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10 Things the Gym Taught Me About Life

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If I fold into the desire to be relieved of momentary discomfort, then folding becomes my point of internal reference. This article was published in July 2016 and has been updated. To endure beyond this discomfort, one must conjure something within—you have to “dig.” Sometimes there is a pause, but always the answer is “yes.”

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If It Doesn’t Suck, It’s Not Worth Doing

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But as Robert Greene explains in his book Mastery , you can learn to love this internal resistance. On day one, SEAL—as he is referred to in the book—asked Itzler how many pull-ups he could do. So, you want to develop what Greene calls a “perverse pleasure” in experiencing internal conflict, and sit with it. Itzler did eight.

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