A business that never audits slowly fills with waste until it can't move. A life that never audits does the same thing.

If you believe you are already perfect, any criticism or failure is a threat to your entire identity and you have to be "careful" to protect your delusion.

Most people have a version of this story. Life gets busy—a deadline, a sick kid, a week that simply gets away from you—and the training falls apart.

The life you inherited got you here. What you choose from here is up to you.

The job won’t be at your bedside when you are old, but your family will.

True strength is not the absence of need. It is the competence to meet your needs without shame.

Many bad decisions start with the thought "What will they think?" or even worse, “Do the like me?”

We have made fitness almost entirely about appearance. The gym, the diet plan, the before-and-after photo—all of it is calibrated toward a single question: how do I look?

The people who get the most from CrossFit, or from any serious training, are the ones who use it as a means rather than an identity.

Grand goals alone are often just sophisticated hallucinations or castles in the sky.

We hope that this article will inspire you to do some reframing in your own lives wherever necessary.

After last week’s exploration of how love wins, we thought it was logical to explore the other end of the spectrum: Does war ever work?

True freedom isn't found in being untouchable. It is found in the competence and the courage to handle the full spectrum of human experience, including the pain of loss.

When you base your worth on status, you are essentially renting your self-esteem. You are a tenant in your own life, and the rent is paid in constant external validation.

We believe that the world doesn’t reward the careful—it rewards the competent.

Michelangelo famously claimed that he didn't "create" his masterpieces. He simply saw the figure trapped inside the block of marble and chipped away everything that wasn’t the statue.

Today we’re going to talk about flexing. Yes — there is actual scientific research showing that just contracting your muscles (i.e., isometric “flexing” or static muscle tension) can lead to increases in muscle size and strength, not just in theory but in controlled studies. 

In engineering, there is a phenomenon known as stress corrosion cracking. It occurs when a metal is subjected to constant tension in a corrosive environment.

Leave your ego behind and slow down

If your "internal pillars" are built on the shifting sands of viral trends, things that make you feel good, and charismatic charlatans, your life becomes unstable, misdirected, and increasingly detached from reality.