Overthinking Creates Unnecessary Suffering

Growth doesn’t come from ease. It comes from choosing the hard road on purpose. Most people wait for life to test them—Goggins tested himself daily. That’s what made him mentally unbreakable.

When you volunteer for suffering, you stop fearing it. You become the kind of person who d...

When we struggle with something that most people don’t seem to struggle with, we start to think there's something wrong with us. And we tend to live in ways that avoid making our struggles obvious: we avoid the situations in which we feel like we don’t fit and that prevents us from ever learning ...

Since most of our motivating tensions come from our difficulties, we create struggles to feel the motivation.

To escape this trap, we need to shift our philosophy of life away from fixing our problems and onto goals that you know won't explicitly improve your life. These include s...