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The Fortitude Chronicle: A Weekly Digest of Athletic Determination
This Week's Top Picks on Culture, Mindset, and Leadership
Colin Jonov
June 26, 2025
The Fortitude Chronicle: A Weekly Digest of Athletic Determination
Dear Fortitude family,
Welcome back to my midweek motivation! Each day and week brings its own set of experiences and inspirations, compelling me to share my thoughts with all of you.
I'm excited to share my top picks of the week from social media, and I encourage everyone to send in the posts that inspire you. There's a wealth of amazing content out there that deserves recognition! As our community expands, I'll make sure to highlight the submissions that resonate with all of us. Let's keep sharing and growing together!
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This Week
JJ Redick said, "You have to let go of outcomes."
"It has to be about the enjoyment and embracing the process."
You choose the process over outcomes when you focus on doing the work consistently and living the details.
Outcomes and results follow a disciplined process.
— Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness (@coachajkings)
12:58 AM • Jun 24, 2025
Great leaders think like farmers.
— Reads with Ravi (@readswithravi)
1:50 AM • Jun 25, 2025
“One of the strongest reframes for suffering is that it gives you the opportunity to create evidence of the person you want to be.” — @AlexHormozi
🔗 bit.ly/3SO3GWB
— Chris Williamson (@ChrisWillx)
7:00 PM • Jun 22, 2025
A life lesson I wish I learned earlier: You are in control. Of everything. It's all on you. Nobody is coming to save you. But you are entirely capable of figuring it out. Of squeezing everything you want out of this life. You are at the wheel. Never let go.
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom)
1:18 PM • Jun 22, 2025
Myth: "How you do anything is how you do everything."
Fact: Trying to do everything to the utmost of your potential leads to toxic perfectionism, anxiety, and exhaustion.
I'd rather a transplant surgeon not spend any extra energy worrying about how well he makes his bed.
— Brad Stulberg (@BStulberg)
12:30 PM • Jun 22, 2025
Criticism is sticky. Praise isn't.
Our brains hold on to critiques. What that means: We need to be very deliberate and intentional in how we deliver it.
Four research backed ways to do so better:
— Steve Magness (@stevemagness)
6:37 PM • Jun 22, 2025
Did You Know?
“Those sorts of practices can be really helpful for people with anxiety, for example, but so far, there hasn’t been much scientific evidence for how it works. But now we’ve found a connection. We’ve found the place where the highly active, goal-oriented ‘go, go, go’ part of your mind connects to the parts of the brain that control breathing and heart rate. If you calm one down, it absolutely should have feedback effects on the other.”
To Building Fortitude.
Warm regards,
Colin Jonov CEO & Founder, Athletic Fortitude
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