Chad Silverstein argues that putting off chronic problems like bad teammates or personal habits only delays worse pain. He calls it "injecting acute pain" now to avoid larger harm later. Short-term discomfort beats the misery of letting problems compound.
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You, you have issues that are chronic that have been hanging around. It could be a teammate, it could be a situation, it could be a client, it could be a nagging, you know, vice in your life. Whatever it is that's been hanging around that doesn't help you be more successful in life. The only way out of it is to inject some acute pain. Otherwise again, you're just going to choose the misery that is inevitable down the road at some point anyways. You know, the unhealthy teammates is the best example of this. You know, you have the wrong person on your team and you don't do anything about it. You're just delaying the inevitable. You're delaying, you know, a situation where it's just going to be harder down the road. So the longer you wait, the longer you delay, you know, injecting some acute pain into your life, you know the heart's going to be.