Mark Bell's Power Project - EP. 547 - Lose But Don't Be a Loser!

Episode Date: July 9, 2021

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Check out the Power Project Deluxe Bundle that has an entire array of lean meats, fatty meats, and the best tasting meats that you're ever going to have. Again, pedamontes.com. Links down in the description below as well as the podcast show notes. I can't stand losing. I can't. I can't. I can't stand losing. Yeah, it sucks. You any good at losing?

That's a bad question to ask.'re good at losing yes you don't want to do it so often so much right um but you know you know one thing that i a saying that i i don't necessarily agree with is um you don't ever lose you You learn. Now, I agree with an aspect of the statement because I believe that you should learn from loss. But if you lose, understand that you just fucking lost. You lost. There's no two ways around it. If you got a silver or bronze medal, you lost.

You didn't get first. Okay. So, like, understand. I think the saying should be if you lose you better learn you know because like you got no choice you have no choice but to learn i think we should switch that up a little bit i wonder also too is there anything wrong with being a sore loser i mean because like you just mentioned uh should i love it wow that was great super cool i got my ass kicked it was awesome i wish yeah there's definitely not you shouldn't do that but you I love it. Wow, that was great. Super cool. I got my ass kicked.

It was awesome. Yeah, it was definitely not. You shouldn't do that, but you also can't. This is going to, I don't think Nsema was born yet. You can't be like Zab Judah getting knocked out and then attacking the ref thinking that it was his fault for calling the fight. Wow. Do you remember that? I remember hearing about it.

Yeah. Dude, so just real quick. He just like knocked like silly, right? He got knocked silly. He tried to get up and he's like twitching in the air. He falls down. Ref calls it and he's like, dude, I'm fine. And he like goes and puts his his fist to his throat.

It was bad. But it's like, bruh, like you totally lost. So I think you can't be that either. I think I think sometimes there't be that either. I think, uh, I think sometimes there's things that we fail at, you know, um, a loss is like, um, you know, you might lose somebody, right? Somebody might die, right? You have a loss that way. Right. And there's things that could be learned in that. And there's things, and there's different ways of looking at that you can have you can gain different perspective on that you can you can um be very sad you can be very emotional about it for

a long time uh or you can say you know what i'm gonna learn from the way that they lived and i'm gonna take this opportunity to um uh to memorialize this person i'm gonna have this person's this person's good attributes, so I'm going to have those things live through me. And I've dealt with a lot of loss in my life, and so that's the way that I've chosen to kind of carry those things on. Rather than sit around and just be sad about it all the time, I choose to just think,

oh, what are some great characteristics that my brother had? What are some good characteristics that my mom had? I'll just honor them by having those things live on for me. And you can learn from any sort of loss or any sort of failure, whether it's your business or your life or anything. So I think that's what people are trying to say when they're saying like, you should try to turn that loss into learning. But at the same time, you're right. You fucking lost. Yeah, absolutely. I's it's also interesting when you look at uh like power lifting especially at the highest levels because some people

you know that your total is not going to meet the the guy that's the the first in the weight class right or the top guy in the weight class right you know that your total is not going to meet his so maybe your goal is to get third or maybe your goal is to get second just because of the nature of the sport um i do find that interesting but let me ask you this what do you think as far as athletically what would be one of your most or one of the athletic losses that you remember the most and what do you think at the time were you able to learn from that immediately like did you take did you take actions to learn from it? Or did it really just affect you and affect your athletic career negatively?

