The Art of Doing Hard Things: Meaningful Challenge vs. Useless Suffering

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excellence, actually

Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg, & Clay Skipper

315 episodes

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"excellence, actually" is a podcast from The Growth Equation, hosted by Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg, and Clay Skipper. Drawing on their years of working and corresponding with Olympians, coaches, executives, world-class physicians, and other elite-level achievers in their coaching practice and professional careers, they give you the mental and physical tools, practices, habits, and frameworks used by the best in the world in the pursuit of excellence. Each episode will give you concrete ideas and tips to use in your life immediately to help you become more meaningfully engaged in the pursuits that support your goals and your values. This is not the performative nonsense that is peddled online by grifters and influencers, but the evidence-based systems that work for the best in the world. This is excellence, actually. (This podcast used to appear under the name FAREWELL.)

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The Art of Doing Hard Things: Meaningful Challenge vs. Useless Suffering

excellence, actually

32 minutes 42 seconds

1 month ago

The Art of Doing Hard Things: Meaningful Challenge vs. Useless Suffering

We believe it's important to do hard things. In fact, as your may know, Steve wrote a book with that very title. But there's a difference between taking on challenges that lead to meaningful growth, and meaningless suffering for likes and validation. That difference is often lost in the performative world of social media. Today's episode is about giving you the skills to build true resilience. We differentiate between purposeful and purposeless difficulty, discuss whether or not the "comfort crisis" is real, introduce a modern affliction we're calling "Zombie burnout," detail Hans Selye's pioneering research on stress (and how its impact on our bodies is determined, in large part, by the meaning we give it), and show you how to apply concepts like "Right Effort" and "The Moat of Low Status."

Buy "Do Hard Things" by Steve Magness: https://www.stevemagness.com/do-hard-things/

Unedited transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13lH47HlWg0Y99fZktUPqK5R3pD-Jq8w0Vxg_98d0xbg/edit?usp=sharing

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