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- Daily No-Agenda Sitting
Set a timer for 35 to 45 minutes daily, with no phone and no agenda, and simply sit (not necessarily meditate), exploring what is happening in your internal experience. Ian sits on a…
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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.
It's a remembering process. It's not about becoming something that you're not. It's about coming back to who you truly are.
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.