Hello and welcome back to Get Fit Guy. I'm Kevin Don, which, believe it or not, is a philosophical puzzle, which I low-key present to everyone every week. No one has yet picked up on this and emailed in, so let me explain. It's called the puzzle of identity, and it's one of the

philosopher Bertrand Russell's problems in his 1905 essay on denoting. In short, if a definite

description means what it denotes, and it denotes some object that could also be denoted by a proper

name, then how can we make any sense

of a claim of identity? Because get-fit guy is Kevin Donn would be equivalent to saying

Kevin Donn is Kevin Donn, since Get-Fit Guy is Kevin Don. So how is this puzzle solved?

Well, if you stay tuned, I will reveal all another time.

I know that everyone will be on absolute tenterhooks

for the theory of definite descriptions.

Now, on to this week's episodes.

So, exercising is important, right? Exercising virtues is even more important.

And as you will all know, if you've listened to this podcast with any degree of regularity,

I don't believe that fitness is how good you look at the beach or how

elite you are at any particular sporting performance. But fitness is something greater,

something more whole. It can't be compartmentalized to one area of your life. And it has to be

something that benefits and permeates into all area of your life. And it has to be something that benefits and permeates

into all facets of your existence. Two decades almost of coaching. And I can tell you that what most

people want isn't limited to big biceps or less cellulite. It's just to be happy. And sure, we might gaslight ourselves into

thinking that looking awesome with the lights on will make us happy, just like purchasing a new

item of clothing, having a haircut, or getting some new jewelry, but it won't. And that's because

true happiness and flourishing as a person, or what Aristotle

calls eudaimonia, comes about by exercising not your body, but your virtues. We can find out

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