How'd you handle it? You know, there's been many over the years. In terms of athletics, when I played football, we lost a state playoff game. And that was extremely frustrating because before that time, they didn't have a state playoff game. And that was extremely frustrating because before that time, they didn't have any state playoff games,

and our team would do really, really well every year, and we'd always talk trash. We're always like, if we get an opportunity to play any of these other teams, we would kick their asses because we'd hear about who won the state championship even though they didn't have a championship game. It was actually really weird. I don't know why they didn't have it. They just kind of ranked you based off of your,

uh, how you did that season. Anyway, we had an opportunity to play in a playoff game and we lost. And, uh, I was super frustrated by that, but I remember I was like,

you know what? I would like to figure out how to be more in control of like my own opportunities. Like, I don't want to be on like a team necessarily. And I don't want to be like involved in, in some shit where I got to worry about how fast this other guy is, or I got to worry about this guy, whether he paid attention when we went over the game plan, you know, it was really frustrating. So my learn from that loss was I would rather

rely just on myself than to have to rely on a lot of other people. That's, that's a really, that's a really interesting one. I think, uh, it's interesting because like, did you take that transition to be the transition to doing a lifting sport as your primary athletic focus?

That's what I always loved about powerlifting. Yeah. It's like just me versus these weights and no one else is responsible for it. Uh, no one else can really interfere with it. It's, uh, it's my time.

You know, I can put as much time into it as I want. I can gain control of it. No one else can really interfere with it. It's my time. I can put as much time into it as I want. I can gain control of it. However deep I want to go into it, it's my choice. I like that a lot. I think this is one thing that kind of had me... I've been an athlete my whole life, played soccer my whole life. So it was a sport where it's very, you know, when you win, you know,

when you lose, if you score more points than the other team, you win. If you score less points, the other team, you lose. When I got into bodybuilding, it was very interesting because there are some shows that I did that it was

very obvious that I did a show in Canada where I brought the pictures back to like the head of the organization, the whole organization. He's like, I don't know what happened here. Like this. Cause a Canadian ended up the organization the whole organization he's like what happened here like this because a canadian ended up winning that show but he's i don't know what happened here controversy like yeah right so i i did that show and there was like other situations where i was like this this shit's kind of i don't like it i don't like leaving my the my judgment up to a panel of people that can say this person looks better or this

person looks i don't like leaving that out to people right so when i started jujitsu i liked that because it was like you versus this person if you tap you lose and if they if like there's really no leaving anything to the judges it's, are you better or are you worse on the day? But it does happen in jujitsu where people still like kind of pull on each other's gi the whole time. And, and they do one, they do like one sweep or something and they,

they win. Right. But still in that situation, they played the point game. Yeah. They still, yeah. Right.

Right. Like in my last tournament, I got third in my weight class, which is the absolute. And then I also got my third of my weight class and I got third in um my weight class which is the absolute and then i also got but my third in my weight class i got third in the absolute right and in my in my second match in my weight class i lost i actually got tapped it's been a long time since i got tapped in competition but i i saw what i did wrong i sent that video to a few people and like i knew immediately what i did wrong in that so i was like fuck that's stupid

that was a dumb thing for me to do but i analyzed it right um but in the absolutes i had a first match which i won and i second match which i won and then my third match i lost by points but after that tournament my goal in that tournament was not to go and get third in both like for me that was a loss like that is a loss for me um, but I was very happy with where my mind went because immediately after the loss, I didn't necessarily, I didn't feel good. I felt extremely angry, like just, just, I was simmering, but my mind immediately went to, okay, what can I do? So this doesn't happen again, or so I don't lose in this fashion again.

What did I do wrong this doesn't happen again or so I don't lose in this fashion again what did I do wrong in each of these matches like the match that I lost by points we talked about it I actually went to that guy after the match because he was tired I went to him I was like because he's been rolling like 15 years I was like all right dude what do you what and this might not be the thing you want to do and everything because it can seem somewhat shameful but i really wanted to know when you were going against me what do you think i was doing wrong and he told me and you know what when i look back at the match he was right you know he was right but i also managed to find a win within the tournament um my second match in that in in uh in the absolutes what's against the guy named hyren gracie and hyren

