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Jesse Itzler
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June 9 - June 18, 2017
Most of my successes in life have come from learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Even the way he spit was scary. If he hit you with it, it likely
This is a habit I have. When I see or read about someone interesting, I call them up and basically ask them to be my friend. My wife says it reminds her of middle school when you hand someone a note and ask, “Do you want to be my friend? Check yes or no.” Well, I guess I never outgrew that phase.
“The temperature is what you think it is, bro, not what your computer thinks it is. If you think it’s fourteen degrees, then it’s fourteen degrees. Personally, I’m looking at it like it’s in the mid-fifties.”
Control mind.)
You need to feel the pace.
don’t do shit for applauses. I don’t do shit for fanfare. I do shit for me.
don’t think about yesterday. I think about today and getting better.
doesn’t have to be fun. It has to be effective.
“When you think you’re done, you’re only at forty percent of what your body is capable of doing. That’s just the limit that we put on ourselves.”
He was taught that if you have a job to do, you do it with 120 percent effort. I have been operating under the assumption that if someone that works for me does something 80 percent of the way I would do it, that’s enough. SEAL is teaching me that we can all do so much more.
“Failure is just life’s way of nudging you and letting you know you’re off course.”
If it doesn’t suck, we don’t do it.
This isn’t piss time. It’s run time.
If you want to be pushed to your limits, you have to train to your limits.
This is our push-up routine: Do one push-up then stand up and wait fifteen seconds, then go down and do two push-ups and wait fifteen seconds and so on, until we get up to ten push-ups, and then we start taking thirty-second breaks. For push-ups sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen, SEAL allows us to take forty-five seconds between sets.
“If you want to be pushed to your limits, you have to train to your limits. If you get hurt, you will recover. What the fuck is the problem?”
I’m not into sit-down dinners and fancy shit like that. I’m into fueling up and being on my way. —SEAL
Every day is a challenge, otherwise it’s not a regular day.
“Whatever you got going on, someone else has more pain. You gotta learn how to fight through it. No matter what it is… Think about someone else
and take a suck-shit pill.”
If you can’t do the basics, you can’t do shit.
If you’re gonna do ’em, do ’em right.
SEAL believes push-ups are the single best exercise for strength. He also believes proper form is the key. You get more out of ten push-ups the right way than thirty done improperly.
Proper form: back straight, ass up slightly, neck straight (don’t drop your neck). Go down and break ninety degrees with elbows, and make sure your chest hits the floor. Go all the way up (until arm is fully extended).
You can get through any workout because everything ends.
a motherfucker looks crazy, usually the motherfucker is crazy.
Dumbbell bench press: 15 reps at 35 pounds, 12 reps at 40 pounds, 10 reps at 45 pounds, 8 reps at 50 pounds, and then 6 reps at 55 pounds.
I’m telling you in business… ‘control the situation.’”
You can always keep going.
All you really need to do is get your push-up and sit-up routine consistent, and you can see amazing results.
do ten push-ups followed by as many sit-ups as I can until the second hand on the clock hits 12 again. Then I start the push-ups and sit-ups again. We repeat that for thirty minutes nonstop.
“It’s not what you do, it’s when and how you do it. It’s all about the conditions. Remember that.”
can sit still for hours. Waiting.
Now I finish the first thing on my list with 100 percent focus and then attack the next.
Be ready for anything at any time.
SEAL tells me the plan is to run four miles every four hours for forty-eight hours!
The tougher the conditions, the more I like my odds.
Fear is one of the best motivators. Anger is the other.
A thousand push-ups is something I could never have imagined doing. It just shows that repetition and consistency equal results.
If you don’t challenge yourself, you don’t know yourself.
don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.
If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can’t see yourself doing something, usually you can’t achieve it.
Our minds sometimes tell us little lies about ourselves, and we believe them. We think we can’t do this or that. It’s not true.
The only easy day was yesterday.
The simplicity that SEAL has is one of the most important things in life. He gets to do what he loves every day. He lives stress-free.
SEAL taught me that you only get one shot at life and you should find out what’s in your reserve tank. Coasting
think about what I need to be thinking about.
