Dhru Purohit

Yes.

One more quote from this section of the book that I want to share here, which made me think about something.

Awareness is your first rep in mental discernment, the entry point for mental mastery, where the strength begins.

What I thought about inside of that is that what I love is I love catching myself complaining, even if it's not externally, it's a little inner monologue.

So just like you gave the example of how friction, practicing friction can be something that can support us in our life.

Like,

order to Starbucks, or do I even go to Starbucks to begin with?

But you have to flip a coin because then it becomes easy.

Right, flip a coin, right?

So, hey, do I have coffee this morning at Starbucks, right, or do I not, right?

Do I have green tea at home?

So you're flipping a coin, and it's deciding that, and you get used to

the fact that there'll be a little bit of friction that's there, and you kind of enjoy it a little bit.

You secretly sort of crave it.

When you start doing these things in your life.

In that similar way, catching yourself in small ways complaining about stuff, catching yourself in small ways

undermining yourself or not thinking that you're strong.

And when I was younger and I was in college, I used to even write some of those thoughts down, just like on a little piece of paper that I would keep with me.

And I just crumpled up and I say, hey, this is just a thought.

I'm letting it go right now, right?