S3 Ep116: Rethinking Mental Toughness

Mental toughness is having no feelings, right? That idea sounds impressive, but it quietly breaks people. We sit down with returning guests Matt Addison Black and Helen Lunnon Wood to untangle what mental toughness, resilience and grit actually mean when the pressure is real and the standards matter, and what gets lost when these words turn into buzzwords. We talk about the social media version of Stoicism and why it often gets repackaged as emotional repression, then replace it with somethi...