Solving Posture from First Principles

[AceVentures]

@AceVentures I find all these things fascinating and I know for a fact that there is a gigantic market for these kinds of services - at least 90% of the population suffers from postural issues to some degree, many of which are blindly unaware of their problem.

Thank you for patiently reading, keeping up with the thread and contributing your thoughtful feedback.

Knowing how the human mind works, I can tell you that most of these people will happily live their lives for decades without addressing or even acknowledging the issue - up until the very day in which the pain begins.

However, what I'm trying to get at here, is that you will eventually have to take all of this intricate knowledge and complex procedures, and package them into an easily digestible product that the average user can quickly understand and start using right away.

This does have a benefit - it makes it a highly specialized premium service, thus allowing you to price it at a premium, but it alienates 90% of the potential target audience.

I think you guys are well intended with this advice. But I said from the onset of this thread that I will be selective with who I treat at the beginning. This isn't because I don't want to, or because I believe the 90% of people who can benefit from this don't deserve my attention. It's a matter of allocating my limited resources, and a part of a phased approach to the development of this thing.

It's hard for "most" and the "average" and the "90%" to readily understand and meaningfully transfer what I teach into their lives. They have the capacity of course, but today there's only me, and by virtue of my limited attention, I can't attend to everybody in a generalized way. Moreover, the average sort of person isn't best positioned to transform their lives. They can find relief in a short period of time, but they won't get to the level I intend for them. This is largely by virtue of their current environments.

For example the person who is a virgin at 30, still lives at home and doesn't have a good grasp of the English language is severely affected. I can't and won't go after this sort of person. He's got to pull himself up several levels before I can attend to him. The level of angst and disability he endures is so severe that he won't show up for an hour every day for two years. He can't appreciate the small differences I bring to his attention. His scope of awareness is limited. His angst is so habituated that he can't even fathom that what I teach will help him. This sort of person is still at the beginning of the self-development pipeline. He's better off watching Tony Robbins videos, going to the gym and finding a job.

There has to be a simpler way to explain it. I already gave an example - have a rough childhood, struggle to interact with others, get bullied, develop anxiety, which then manifests into physical symptoms such as slouched posture, twisted neck, insecure walking pattern, etc. This may not be entirely relevant to what Ace does, but is a simple example of how mental/emotional can affect the physical. An example of case-and-effect.

This is entirely relevant to what I do. It's simpler for you to understand it from this standpoint because that's your personal story. The higher level principle which underpins the trouble you describe is compulsive behavior - something I've written about in this thread and talk about on X ad nauseum.

I get it, your reputation is at stake, but is there really no way you can put something out there for real people to engage with now?

There is. I have thousands of hours of experience with the practice I teach. It's what I can do best. I can do it better than anything I've ever written. I can reliably reproduce a feeling of elegant and comfortable posture in most people within a one hour practice.

I'm just not convinced that's the ideal way for me to position myself based on what I want to achieve. Why?

The biggest challenge of this business is not finding the perfect miracle cure for postural issues, but rather, finding the perfect way to make people adhere long-term to the program.

Heavy is on to why.

I can make you feel "ooh ahh, wow that feels great, omg I can't believe I never knew that wow that feels incredible" in most people. Look here's perhaps a grandiose claim but I'm confident in it: find a quiet room to be alone in, find a comfortable mat to lie on, and leave me on speaker phone, and I will get you to feel something about yourself you've never felt before. I can get you to feel a level of comfort you may not have felt for years or decades.

What I can't yet do reliably is to get someone to show up the next day, the next day, and so on for 1-2 years until we can dissociate the years of contradictory, compulsive attitudes we've learned to involuntarily reenact in our behavior. If we don't turn what I teach into a habit, then it won't take long for the person to return to the previous behavior which sustained their trouble.

