Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

GROWTH COMES FROM PAIN

21 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Joe Polish delivers a short, informal monologue arguing that growth arises from discomfort and that good ideas persist and recur. He emphasizes being intentionally "perturbed" (experiencing pain/discomfort) as necessary for development and offers a concrete anecdote—using cold plunges—to show how initial resistance turns into enthusiasm and longer endurance.

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But the thing is, you can't kill a good idea. A good idea will keep coming back to life. And this internal thing is like. It's a similar thing of pain. We are supposed to be perturbed. As humans, we are being trained to never be perturbed with anything. That's where fucking growth comes from. Like, more woo. Less ah. Every time I get into a cold plunge, I'm like, ah. But two minutes into it, I'm like, fuck, this is awesome. Then I can go three minutes, you know?

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