One must deliberately subject themselves to difficult experiences to truly understand and master their mental processing capabilities.

“A practitioner is a person like me. I wanted to be an expert on the mind. A mental toughness guy, beyond mental toughness. The only way to do that in my eyes is to put yourself in hell.”

Growth happens outside of one's comfort zone, so one must lean into discomfort rather than avoiding it.

“all of our growth happens outside of our comfort. And that's a really interesting thing where I've realized I'm like, "Okay, I can feel better by avoiding asking for help or I can be better by leaning into this and being okay with that."”