Topics/Pillar VI

Strength

Insurance against the future self.

Strength is the least glamorous and most load-bearing investment available. It is not about appearance and it is barely about performance. It is about the fact that muscle mass and force production are among the better predictors of how independent and how alive you are decades from now. These lectures treat it as insurance you buy in advance.

2 lectures on strength

The Body You Think From

The mind is not housed in the body so much as produced by it, which means training the body is not a separate, lesser pursuit from sharpening the mind, but one of the most direct interventions available on mood, resilience, focus, and self-command.

17 min

Why You Should Learn to Fight

Learning a real martial art is less about violence than about composure: it is the only training that teaches you to stay deliberate while your body is genuinely under threat, and the calm that produces cannot be faked.

17 min

In the workshop

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