Something very interesting as I have becoming stronger at the gym, getting my testosterone up etc.: 99.9% of the time I am insanely zen, and the things that used to bother me don’t really bother me anymore. Small petty things which used to make me angry which didn’t really concern me too much no longer makes me angry. My theory is that as my testosterone goes up, your sensitivity towards petty matters goes down. In other words, petty things no longer annoy you.

The subtlety and the nuance is this; sometimes people give you petty jabs, which are insanely disrespectful. I have a zero tolerance for disrespect. As my testosterone is going up, I find my tolerance for people disrespecting me or Cindy is even going down. That is, when I perceive something as being disrespectful, I get even angrier, more aggressive, etc. And it feels good. Also, when the conflict has ended and I quickly apologize, I returned back to my zen state very quickly.

“Don’t give shit, don’t take shit.” – Nassim Taleb

Zen and Testosterone?

I wonder if I’m the first philosophize this that there is actually a link between testosterone and Zen. That is, the higher you naturally increase your testosterone through eating beef ribs, through your adrenaline of hope lifting at the gym, attempting you one rep max‘s, etc., you actually become more zen.