Dave AspreyCreator of Biohacking, Longevity Expert & 4x NY Times Bestselling Author

Tired of working hard? Watch this.

Name: Tired of working hard? Watch this.
Uploaded: 2024-03-04T22:30:00+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Dave Asprey
Description: In this motivational monologue, Alicia Mackey Huber challenges the common belief that hard work must be accompanied by struggle and suffering. She argues…

4 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, Alicia Mackey Huber challenges the common belief that hard work must be accompanied by struggle and suffering. She argues that if you have to work hard at something, it likely means you lack skill, whereas choosing to work hard out of love transforms effort into recreation. Huber warns against the "bad programming" of believing that pain is a prerequisite for results, suggesting that if one enjoys struggle, it should be pursued voluntarily and enjoyably. The core message is to shift mindset from obligatory hardship to purposeful, passionate effort, thereby reducing unnecessary suffering and improving performance.

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The reality is that if you have to work hard at something, you're not very good at it. Now, if you choose to work hard at it because you love it, that's recreation. So many of us are caught up in this idea that, well, you have to struggle and you have to suffer. Sometimes that's the only way. And then you do it. Because if you are a good human being, whether you're a man or a woman, when circumstances call for it, you can bring it at full power, right? If your biology works anyway, at full power, you bring it at the fullest power you can. But if you believe you have to bring it at full power and you have to struggle and you have to suffer to get results, that is bad programming, because you probably, probably don't. And if you like struggling and suffering, then find the most fun way to struggle and suffer recreationally. And that's okay too. Yeah, but what I don't want people to believe is that, well, I just have to work hard. It's just gonna hurt, maybe for a little while. But the problem, because you suck at it.