Life Advice

Over the past year I’ve read numerous articles and research papers purporting the benefits of taking cold showers, and in particular their ability to raise testosterone in men. As many of you have probably read or heard through word of mouth, testosterone levels in men are dropping significantly with each passing decade, and the effects are devastating; slowed healing, less muscle, and lowered libido are just a few of the ailments associated with decreased testosterone, and I imagine that the list will continue to grow as more studies are conducted.

So the question is, would a shot at increased testosterone really be enough to convince a person to freeze their ass off each morning in the shower? For me it wasn’t. It took a particular chapter in

Have you ever watched a movie that you loved when you were a teenager, only to be incredibly disappointed upon watching it as an adult? You watched it again after all those years, and it just wasn’t how you remembered it. The characters were flat, the story was boring, and it just didn’t live up to your memories of it.

I find it interesting how flexible memories are. Things that we believe we know well, often don’t match reality upon further scrutiny. Many times we even forget the details immediately, especially when it comes to seemingly trivial details, like people’s names. It’s almost as if we’ve forgotten them before we’ve even remembered them. It’s really