How To Truly Build Toughness - Greg Everett - #300

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Hello friends, welcome back. My guest today is Greg Everett. He's a weightlifting coach and an author. Right now, it feels like we're in the middle of a toughness revolution. From David Goggins' motivational videos to cold showers, it seems like becoming tough is a skill many people want to develop. But what is toughness, and how do you cultivate it? Today, expect to learn how character, capacity, capability and commitment combine to create a truly tough human. How you can develop your resilience to adversity, why Greg says confidence can be built like any other physical pursuit, how to become more disciplined and much more. It's so good to see a common term that everybody is throwing around in the growth world at the moment, broken down into its component parts. It really helps us to see exactly what we are talking about. Remember the first thing that you used to write in an essay when you were at school or university? You would try and get a definition in there, because without defining our terms, we don't actually know what we're talking about. And today definitely defines toughness in a way that I think is really, really useful. If you enjoy the episode, hit subscribe. It makes me happy. Thank you very much. In other news, this episode of the podcast is brought to you by Athletic Greens. You're not getting enough vegetables in your diet, and you know it, and this is going to help. With so many stresses in life, it's difficult to maintain effective nutritional habits and give our bodies the nutrients it needs to thrive. Busy schedules, poor sleep, exercise, the environment, stress, or simply not eating enough of the right foods can leave us deficient in key nutrients. This is where Athletic Greens can help. It is a life-changing nutritional habit. Their daily all-in-one superfood powder is your nutritional essential. It is by far the easiest and most delicious nutritional habit that you can add to your daily routine today and empower yourself toward better habits. They simplify the logistics of getting optimal nutrition on a daily basis by giving you one thing with all the best things. Athletic Greens is a multivitamin, multi-mineral, pre- and probiotic, digestive enzyme and greens supplement in one scoop. It's of such a high quality that it's NSF certified in the US, which means that Olympians can take this without any fears that they will be contaminated with any banned substances. I've tried a lot of greens drinks over the years and I've wondered why Tim Ferriss was banging on about it. Now it kind of makes sense. After a few months of using it, I am really, really impressed. You can join the Athletic Greens Club today by heading to athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom.
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