Mental Toughness: 7 Ways To Build A Stronger Mind

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Just like with any skill or attribute you want to develop, you have to train your mental toughness by pushing it just slightly beyond the limit.

For mental toughness this means training your ability to sustain yourself in and through discomfort.

1. Rejection.

Rejection is something most people are not comfortable with in the slightest and will avoid at all costs.

Learning to be okay with rejection trains your mind in persistence and learning that you are not dependent on the approval of others, which are two things most people wish they had.

To practice this you can do any of the following:

• Ask someone of the opposite gender for their number. Get at least 2 a day. You do not have to keep them, this is just practice and is usually easily doable and with a fair share of rejections.
• Cold-Call people. If you have a product then you can start right now, and if you do not, then get a part-time job selling something to people.
• Ask people for crazy favors or to join you in crazy adventures. One of my favorite things to do was to plan crazy days and then ask all of my friends and even some strangers to join in. Most said no, but the ones that said yes were awesome and we always had a great…