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[English]

I'm such an idiot. This is the dumbest thing I've ever done. Alright, okay, here we go.

Alright it's cool, now it's cool everything's fine this is normal

30 days Cold showers, This is it. I hate my life

Cold showers are so hot right now, but it's not a new discovery

Cold therapy has been practiced for thousands of years dating back at least as far as

Ancient Roman times and today science is backing it up

Researchers have found that cold temperatures get the body to burn more fat. It might strengthen your immune system circulation and help reduce inflammation

One of the biggest advocates of cold exposure is the Dutch athlete Wim Hof

Also known as "The Iceman"

Studies have shown that women of breathing meditation and cold exposure have allowed him to suppress the innate immune response

I can talk like a hippie and say hey we got to change the world

Revolution time and oh love and flower power. You need science though. Yes

It's also said to be energizing refreshing and wakes you the fuck up

If even a fraction of what they say about the health benefits of cold showers is true

Then it's something worth considering but I'm not doing it for any of those reasons

I'm taking cold showers for the next 30 days because it's uncomfortable

Because I know that the more you push yourself outside of your comfort zone the more you grow the more you learn and the more

You build up resiliency to those things which make us feel well scared and to be honest

This kind of scares me

That's my nightmare

My face is a little numb. I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but that was good. I liked it

And just so we're clear whenever I'm filming myself in the shower. I will be wearing swim trunks. So I mean, you know

They are cold showers

When I was living at home in my parents basement shortly after graduating college

I read as many

Self-development and entrepreneurial books as I could one that had the biggest impact on me was called the flinch by Julien Smith

It's the first time I ever thought about cold showers and what it represents for those looking to do anything meaningful with their lives

The flinch is about the moments when we shrink up before a big moment before you speak in front of that audience

The difficult conversation with your partner either you push through the flinch. We're used to come to a life of shrinking and defeat

Julien writes want a real visceral example of what the flinch feels like try this

When you're at home and have five minutes go to your bathroom walk up to your shower. Turn on the cold water

You see what's coming, if you do you should tense up immediately. You should feel it in your chest

You might start laughing to release the tension you're predicting a flinch that hasn't happened yet

You're anxious about it about something that hasn't happened and won't kill you anxious about something that barely hurts at all

Okay do it now is the time to step in the shower as the cold water hits you you might shout or squirm

But the discomfort lasts only a second you quickly get used to it you get comfortable with cold

Instead of trying to avoid it a moment before the flinch seems so uncomfortable that you might talk yourself out of this you convince yourself

That it's pointless. I'm such an idiot

This is so this is so stupid, but it isn't it's training

You need to build up a habit of seeing the flinch and going forward not rationalizing your fear and stepping away

Do you think that doing something like cold showers?

Would that help other areas of your life?

Have to reproduce and die is to be able to professionally increase the circle in order to be able to get more

Was it was never about in any single moment?

it's about a habit of doing something that is hard just because the other side is better and because then

So if you want right now you could just pause this video and go take a cold shower, I'll be here when you're done

There are three ways to take a cold shower

One you can start with a hot shower and then ease into a cold shower at the end. This is the coward's way

To you can start by placing your head in the cold water

Working to your face and then eventually the rest of your body

This is also the coward's way 3 you can charge in like a madman heading into battle

I chose option number 3 almost every day though. I will admit there were a handful of days

I downgraded to option 2 there were no hot showers though. I

Had to see how cold this shit really is

I'm not joking. This shit's got to be like 40 degrees. So I mean I got a cooking thermometer right now

I'm gonna do an actual test

Only 61 degrees

That's I think it's broken this there's probably something wrong with this and so day after day. I stepped into the flinch. I

Tracked my progress with a calendar. I taped just outside my shower it acted as a daily reminder

So I wouldn't miss a day on the first day looking at all. The empty days in front of me

It was almost laughable. It was like looking at my debt before I started to pay it off

It seemed impossible to overcome, but you just get moving you take the first step

Knowing that it won't be easy or fun but knowing that it's better than the alternative

Each one varies a little bit. There are some days when I've just not in the mood and I'm like

I'm gonna do this as quick as possible

So I might be out within two to three minutes

But for the most part, it's actually usually longer than five minutes, especially when I'm filming

I've been filming most days and that means that I have to shower

Get all these angles and then I'm wearing a bathing suit for part of it that I'm filming and when I stopped filming

I think the bathing suit off. Sometimes it's like eight minutes ten minutes and the cold showers. I'm filming it, but that's it

It's easy to get comfortable as we move up the ladder and our salaries increase once in a while luxuries become more common

We take for granted having a car that runs every day and having a home in a decent neighborhood

The practice like taking cold showers can build up your resiliency for when things go wrong

Imagine a scenario where your water heater breaks and you've got to take cold showers for a week

When you're forced into it your mind makes it out to be an all-out attack on your well-being

But when you intentionally jump into a cold shower as shocking as it can be to your system

You flip your perspective and you no longer view it as pain

I mean after the initial shock probably like two three minutes in I was actually enjoying it

There was one moment where I turned around water was hitting my back and it felt warm. I don't know

I don't know if I was hallucinating. By depriving ourselves and simple experiments like this

We can feel what it would be like to lose our current comforts

We realize that life wouldn't be so terrible without it

If something happens as we pursue our dream career for instance

Or if we're fired struggling a client's month-to-month and have to move back in with our parents. We know that even in these scenarios

those which we might consider worst case aren't that bad after all a

Day 30, cold showers. This is it

So did the cold showers get any easier

I can honestly say that each and every one of them sucked. But let's look back at the first shower on day one

I couldn't even speak

I accidentally mixed up my shampoo and my body wash

I went to get the shampoo, but it was body wash

So yes, it did get easier, my flinch did subside

This has been the least enjoyable moment of my day.

It was like one less thing to enjoy every day

But I'm proud of myself. I'm proud that I've got through it. To be honest, though

I can't wait for hot showers. I. Can't. Wait

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
idiot /ˈɪdiət/ B1	noun - a foolish or stupid person
dumbest /ˈdʌmɪst/ B1	adjective - stupid or foolish
cold /koʊld/ A1	adjective - of or at a low temperature
shower /ˈʃaʊər/ A2	noun - a device that sprays water verb - to wash in a shower
hate /heɪt/ A2	verb - to dislike intensely
therapy /ˈθerəpi/ B2	noun - treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder
ancient /ˈeɪnʃənt/ B1	adjective - belonging to the very distant past
science /ˈsaɪəns/ B2	noun - the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world
researchers /rɪˈsɜːrtʃərz/ B2	noun - people who conduct research
strengthen /ˈstrɛŋθən/ B1	verb - make or become stronger
reduce /rɪˈduːs/ B1	verb - make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size
advocates /ˈædvəkeɪts/ B2	noun - publicly recommend or support
suppress /səˈprɛs/ B2	verb - forcibly put an end to
change /tʃeɪndʒ/ A2	verb - make or become different
energizing /ˈɛnərˌdʒaɪzɪŋ/ B2	adjective - making one feel full of energy
considering /kənˈsɪdərɪŋ/ B1	verb - think carefully about
uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌmfərtəbl/ B1	adjective - not comfortable
resiliency /rɪˈzɪliənsi/ C1	noun - the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties