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Men claim to be logical thinkers. And I say, you're not a logical thinker. You are crippled by fear and you're disguising it as analytical.
That's not logical thinking. That's not being analytical. That's ping-ponging between fear and doubt.
All of that crap that's being shoved into the basement is not yours. It was taught to you, it was modeled to you, things happened to you.
The time to be David Goggins is when you're running and you need to get to the finish line. But you don't need to be David Goggins all the time. Sometimes you have to be Seneca the philosopher. Sometimes you have to be the scientist. Sometimes you have to be the poet.
There is a fear of returning to the self because in some ways it feels like the answer is too easy. It must be hard. I must summit the mountain.
People would rather choose familiar pain than step into that unknown.