Brian Johnson argues against all-or-nothing thinking when chasing long-term goals. Instead, combine steady commitment with periodic bursts of intensity, push through boredom without burning out, and balance the long game with focused sprints.
Anytime you feel an apparent dichotomy, and it's either this or that. My discipline is. And we all fall into that. That trap very, very often. But step back and say, how do I have as much of both as possible? So I'm not going to be a hero in the beginning. I'm not going to be so intense in the beginning that I give up two seconds later. But I'm going to be intense, and then I'm going to fight through the boringness and all the other things where my voice comes in and wants to give up. But let's have both the super long game and then the go in. This is how we affect change, you know, and we just need to be able to hold the intensity of your without burning ourselves out and then giving up.