gracie is the top purple bell in the world in the world um he also he he he's been rolling for like 15 or 16 years and like yeah by the last name this dude is one of the gracie he's ryan gracie's son who i believe um i don't know ryan is helio's son but he he rolls with roger a lot and he rolls with a lot of the top guys and i managed to tap him so i found a win within that that was like okay i feel good about where i am but i also was able to analyze where my mistakes were yeah it's important to find you find a victory you know kind of within some of these losses and i think the worst thing that you can do is have the loss kind of turn you into a loser or turn you into having this mindset that,

um, it was the judge's fall. It was, you know, like that wasn't the end of your bodybuilding career when you lost in Canada. No, you didn't stop pursuing it. You weren't like,

oh, well this sport is stupid and I worked really hard. Um, but I got screwed over because of politics or whatever you want to say about it. You took your own responsibility. You're like, you know what? Okay, well, that happened. Who knows why it happened?

Maybe it was. Maybe they did want to hand a trophy to somebody else. But also, you know what? I'm just going to work on getting better. Come back even more undeniable next time so it looks egregious. Right. So that way it's not up to the judges. It's not up to anybody else's, uh, interpretation. And for me that I always loved that about power lifting, but when it comes to business, you know,

I've had many different situations that have happened, um, that I can look at. And, and even with lifting, I mean, tearing my pack, I tore my pack three times. That's a loss, right? I mean, that's a, like, I'm trying to lift the weight and I tore my pack. I failed at, at that particular attempt, but it also resulted in me creating the slingshot, which changed my life forever and built a company and did a lot of great things for me. So, you know, these, these losses that we have, I think you can actually interpret them as like fuel because they can really be some really good dose of like medicine for you. Like, oh shit, this is gonna,

okay, I didn't do what I wanted to do. I didn't execute on that the way that I wanted to, but now watch what I can do. Like, I still want to show the world like what I can do. So yeah, I did lose on that. I wasn't able to pull through on that, but now watch what I'm going to do. That's exactly what it is for me. So after eighth grade, I pretty much stopped competing in anything. Um, I loved basketball, but, um, what happened? I didn't have the grades in ninth or something happened with grades. And then I just lost interest because everyone got way bigger, faster, stronger than me. But that's where all of this started. That's where I started losing. So I can go back to being a young teenager and being like, well, fuck, they're all better than me. So i'm not even going to try but that mindset of you know having that

followed me all the way through my 20s into my early 30s until i finally got here and i used all that fuel like mark just said to now be on the other side of things so like i would look at guys less in less better shape than where i am right now and be like oh he's got better genetics um maybe he's taking stuff whatever it might be and just blaming bad genetics uh blaming everyone but myself and really just kind of being a fuck just being a loser for real it's like straight up and down just a straight loser because i believed that and then now being on the other side like i guess the biggest learn i got from being a loser like that was like well shit no like actually you can you know kind of put things together and you can make it out the other side you can use this all as fuel you know whatever

your dad said when you were a kid you can turn that around as fuel you don't have to cower away from it all which is what i believed to be the case for me all the time was like everyone's bigger faster stronger so i'm not even going to try whereas now it's like well okay they might be ahead of you right now but just wait like have patience and work at it and then that's when things can really start to happen get the continued work and you have no like there really is no other choice there are a lot of individuals that are athletes that are listening in right and if you do a sport you you really if you have a loss you have no choice but to number one are you going to figure out a way to improve it does mean that the next time you compete you're going to win but can you can you

do something from that can you take something from that that next time you compete you're gonna win but can you can you do something from that can you take something from that that's going to allow you to excel or are you going to just either quit or just stop because i've seen people that have like they they've done some comp like they did one competition as far as jiu-jitsu or actually two if someone i'm thinking of specifically and then from that point they decided never to compete again it's not that they got injured or anything it's just the competition and losing just hit them so hard that they're like i'm just not going to compete anymore i'm just going to practice it i'm not going to compete anymore and maybe that might be the correct thing but i i feel like if you're in a sport and you have the ability to maybe do some type of comp

