Warrior Mindset
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Latest Episodes
Debrief Episode: Saying No in an Age of Abundance
A debrief style episode where Gene works through a stack of posts and finds one idea running through all of them. In an age where you can say yes to everything, the real discipline is in what you say no to. He gets into focus and quality over c...
The Side Quest Life: Training, Touring, and Never Quitting
Darren Norris is back on the Warrior Mindset Podcast. Since last time, he almost died from an undiagnosed cardiac condition because he tried to push through it. That story sets the tone for an hour-long conversation about what real toughness lo...
The Loneliness Epidemic: Why You Need a Dojo
A guy in Syracuse spent a month walking up to thirty-five strangers at his gym to fight loneliness. His experiment blew up on Hacker News. While reading it I thought about my son, who I sent off to college with a BJJ academy already picked out,...
Your Mind Is Unprotected (And That's Why You Keep Losing Ground)
This is the first deep dive in the Daily Armor series. The Helmet is the most important piece of armor you put on, because your mind controls everything else.Most men wake up and within 90 seconds they've handed their mental state to who...
What Did Miyamoto Musashi Do To Become Undefeatable?
Sixty-one duels. Zero losses. Starting at age thirteen. Miyamoto Musashi is the greatest swordsman who ever lived. But the strategies he used to become undefeatable have almost nothing to do with sword technique.In this episode, Gene bre...