Hi all. It’s been a little while since I’ve done an update.

A lot has happened with me. I started Must Triumph when my mom got ill, and it really came to a halt after I had my son. This has really restricted my time, as I’m working more than I ever have as well as trying to spend as much time as I can with my son.

This doesn’t mean I stopped sharing my thoughts and ideas with the world. Over a year ago, I started a new podcast with my friend Paul called Southpaw. It’s much more explicitly political than Must Triumph, which might not be everyone’s cup of tea. With that said, if you still want to hear what I have to say, head on over to Southpaw.

You can listen on Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Overcast | RSS

You’ll find it wherever you listen to podcasts. If you want to support my new project or get more information you can find it here.

Southpaw has already grown into an online community, and I’m already looking into expanding it into a local club that offers free martial arts and self-defense training. Rather than just writing or talking online, I’m now looking into doing more things in the real world—really volunteering my time to help people.

To those who have been supporting me, thank you so much. But since I haven’t been making regular updates, I’ve already canceled everyone’s subscriptions. I hope some of you will continue to support and follow my work.

I wish you all the best in the new year.

Sam

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Beautiful language can be poetic therapy. A good prose can change your life more than any evidence of science. Words are musical notes, and they can soothe the soul…

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Books Mentioned

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien:

• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald:

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding:

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera:

• 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing by Gary Provost:

• Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris (Quote by James Salter):

• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens:

• White Fang by Jack London:

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau:

• Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan:

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller:

• Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde:

• A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin:

• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde:

• Dune by Frank Herbert:

• Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss:

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt:

• Song of Myself by Walt Whitman:

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy:

• Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes:

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens:

• Watchmen by Alan Moore:

• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck:

• 1984 by George Orwell:

• Different Seasons by Stephen King:

• Dubliners by James Joyce:

• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez:

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood:

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut:

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My thoughts about often ignored reasons for training martial arts (besides self-defense paranoia and competition) that should be acknowledged and encouraged…

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I sit down with veteran screenwriter and lifelong competitive martial artist Brian Herskowitz on how he applies his concepts from competitive martial arts to lasting success as a storyteller, keys to competing for over 50 years, maintaining your body, applying the same mindset to everything, upgrades in regenerative medicine (prolotherapy, PRP, stem cells), giving yourself as a writer and martial artist room to play, how "do what I say and not as I do" can make sense when there's free play, how the belt system was a late addition to martial arts, and allowing the student to define their own success. You can't be a dictator to other people's wants and goals, and you can't allow others to dictate your wants and goals as well. What you want to get out of anything, you get to decide.

There are so many nuggets of wisdom that you can probably find uses for in whatever you do and are into.

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Brian's book is "Process to Product: A Practical Guide for the Screenwriter" (https://amzn.to/31ZDtb1)

Find more about Brian at: https://www.brianherskowitz.com

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Once or twice a month, I go to the barbershop and participate in the millennium-old ritual of the razor shave. Facial hair is making a renaissance but for me, like the crops, what is sown must be reaped. The shave brings me to balance…

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My intent in speaking with trainer, fitness writer, and gym owner Chris Bathke was to make an evergreen episode about every possible fitness scenario and question that are relevant to most people. And when you break it down, for most people, it's not an infinite number of questions nor scenarios. So what you will find are practical answers that will be useful for every phase of your life. It's an episode you'll want to revisit…

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On this episode, I speak to mental health expert and internationally best-selling author Amy Morin about how the Internet made her famous (in a good way), how as a therapist some of her best lessons didn't come from school but from the strength of her patients, and how when you're dealing with grief, even a small amount of control can make all the difference. Prepare to take notes because we cover a lot…

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Useful Companions (Improve Your Education and This Site by Buying a Book):

• 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do

• 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don't Do

• 13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do

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"Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff."

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Since the book's publication in 1951, J.D. Salinger's seminal work has been banned, criticized, and feared. Catcher is antisocial, anti-authority, anti-convention, and anti-establishment. It's punk rock. It's Mike Gravel. It's Bernie Sanders. Adults hated it, but the kids loved it…

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Useful Companions (Improve Your Education and This Site by Buying a Book):

• The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll

• Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak

• The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus

• Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion – Paul Bloom

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"He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."

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When we are children, we are human. As we grow older, we turn from a human into something called adults...

