Chet Scott distinguishes between a good life of pleasure and comfort versus a great life that requires doing hard things well. He argues people are designed for purpose and need steady effort to discover their unique wiring, not quick self-help formulas or others' expectations.
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System is, my belief system is the good life can be easy if all you want is a good life. You don't need built to lead. You don't need purpose. You just need pleasure and comfort. That'll give you a good life. It'll be nice for a while. All right. But I believe that a great life, which I believe is what we're designed for, we're designed by a great God who made us in greatness to pursue it. And so a great life is learning to do hard things well, slowly, over time, through a lot of baby steps. That's a great life. So that's why the built lead framework, I got to be true to my belief. My belief is that life is designed to be hard. And so I'm playing within that design. There are a lot of people that believe Life is a two step, six step, 12 step, five step process, follow this. And I don't buy that. Yeah, I don't believe that. I believe it's way more difficult. Yeah. And way more of high design. And so you've got to figure out the way you're designed, and you've been designed different than the way I am. We have so much in common, yet we're so unique. Like, it's so beautiful. But your job is to figure out what clicks with your design so that you don't fight it. Does that make sense? Of course it does. And so many people just live the purpose of their people, of their parents, and at some point they throw up their arms and go, that's not me. And oftentimes we refer to that as a midlife crisis or. But it's really just the person discovering that they're acting in a default, not by design.
