The biggest cause of suffering isn’t physical. It’s mental. Here are some key stoic practices for quelling the inner pain and making real progress towards self-fulfilment.
There’s a key difference between the overstylised modern minimalism and the traditional one practiced by stoics.
Many view the pursuit of stoicism as the numbing of feeling, the disregard of pleasure, and the death of personality. Here’s why they’re completely wrong.
CICO works in principle, in that when you lose weight, energy must leave the body. But it doesn’t mean that eating less and exercising more will result in weight loss.
Stress is the necessary path to becoming stronger, it can’t be avoided if you have any ambitions. So don’t treat the incoming assault with trepidation, lean into it.
Many of us don’t struggle for ceiling-busting ambition and grandiose plans. It’s the execution that tends to stutter, the transition from ego into reality. In the landscape of self-improvement, the process is king.
The process of self-improvement is mechanical, not emotional. You do your research, draft your plan of attack, then start ticking off boxes. Relentless productivity is the commitment of both workrate and talent to the process.
In the scope of a fitness transformation, dopamine is what makes or break your chances. If you can harness its potential, you never stop moving forward. Pain stops being an obstacle, it becomes an opportunity.
The person you dreamt up in your head, whether that’s with two stone less blubber, an extra stone of pure muscle, isn’t going to feel that great once you finally get there.
