How do I become mentally strong?
10.06.2025 12:58
In the Navy SEAL training program, there’s an event known as hell week.
Do 21 pushups instead of 20.
Don’t give up quality sleep to do this.
4. Meditate
Before We Begin: The Principle of Progressive Overload
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.
Why is only the left side of my vagina bleeding, on and off?
Anytime you’re training in the gym, challenge yourself, once per workout, to do just “One more rep”.
Start out small with only 10–30 seconds after your normal shower.
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.
Menopause Drug Reduces Breast Cancer Growth In Clinical Trial - ScienceAlert
3. Turn Off the AC
If you try to do too much too soon, you will burn out and quit EVERY single time.
And it’s exactly how it sounds.
10-year Treasury yield rises ahead of key jobs report - CNBC
It’s funny to me how often people ignore this principle in their lives.
Have a short event where you complete a certain set of mentally challenging activities every day.
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.
Earth's atmosphere hasn't had this much CO2 in millions of years - NBC News
Sitting down for 5–30 minutes and doing NOTHING is way harder than it sounds.
Do just ONE more rep when you don’t think you can.
1. Cold Showers
Aussie firms Soul Patts and Brickworks' $9 billion merger sends their shares rocketing - CNBC
Within a few months, you’ll be astounded by your levels of mental
But rather, turn off Netflix 15 minutes before you normally do, go to bed earlier, and then wake up earlier.
strength over time.
Why does NASA's Perseverance rover keep taking pictures of this maze on Mars? - Space
Start small in 10–15 minute increments and eventually, you’ll be waking up at 4:30 a.m. like a Navy SEAL.
5. Give Up a Vice
Challenge yourself and you’ll be amazed by the results.
Start with only 12–24 hours.
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
strength isn’t rocket science.
What can I do to deal with disrespectful children?
When we get hot, we touch a button and voila! The room cools down to a chilly 68 degrees.
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.
I’d challenge you to stretch your mental
35 Father’s Day Gifts For Anyone Who Still Doesn’t Know What The Heck To Get Their Dad - BuzzFeed
Start this off by doing it for one day.
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.
If you want to get mentally tougher, start by meditating for only 3 minutes a day.
It just won’t happen. You have to work up to it and slowly build your mental
Start now, start small, and work your way up.
And you’ll be amazed by the hidden strength your body has.
Our lives are way too easy.
One of the HARDEST thing you can do to build your mental
toughness, then add some temptation and make it harder to say “No”.
Put up with a cold winter afternoon with no heat.
Mental
toughness.
So how do you cultivate mental
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.
Another great way to boost your mental
It’s 7 days of almost no sleep, constant physical exercise, and psychological warfare.
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.
The same way you get physically stronger…
toughness is to wake up earlier.
Plain and simple.
One rep, one set, and one step at a time.
strength?
toughness by turning the AC off.
Here are a few ideas to get you started .
Then slowly work your way up until you can easily go 30–60 days without giving into the temptation.
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?)
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.
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.
2. One More Rep
strength.
But anytime you’re doing an exercise where you can safely push yourself, go for just ONE more rep than you’re comfortable doing.
It’s simply learning to be comfortable doing things you don’t want to do.
But if you’re doing this SOLELY to test your mental
as a Navy SEAL.
Cold showers are bar none one of the FASTEST ways to build mental
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.
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.
7. Go Through Hell Week
toughness is to meditate.
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.
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.
Do 11 pullups instead of 10.
I’m just better at handling the suck.
Seriously.
Sit in the car on a hot day without cranking up the AC.
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).
6. Wake Up Earlier (Without Sleeping Less)
It’s funny…
The majority of recruits quit. Those who don’t leave the evolution knowing that they can do ANYTHING they set their minds to.