The Most Important Resistance in Life

Hello and welcome to the Curiosity Chronicle, a weekly podcast where I provide actionable ideas to help you build a high performing, healthy, wealthy life. Today's podcast is brought to you by AG1 by Athletic Greens my all in one daily supplement. Seriously, this stuff replaced an entire cabinet of supplements for me in one Daily Scoop. There's a reason it's been a staple of my morning routine since 2011. To find out why, go to drinkag1.comsahil and take advantage of a limited time offer. Now on to today's piece the Most Important Resistance in Life There is a short saying that I love Hard times create strong men. Strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men and weak men create hard times. The idea is simple. The foundation of strength is hardship, struggle and challenge, not ease. In other words, you have two paths to choose between in easy now, hard later or hard now easy later. Unfortunately, we live in an ease obsessed world. A world where the siren song of shortcuts, hacks, speed and pleasure constantly conspires against you every single day you have a to give in, to follow its alluring tune, or to resist to choose the long way. Today and all days. I want to make the case that this choice is no choice at all. To build the life you want. To earn the things you want. Your resistance is the cost of entry. Death by a thousand shortcuts. Fact we live in an era that celebrates ease. Every shortcut, every trick, every hack gets shared at the speed of light. Business and money gurus tell you it's easy to make $10 million trading or flipping homes and sell you the $299 course that will get you there. Dating apps let you avoid your fear of rejection if you approach someone in real life. Fancy diet plans claim to let you eat the foods you love and still get in shape. Abzapping belts say you can get six pack abs while sitting on the couch in just eight minutes per day. Everything you're being sold is framed as lower friction and higher efficiency. Everything is about taking the hard way and making it easy. That you can attain the pleasures in life without the pain and struggle that prior generations had to endure to get them. That you can have it all without the struggle. But it's time for a harsh truth. The things that matter in life are hard to build. It's hard to build a powerful purpose imbued career. It's hard to build a deep, meaningful relationship. It's hard to build a healthy fit body. It's hard to build a calm present mind. It's hard to build a reputation worthy of respect. They aren't supposed to be easy. If they were, everyone would have them. Prioritizing speed is dangerous. It leads you into bad short term decisions. It encourages get rich quick thinking that lands a lot of people in trouble. It's a path to a death by a thousand shortcuts. Remember, nothing worth having in life should be easy. Delayed gratification Doing hard things now with the anticipation of a benefit later is the source of real joy and fulfillment. And if there's one thing I've learned, it's that the real happiness is found in the anticipation. It's the quest, it's the hunt. It's the process, it's the journey. It's the moment right before you achieve it. It's not in the having, but in the becoming Miles to go before you sleep this is an excerpt from one of my favorite poems. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost, Stopping by woods on a snowy evening the life you want is not something that can be built overnight, and it certainly won't be built through shortcuts, tricks or hacks. The short way is the wrong way, the long way is the right way. So do hard things, because the best that life has to offer is only built through hours, days, weeks, months and years of joyful struggle. Waking up early, focusing deeply on the problems that matter, having difficult conversations, being present with those you love, moving your body, eating what fuels you, creating space to sit in silence. Fall in love with the long way. Find your joy in the hunt and you'll win the greatest prizes in life. And enjoy the ride because you have miles to go before you sleep. I explore this topic of earned substance in depth and provide proven science backed systems to build the things that matter in my upcoming book. You can pre order your copy on Amazon or@the5types of wealth.com that's all for today. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you learned something and I hope you'll share it with others. As always, until next time, stay curious friends.