Topic: The power of the mind?

[Chris Salvato]

if what you want to do is truly impossible it makes you think about it before you commit to saying it.

It is just a method of psychological conditioning.

[Muse_of_Fire]

Heh. One night after a Madpk jam we all went to this restaurant for dinner after training, and we had been playing Mission:Mango, with 10 pushups as the "punishment" all day. We continued it into the restaurant and before long we had the WHOLE restaurant playing it! It was so awesome. People at adjacent tables would stop and stare as some of us did our pushups, and then we explained the game, and then they all started playing. The whole place was doing pushups the whole time we were there. It was epic levels of awesome.

[Steven Low]

Have there been any people that have been able to stay perfectly healthy even if they ate a ton of crap?

A scenario I've heard from quite a few people is if you eat all this healthy food but you hate it and it makes you feel like crap and your mental crappiness might (?) lead to physical crappiness. On the other hand, if you eat good tasting food (not terribly bad but some candy and stuff), you are generally in a better mood and your body then functions better.

No, eating like crap will cause you to perform like crap. Unless you have amazing genetics.

Fixing your diet and getting away from "excessive" sugar is hard because sugar is addicting. Ask Chris or other people who have for how they felt when they fixed their diet. Generally, there's the approximate 1-3 lag where you feel like crap, your mood is either depressed/angry/etc. and you hate life. Then as your body adapts away from processing crap you suddenly feel and perform a lot better.

[Jackson Miller]

1-3 what lag?  Days?  Weeks?  Months?

[Chris Salvato]

weeks

[Patrick Yang]

Mission:Mango?  I haven't heard that name for it, though it's likely to come from the San Antonio crew.  I coconut think of anyone else crazy enough to come up with something like that.

In Austin, we just call it The Game, and it's a more general form: if you say something self-defeating, unless it's anatomically or physically impossible, you get prizes.  Keeps people from considering things to be mango instead of impossible but still keeping the negativity.