… technology company, describes marathon training as “getting comfortable with being uncomfortable.” He says training for marathons has helped him stay steady through the ups and downs of managing a startup: “Pushing through some of the hardest training that I’ve done has carried over to working through challenges in the rest of my life.”
…tient’s] life,” he says. “That which happens in therapy tends to repeat itself outside of therapy.” In the same way, purposefully pushing your body to the point of discomfort is the implementation of a simple but powerful idea: Life is hard, and you’ll be better off if you practice doing hard things. Research on physical activity and the brain bears this out in a few different ways. Investigators a…
Woo agrees that fasting is morale-boosting. The longest fast he ever did was for seven days. “It gives you confidence to be able to do something that seems impossible,” he says. “That’s a psychological side effect of being able to control your animal instincts and channel them in a productive way.”