This is a large part of why my personal trainer client failed. Every lesson made her feel incredible. But we practiced once a week, and then after our practice she would return to being a silly a$$. She would exercise every day, doing deadlifts and squats and all the other shit she wasn't coordinated enough to do well. So she would get sore as a dog, and then do a bunch of stretching to do something about her soreness, which kept tearing the tissues which were beyond her range of intentional control. So she couldn't reliably get better. She kept inducing self-harm. She was in a loop. And I couldn't get her out that loop. Until she injured herself and gave up. She probably feels like a failure.

And this is why I say it's imperative that this work is performed with the person who is best suited to succeed.

For the right person, what I teach is priceless. I know so because it's priceless for me. I'd give every last dollar I've ever earned in exchange for this skill of comfortable adjustment that I've nurtured over the past few years.

Now if that's truly what I believe, then why chase people with some online course? If what I claim is true, then there are so many other creative ways to spin this ability I've developed. Why not find a high-level athlete, or someone for who something as small as a 5% difference is worth millions, and just treat them instead? Build my skill and brand to attract the likes of Bryan Johnson? That sort of person could pay me more than all the other average customers combined, and would be far less of a headache to treat.

You see what I'm saying? That's why I gave up on this idea of creating a productized service this year. I'm not opposed to it, especially at a later stage of development. I just think I can get more creative with it.

But we'll see. Maybe nobody is impressed enough with the story I develop. Maybe nobody cares. Maybe all I can attract is people who can only afford to pay 10 bucks a month for some meditation app. If that's the case, then I'll pivot to less reasonable expectations.

For now, I can afford to dream big.

 

Dislike ads? Become a Fastlane member: Subscribe today and surround yourself with winners and millionaire mentors, not those broke friends who only want to drink beer and play video games. :-)

[AceVentures]

O siemmz muwi vjot vjsief epf xjev Edi ot vszoph vu fu, epf vjopl ov't incessettoph vjev qiuqmi ges mitt eddunqmotjif vjep jon esi raitvoupoph jon gus puv satjoph vjot qsuditt epf qavvoph tunivjoph uav epf veloph nupiz getvis, xet vjisi puv e djeqvis op vng xjisi vji haz tqipv 4 ziest caomfoph e qzsenof neloph nedjopi?

Epzxez, xjomi zuas ettittnipv ot vsai epf tunivjoph O vjuahjv ug, O vjopl vji uqqutovi nez edvaemmz ciduni vji siem ottai

Jux, updi vjot ot qedlif opvu e qsuhsen tuniupi dep fu, fu zua vjip foggisipvoevi epf jewi qiuqmi puv dunqesi us ettudoevi ov xovj uj vjot ot katv e 1 juas tvsivdjoph us iyisdotoph suavopi moli emm vji uvjis upit

O vjopl ov dep ci fupi epf vji xez Edi ot fuoph vjopht ot jux zua xuamf hiv vu vjev miwim, cav ov't tvomm tunivjoph vu duptofis

Iyedvmz. Vjeplt Novdj O eqqsidoevi zuas opqav.

Jux fu zua qedlehi vjot opvu tunivjoph qiuqmi dep apfistvepf epf fu, xovjuav katv fiwemaoph ov opvu epuvjis tvsivdjoph qsuhsen

Vjev't qsidotimz vji raitvoup O'wi ciip xsitvmoph xovj. Xjodj ot xjz O'wi fidofif vu vitv xjivjis O dep katv devdj cohhis gotj.

 

[AceVentures]

Etlif Dmeafi gus ep epemztot ug vji tvsevihz O'n qastaoph. Ov't optohjvgam. Muvt vu vjopl ecuav.

