Brian Johnson argues that discomfort signals growth, not danger. Instead of avoiding that feeling when you step outside your comfort zone, treat it as a cue to lean in. Reframe the pain as proof an opportunity is there.
Pain, as Phil describes it, is basically anything that you're feeling when you exit your comfort zone. What do you do when you feel that pain? Most people, when they feel that pain, they want it to go away. Their story is something must be wrong with me, something must be wrong with my life, make it go away. The first tool is you gotta reverse your desire. Instead of wanting all those challenges to go away and avoiding them, you need to reverse your desire and say, bring it on. When you feel that discomfort, I want you to have the wisdom to know that that's an indication that You have an opportunity to grow. Make that a cue, a trigger, a prompt for you to lean in and approach that challenge rather than lean back and try to avoid it.
