Key points

Life, like MMA, strikes with blows you don’t see coming. Stoicism teaches us how to rise with composure.

True strength is restraint. Mastery means choosing justice over cruelty, even in the heat of battle.

Self-control isn’t finite and is trainable through belief, grit, and disciplined repetition.

I remember the first time I sat ringside at a cage fight. The steel door slammed shut, and two fighters stood inches apart, fists twitching, eyes locked. To the untrained eye, it looked like sanctioned chaos—punches flying, bodies colliding, the roar of the crowd drowning out every thought.

But as I watched, I realized what I was seeing wasn’t pure violence. There was discipline. Strategy. Control. Every move calculated, every strike measured. And later that night—when I ended up

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