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What if the amount of pleasure you experience in life is directly tied to the amount of suffering you're willing to experience?
What if the path to joy isn't removing everything that hurts you, but fully welcome & attacking the pain head on?
When you stop growing, you start dying.
You need adversity in your life. You need to actively seek out struggle to find true meaning.
If you never challenge yourself, you'll never fulfill your potential.
If you always take the easy way out, you'll realize that you've failed.
The problem with money, relationships, and status is that they delude you into thinking happiness is external.
They give you a quick hit of pleasure that makes you addicted to more.
But the problem is they don't lead to lasting happiness.
As my great grandfather Seneca once said, “No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.”
It’s a paradox, but the greatest pleasure comes from rejecting constant pleasure. Food tastes better after fasting. Conversations are better without social media. Sex is better without porn. Health is better without junk.
The battlefield starts in the mind. An undisciplined inner life leads to a chaotic and unhealthy outer life.
You're attacked from all directions by porn, social media, notifications, and sugar. Most people can't resist this temptation. And without self control, they become a slave to pleasure.
Most people drown in their addiction to comfort and never grow. If you want to dominate, brainwash yourself into craving discomfort. If you seek discomfort, you will unlock a door that makes you unstoppable.
Are you going to eat a steak, read a book, and get in the gym today? Or are you going to sit on your ass, mindlessly consume, and inject yourself with one more dopamine hit?
True fulfillment is all internal. Find purpose in the struggle. Warriors are made on the days that feel most uncomfortable. Turn your discomfort into your greatest addiction.
What if the path to joy isn't removing everything that hurts you, but fully welcome & attacking the pain head on?
When you stop growing, you start dying.
You need adversity in your life. You need to actively seek out struggle to find true meaning.
If you never challenge yourself, you'll never fulfill your potential.
If you always take the easy way out, you'll realize that you've failed.
The problem with money, relationships, and status is that they delude you into thinking happiness is external.
They give you a quick hit of pleasure that makes you addicted to more.
But the problem is they don't lead to lasting happiness.
As my great grandfather Seneca once said, “No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.”
It’s a paradox, but the greatest pleasure comes from rejecting constant pleasure. Food tastes better after fasting. Conversations are better without social media. Sex is better without porn. Health is better without junk.
The battlefield starts in the mind. An undisciplined inner life leads to a chaotic and unhealthy outer life.
You're attacked from all directions by porn, social media, notifications, and sugar. Most people can't resist this temptation. And without self control, they become a slave to pleasure.
Most people drown in their addiction to comfort and never grow. If you want to dominate, brainwash yourself into craving discomfort. If you seek discomfort, you will unlock a door that makes you unstoppable.
Are you going to eat a steak, read a book, and get in the gym today? Or are you going to sit on your ass, mindlessly consume, and inject yourself with one more dopamine hit?
True fulfillment is all internal. Find purpose in the struggle. Warriors are made on the days that feel most uncomfortable. Turn your discomfort into your greatest addiction.