like competition i think it's beneficial for everybody. I feel like it's beneficial to put yourself in the ring and challenge yourself and kind of maybe see where you are. I know that not everyone plans on taking it to the next athletic level or anything. But if you do feel like it's something that you like, whether it's powerlifting, whether it's going on stage for bodybuilding or whatever it is, there is, there is something that you learn from going into competition and it's very, very different. It's not the same as just going into the gym and training. It's, it puts a different level of importance behind it for yourself. Well, it's amazing because you think that you're going to win, right? You don't, you don't think that you're going to win right you don't you don't think that

you're going to lose um you you believe in yourself yeah um and this is where i think you got to be careful with like expectations i mean you should be kind of expecting just about anything to happen um you can get your ass kicked on any day uh you can lose on any day against a white bell against anybody i mean just mean, just why not just, why not just be open to the fact that just about anything can happen. And then that way you're prepared for, you know, somebody maybe bringing it in a way that you weren't expecting. You're like, oh shit. Like I didn't know, I didn't know that was going to happen that way. But it's an amazing thing because you believe in yourself. You're like, I'm going to compete

in this sport or I'm going to compete against this team or these other people. And then your belief is shown flat out that your belief was wrong. Shattered. Your belief wasn't correct. And now I think you end up with a situation where you have an opportunity to prove yourself to yourself and you have an awesome opportunity to improve yourself for yourself and not necessarily for anybody else i really admire that when i see it happen in like mma because i'm like how does that happen how do you get your ass kicked by somebody i know sometimes every once in a while somebody sneaks

in a punch or something and somebody gets somebody in compromised position or whatever. But like, sometimes somebody will just get like mopped up. Like they just get just destroyed. They're getting picked up and thrown around and like, you're like, holy shit. And that same guy, whether he wins or loses,

uh, still comes back again to fight the guy again. And you're like, how did he do that after he just got destroyed so bad? Like at that point, I mean, it doesn't really matter a ton on whether the guy is able to win. I'm just sitting there applauding it going like, I don't think I would try that. I don't think I'd be crazy enough because again, it is kind of shattering your belief

system. But I think the key factor is to be composed and to understand what this loss could potentially teach you. It can help you gain access to things you otherwise wouldn't, you wouldn't examine. You wouldn't examine these things. If you did, if you won all the time, you wouldn't really look into anything. You would just be like, oh, everything's fine, man. So it was, it was 2017. Uh,

I, I did IBJJF worlds. I think it was 2017 or 61 or two, but I did white belt worlds. Oh, that was a white belt at the time. And going in, I was thinking that,

okay, as a white belt, I have a pretty good shot at this. I'm pretty okay. I lost my first match and i lost my first match because we were stuck in a standing battle the videos on youtube um and i i left i was mad because i paid money paid for an airbnb to be there for a few days and i only had one match and i was out right and from there because of what happened right there i was like i have to

restructure everything about how i go about this. Big guys usually don't play guard. Let me start playing guard like a little guy. Let me start doing things that big guys don't usually do. And that transformed the whole way that I went about the martial art because I took that and I just made an absolute pivot. I think if there's anything anyone can learn to do, it's really analyze whatever you lost, whether it's something in business whether it's something from a relationship holy crap i learned so much for like after my last relationship i learned so much i don't regret any of it because it has quite literally changed the way i'm going about life these days right and i i don't look back then like i wish this happened which no i learned right so i think just take whatever loss happens,

learn from it and make sure not to, it, you might athletically, you might lose again, but it might not be in the same way. And you might learn something else from that loss. Yeah. I mean,

everything happens for a reason. You hear that a lot. Um, sometimes it's usually, you know, somebody loses somebody and it's like, no, everything happens for a reason,

whatever. Like it's never easy to say that, especially in a competitive usually you know somebody loses somebody and it's like no everything happens for a reason whatever like it's never easy to say that especially in a competitive you know genre it's like like what the fuck like no i worked my ass off and this guy just got lucky clocked me and you know that was it but not exactly absolutely right and then using the relationship um you know uh scenarios so damn true i know for myself personally like what i learned from my divorce oh dude that set me up so much better now oh me you know it's it's uh but it is hard in the moment it is to look at it that way and be like hmm let me see what i could learn in this shitty situation but you actually can and another thing is don't focus on the other like not just relationship

and then like if you if you lost a match or something don't say oh he only won because of this or he only won because of this in a relationship well all this happened because she did this or he did this and whatever analyze yourself and the decisions that you made and what you did. Extreme ownership. Extreme ownership, man. Sometimes shit just doesn't work out. That's true. I mean, sometimes shit literally doesn't work out. You prepare for this wrestling match.

