Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex

by Aubrey Marcus

Our entire culture is built on the elimination of the difficult and the pursuit of the comfortable.

The real problem is when the body can’t distinguish between physical threats and psychosocial threats—threats to our job security, or bank account, or social status. These threats often have no concrete conclusion,

we don’t force ourselves to confront acute stress, because chronic stress has eaten away at our willpower,

We have known for millennia that resistance is the shortest path to growth.

hormesis is a biological phenomenon in which low-dose exposure to an environmental agent (called a “hormetic stressor”) produces a beneficial effect, while a higher-dose exposure produces a toxic effect.

you had to practice your resolve for doing the hard things.

practice makes the master.