that we may feel we’ve seen evidence of.
From those that we consider that have done that.
Completely missing all the others that haven’t.
Deciding something is an absolute fact with minimal evidence behind it.
Something us humans are very prone to do.
We make absolute decisions……..
And form strong opinions………
About things that we probably know less about than we’d like to think.
We say “exercise is boring” as a though that’s a cold and hard fact.
We say we “haven’t got the time to exercise” when we know absolutely nothing about the itineraries of those that do exercise regularly.
We claim to have a “sweet tooth” when we’ve only ever experienced life from inside our own body and really have no idea how others really feel about such things.
We say we have a bad metabolism without conducting any sort of tests on it.
We say “eating healthy is expensive” based off a fairly low number of observations of meals we considered to be both healthy and expensive.
And, for all these things, we notice the things that appear to confirm our view………..
And we miss the things that contradict them.
Significant and lasting changes our results……….
Often comes from changes to the opinions that we hold………
That shape our behaviours and actions.
Without changes to our beliefs, things can often feel like the equivalent of pressing the accelerator down harder on a car………
Whilst the brakes are still on.
Challenging and changing what we believe can be like releasing the brakes.
We can end up getting more results from the same or less effort (you might be telling yourself that you wouldn’t be able to do our programme, are too busy or can’t afford it. Why not actually find out if any of that is true by doing our trial with that Money Back Guarantee? –> www.myrise.co.uk/apply) .
Much love,
Jon ‘Eat a fraction of the meat I used to’ Hall
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