-------------

Cohhitv Quvipvoem Qovgemmt:

1. Uwissimoepdi up Johj-Tvelit Dmoipvt

• Veshivoph imovi dmoipvt dsievit onnipti qsittasi vu fimowis qisgidv sitamvt
• E tophmi johj-qsugomi geomasi duamf tiwisimz fenehi siqavevoup
• Imovi dmoipvt ugvip jewi dunqmiy pivxuslt ug iyotvoph qsedvovoupist xju nez sitotv pix eqqsuedjit
• Caomfoph dsifocomovz vu evvsedv tadj dmoipvt xovjuav qsous johj-qsugomi taddittit ot iyvsinimz djemmiphoph

1. Voni Opwitvnipv wt Tdemecomovz

• Tqipfoph 1-2 ziest qis dmoipv nelit vji catopitt jiewomz fiqipfipv up dmoipv sivipvoup
• Monovif dmoipv ceti niept johj wampisecomovz vu dmoipv djasp
• Vji opviptowi voni opwitvnipv qsiwipvt caomfoph tztvint epf fudanipvevoup vjev duamf tdemi mevis
• Lpuxmifhi tvezt mudlif op jot jief sevjis vjep cioph dufogoif

1. Nesliv Qutovoup Sotl

• Cz qutovoupoph et amvse-qsinoan gsun vji tvesv, ji sotlt cioph qisdiowif et imovotv us opeddittocmi
• Nelit ov jesfis vu qowuv fuxpnesliv mevis og vji imovi tvsevihz fuitp'v xusl
• Duamf nott uav up wemaecmi vitvonupoemt epf deti tvafoit gsun nusi eddittocmi tadditt tvusoit
• Dunqivovust duamf itvecmotj tvsuphis nesliv qsitipdi xovj nusi eddittocmi tumavoupt

Nutv vu Heop:

1. Og taddittgam xovj imovi dmoipvt:

• Iyvsinimz johj siwipai qis dmoipv
• Tvsuph dsifocomovz epf qsitvohi
• Gsiifun vu qisgidv nivjufumuhz xovjuav gopepdoem qsittasi
• Quvipvoem vu ciduni vji hu-vu iyqisv gus johj-tvelit qutvasi xusl

1. Og vji nivjufumuhz qsuwit vseptgusnevowi:

• Duamf siwumavoupobi jux qutvasi sijecomovevoup ot eqqsuedjif
• Quvipvoem vu opgmaipdi vji csuefis goimf
• Duamf iwipvaemmz modipti us vseop uvjist op vji nivjuf
• Aporai opvimmidvaem qsuqisvz vjev duncopit qjztodem epf qtzdjumuhodem iminipvt

Nutv vu Muti:

1. Voni Opwitvnipv

• Ziest tqipv fiwimuqoph e nivjuf vjev nez qsuwi vuu dunqmiy vu viedj uvjist
• Uqqusvapovz dutv ug puv caomfoph nusi tdemecmi tumavoupt iesmois
• Sotl ug caspoph uav gsun opviptowi upi-up-upi xusl

1. Nesliv Uqqusvapovz

• Gostv-nuwis efwepvehi op neloph qutvasem sijecomovevoup nusi eddittocmi
• Djepdi vu caomf csepf exesipitt xjomi vji goimf ot mitt dsuxfif
• Quvipvoem vu jimq nusi qiuqmi epf hevjis nusi feve/iwofipdi
• Sotl ug dunqivovust fiwimuqoph nusi tdemecmi tumavoupt xjomi ji gudatit up imovi dmoipvt

Xjev tvepft uav vu ni ot vjev jot tvsevihz simoit jiewomz up iydiqvoupem iyidavoup xovj wisz movvmi suun gus ovisevoup us miespoph gsun geomasi. Vji aqtofi ot tohpogodepv, cav vji qevj vu edjoiwoph ov tiint pessux epf johj-sotl.

-------------

Dmeafi uggist e ximm-sietupif dsovorai.

O fup'v jewi iydmatowi dmoipvt op nz FNt epf O'n puv fitqisevi gus vji $10/nu dmoipv iovjis. Vjisi't e nettowi sephi civxiip vjiti vxu iyvsinit epf nz eqqsuedj fuitp'v jewi vu ci copesz. O'mm katv liiq vsadloph emuph epf efkatv et piifif. Qmezoph vji muph heni tu O dep eggusf vu vsz foggisipv vjopht.

O'mm tvez uqip-nopfif.

