Hey guys, Sco here! I hope you have all had a great week and a good weekend! For me it's been very busy since the RWF ended, a lot of discussion with the Method officers about improvements for the next tier (we are going all-in), fending off poaching attempts from other teams and talking to a lot of the players about things. Outside of that I’ve also been busy on other Method items such as the ongoing investment round that we are doing, we have a handful of great angel investors onboard and are still taking conversations there. This weekend I did manage to go on a great hike into the Cairngorms national park, here in Scotland, I walked over 5 hours and 20km, and didn’t see a single other person on the trail (outside of Adeline and the dog’s of course!), it was definitely great to get out into the nature and made me appreciate the fact that I have so much natural beauty on my doorstep so to speak.
🔥 Fitness
In the WoW Race to World First, it sometimes takes hundreds of pulls to kill a boss. Consistency and dedication is what gets it down.
It’s the same with working out. I’ve shown up to the gym hundreds (or thousands!) of times, and that’s what has driven my progress. Not one “perfect” session, not one big lift, but the relentless habit of showing up.
Success in both raiding and fitness comes down to the same thing: consistency and dedication.
🧠 Mindset / 🎯 Purpose
I’ve been reading the Stormlight Archive books recently by Brandon Sanderson (amazing books - would highly recommend) - I’m currently on book 3 but reading every night! Anyway there is a story in one of these books that I was talking about with Adeline in the car the other day, it is about a runner called Fleet, and in short the story goes like this:
Fleet, the runner, challenged the very storm itself to a race across the land. The storm began, furious and unstoppable, but Fleet did not back down. He ran. Through the winds, through the rains, through the exhaustion that crushed his body, he kept going. Step after step, mile after mile, he refused to quit. Eventually, the storm overtook him. Fleet collapsed, his body broken, but as his spirit rose, it continued running. And in the end, his soul outran the storm.
We were discussing what the moral of the short story was, with the takeaways being;
Victory isn’t always about finishing first, but refusing to quit.
Endurance and courage matter more than the odds.
Your spirit can carry you further than you think, even when your body wants to stop.
For me it was that the true race is not against others, but against giving up.
🤝 Community
Taking a page out of the WoW RWF again, it's a team effort. The bosses only die when every player; tanks, healers, DPS, analysts, etc pull together. Community works the same way, you get further, faster, when you surround yourself with people who share your purpose. I want to take this moment to give a big shoutout to the Method staff team who have all come from the gaming community and shared in the passion and purpose of what we are doing with Method. An even bigger shout out to both Paul (our website manager) and Plebcentral (our creative director) who have been with Method now for ~10 years! We are expanding the team at Method right now, looking for content authors if you want to check it out: https://www.method.gg/careers
💡 Lifehack
If you love icecream and crave a sweet dessert after a meal then I would highly recommend considering getting a Ninja CREAMi, it can be a bit expensive at ~$150-199 but you can make great protein ice cream with it, people have all kinds of recipes but personally I just use a scoop of protein powder and some oat milk and it turns out great and satisfies my craving while helping hit my protein goals.
📜 Quote of the Week
I saw a video recently about Julius Caesar and how he acted when he came across a statue of Alexander the Great:
"At a certain point, when Caesar was in Spain and read in the history of Alexander, he was so moved that he sat a long time lost in thought, and at last burst into tears. His friends were astonished, and asked him what was the matter. ‘Do you not think,’ said he, ‘it is a sad thing that, while Alexander at my age was king of so many nations, I have as yet done nothing remarkable?’" (Plutarch, Life of Caesar, 11.1–2)
Caesar wept because, at 31, he felt behind, overshadowed by Alexander’s legendary conquests. Yet history shows what came next: he rose to power, conquered Gaul, and reshaped Rome forever.
The takeaways?
You’re never too old to achieve.
Dissatisfaction can be fuel.
Comparison cuts both ways, it can rob us of joy, but it can also push us to raise our standards.
It’s always worth noticing these double-edged swords and how they influence your mindset and actions. There are plenty of them out there.
Have a great week everyone! -Sco