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We are training for this. It's good that you train, it's good that you lift heavy stuff, it's good that you run, it's good that you expose yourself to cold and heat. There are health benefits to all of this, and it's good to go after them. There are mental benefits too, which is why the stoics were so active, boxing and wrestling and running.
We treat the body rigorously, Seneca said, so that it is not disobedient to the mind. But ultimately, the reason to challenge yourself is for the challenging situations of life. You take care of your body, Socrates said, so it can be of service to your country or to a stranger. You train yourself to deal with stress and fatigue and discomfort because life is full of stress and discomfort.
It demands endurance and tolerance. We're not spending time in the gym so that we can look like a Greek statue. We're spending time in the gym so we can be like the Greeks, party and resilient, capable and strong and confident. As we said recently, this philosophy, this training is about preparing you for historical moments like the one we're in right now.
It's for the moments when you want to quit. It's for the moments when you have to pitch in, when you have to do something hard, when you have to endure the unexpected. When we develop the discipline to prepare our minds and bodies for hardship, we have the discipline to see hard times through to the end. As I said in discipline is destiny by being a little hard on ourselves.
It makes it harder for others to be hard on us. It makes it harder for moments like these to be so hard to get through. EpicTita said that we want to work and prepare so that with life inevitably tests us, we can say to ourselves earnestly and accurately, this is what I train for. And this is why I do the daily stoic New Year New Year Challenge.
We're kicking one off on January 1st as we do each and every year. It's a training ground for the year ahead. I want to spend the first 21 days of the year toughening myself up, getting myself out of my comfort zone, getting ready for what lies ahead. It's 21 daily challenges built around the best and most timeless wisdom in stoic philosophy.
The idea is they'll help you increase your capacity and your confidence for the year ahead. It's 21 reps of being uncomfortable. 21 reps of doing what you maybe don't feel like doing 21 reps at dealing with challenges. Life's going to test us in 2026.
That is a given, right? We're going to need you in 2026. That is also a given. We want you to be able to say that you're prepared, that this is what you train for, that you can handle this, right?
And I would love to have you join us in the daily stoic New Year New Year Challenge at the time of right now, dailystoke.com slash challenge. And remember, if you joined daily stoic life, you get this challenge and all our challenges refer you can click that on the landing page there to dailystoke.com slash challenge. And I will see you on January 1st.