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Yeah, absolutely! The key is to put yourself through something scary every day. Try cold showers, ice baths, or even sign up for a class you haven't done before. When you learn to make this trait habitual so it's first nature, it has you accustomed to growth at a much quicker rate.

Regarding physical events or ultramarathons, it's about building the crescendo. You gotta start small and work your way up or else you'll traumatise yourself.

It comes back to purpose for me, the reason why I do things. Motivation comes and goes and is what's needed to light the fire. But it's discipline you need to keep fanning the flame.

Great question! It's definitely a spiritual odyssey with these events. It's often when I just focus on what's going on around me instead of everything else that seems to pop into my mind. It's as if the mind and body has aligned and working in unison. This can easily go for hours at a time.

The hardest one that comes to mind is a 100km walk carrying 25L of water on my shoulders. I did it during the coldest time of the year and anything that could go wrong did...  blisters, not enough sleep, water apparatus kept breaking, road closure at one point so needed to detour, had to walk along the highway at one point (which would've been f*cking hilarious thinking about it now).

The point of the event was to replicate those in developing countries carrying water from village to village and to raise money for cleaner water solutions. Where that weight is only suspended on the shoulders instead of the hips, it magnified into much more and was one of those events where you're questioning your sanity. 

Depends if it's on road or in the trails. Road takes longer because the bitumen is high-compression and usually the contact on the road is hitting one part of the foot. Sometimes it can take me up to a week to recover from a road ultra.

I just did a 100km ultramarathon in the trails this past weekend and I was recovered within two days. When you're on terrain that activates different muscle groups, it distributes the loading throughout the legs instead of one part like the roads.