Show Notes
What You Need, And Nothing Else Think about everything you’ve bought in the last two years to fix yourself. The course. The programme with the forty-page workbook. The books you got three chapters into. Now be honest about how many you finished. Most online courses never get completed — the average sits around fifteen percent. And every man who stops walks away believing the same thing about himself: that he doesn’t follow through. He’s wrong. He wasn’t undisciplined. He was overfed. This episode is about dosage — why you were given too much in the first place, who it was really serving, and what to do instead. In this episode: Why coaches stack volume after a man has paid, and how that’s about their insecurity rather than his needs The challenge-skills balance, and the band where men actually perform Why difficulty and volume are not the same thing — and why “going harder” should mean heavier work, not more of it Going through the graveyard of what you never finished, and finding the pattern Cutting to the smallest version of the work that’s still genuinely hard Fewer things. Harder things. Coaching and programmes at: https://lindsaybruce.co/mwp
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From the outside, you're doing well. Job/career, money, family life etc. But somewhere along the way you stopped building the life you were hungry to achieve and started settling for the level you now feel stuck at - and you can't put your finger on when it happened. In this first episode, Lindsay Bruce - former 22 SAS operator and founder of the Modern Warrior Project - breaks down why drift isn't a discipline problem, and why every "fresh start on Monday" keeps collapsing. Then the actions on. Three things you can do this week to get back on track: A ten-minute written debrief - tonight One thirty-day mission that challenges your current stagnation One witness to hold you accountable to it No fluff. Under fourteen minutes. Listen, apply, and crack on. Want to go further? Modern Warrior 2.0 is open now - the launch offer is limited to the first 10 men. Details at lindsaybruce.co/mwp