How do I become mentally strong?
13.06.2025 10:17
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.
strength over time.
toughness, then add some temptation and make it harder to say “No”.
Is the Chinese economy currently collapsing? If not, what could potentially cause it to collapse?
Challenge yourself and you’ll be amazed by the results.
as a Navy SEAL.
It just won’t happen. You have to work up to it and slowly build your mental
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It’s funny to me how often people ignore this principle in their lives.
Within a few months, you’ll be astounded by your levels of mental
2. One More Rep
If my lovely sister sleeps with my boyfriend, what should I do about her?
Then slowly work your way up until you can easily go 30–60 days without giving into the temptation.
toughness is to meditate.
Do 21 pushups instead of 20.
Is it wise to SECRETLY expose a narcissist by telling others that he/she is a covert narcissist?
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.
3. Turn Off the AC
And you’ll be amazed by the hidden strength your body has.
How do great movie moments influence how people handle real-life moral dilemmas?
Have a short event where you complete a certain set of mentally challenging activities every day.
It’s 7 days of almost no sleep, constant physical exercise, and psychological warfare.
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
But anytime you’re doing an exercise where you can safely push yourself, go for just ONE more rep than you’re comfortable doing.
Mental
Sit in the car on a hot day without cranking up the AC.
Why do foolish atheists think their strange delusional theories are facts?
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.
Sitting down for 5–30 minutes and doing NOTHING is way harder than it sounds.
I’m just better at handling the suck.
Here are a few ideas to get you started .
Start with only 12–24 hours.
Start small in 10–15 minute increments and eventually, you’ll be waking up at 4:30 a.m. like a Navy SEAL.
Why do you think Democrat favorability ratings are so low?
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.
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?)
If you want to get mentally tougher, start by meditating for only 3 minutes a day.
Would you join a gym or workout at home and why?
strength isn’t rocket science.
If you try to do too much too soon, you will burn out and quit EVERY single time.
But if you’re doing this SOLELY to test your mental
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strength.
Don’t give up quality sleep to do this.
One of the HARDEST thing you can do to build your mental
One rep, one set, and one step at a time.
When we get hot, we touch a button and voila! The room cools down to a chilly 68 degrees.
It’s simply learning to be comfortable doing things you don’t want to do.
Do you consider yourself pretty?
Seriously.
The same way you get physically stronger…
6. Wake Up Earlier (Without Sleeping Less)
What was your biggest culture shock going to Europe?
And it’s exactly how it sounds.
Do 11 pullups instead of 10.
Try it… You’ll see.
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.
Before We Begin: The Principle of Progressive Overload
Put up with a cold winter afternoon with no heat.
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.
Cold showers are bar none one of the FASTEST ways to build mental
Start out small with only 10–30 seconds after your normal shower.
Plain and simple.
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.
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).
7. Go Through Hell Week
Start this off by doing it for one day.
toughness is to wake up earlier.
1. Cold Showers
Start now, start small, and work your way up.
So how do you cultivate mental
toughness by turning the AC off.
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.
4. Meditate
I’d challenge you to stretch your mental
Do just ONE more rep when you don’t think you can.
5. Give Up a Vice
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.
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.
It’s funny…
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.
Anytime you’re training in the gym, challenge yourself, once per workout, to do just “One more rep”.
Another great way to boost your mental
strength?
toughness.
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.
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.
But rather, turn off Netflix 15 minutes before you normally do, go to bed earlier, and then wake up earlier.
The majority of recruits quit. Those who don’t leave the evolution knowing that they can do ANYTHING they set their minds to.
In the Navy SEAL training program, there’s an event known as hell week.
Our lives are way too easy.