How do I become mentally strong?

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.

6. Wake Up Earlier (Without Sleeping Less)

toughness is to meditate.

Homophobia is clearly a harmful mental sickness. What can LGBT people do to cure it?

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.

strength.

Our lives are way too easy.

Can you turn 150 pages into a 5 minute presentation before a meeting?

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.

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

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

Which country has the best and strictest legal system in the world?

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

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?)

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

I’m a 25 year old teacher teaching at boys school & I have colleagues younger than me. I caught one of my students telling her he wanted her as his teacher instead & it hurt my feelings. They compliment her a lot. It makes me jealous. What do I do?

4. Meditate

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.

It’s funny…

Why are people outraged over Latina actress, Rachel Zegler, being cast to play Snow White in the live action remake of Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

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.

And it’s exactly how it sounds.

Has your wife or girlfriend ever been felt up in public by a stranger?

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

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.

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

What is the dirtiest city in India?

Seriously.

strength isn’t rocket science.

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

Why do men like to suck another man’s dick?

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

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

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

Why have Indian girls almost stopped wearing sarees?

strength?

Do 11 pullups instead of 10.

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

Why do people with trauma easily recognize other people with trauma through eye contact?

toughness.

2. One More Rep

Put up with a cold winter afternoon with no heat.

as a Navy SEAL.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Start with only 12–24 hours.

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.

Before We Begin: The Principle of Progressive Overload

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

1. Cold Showers

7. Go Through Hell Week

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

I’m just better at handling the suck.

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

Do 21 pushups instead of 20.

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

Start this off by doing it for one day.

Another great way to boost your mental

So how do you cultivate mental

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

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

5. Give Up a Vice

Don’t give up quality sleep to do this.

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

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

Plain and simple.

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

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

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

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.

strength over time.

Mental

3. Turn Off the AC

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.

I’d challenge you to stretch 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.

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

The same way you get physically stronger…

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).

toughness by turning the AC off.

Here are a few ideas to get you started .

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

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

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

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

Try it… You’ll see.