When to Skip the Cold Shower
The Pros and Cons of Voluntary Discomfort in Stoicism
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7 min readSep 13, 2019
Do I really need to take a cold shower? A lot of lifehacker types and gurus advise making yourself regularly uncomfortable. For example, here’s Tim Ferriss:
I expose myself to a lot of duress and pain in say, the form of ice baths and cold exposure simply to develop my tolerance for the then…