Thanks for your thoughts. I wrote about my personal experience with cold showers and how I feel they have improved my life. This is an experiment with an N of

Thanks for your thoughts. I wrote about my personal experience with cold showers and how I feel they have improved my life. This is an experiment with an N of 1. Most notably: "It also helps me temper my emotional responses to things. I no longer have the panicky feeling that a ton cold water on your skin gives you for more than a few seconds when I take my cold showers – I’ve trained myself to calm down and overcome this natural response. And I’ve noticed this ability to temper my response overlap into other areas of my life" If you haven't tried taking cold showers regularly you might be surprised by the results. I never posted the 100 pushups article on HN so I'm not sure what you mean about being irresponsibly promoting pushups. I agree that the 100 pushups requires a relatively short period of commitment. Yet it seems impressive. Which is why in my post I wrote: "It turns out, with about 4-6 weeks of pushup training 3x a week (~10 mins per session), you can do build your capacity to do something rather difficult: 100 pushups in a row." The point of that post was not to show off how awesome I am, but to encourage people to go after goals that seem difficult because with consistent effort, large goals can be conquered. I find it unfortunate that my life comes across to you as molded for SEO and blog hits as that is not my intention. As I state in this post and in my about section, I write to provide resources to help others.