You train and train and train and train. And you go to do a double leg on the guy and your knee blows out. Like sometimes shit just doesn't work out. You meet somebody that you think is going to be that person. That's they're going to be in your life for the next 10 years, 20 years, maybe the rest of your life. Sometimes it just doesn't work out.

Sometimes people, um, at least people literally can like grow apart. You know, people can literally just start having, um, different opinions and different thoughts. I mean, who you are at 20. I mean, this is a whole nother podcast.

Marriage is like just a ridiculous proposal in the first place. Yeah. Wild for people to, you know, for you to think that you're the same when you're in your 20s, that you're going to be the same when you're in your 50s is just kind of silly. Kind of crazy. And I guess it's pretty well. Yeah, it's working out. It's working out it's working out but sometimes it just doesn't work out right but you know i think um some other losses that i've

had you know when it comes to uh business and things like that you know i've had situations happen in business where it seems like we're really really fucked it seems like we're really screwed um it seems like our back is really against the wall but every time it's been a great learning experience every time it's been like okay well it's there has been a couple situations that like they just sucked and that actually is good too like i i've mentioned this many times on the show being being a professional wrestler and being around some of these just really really high level athletes was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I didn't, like, overly think crazy highly of myself or anything.

But, like, when I got around those guys, that really humbled me a lot. Because I was like, man, I thought I was, like, pretty good at some of this. I'm like, I'm not that, you know. Not that I wasn't that good. I was like, I have a lot more work to do and it made me hungrier to pursue it and to do more work. But I wouldn't have became the power lifter that I did. I wouldn't have became the person that I did in fitness if it wasn't for all those things. And those things were things at the time, that's what I really wanted to do. I wanted to be a professional wrestler. And it didn't work out.

I worked at it. I spent a lot of time doing it. But nearly every day was a loss when I was like, I can't talk like that guy. I'm like, I can't figure out how to do shit like that guy. I can't do a promo like him. I can't jump on the top rope the way that guy does. It was just a real kick in the balls because these were like, you know, just alpha males at the absolute highest level.

And these aren't, you know, professional wrestling is interesting because these are guys that are coming in from, you know, Division I football. Some of them are former NFL players. Some of them are former NCAA athletes that wrestled at a high level. I mean, these are like mutants.

These are like real, real freaks. So that was really beneficial for me. Like, hey, you know what, Mark? You're going to have to find your own way, and this isn't the way. I think a big thing there is that when you, especially like when you're starting something new, I think it's one thing, because a lot of people think that they need to be entering something, and they should be good,

or they at least should be at the mid-level or something, right? When I started Jiu-Jitsu, I had all the videos on my YouTube channel where I got my ass beat by my training partners, and when that was happening, it's not like I was like, I have some innate talent for this, or I should be better at this. That being put in your place is part of the process and need to be okay with being put in your place because yeah, that's where you are now. But understand that you can get better.

