Drive Like An Idiot

The fitness industry is absolutely obsessed with telling people to stay in their lane.

Now, that is great advice for people who need to understand what their scope of practice is.

But we also see it for people who get told that they should only focus on helping one lot of people with one particular problem and focus on that for the next few years.

And fair enough, it’s also the advice from business people, billionaires etc

But all of my understanding of each of my roles has come from all the other jobs I do.

I can take the stuff that I did from elite sport and apply it to how people should focus on their productivity at work.

I can take what I’ve learned from knowledge workers and apply it to why I think it’s affecting their food intake.

I can take what the fitness industry teaches us about body image and apply it to 16-year-old female rugby players who are caught in the tension between what society and their peers expect them to look like at a certain age and all of the challenges with that -

But also need to understand that they don’t want to get folded like a deck chair at scrum time and that they need a body that’s resilient enough for that.

It is fine to narrow your focus down to just one thing IF that’s what you want to do.

Then you can stay in your lane.

If you don’t want to, you should not only be okay with looking slightly outside what you do -

I would actively encourage you to veer in and out of lanes

Take the career path that mimics the direction of an idiot on the road - steer everywhere.

Weave in and out of areas

It will make you a much better coach, a much better business owner and far more credible when you can show people the sheer depth AND breadth of experience that you’ve obtained.