The brain learns to associate effort with reward only when you stay present in the effort. Distraction is the thief of the dopamine signal. Stay with the burn.
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Mental Toughness
Mental toughness is not grit. It is not Stoicism. It is not Sisu. It overlaps with all three and is the same as none of them. The modern doctrine — codified by David Goggins, Jocko Willink, Mark Divine, and the SEAL selection programs they came out of — is built on a small set of…
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