I think that a lot of people think that they should be good at something already or that they should be talented. And that's the thing that kind of makes them either quit or, and sometimes maybe you realize that that thing isn't for you. That is good to, to, to self-actualize and be like, okay, maybe me being five foot two,

trying to play professional basketball, maybe I should just do this as a hobby. Okay. Maybe. But with a lot of things, you got to give yourself the time and you got to give yourself the patience to learn, to get good, to get to that level. Cause because all those guys a majority of them you know they maybe have been practicing a lot of stuff as far as speaking and all of this and that took them time it'll be the

same for you i uh you know with with this business we had uh an issue where our knee sleeves were ripping and i was like i tested a lot of these knee sleeves. I don't know what happened. But anyway, there was some sort of miscommunication between the actual prototypes that we tested and the actual finished product. And it turned out the actual finished product was not good. And I was kind of,

at first I was like, no, there's no way like, like, you know, we, we check, we check these,

you know? So then I went to check some that were from the batch that people were talking about, and I went to put them on, and sure enough, they ripped. I was like, oh, my God. What are we going to do about this? So there's these situations that happen where you're like, oh, my God, we're totally screwed. But what I learned from that is that contact and communication with the customer is the greatest opportunity to make things better for them and to turn

that angry customer, that customer's pissed. They spent 60 bucks, like they're all hyped up. They thought they were going to like get their squats in. I mean, they're mad because like they're mad when it comes on Wednesday and they were, you know, squatting on Tuesday or whatever. So now they're really pissed that the knee sleeve like ripped. They were like planning their workouts around this. There's a lot of planning that goes on with this,

you know, so they were really, really frustrated and rightfully so. And so when that happened, I just said, okay, well, let's, how do we make it right with each and every customer individually? Let's call these people up, like physically call them up, which a lot of times you just get email, right? Let's go a step above and beyond.

So call them up, find out exactly what they want. What do you want to do? Like some of them weren't like, well, I don't want the same knee sleeves again because I don't want the same thing to happen. And so we just made it right with each person individually. But a lot of those customers, not only did they come back, they came back again and again, and they told their friends and stuff. They would tell them, hey, I bought knee sleeves from these guys.

It was really fucked up, but they made the situation right. you can turn a lot of these losses uh into something more productive just try to do your best to make sure it doesn't turn you into a loser and into having a kind of broken mindset yeah and i think so i i didn't know that story but i mean i was here for the ipf stuff when it was kind of like a i don't remember exactly what happened but like our x sleeves were approved and then they weren't approved or something happened and internally we were like what the heck like we were like oh my god what are we gonna do and mark's like yeah here's what we're gonna do and basically everybody that you know bought the sleeves i forgot what happened basically everyone got the the ipf approved sleeve

after for free they're just like whoa mark are you like they got to keep the sleeves that they already had yeah which were great knee sleeves but they just weren't approved by the ipf we made other knee sleeves and then you know re-sent those out to them too and i'm sure that did the exact same thing everyone's like oh i went from i don't want to say hating but went from like really being upset too like wow they did that holy shit so yeah that talk about an opportunity you know to you know please the customers like wow by unfortunately by upsetting them you know we were able to like really really go above and beyond which was kind of awesome and in terms of you know, um, you're not going to get to the numbers that

you want to get to without having some missteps here and there without missing a weight here and there, uh, without learning, you know, and, and what the most valuable thing that I learned and I carry this with me on into everything is that doing like a full on max out or trying to go a hundred percent, uh, on anything. Um, while it might seem like a great idea at the time, it's usually just not in your best, it's not in your best interest. It really, it really, really isn't. And I know that that is a, a sexy thing to like chase or go after. But you want to just, you know, so what I've learned more than anything over the years is from missing weights,

I've learned that don't even get yourself into a situation where you're going to miss the weight. You want to push hard and you want to work hard and you want to have a good effort and you want the intensity to be good and stuff like that. But you will be stronger for a longer period of time and you'll be way more successful just by brushing up against a failed weight rather than like failing with the weight all the time.

If you fail from it all the time, and it's an interesting thing about lifting, if you fail with the weight all the time, it's very, very difficult to get better or stronger at that particular lift. Shoot. I think we killed it. It's done. It's dead. We killed it. Murdered it.

I think they get it. I think we murked this. It's in the grave. I think Andrew should take us on out of here then. I will. Shout out to everyone on the live chat. Appreciate you guys checking in. Huge shout out and thank you to Piedmontese for sponsoring today's episode.

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