In Michael Easter's The Comfort Crisis, Elliot talking about misogis - hard, kooky adventures that you do once or twice a year to test your boundaries:
Everyone today has such outward-facing lives. They do stuff so they can post on social media about some badass thing they did to get a bunch of likes.
Misogis are inward facing. A big part of the value proposition is that I'm going to do something that's really uncomfortable. I'm going to want to quit. And it's going to be hard not to quit because no one is watching. But I'm not going to quit because I'm watching. And then I can reflect back on how I was the only person watching myself and I still rose to the occassion in a big way. There's some deep satisfaction in that. Did you really do what you think is the right thing when you were the only person watching? Or do you need an audience or a big pat on the back for that? Are you not important enough to do it for you?
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