You Need to Be Bad at Something | Humility, Ego & Becoming a Beginner Again

<p><em><strong>Adults get very good at staying inside the rooms where they already know what they’re doing.</strong></em></p><p>But what happens when competence becomes armor?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of the <em>Orthodox Health Podcast</em>, Dr. Mike &amp; John make the case for keeping at least one place in your life where you are still genuinely a student... where somebody else knows more than you, correction is unavoidable, failure is possible, and you occasionally have to say:</p><p>“I don’t know. Show me.”</p><p>Using Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as the obvious laboratory, they unpack why losing can reveal the ego, why competence can become part of our identity, &amp; why becoming highly skilled without becoming unteachable may be the harder discipline.</p><p>They also dig into the Orthodox distinction between humility and humiliation, false humility, confession, fasting, embodied asceticism, St. John Climacus, St. Isaac the Syrian, St. Anthony the Great, Abba Dorotheos, &amp; why modern life can leave us increasingly optimized... but increasingly uncorrectable.</p><p><br></p><p>Because eventually life makes every one of us a beginner again.</p><p>The goal isn’t to stay bad at something.</p><p>The goal is to remain teachable.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Chapters:</strong></p><p>00:00 Coming Up</p><p>00:54 Orthodox Health Intro</p><p>02:23 Why Adults Hate Being Beginners</p><p>11:42 When Competence Becomes Armor</p><p>19:12 BJJ, Losing &amp; the Ego</p><p>29:46 Humility vs. Humiliation</p><p>39:01 What Orthodox Humility Actually Looks Like</p><p>48:08 Modern Life Makes Us Uncorrectable</p><p>53:28 When Life Makes You a Beginner Again</p><p>56:06 Become Competent Without Becoming Unteachable</p><p>1:01:51 Remain a Student</p><p><br></p><p>Work with <a href="" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dr. Mike⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a> ⁠⁠⁠<a href="" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>⁠⁠</p><p>Signed Copies of Orthodoxy &amp; The Medicine of the Future: ⁠<a href="https://www.orthodoxhealth.com/book" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠OrthodoxHealth.com/book⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p>Order Orthodoxy &amp; the Medicine of the Future on <a href="https://www.amzn.to/4adGdrv" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