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Useful Companions (Improve Your Education and This Site by Buying a Book):

• When I came to America, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak was one of the first books I read, but I only came to understand it after I re-read it as an adult

• The quote by Maurice Sendak first appeared in Jack Kornfield's powerful book on Buddhism and psychology, The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

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Today I answer a listener question: “I am 54 years old and have a daughter who is a 6-year-old. We would like to learn a martial art together. Would you have any suggestions?”

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So you've been rejected. That sucks. Sorry. But what kind of rejection? There's the obvious one we all know, romantic rejection. But there are also professional rejections, like not getting a job or getting into a school or program. Then there's being rejected as a friend, or generally, as a human being. And with the ubiquity of social networks, there are now more ways than ever to be rejected…

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To my listeners,

I recently moved Must Triumph to a new podcasting host. So what does that mean? It means, just like a website, an internet company hosts the files of all my episodes. Now, none of this should matter to you. What's supposed to happen is, all the platforms you listen from should seamlessly switch over from the old host to the new host. But sometimes that doesn't happen. So to make sure your feed has been updated, I've uploaded this episode and if after a few days you see a new episode after this one, then you're good. You don't have to do anything.

But if this is the last episode you see on your feed forever, then it means something happened. Then on whatever platform you listen from, search for "must triumph" again, as it might now have a duplicate podcast channel with the updated feed. And if it doesn't, you might have to manually update it yourself.

Here is the new RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/a501b30/podcast/rss

And if updating the RSS feed sounds too complicated, no worries. Hit me up through the contact page (or through any of my social media accounts) and let me know what app you use and I'll make sure the show gets updated on that platform.

But otherwise, really thank you all for listening to the show. I'll talk to you all again within a week with a new episode.

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It takes a lot of creativity to be angry and miserable. But you can't use up misery, you'll always have more. Misery isn't something that builds up, like a pressure cooker, it's more like an addiction or habit. And just as using more drugs doesn't get drug addiction out of your system, constantly venting misery doesn't make misery go away.

Writer and poet Maya Angelou said, "You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” And that's the same for misery, the more you use, the more you have…

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Resources

• The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships, and Enhance Self-Esteem - Guy Winch PhD

• Thinfluence: The powerful and surprising effect friends, family, work, and environment have on weight - Walter C. Willett, Malissa Wood, Dan Childs

• F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems - Michael Bennett MD, Sarah Bennett

• "Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being" - Scientific American

• The New Era Of Positive Psychology, a TED talk by Dr. Martin Seligman

• "Psychiatry's Scientific Reboot Gets Under Way" - New Scientist

• A study found that emotional suppression increases mortality

• A study found that sharing frustrations on Facebook only made people feel worse

• A study found that using social media for narcissism typically backfires

• A study on the catharsis of aggression

• Does Venting Anger Feed Or Extinguish The Flame? Catharsis, Rumination, Distraction, Anger, And Aggressive Responding - Dr. Brad Bushman

• "The Psychology Of Elliot Rodger" - Dr. David Gustaf Thompson

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This is a simulcast from my other podcast called Southpaw:

We cover environmentalism, biocultural diversity, traditional knowledge, human rights, stewardship, martial arts, economics, and many other topics with environmental lawyer Sanjay Kabir Bavikatte.

Recommended Books:

• Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom

• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

• Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba

• Walden (Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

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How an exercise stance can be so much more.

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Life is experiential, and exercise should improve our capacity for experience and readiness for living. It's in the chase for better body parts that we miss becoming a better self…

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This is a simulcast from my other podcast called Southpaw:

We chat with Professor/ Coach Gordon Marino about his new book "The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age," the benefits of existential philosophy, the coach/ athlete relationship, and then we cover lots and lots of boxing. It's one of our most fun episodes.

Gordon Marino is a professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College. A veteran boxing coach, Marino is also an award-winning boxing writer for The Wall Street Journal and has worked with HBO boxing. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and many other domestic and international publications.

