Your Thursday Three Things for March 13, 2025

Three Ways to Train Your Toughness (Without Being Dumb About It)

Life doesn’t care if you’re ready. Challenges will come, whether you like it or not.

The best way to prepare? Do hard things on purpose. Push your limits now so that when real adversity shows up, you’re already trained for it.

Now, last time, we talked about Tim Kennedy and how toughness isn’t just about suffering but it’s also about knowing when to push and when to recover. This time, we sat down with John Dailey, a Marine sniper and special operations leader, who reinforced that mental toughness isn’t about brute force… it’s about resilience, adaptability, and knowing when to hold the line.

So how do you train real toughness? Here are three ways to build it and three resources to help you do it right.

1️⃣ Seek Discomfort on Purpose

You don’t get stronger by staying comfortable. Toughness comes from choosing challenges before they’re forced on you. Take cold showers. Ruck a few miles instead of a casual walk. Skip the elevator. Park the car further away from the grocery store!

It’s not about suffering… it’s about building the habit of pushing through discomfort.

🔹 Resource: The Big Ass Calendar by Jesse Itzler – This tool forces you to commit to a big challenge every month and one giant “misogi” every year. Growth happens