you are Your Own Worst Enemy you waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present since nothing seems urgent to you you're only half involved in what you do we're very creative species right we have language we have Consciousness we have immense Powers those Powers developed under the pressures of necessity of having to get things done of having to survive in a very brutal ruthless world and under the pressure we had to think we had to be creative we had to be inventive we had to be strategic the human brain evolved
under immense amounts of pressure so in your brain when you're feeling that barometric pressure it's like I got to get this done you work like a fiend energy your whole body responds [Music] you you accomplish things that would normally take you months you do it in days because you feel that pressure you take away that pressure and you don't know what to do wander around you're lost you have no energy you have no Focus so your brain needs pressure and stress and pressure is not a bad thing we have this thing where we feel like
stress is bad it's bad for you bad you know you need to relax man you need to chill stress will kill you no being bored will kill you not having anything to do will kill you is much more dangerous than [Music] stress what you think about is like this Sail on the sailboat no matter how the storm blows or how the winds blow if you've got a place you want to arrive uh you can't arrive there by cursing the contrary winds you arrive there by adjusting the set of the sail right and they said that's
your thinking that's ideas that's information and if you're short on that uh sure enough it's going to cause you difficulty in the future the hero is the person who confronts horrible chaotic potential and tames it and makes something of it right that's the fundamental human story but the problem is is that you have to face what you don't want to face in order to fix it and so you look at all the things about yourself that need to be burned off that need to be dispensed with and that man especially at the beginning especially if
you're screwed up that may be like 95% of you just has to go up in flames and it's painful even some of that stuff that you have to burn off doesn't want to die and it'll scream in agony while you're burning it off it's not pleasant but if you know that you're the thing that can transcend your problems most fundamentally if you know you're the thing that if it faces the problems can transcend them then you have the faith that would enable you to take stock of who you are are you actually trying as hard
as you can or are you just trying hard enough to be able to signal to other people that you're trying as hard as you can are you taking every single opportunity that you have to sharpen your sword to get better to make a little bit of progress or are you really doing like 20% of what you could actually do but it's just enough so that everybody else thinks oh wow he works hard doing the work to maintain other people's idea of you is not the same thing as doing the work to produce the result because
in order to produce the result that you probably want it's going to take a lot of work that people will never see anybody can do the look at me work the hey check me out I work hard work but in reality it's the quiet work that actually wins so the thing is when you're want to build something something great uh it's not easy to do and when you're doing something that's not easy to do you're not always enjoying it I don't love every day of my job I don't think every day brings me joy nor
does Joy have to be the definition of a good day and so I think that that what people misunderstand is is somehow the best jobs are the one that brings you happiness all the time I I don't think that that's right you have to to you have to you have to suffer you have to struggle you have to Endeavor you have to do those hard things and work through it in order to really appreciate what you've done pressure is a privilege that's what makes you and mistakes are not failures do not ever perceive a mistake
as a failure perceive it as feedback everything is feedback pay attention be curious be nimble don't take things personally and never lose sight of your dream struggle is a NeverEnding process freedom is never really won you earn it and win it in every generation few things will eat at you more than having a dream and doing nothing about it not only do you push yourself away from the life you could be living but you ruin your self-respect and you show yourself that you don't value the things that you want you give yourself permission to be
complacent and you show yourself that it's okay to break the promises you make to yourself but it's not and you know it do whatever it takes to do whatever it is you know you need to do don't make excuses because few things have a greater price than inaction think of what failure looks like and do everything in your power to avoid it are you going to regret not pushing yourself today there are no excuses around here get it done we are thrilled to introduce you to this week's sponsors brain.fm an app designed to help you
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