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Building mental toughness

"This is hard, this sucks — the gym, this is hard, this sucks — cold plunging, it's hard, it sucks. But I said I was going to do it, and I did it. It teaches you something about yourself."

Tom Bilyeu

Self-defense and learning to grow through failure

"It's one of the main things that I think a lot of people can get out of jiu-jitsu, other than self-defense, is that everybody starts out terrible... If you could force yourself to go through that process, it's one of the very best processes of a failure and..."

Joe Rogan

Building mental toughness and discipline

"I made a promise to myself that I was going to do 30 days of cold showers, and by the end I ended up doing 13 months of cold showers... But I said I was going to do it, and I did it. It teaches you something about yourself. It really does wire your brain in..."

Tom Bilyeu

"I started counting my hours. I basically got to have above a thousand creative hours every 365 day cycle every single day looking back for 50 years without a miss."

Jim Collins

Driving consistent daily action regardless of emotional state

"The daily actions that I take aren't from motivation. They're just from discipline. I'm not going to get up and go through some big debate about, do I really feel like doing this? No, I don't feel like doing it, but it doesn't matter, so I'm just going to g..."

Jocko Willink

Building confidence, humility, mental strength, and understanding of personal vulnerability

"I think we have to encourage more people to exercise and I would say for men you should at least try martial arts. It's so good for your brain. It's so good for your confidence. It's so good for your humility. And you also understand your vulnerability."

Joe Rogan

Locking in on personal growth in his late 20s and early 30s

"I did 5 years of pretty aggressive monk mode. Thousand days sober, 500 days without caffeine... it was me trying to work out who I am, locking in... And the amount of progress that I made there, yeah, I sacrificed a lot of things."

Chris Williamson

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Understanding and articulating personal life philosophy

"Ryan Holiday was definitely the individual that I was like, finally put a word to kind of how I was living my life. When Ryan Holiday started talking about being a stoic and stoicism, I was like, 'Oh, like, you know, like I was like, oh that sounds like tha..."

Gary Vaynerchuk

"I would recommend it to anybody. The other one I was going to say that I would pay to do again for the experience I had"

Michelle Khare

Understanding what matters in life versus the efficiency-and-quantity mindset promoted by AI

"I think Brad's book, The Way of Excellence, gives you a good primer of what matters in life and what is degraded when you instead are just seeking out efficiency and quantity."

Cal Newport

Staying disciplined through dark, difficult periods like winter

"The winter arc, for guys and for girls, can be a really good tool if you have a period that you're facing that you know is going to be dark and difficult. Just deciding, okay, this is going to be tough and I have the choice to either lock in or complain abo..."

Chris Williamson