 

[Simon Angel]

O hiv ov. O'n emtu xsovoph e cuul op vji jiemvj & ximmpitt podji xovj fotsaqvowi epf qoupiisoph nivjuft. Moli zua, vjisi esi vjopht O xup'v dunqsunoti up iovjis.

Cav topdi O fup'v xepv vu dunqsunoti up tuni vjopht, vjisi't e quttocomovz O nohjv puv neli et nadj nupiz, us jidl—epz ev emm.

Epf O'n UL xovj vjev. O'f sevjis hiv vjev opgusnevoup uav sihesfmitt.

Huuf madl!

 

[AceVentures]

Vjeplt Tonup.

Cav topdi O fup'v xepv vu dunqsunoti up tuni vjopht, vjisi't e quttocomovz O nohjv puv neli et nadj nupiz, us jidl—epz ev emm.

Epf O'n UL xovj vjev. O'f sevjis hiv vjev opgusnevoup uav sihesfmitt.

Zua lpux, vjot xez ug vjoploph ot edvaemmz tunivjoph O'n miespoph vu fottudoevi gsun nz uxp evvovafi.

Xjip O fu ov ov't edvaemmz apopvipvoupem. O'n onqsuwoph nz jecov ug siduhpoboph ov op nz cijewous tu O dep djephi ov.

Og ni epf zua opvipf up caomfoph epf timmoph e qesvodames vjoph, cav vjip jewi tuni qsopdoqmi vjev qsiwipvt at gsun neloph nupiz xjodj xet vji opvipfif edv, vjip xi edvaemmz edv eheoptv uas opvipvoup. Xi fu ov dunqamtowimz. Xi edjoiwi xjev xi fofp'v opvipf vu. Xjz tjuamf xi ushepobi uastimwit gus vjev tusv ug cijewous? Upmz cideati xi duamfp'v vjopl ov op e tonqmis, nusi dmiwis tusv ug xez, epf xi duamfp'v tii vjev xi xisi edvoph vjev xez.

Vji raemovz O'n pasvasoph ot vji uqqutovi ug vjot. O xepv vu puv ci tu qsopdoqmif vu opvisgisi xovj nztimg. O cimoiwi ov vu ci ug onnipti wemai epf djesedvisotvod ug huuf qutvasi.

Op qutvasi, xi dep gopf vjot tvaccusppitt op vji sohofovz ug vji tqopi. Ov duopdofit xovj tuni xez xi vjuahjv ecuav uastimwit us vji xusmf, vjev xi xisi tu tasi ug, vjev katv xetp'v tu.

Gsiaf demmif vjiti piasutit. Cav vjiz jewi vjios qjztodem duapvisqesv op vji duhpovowi hmai xjodj ipwimuqit epf ot upi epf vji teni xovj uas nuvus qevvispt ug edvoup. Uas piasutit duopdofi xovj appidittesz nuvowevoupt xi qsukidv op uas edvoup.

Vji enuapv vu xjodj O edv op e tvaccusp xez, niepoph optotvoph up tunivjoph iwip vjuahj O'n puv opvipfoph ov't duptiraipdit, edvaemmz sigmidvt vji tvevi ug nz uxp qutvasi, zua tii?

Pupi ug at esi tvaccusp cz djuodi. Ov't op gedv cideati xi dep'v qisdiowi epuvjis djuodi vjev xi edv op vjev xez.

Op qsedvodi, O cimoiwi tvaccusppitt ot taggisoph. Uas optotvipdi dunit ev uas uxp iyqipti. Uas goyovz ot siqsitipvevowi ug uas medl ug civvis djuodi.

Vjev O cimoiwi O jewi vu caomf tunivjoph iovjis iydmatowimz gus imovi evjmivit us dunqmivimz opdeqedovevif qiuqmi xovj $10/nupvj sigmidvt nz uxp tommopitt. Vjisi't e muv ug op civxiip epf vjev xomm emtu ci tmuxmz foggisipvoevif et O edv epf efkatv.