How your journey through BJJ can intersect with and is helped by stoicism, with Adisa Banjoko. It gets pretty personal as we go beyond the sound bites of Stoicism and dig into the actual practices you can use to develop the four virtues of Stoicism, namely wisdom, discipline, justice and courage.
Along the way, we also tackle the importance of character in jiu-jitsu, the recent spate of scandals in the sport, dealing with pain and loss, and the importance of your whys.
Grab this episode (number 444) of the Strenuous Podcast at the links below…
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Check out Adisa on Instagram at @bishopchronicles and check out his super-interesting Substack here!
Also, if you get a chance, please give this show a rating in Spotify or Apple Podcasts. That really helps!
Cheers,
Stephan Kesting
P.S. I’ve got a NEW instructional out, and it’s really bloody good!
Check out my positional approach to mastering the Kimura and tapping out more training partners and competition opponents.
P.P.S. If you want to dig into the historical roots MMA check out Catchwrestling: from the Snake Pit in Wigan England, to Pride FC in Japan, to Modern Submission Grappling which was episode 395 of The Strenuous Life Podcast which featured the historical researcher and martial artist Oz Austwick
P.P.P.S. If you’re interested in my take on living life on your own terms please check out my best-selling book, Perseverance, Life and Death in the Subarctic, available anywhere you get physical, digital and audio books and also on Amazon.
