How do I become mentally strong?

Then slowly work your way up until you can easily go 30–60 days without giving into the temptation.

It’s simply learning to be comfortable doing things you don’t want to do.

Anytime you’re training in the gym, challenge yourself, once per workout, to do just “One more rep”.

Is anyone else losing complete respect for the US at this point?

Start out small with only 10–30 seconds after your normal shower.

This exercise will teach you to keep going even when things are hard and, if applied regularly, will help you become mentally tougher than any other person you know.

Put up with a cold winter afternoon with no heat.

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Before We Begin: The Principle of Progressive Overload

The majority of recruits quit. Those who don’t leave the evolution knowing that they can do ANYTHING they set their minds to.

as a Navy SEAL.

Have you ever been physically attacked by a demon?

One rep, one set, and one step at a time.

Within a few months, you’ll be astounded by your levels of mental

Seriously.

What are the potential economic consequences of the U.S. following Europe's lead on climate policies, as discussed in the article?

Whether it’s cigarettes, candy, pot, alcohol, or porn, pick a vice that you use everyday, and commit to giving it up for a short period of time.

toughness is to wake up earlier.

Try it… You’ll see.

If gays can get married, why can't I marry my dog or a cheeseburger?

toughness is to meditate.

So apply these strategies slowly. Take small steps and challenge yourself to get 1% tougher every day. After a year has gone by, you’ll be 365% tougher than you were the previous year.

6. Wake Up Earlier (Without Sleeping Less)

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It’s 7 days of almost no sleep, constant physical exercise, and psychological warfare.

Do 11 pullups instead of 10.

3. Turn Off the AC

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It just won’t happen. You have to work up to it and slowly build your mental

Start small in 10–15 minute increments and eventually, you’ll be waking up at 4:30 a.m. like a Navy SEAL.

One of the HARDEST thing you can do to build your mental

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Start now, start small, and work your way up.

While I don’t recommend giving up sleep for a week and doing thousands of pushups (unless you have a thing for broken bones and screwed up joints), I challenge you to create your own Hell Week.

4. Meditate

When a black man and a white woman have a child, does the child become white? If a white man and a black woman have a child, does the child become black?

Sit in the car on a hot day without cranking up the AC.

There’s nothing quite like intentionally subjecting yourself to frigid waters and saying “No” to the wonderful warmth of a hot shower when it’s only one twist of the handle away requires insane amounts of discipline and grit.

DON’T do this on the bench press or squat rack if you don’t have a spotter (there’s nothing mentally tough about breaking your back or killing yourself ok?)

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7. Go Through Hell Week

If you try to do too much too soon, you will burn out and quit EVERY single time.

2. One More Rep

When we get hot, we touch a button and voila! The room cools down to a chilly 68 degrees.

Start this off by doing it for one day.

Challenge yourself and you’ll be amazed by the results.

1. Cold Showers

I’d challenge you to stretch your mental

It’s funny…

strength isn’t rocket science.

Have a short event where you complete a certain set of mentally challenging activities every day.

The same way you get physically stronger…

toughness.

Sitting down for 5–30 minutes and doing NOTHING is way harder than it sounds.

Don’t give up quality sleep to do this.

toughness, then add some temptation and make it harder to say “No”.

Whether it’s total sobriety combined with waking up at 5 a.m., daily exercise, and no television for a week.Or simply one week of giving up your strongest addiction.

5. Give Up a Vice

Increase the amount of time you spend in the cold by only 10–30 seconds a week and, after a few months, you’ll be able to take 10 minute cold showers with ease.

Another great way to boost your mental

Do 21 pushups instead of 20.

Add 1–2 minutes each week and, overtime, not only will you be mentally tougher, but you’ll be more present, less stressed, and more productive in your everyday life.

strength.

Leave a bowl of candy on the table. Leave an open pack of cigarettes in your office. Go to an, *ahem* “gentlemanly” website and leave it open in a minimized browser.

Do just ONE more rep when you don’t think you can.

Start with only 12–24 hours.

Plain and simple.

If you are seriously wanting to give up a vice (like smoking or drinking), you’ll want to throw away anything that reminds you of it.

I’m just better at handling the suck.

If you want to get mentally tougher, start by meditating for only 3 minutes a day.

Cold showers are bar none one of the FASTEST ways to build mental

So how do you cultivate mental

Mental

Cold showers suck. I’ve taken them (almost) everyday for nearly 6 years and they don’t suck any less today than they did when I started.

In the same way that you can’t go to the gym, deadlift 225 lbs. for 5 reps one week and then expect to lift 405 lbs. for 5 reps the next week, you can’t expect to just wake up one day and be as mentally strong

strength over time.

And it’s exactly how it sounds.

But if you’re doing this SOLELY to test your mental

And you’ll be amazed by the hidden strength your body has.

Here are a few ideas to get you started .

Not only will you be saving the environment and helping retrain your body to internally regulate your temperature, but you’ll become stronger by saying “no” to ease, and “yes” to adversity.

Our lives are way too easy.

Try pushing yourself to see how long you can go and, eventually, you’ll wonder why you used climate control in the first place (maybe not… But you’ll still be mentally tougher).

Challenge yourself to do something seemingly impossible for a short amount of time and you will walk away with more mental toughness than you’ve ever had before.

In the Navy SEAL training program, there’s an event known as hell week.

But rather, turn off Netflix 15 minutes before you normally do, go to bed earlier, and then wake up earlier.

But anytime you’re doing an exercise where you can safely push yourself, go for just ONE more rep than you’re comfortable doing.

strength?

toughness by turning the AC off.

It’s funny to me how often people ignore this principle in their lives.