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How do I become mentally strong?

12.06.2025 06:10

How do I become mentally strong?

strength.

toughness is to wake up earlier.

Do 11 pullups instead of 10.

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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.

3. Turn Off the AC

Why do people love to live alone in a house?

strength?

5. Give Up a Vice

Try it… You’ll see.

I’m a man. Why do I always fantasize about men’s cock? I don’t want a relationship with the man, I just want to suck his cock.

Sitting down for 5–30 minutes and doing NOTHING is way harder than it sounds.

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.

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.

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But rather, turn off Netflix 15 minutes before you normally do, go to bed earlier, and then wake up earlier.

One rep, one set, and one step at a time.

It’s 7 days of almost no sleep, constant physical exercise, and psychological warfare.

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Within a few months, you’ll be astounded by your levels of mental

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

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.

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Cold showers are bar none one of the FASTEST ways to build mental

Don’t give up quality sleep to do this.

Start now, start small, and work your way up.

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Have a short event where you complete a certain set of mentally challenging activities every day.

So how do you cultivate mental

Seriously.

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It’s simply learning to be comfortable doing things you don’t want to do.

4. Meditate

Challenge yourself and you’ll be amazed by the results.

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Put up with a cold winter afternoon with no heat.

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.

Do just ONE more rep when you don’t think you can.

How often do prisoners try to escape from jail/prison, and how many of them succeed?

Here are a few ideas to get you started .

Our lives are way too easy.

I’m just better at handling the suck.

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Another great way to boost your mental

toughness.

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.

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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.

The majority of recruits quit. Those who don’t leave the evolution knowing that they can do ANYTHING they set their minds to.

7. Go Through Hell Week

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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.

Sit in the car on a hot day without cranking up the AC.

One of the HARDEST thing you can do to build your mental

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And you’ll be amazed by the hidden strength your body has.

toughness, then add some temptation and make it harder to say “No”.

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?)

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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.

Start this off by doing it for one day.

If you want to get mentally tougher, start by meditating for only 3 minutes a day.

But anytime you’re doing an exercise where you can safely push yourself, go for just ONE more rep than you’re comfortable doing.

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.

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.

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

When we get hot, we touch a button and voila! The room cools down to a chilly 68 degrees.

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).

strength isn’t rocket science.

Mental

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.

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I’d challenge you to stretch your mental

as a Navy SEAL.

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.

Do 21 pushups instead of 20.

6. Wake Up Earlier (Without Sleeping Less)

toughness by turning the AC off.

Then slowly work your way up until you can easily go 30–60 days without giving into the temptation.

The same way you get physically stronger…

And it’s exactly how it sounds.

It just won’t happen. You have to work up to it and slowly build your mental

toughness is to meditate.

Start out small with only 10–30 seconds after your normal shower.

In the Navy SEAL training program, there’s an event known as hell week.

1. Cold Showers

It’s funny to me how often people ignore this principle in their lives.

It’s funny…

Start small in 10–15 minute increments and eventually, you’ll be waking up at 4:30 a.m. like a Navy SEAL.

2. One More Rep

Anytime you’re training in the gym, challenge yourself, once per workout, to do just “One more rep”.

Start with only 12–24 hours.

Plain and simple.