I'm trying to get harder and tougher mentally and physically every day.

You're either the growth mindset or you're the fixed mindset.

If you're trying to be the best, you need to look at who the best is and see what they do.

Relentless pursuit of progress.

There's a difference between the best and the rest.

Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast.

Champions are built in the morning first.

Where we interview scientists, world champions,

doctors and experts,

in just about every area of health and fitness.

What do you care enough about?

What are you fascinated enough about to go so deep and learn so much that you'll know more about it than anyone else?

And now here's your host, Michael Kasyu, and today I want to talk to you about the power of writing about your past.

My first exposure to this was probably in Alcoholics Anonymous when I was about 15 years old. The fourth step of AA is a moral

inventory and has you do a good bit of writing about past experiences. But the

first time I took it really seriously was when I

went to rehab when I was 17. I got out to the desert. I was in a wilderness therapy

program in the desert in Utah. And one of the first exercises that they had us do

was to write our life's story.

And I created, I think about a 29 page document something like that in my journal and it was an incredibly powerful experience and since then I've written about my past in detail in several different

programs with one of my mentors Philip McKernan I've done Jordan Peterson's

past authoring program and each time and growth and development. It's made such a huge contribution in my level of self-awareness.

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