How do I become mentally strong?
10.06.2025 02:15
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.
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.
Seriously.
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.
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.
So how do you cultivate mental
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.
Before We Begin: The Principle of Progressive Overload
Ultra-thin lenses halve incident wavelength to make infrared light visible - Phys.org
It’s funny to me how often people ignore this principle in their lives.
Do 11 pullups instead of 10.
One rep, one set, and one step at a time.
Alex, C. Viper, Sagat and Ingrid announced for Street Fighter 6 Season 3 - EventHubs
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.
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.
Anytime you’re training in the gym, challenge yourself, once per workout, to do just “One more rep”.
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.
Plain and simple.
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.
Within a few months, you’ll be astounded by your levels of mental
Cold showers are bar none one of the FASTEST ways to build mental
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.
Can you explain the meaning of "mint condition" in relation to antiques or collectibles?
Mental
toughness, then add some temptation and make it harder to say “No”.
But if you’re doing this SOLELY to test your mental
People Can Fly cancels 2 games including Square Enix project - Video Games Chronicle
Another great way to boost your mental
It just won’t happen. You have to work up to it and slowly build your mental
I’m just better at handling the suck.
Who’ll be the odd man out in the Cleveland quarterback battle? - NBC Sports
Challenge yourself and you’ll be amazed by the results.
toughness.
I’d challenge you to stretch your mental
What do people aim for when they meditate, and how do they do it properly?
It’s simply learning to be comfortable doing things you don’t want to do.
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
Our lives are way too easy.
strength over time.
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.
The same way you get physically stronger…
What is the degree of influence of Saudi Wahhabism on the modern Muslim world?
When we get hot, we touch a button and voila! The room cools down to a chilly 68 degrees.
6. Wake Up Earlier (Without Sleeping Less)
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.
Sit in the car on a hot day without cranking up the AC.
Sitting down for 5–30 minutes and doing NOTHING is way harder than it sounds.
toughness is to wake up earlier.
If Jesus was crucified by Governor Pontius Pilate, why does the Quran deny his death?
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?)
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.
1. Cold Showers
Start now, start small, and work your way up.
toughness by turning the AC off.
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.
And it’s exactly how it sounds.
as a Navy SEAL.
Do 21 pushups instead of 20.
5. Give Up a Vice
strength isn’t rocket science.
3. Turn Off the AC
Start with only 12–24 hours.
Then slowly work your way up until you can easily go 30–60 days without giving into the temptation.
strength.
It’s funny…
strength?
Start small in 10–15 minute increments and eventually, you’ll be waking up at 4:30 a.m. like a Navy SEAL.
Start this off by doing it for one day.
Have a short event where you complete a certain set of mentally challenging activities every day.
7. Go Through Hell Week
But rather, turn off Netflix 15 minutes before you normally do, go to bed earlier, and then wake up earlier.
Put up with a cold winter afternoon with no heat.
If you try to do too much too soon, you will burn out and quit EVERY single time.
Don’t give up quality sleep to do this.
Do just ONE more rep when you don’t think you can.
And you’ll be amazed by the hidden strength your body has.
In the Navy SEAL training program, there’s an event known as hell week.
Here are a few ideas to get you started .
If you want to get mentally tougher, start by meditating for only 3 minutes a day.
4. Meditate
One of the HARDEST thing you can do to build your mental
The majority of recruits quit. Those who don’t leave the evolution knowing that they can do ANYTHING they set their minds to.
Try it… You’ll see.
2. One More Rep
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).
But anytime you’re doing an exercise where you can safely push yourself, go for just ONE more rep than you’re comfortable doing.
toughness is to meditate.