Adopting a Warrior Mindset

People are weak

It is easier to criticise someone who’s not, than to become strong yourself

Strength requires discipline and discipline requires brutal honesty

So let’s take a look at this, shall we?

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Many people are honest with themselves

And it harms them

Many are the opposite, they lie to themselves

And it harms them too

How can this be? Doesn’t one of them have to be the right way of thinking?

Not really, no. Both are required in order to thrive

Let’s take exercise as an example

Getting into good shape, becoming harder to kill and more dangerous

A fitting example as we’re discussing ‘warrior mindset’

But please don’t fool yourself

Being able to perform exercise X with Y amount of weight...

Does not necessarily mean you can fight

But let’s get back on track...

Here we have John. John is overweight. He’s never trained a day in his life.

He eats like shit. He looks like shit. He can’t attract a woman.

Now on a subconscious level John knows this, it’s obvious. How could you not?

So John can either choose to be consciously honest with himself

Or he can consciously lie to himself

But deep down he knows the truth.

By saying “I’m a fat piece of shit, I’m useless, I’ll never be in good shape” - he’s being honest

But clearly this type of honesty will not help him

Now if he says “Who cares if I’m not in great shape. I live for today. I’m enjoying myself. I don’t want to look like those gym freaks anyway” - he’s lying to himself

You might be thinking that he’s not, he’s entitled to feel that way and that’s his truth

But do you really think he’s happy? He doesn’t care? He’s enjoying his life?

Maybe to an extent he’s ‘enjoying his life’

Simply because he’s never experienced anything greater - a common mistake

But deep down he’s not.

You know that nagging feeling deep down inside of you?

The one that tells you something’s missing

John has that... and so do most people

So in each example, being honest with himself and lying - it’s unproductive

By being honest, he’s engaging in negative self talk, telling himself what a piece of shit he is

And that he’ll ‘never be in good shape ’

No good. Many people who think they’re depressed just live unhealthy lives and engage in negative self talk, like John

And in lying to himself, all he’s doing is keeping himself trapped

Most people prefer to distract themselves with vices

Rather than face their demons head on

And this is exactly what he’s doing

Watch some Netflix, eat some some sugar, switch to PlayStation, smoke a joint, eat some more sugar...

By constantly overflowing the brain with ‘cheap dopamine’

You stay trapped in a cycle of bullshit

Holding yourself back from reaching your true potential

Telling yourself that you’re ‘having fun’

When all you’re really doing is distracting yourself from your true selfs potential with entertainment and substance abuse (yes sugar counts)

People will even do both of these... in one mood they’ll talk negatively about themselves

Then (when drunk for example) they’ll talk about how they’re living the life

Now how do we take honesty and lies and use them to our advantage?

In a healthy way, to forge the right mindset for the task at hand

Enter BRUTAL HONESTY - I love this term

Now before, we had plain honesty. So bland that it just turned into negative self talk

By being brutally honest, you’re digging deeper

Honest: “I’m a fat piece of shit”

Ok great, now what?

By being brutally honest you’re going to add ACCOUNTABILITY to the mix

You’re also going to start developing POSITIVE self talk

So now it looks more like this:

“Man, I’m really out of shape. I’ve got to do something about this. I’ve got to take accountability. I can do this”.

See the difference?

You’re being honest. You’re acknowledging you’re out of shape.

But you take accountability. Only you can help you.

“I CAN DO THIS” - a TINY piece of positive self talk

But how different is this to “I’ll never be in good shape ”

BOTH ARE TRUE.

Tell yourself you won’t, you won’t.

Tell yourself you can, you’ll start.

Now when I say “lying to yourself”, in a positive sense

I’m referring to POWERFUL, over exaggerated positive self talk

This comes naturally when you start to get results

But you can start the process beforehand too

By telling yourself “I’m a savage, I can achieve anything, I’m bursting with energy” etc

These statements will start to become your reality

Now you’re brutally honest

You’ve taken accountability

Your self talk is positive

You can start

The key to staying consistent with it is to stick with these 3 elements of mindset

By being brutally honest, I mentioned you dig deep

So all of the ‘cheap dopamine’ sources should have been identified too

Are you spending too much time watching TV? Gaming? Eating crap food?

So be accountable. Limit these things.

Drastically.

Replace them with activities that will get you to where you want to be

Instead of continuing down the same
path that led you to an unfulfilled life.

Lying to yourself and pretending to be happy.

This place of self loathing is where the negative comments about others come from

“I don’t want to look like those gym freaks”

Cool - maybe you don’t want to look super ripped

But you don’t want to be fat, unhealthy and miserable either

All you’re doing is taking the most extreme version of something

And using that as a reference point, in order to justify and continue your laziness

There’s a lot in between fat and miserable and a bodybuilder physique

Let’s wrap this up... it’s been a long
one.

If it was a little disjointed, forgive me, we’ll get there

SUMMARY:

Brutal honesty

Be honest with yourself about where you are in life.

Are you happy? Could you do better? Are you lying to yourself?

What habits are holding you back?

Take accountability.

Drastically reduce/cut bad habits

Replace them with positive ones.

Sure, still do some of them sometimes but the focus is on the bigger picture.

If you’re being truly productive and working on things that will bring you towards your goals, trust me, you won’t get bored.

Positive self talk

Engage in this daily, constantly, whenever you can.

Start to tell your brain who the new you is and it will become a reality.

As long as you put in the work too.

Stick to these and your mindset will transform.

I hope you enjoyed this thread

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