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January 7 - January 9, 2019
I had to push through challenged me to the core, but in that moment I stopped seeing myself as the victim of bad circumstance, and saw my life as the ultimate training ground instead. My disadvantages had been callousing my mind all along and had prepared me for that moment in that pool with Psycho Pete.
Life experience, especially negative experiences, help callous the
mind.
If you choose to see yourself as a victim of circumstance into adulthood, that callous will become resentment that protects you from the unfamiliar. It will make you too cautious and untrusting, and possibly too angry at the world. It will ma...
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The reason it’s
important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind. It’s the same reason why you have to do your best work when you are the least motivated.
Anyone who is of sound mind and body can sit
down and think of twenty things in their life that could have gone differently. Where maybe they didn’t get a fair shake and where they took the path of least resistance. If you’re one of the few who acknowledge that, want to callous those wounds, and strengthen your character, its up to you to go back through your past and make peace with yourself by facing those incidents and all of your negative influences, and accepting them as weak spots in your own
character. Only when you identify and accept your weaknesses will you finally stop running from your past. Then those incidents can be used more efficiently ...
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matter. It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day, but if you do, you’ll find that at the other end of that suffering is a whole other life just waiting for you.
without a small spark first. We all need small sparks, small
accomplishments in our lives to fuel the big ones.
We need to spark a bunch of small fires to become the motherfucking inferno.
If you want to master the mind and remove your governor, you’ll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up.
Life will always be the most grueling endurance sport, and when you train hard, get uncomfortable, and callous your mind, you will become a more versatile
competitor, trained to find a way forward no matter what.
I created a new dialogue and told myself to finish the race strong and worry about amputated toes at the hospital after I was crowned champion.
most of us are programmed to seek comfort as a way to numb
it all out and cushion the blows. We carve out safe spaces. We consume media that confirms our beliefs, we take up hobbies aligned with our talents, we try to spend as little time as possible doing the tasks we fucking loathe, and that makes us soft. We live a life defined by the limits we imagine and desire for ourselves because it’s comfortable as hell in that box. Not just for us, but for our closest family and friends.
not the external voice that will break you down. It’s what you tell yourself that matters.
