Working definition
Mithridatisation is progressive dosing — small, repeated exposures to the adversity you need until the old threat reads as routine, not emergency.
How it works
You do not jump to the black-belt rep on day one. You elongate like a gymnast split — one millimetre past yesterday, not a ligament tear. The loop:
- Pick the edge — phone call, troublemaker ask, cold shower, public boundary.
- Size the dose on Reading Grid / troublemaker levels — white belt, not fourth dan.
- Warm up — ask the grandmother before the intimidating person; store ask before path question (2026-06-12 > Mastermind pivot, troublemaker belts, and warmup Manual).
- Repeat on cadence until belief updates — feared bothering everyone; data says most people laugh or engage.
- Log — Manual Of Me row for belt + warmup + next harder target.
Distinction from Tipping point: tipping point rehearses the one extra behaviour before the live Battle; mithridatisation is the stack of doses that makes that millimetre reachable.
Name: from Mithridates VI — progressive poison doses until tolerance built (historical cautionary tale: the practice has bounds). Club use = graded exposure and stress inoculation, not literal self-poisoning.
Library spine: Stress Inoculation Training · Hormesis · Antifragility.
Signature
The image is pizza-order calls for a year — Johan still hates the phone, still dials, still updates the belief. Parallel: delay fifteen days instead of cancel when sign-ups are low — troublemaker fear of going back on your word, but the rep is show up, not annul.
Heroic tear versus progressive dose — white-belt +1mm until the edge becomes routine. Route log: Manual. Your move: Your move this week.
Your move this week
- Name one troublemaker edge and your current belt (one line).
- Write one warmup you already use or will add this week.
- Run one dose — log body signal before the story hardens.
Scientific grounding
maturity: grounded — safe for live screen-share cite on mechanism; Signature voice remains Yann-signed.
Cite
- Calabrese, E. J., & Baldwin, L. A. (2002). Defining hormesis. Human & Experimental Toxicology, 21(2), 91–97.
- Meichenbaum, D. (1985). Stress inoculation training. Pergamon Press — Stress Inoculation Training
Mechanism detail: Hormesis (biphasic dose band — full Scite block on Atlas note). Clinical parallel: graded exposure / stress inoculation — bounded reps, not unbounded harm.