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This guy made me feel like a wimp. You can see him there taking an ice bath. I watched some of his videos on mental toughness. And that’s why I started taking cold showers.

I think this guy Mark Devine an ex-Navy Seal was the first one to give me the idea.

Then I started reading that some athletes and UFC fighters would take a cold bath or shower after a workout.

I figured I had some discipline, but cold showers just seemed impossible. Why would I want to do that? I like hot showers. They’re relaxing and comforting.

But the idea of mental toughness is appealing and goes along with another idea I have been exposed to lately in jiu-jitsu of being comfortable in an uncomfortable position. Like just trying to relax and be patient when you are in a bad position. To not freak out and panic.

Just relax you’ve been here before, you can get out.

I guess it’s the same with showers. It’s cold, it’s uncomfortable, but it’s temporary just relax, you’ll get used to it and then you can get out.

Here are some benefits of taking cold showers:

1. It increases alertness
2. It’s good for your hair and skin
3. Helps circulation
4. Weight loss
5. Decreases muscle soreness
6. Decreases depression
7. Decreases stress
8. Increases testosterone in men

• More on cold showers
• Wake up showers

How I have been doing it

I just start as normal. I shower and wash and then when I am done I gradually turn the heat down until there isn’t any. And I enjoy??? the cold water for a couple of minutes.

I pulled a muscle in my back the other day and initially pointed the hot water on that spot for a while and then turned it to cold for a few minutes.

It definitely had an icing effect and the pain did go away for a while.

I’ll keep it up.

According to Stanford professor Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd writers of the book The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life we all carry around a certain perspective on time that affects our psychology. It can help explain why we think the way we do, do what we do and how we act they way we do.

You can take their ZTPI test online to determine your own perspective on time. Some people are more living in the moment types, others make to do lists, some reminisce more about the past and so on. We all are a combination of different time perspectives. Take the test to find out yours.

This is what they envision as the best time perspective for those living in the west.

• High in past-positive time perspective
• Medium high in future time perspective
• Medium high in present-hedonistic time perspective
• Low in past-negative time perspective
• Low in present-fatalistic time perspective

Find out what your psychology on time is with this test and/or read this book.

This is episode 2 of Blu Man Fu. I normally do this out on the street as a performer. But I found this alley way in Chinatown to work pretty good to shoot this. And since it’s not in the street the acoustics are better since there is less background noise. That makes the beatboxing sound better.

The chances are 9 to 1 that you won’t change. The book Change or Die covers three main examples on how people and companies changed including health, business and prison punishment.

Here’s the formula on how to change.

1. Relate. Find a teacher. Someone who will inspire you.
2. Repeat. Learn and practice the new skill.
3. Reframe. The new teacher helps you to think differently about your situation.

Even when their life is on the line most people will not change. Doctors orders and a threat of death will only temporarily cause people to change, but then they are soon back to their old habits of overeating and no exercise.

Most criminals and addicts also will not change, but this book tells us about one successful program in San Francisco that effectively prepares ex-criminals for the real world.

From Change or Die by Alan Deutschman

I was first introduced to the foam roller in Jiujitsu class. They’re awesome. I suppose there are other ways to use them, but I have been using them primarily as a massage tool. Since I have been doing rehab on my knee I have been using the foam roller to massage my legs and IT band.

According to my therapist IT bands are pretty tough to stretch. So the foam roller is an awesome tool to loosen up those tight IT bands.

You can use them for your legs, shoulders, back and so on. I recommend getting one to help sooth your aches and pains.

“If you don’t do this shit for fun, then you’re dumb
Too many people trying to be the freshest one…” – from Bicasso’s rhyme

I heard this at a pretty good time. In one day two arrogant dudes asked me if they could use my mic. I said no. These dudes were all about stroking their ego’s cause they thought they could out beatbox me. You know what they probably could. But after some reflection I decided I didn’t care cause I am not in it to be the best one. I do it because I like to do it.

The thing with hip hop is people are always trying to outdo one another. But in the words of a student I had once, “Why does it always have to be about being the best?” Bicasso’s quote is about motives. Why get into something just to be great at it or to be the best?

I think the number one thing is to do something because you want to do it. If you just care about being number 1 then I think you care too much about what people think. Which reminds me of something Wayne Dyer said. He was paraphrasing someone else and he said that many of the greatest thinkers had one thing in common and that’s that they were independent of the good opinion of other people. They did what they did because they were connected to it.

It’s got to come from the inside.