If you are a wolf then you have to train with other wolves or you will never reach your potential. If you train with dogs then it's like someone really smart going to community college, they aren't going to be challenged enough. Hell, I went to community college, it was easy, and now that I've gone to a University I'm sure community would be even easier, and if I went to an even harder college I'm sure University would seem easy. Do you get my point? It all goes back to something I've been thinking a lot about lately and that is standards. Standards are what separate the levels of success individuals achieve. I remember coach John Drewes of the Red Wing Weightlifting Club, he would say a lifter hadn't "arrived" in the 69 weight class until they total 200, that was a standard. That's kind of like saying you aren't really a weightlifter in the 69's until you total 200, it's a very powerful thing to say. I remember PRing and John saying sure but you took those steps forward to save it. I'd be lifting in front of him and he'd say things like, this weight is light, this weight is nothing, this weight is a stepping stone. He would put you up on a pedestal as if he didn't see who you were currently, he saw your potential, he didn't see what you were he saw what you oughta be. You have to have contempt for the weights, you have to have contempt for other lifters, but you also have to have contempt for your current level of strength.
