Swimmer body illusion

Who doesn't want a body like a swimmer, But it doesn't take long to realize that they have been trapped in an illusion, because the reality is that a professional swimmer doesn't get a cool body because he has practiced swimming hard, someone becomes a professional swimmer because he already has a good body previously.

The neighbor's grass always looks greener, that's the saying, so don't be surprised if sometimes we envy other people, want to be like other people, but forget to be grateful for what we have.

In the digital era where almost everything is shown and showcased on social media, this condition is getting worse when we are motivated to be someone else, regardless of what we have, hoping for miracles that don't make sense.

So in the end we will only be trapped in an illusion, the illusion of a swimmer's body, a logical fallacy that was first described by Nassim taleb, and told in the book The Art Of Thinking Cleary by Rolf Dobelli.

That a professional swimmer does not get a perfect body because he is diligent in swimming, but on the contrary, precisely because he already has a perfect body that he becomes a professional swimmer, that body helps him become a good swimmer.

Body shape is a selection factor, not the result of the activities carried out, in advertisements and mainstream media that we usually see every day, the same thing happens, a beauty product will display a beautiful and perfect model, but it is not cosmetics that make it beautiful, precisely because she was beautiful from the start, she became a cosmetic model.

With the polish of technology and only showing the good, it will make it more perfect, Harvard and elite schools have a reputation for producing smart and successful graduates, not because of the education system they have, but because only people who are smart and can pay a lot of money can get into it.

Of course hard training, and the education system will improve the quality of life and one's self, but wishing to have a body like a swimmer, even though we don't have the necessary innate factors, that's a different story, because maybe what we are chasing is just something that makes us live in illusion.