The best always make it to the top, but they have to educate on their way up.
“Staying in your lane is largely good advice.
However, when their are charlatans out there preying on the unknowing it is the purest form of leadership to call the bullsh*t & share truth.
Keeping quiet is effortless.
Silence doesn’t change lives.
Fight the good the fight.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
“Stay in your lane!”
“Do your thing!”
“Focus on you!”
You hear these phrases all the time and I still think they are largely great advice.
There is nothing more that I think you and I should be doing than staying in our lane, doing our thing, and focusing on our own work.
But we live in a different era.
While the advice above shouldn’t be thrown out the window entirely, it does come with a caveat.
In a social media world, we have charlatans everywhere.
Not that charlatans haven’t always existed, but with social media they have a far larger platform to increase their manipulation.
Most people don’t know what they don’t know about what they don’t know.
I’m raising my hand with the short list when it comes to welding, airplane mechanics, and septic system installations, though there are thousands of other things I know nothing about.
If I wasn’t self-aware I could get on youtube or instagram and watch a few videos and have myself convinced that I know enough to weld the front end of a car or install my own septic system.
The trades I mentioned, while highly difficult, requiring real professionals to accomplish objectives properly, have far less “right from wrong to the naked, unknowing eye.” You can look, see, and quickly get an idea if the tradesman who did the work was right or wrong and then get damn near immediate feedback with the “well, does it work?” question.
In a field like S&C/Performance Training, not only are there a lot more out there (from a social media perspective) to digest, the area of “is this actually legit” is far more grey than one can imagine.
And if I’m an unknowing consumer, or, a 14-year-old boy, I’m probably not going to gravitate to what looks boring and fundamental, especially if there is something out there that looks “cooler.”
I’m not going to sit here and bad mouth people. I’m going to stay in my lane there. I’ll never drop to the amateurs level, but what I will do is educate.
I’ll spend every day of my life doing my best to shift the tide. To call the bulls*it. To make a (real) difference, knowing I’m swimming in a smaller pool.
