10 Ways Mentally Strong People Build Powerful Mindsets
Life will always give you a hard time.
Your family and friends will die. You will lose jobs, friends, and money. You will struggle with internal conflicts like finding meaning, and feeling insecure, and helpless.
If you’re not mentally strong, life will eat you up like fucking cereal for breakfast. And it won’t even spit you out. It’s going to grind you up into little pieces completely, digest you with acid, and shit you out.
Building mental strength helps you prevent that.
Step 1: Accept what you can’t change
No matter how successful you are — in any definition of the term — you’re human. And as a member of the human race, you will experience hardships, unexpected events, and tragic loss. It’s unavoidable and unchangeable.
The sooner you accept these facts, the better off you will be. Stay positive, but never expect that things will always be positive.
Step 2: Change the things you can
You have direct influence over everything else in your life. If you believe things simply “happen to you” and that “everybody is out to get you”, that’s a recipe for an absolutely miserable life.
You can’t change other people. You can only change yourself.
By “change yourself” I mean change your mindset. Change the way you approach life and the situations you encounter.
• You can’t choose whether somebody yells at you… but you can choose whether to yell back and argue or remain calm and focused.
• You can’t choose whether bad things happen to you… but you can choose whether to let them break you or whether you will see them as a life lessons that help you grow.
You always have a choice. Even if you don’t do anything, you are making a choice.
How to Start Building Your Mind of Steel
From now on, you are going to live your life based on one simple philosophy: “No matter what life throws at me, I will never break down. No matter what happens, I will remain strong.” Or, as the famous stoic Marcus Aurelius wrote: “Anything you throw at it its fuel for the fire to grow further”.
Mind of Steel is a different way of looking at the world. It’s a mindset focused on taking what life throws at you and turning it into an advantage.
• Everyone experiences hardships. Not everybody is prepared.
• Aim to achieve the best. Prepare for the worst.
• Your emotions often change. Learn to make rational decisions.
Mental strength is going to be your new superpower. Mind of Steel teaches you how to develop it.
1. Firstly, you need to open your mind to new ideas and be willing to change. It sounds simple, but it is the hardest step for most people because it requires you to accept that a lot of your core beliefs, values, and ideas are wrong. You need to realize this and be willing to make drastic changes.
2. Once you have opened your mind to embracing new ideas, you need to identify which traits you want to change about yourself. What makes them bad? How do they affect your life? What habits are they tied to? People oftentimes force
Life will always give you a hard time.
Your family and friends will die. You will lose jobs, friends, and money. You will struggle with internal conflicts like finding meaning, and feeling insecure, and helpless.
If you’re not mentally strong, life will eat you up like fucking cereal for breakfast. And it won’t even spit you out. It’s going to grind you up into little pieces completely, digest you with acid, and shit you out.
Building mental strength helps you prevent that.
Step 1: Accept what you can’t change
No matter how successful you are — in any definition of the term — you’re human. And as a member of the human race, you will experience hardships, unexpected events, and tragic loss. It’s unavoidable and unchangeable.
The sooner you accept these facts, the better off you will be. Stay positive, but never expect that things will always be positive.
Step 2: Change the things you can
You have direct influence over everything else in your life. If you believe things simply “happen to you” and that “everybody is out to get you”, that’s a recipe for an absolutely miserable life.
You can’t change other people. You can only change yourself.
By “change yourself” I mean change your mindset. Change the way you approach life and the situations you encounter.
• You can’t choose whether somebody yells at you… but you can choose whether to yell back and argue or remain calm and focused.
• You can’t choose whether bad things happen to you… but you can choose whether to let them break you or whether you will see them as a life lessons that help you grow.
You always have a choice. Even if you don’t do anything, you are making a choice.
How to Start Building Your Mind of Steel
From now on, you are going to live your life based on one simple philosophy: “No matter what life throws at me, I will never break down. No matter what happens, I will remain strong.” Or, as the famous stoic Marcus Aurelius wrote: “Anything you throw at it its fuel for the fire to grow further”.
Mind of Steel is a different way of looking at the world. It’s a mindset focused on taking what life throws at you and turning it into an advantage.
• Everyone experiences hardships. Not everybody is prepared.
• Aim to achieve the best. Prepare for the worst.
• Your emotions often change. Learn to make rational decisions.
Mental strength is going to be your new superpower. Mind of Steel teaches you how to develop it.
1. Firstly, you need to open your mind to new ideas and be willing to change. It sounds simple, but it is the hardest step for most people because it requires you to accept that a lot of your core beliefs, values, and ideas are wrong. You need to realize this and be willing to make drastic changes.
2. Once you have opened your mind to embracing new ideas, you need to identify which traits you want to change about yourself. What makes them bad? How do they affect your life? What habits are they tied to? People oftentimes force
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