The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Cold Showers For Optimal Wisdom?
Aired: 2017-07-13
Duration: 04:33


=== Gratitude And Cold Showers (04:15) ===

[00:00:00]  Greetings proud sons of Macedon.
[00:00:04]  First and foremost, if you wonder about a black eye, I procured it during the last MMA training, and it's a sure sign from Miltras that he favors our great endeavor.
[00:00:16]  Now, also, before I begin to elaborate on today's topic, I would just like to say a few words.
[00:00:22]  Because every once in a while I say to myself, okay, cool.
[00:00:26]  Focus on what you are grateful for.
[00:00:28]  Because it's very good for your soul to do so every once in a while.
[00:00:32]  To just say to yourself, what am I grateful for?
[00:00:34]  And I would just like to thank you all.
[00:00:36]  First and foremost, thank you for being subscribed.
[00:00:39]  It means a lot.
[00:00:40]  Also, a huge, massive thank you to all of my Patreons and everyone who supports me.
[00:00:45]  Because it means a lot.
[00:00:47]  You enable me to commence this great endeavor.
[00:00:50]  And without your help, I couldn't have done it.
[00:00:52]  So massive thank you.
[00:00:54]  I have said it before and I'll continue to say it because it means extremely much.
[00:00:59]  And it's also a very sure sign of trust that you trust that you have faith in me.
[00:01:05]  It's fucking awesome.
[00:01:06]  And I just want to say this every once in a while that I am appreciative of all the support I get.
[00:01:12]  And for everyone who spreads the word as it were, and also everyone who is getting fucking juicy after adhering to my teachings.
[00:01:22]  Because your time and effort, that's the ultimate sacrifice you can make to me.
[00:01:26]  That you say to yourself and say to me, like, oh, you know what?
[00:01:30]  I've started praying in the Temple of Iron after taking a glory spill.
[00:01:35]  So yeah, thank you very much to everyone who deserves a thank you, basically.
[00:01:40]  Now, I would just like to answer a commonly asked question, and that is my thoughts on cold showers.
[00:01:46]  Now, I thought to elaborate on this topic and I waited a few months doing so because I obviously wanted to start taking cold showers before I said anything because I always want to first obtain enlightenment before talking about stuff.
[00:02:01]  So anyway, a few months I've taken cold showers.
[00:02:05]  Or to be perfectly technical, it's called Scottish showers.
[00:02:08]  So you begin with lukewarm water basically and then you turn it down to the lowest at the end of your shower.
[00:02:17]  So you spend like a minute or two under the coldest shower.
[00:02:21]  Now you can read up on the health benefits below in an article.
[00:02:26]  So you see there are some good health benefits right there.
[00:02:30]  Now the reason I continued cold showers or Scottish showers is simply because of the sensation I get about 20 minutes afterwards.
[00:02:39]  So if I compare a hot shower 20 minutes afterwards and a cold shower 20 minutes afterwards, I feel much more fresh and alert and energetic, basically after a cold shower.
[00:02:51]  And for me it's an absolute luxury to feel fresh and alert because that means I can be productive and that's obviously what I want to be able to be as much of the time as possible.
[00:03:02]  So that is basically why I continue to do it.
[00:03:05]  I started doing it for two reasons.
[00:03:08]  Just for my own enlightenment and then also to give a solid answer and I obviously need to have tried it before I give a solid answer.
[00:03:15]  So that's why I started it.
[00:03:16]  I continued to do it because of the sensation I get after the shower.
[00:03:22]  Now if you want to try this a mental technique I use is that I basically imagine that I'm a Viking Jarl and one of my men has fallen off board and I have to jump in and save him in the cold North Atlantic.
[00:03:38]  Might sound silly to some people but again just assure you that these sort of mental images and mental techniques are really good.
[00:03:43]  I use it in the gym all the time as well.
[00:03:45]  When it's a heavy set or a heavy session I visualize you know restarting battling gladiator to get a few extra sets.
[00:03:55]  Same thing in martial arts, when my cardio is lacking, I just envisioned the some cool scenes from 300.
[00:04:02]  But that's another topic.
[00:04:03]  I just wanted to let you know that you can use you can envision epic things to motivate yourself through certain endeavors that are a bit perhaps not pleasurable to begin with.

=== Using Epic Visualization (00:16) ===

[00:04:16]  But then you get used to it, so now it's not a big deal to shower cold fucking juicy.
[00:04:27]  And who am I?
[00:04:29]  I'm the glorious Viking of Wisdom.
[00:04:32]  XXO, boom.