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I'm not Jason but I'll jump in here. I differ a little from Jason with answers/philosophy on this, but we match up pretty closely overall & I've written & spoken tons on cold showers:

1) Over time, you'll find it takes less will power to do it & you'll recognize it gets easy. In other words, you get stronger and you'll find yourself spending less time worrying about whether or not you can do something & more time just doing it. Over time, you'll find yourself taking the same attitude towards other difficult or uncomfortable things in life[1].

2) This sounds like something different than cold showers, but I'll take a crack at it. When you start CST - and do it for a few days - you start to realize that it's not really as bad as you thought it would be after all[2] and every single reason why people don't take cold showers comes down to one of two different "reasons." [3]

3) I've actually had some of my best idea time while taking a cold shower. You can either choose to freak out or become really zen & when you do it's crazy the ideas you can come up with.

4) There's always the health benefits (I don't get into this a ton, but it helps with quite a few things physically from circulation to healthy hair[5].

[1] http://impossiblehq.com/cold-shower-therapy-guide

[2] http://impossiblehq.com/cold-showers-india

[3] http://impossiblehq.com/cold-showers-excuses

[4] http://impossiblehq.com/cold-shower-health-benefits

Sorry for all links - thought it was better than leaving a block of text.




No apology needed! Thanks for the links.




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