The mindset you need to increase pain tolerance starts by conceding the fact that pain never goes away. Growth causes pain, conditioning causes pain, and pursuing difficult goals causes pain. In addition, trauma causes pain, injury causes pain, and disease causes pain. There is no way to magically just make the pain go away by […]
The saying “get comfortable being uncomfortable” means you must learn how to deal with pain if you want to be successful. However, the truth is this saying is misleading. The reality is that you don’t ever get comfortable with pain. Not even the most successful combat sport athletes are comfortable feeling pain. Let alone everyday […]
Yesterday I made the case for why the ability to overcome boredom is one of the most important mental skills you need to go from good to great. I call this mental skill mastering mental monotony. It takes an extreme amount of repetitive solo practice to become great at anything. Subsequently, if you can’t maintain […]