Monday 12.13.10: Thoughts

Random thoughts accumulated over the years. Various authors, including Mark Twight.

• What we allow ourselves to settle for is largely dependent on our goals and the strength of our character. it is up to the individual to figure out why they are doing something, then to accept responsability for those choices and actions.
• Have the self-dicipline to control what comes out of your mouth, especially if you are ignorannt about the topic being discussed.
• Maybe you need self destruction to lead to self-creation or re-invention?
• As a society and as individuals, we don't test, because we don't want to know... Do not be a pretender or a wanna-be.
• It is easy to pretend to be someone when it is all talk, because realistically there are very few who will ever call bullshit, because everyone pretends and because there are very few willing to try something that they might fail miserably at.
• The goal of physical training is summed up in one phrase: To make onself as indestructable as possible
• Learn to suffer.
• To be transformed by effort, one must dig deep, surpass ones expectations or self-imposed limitations. One must suffer, and risk failure in the process.
• It always hurts when you go as hard as you can.
• When dealing with pain one must:
• Confront it
• Immerse yourself in it
• Become it
• Suffering is the gateway to true knowledge of ones self and is therefore, humility.
• Clarity improves as risk and consequence increase.
• You become what you do.
• Do the workout you deserve.