Brain

Brain is where I fight with myself while trying to figure out life. Discipline and doubt. Excitement and misery. Challenge and success. It’s where I let myself break down so I can build back stronger. Here I wrestle with relationships, dependencies, and my own inclination toward aggression and anger, energy I’ve had to learn to turn into something positive. Boxing makes those lessons impossible to ignore, but they run through everything I do: resilience is a skill, failure is a step forward, and struggle is often the only way a lesson really sticks.

Brain is where I share developing frameworks, philosophies, and real experiences that have shaped me so far. Sometimes they’re steadying and reassuring, other times they’re heavy and leave me uncertain for a long time. A lot of it is just grinding through the day-to-day work. Some of it is reflection on the hardest stretches of my life. Either way, it’s all about taking pressure and fear and turning them into clarity and direction. Whether that’s in the boxing gym, in my PhD research, or in the quiet moments when I find myself questioning my abilities in everything I do.

I don’t have it all figured out, and I won’t claim to. What I do know is that a mindset works like muscle: practice it, test it, break it, then reflect honestly and intelligently in order for it to grow stronger. If sharing what I’ve learned through my successes and failures helps someone else fight their own battles, then all of this is worth it.