Life will always be hard — but not all hard things are created equal. In this episode of The Better Path Podcast, we explore what it means to choose your hard — the discipline that builds you versus the avoidance that drains you. You’ll learn how short-term comfort creates long-term struggle, why embracing meaningful challenge rewires your brain for resilience, and how to tell the difference between pressure that breaks you and pressure that shapes you. Through science, real-life stories, and simple reflection tools, you’ll see that every decision has a cost — but only one version of hard leads to growth, confidence, and freedom. Because you can’t escape hard things.You can only choose the ones worth doing.