Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days ago"You can't out train a bad diet" and "you can't out earn bad spending habits" what are some other true clichés along the same lines as these?message-squaremessage-square84linkfedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up195arrow-down1message-square"You can't out train a bad diet" and "you can't out earn bad spending habits" what are some other true clichés along the same lines as these?Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square84linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareprocrastitron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoThat’s not the same thing, though. You didn’t overpower your own bad technique. You overpowered her good technique, and presumably did so using good technique of your own.
minus-squareNibodhika@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoYou’re correct, I misread as “you can’t overpower technique” to mean good technique triumphs over brute strength. Yeah, her technique was good, I just stood up, she weighs less than half my body weight so no technique needed.
That’s not the same thing, though.
You didn’t overpower your own bad technique.
You overpowered her good technique, and presumably did so using good technique of your own.
You’re correct, I misread as “you can’t overpower technique” to mean good technique triumphs over brute strength. Yeah, her technique was good, I just stood up, she weighs less than half my body weight so no technique needed.