You can find Gordon on Twitter at: @GordonMarino

You can find "The Existentialist's Survival Guide” on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2Tzkjcf

If you'd like to email Gordon, you can find him at: marino@stolaf.edu

Also per Gordon's suggestion, check out “Crito” by Plato (The dialogue takes place in Socrates' prison cell, where he awaits execution. He is visited before dawn by his old friend Crito, who has made arrangements to smuggle Socrates out of prison to the safety of exile): http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html

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A 30-day meditation practice on the writings of Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

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Often it is the warrior like Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584 – 1645) who is more applicable to the everyday person than a philosopher or monk. It is not that we need a more adversarial viewpoint or that Musashi gives us better insight than German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein or Taoist poet Chuang Tzu. Warriorship is philosophy delivered through a code of living—which is much easier to implement. Especially when we no longer set aside time for deep thinking or wonder the fertile ground for freedom and independent thought. So for all intents and purposes, we love rules.

Then it is not surprising that we are naturally drawn to the words of the warrior class. They demand we follow their code, whether we understand them or not. But it works better if we spend some time reflecting. After all, quoting Musashi is not the same as thinking like Musashi. This is bunbu ichi, the samurai concept of swordsmanship and intellect in equal accord.

Musashi was a lover of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. Fighting and swordsmanship were metaphors for Musashi. Then pay special attention to what he means, not what he says. He did not write for general audiences. In fact, Musashi never wrote a book. He wrote lessons that his students compiled into a book. In person, he taught them swordsmanship. His writings were to teach his students everything else.

As Musashi put it: “You must reflect well on this.”

So what I will do is give you thirty Miyamoto Musashi maxims related to living. Spend one day meditating on each maxim and its deeper meaning. What I would suggest is to do it early in the mornings so it carries with you the rest of the day. Perhaps you can listen to this on your way to work or before school.

Then after 30 days, perhaps you'll notice a change in yourself. I posted this 30-day practice online several years ago and I got a lot of positive messages from people who benefited. Discussion groups and clubs were formed. Some people made it into a calendar. And some others were inspired to convert their thoughts into blogs, journals, and even ebooks.

So I welcome you to invite others to this practice, form groups, or to take this practice and make it your own.

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Books I Recommend

• The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi

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Related Episodes:

• Ep. 4 – The Stonecutter and the Tao of Rock-Paper-Scissors
• Ep. 16 – Tang Taizong: Philosopher King
• Ep. 9 – In the Case of the Archer: Zen and Tao for the Western Mind
• Ep. 13 – The Samurai and the Master

Do not brag over what is not yet done.

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In high school, I really liked this girl—let's call her Jane. Actually, I wasn't the only one who liked her, two of my other friends did as well. It had gotten to the point where the time for talk was over, it was time for action. We all decided to ask Jane out and see who she would say yes to. Guess who she said yes to? None of us, because none of us asked.

So this was my first lesson on the art of doing: one action is worth more than a thousand thoughts…

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Books I Recommend

• For those who suffer from procrastination and resistance, read The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield

• The definitive book in productivity, Getting Things Done by David Allen

• How to find joy in action, Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch

• On effortless action, read Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity by Edward Slingerland

• For more on the strange and irrational world of the human mind, read Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

• For more on longevity and conscientiousness, read The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study by Howard S. Friedman, Leslie R. Martin

• Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D. breaks down the mental science of achievement with Succeed

• To understand the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche beyond internet memes, read Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One

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• Ep. 30 – The Seven Mental Steps for Change
• Ep. 26 – Ira Glass: Imagine Quality Without Taste
• Ep. 9 – In the Case of the Archer: Zen and Tao for the Western Mind
• Ep. 6 – Just Go For It

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This is the second part of my Big Ideas breakdown of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. We're pushing the pendulum back on history towards reality. You know the highlights, but you also need to know the lowlights.

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Related Episodes:

• Preview: The Big Ideas – A People's History of the United States Pt. 1
• Preview: The Big Ideas – Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Preview: One-Punch Man – A Study in Crowd Psychology
• Preview: Wile E. Coyote & Our Make-Believe Economy

The universe is too vast to comprehend; it's infinite, in fact. Yet I know that it is splendid.

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This is one of the many pieces I wrote several years ago while I was taking care of my mom during hospice.

Much of my philosophy was crystallized during this period.

I wrote this in thinking through my despair. And there is a difference, between depression and despair. Depression is clinical, but despair is philosophical. And I think we often mistake the two—and for many of us, what we suffer from is despair. It may even take our life.

And for me, philosophy saved me from despair. And hopefully—with this piece—I can help others who are also going through despair…

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• Ep. 20 – Life the Dream: Learning Philosophy, the Hard Way
• Ep. 10 – Have Gi—Will Travel: A Philosophical Journey
• Ep. 5 – Bully