In this motivational talk, Mayur Bardolia argues that achieving greatness requires deliberately stretching beyond one’s comfort zone and embracing hard work and pain. He cites research suggesting mastery can be reached after only a few trial experiences, but emphasizes that true expertise demands repeating the work hundreds or thousands of times. He highlights a common fear of work and pain that prevents people from putting in effort, and shares a pivotal question from his friend Amit Pathak—‘How much hard work can you do?’—which reshapes his approach to action. Using gym and sports analogies, Bardolia illustrates how consistent, intense effort builds strength and resilience, and how enduring pain eventually becomes a source of future pleasure. The talk concludes with a call to define personal limits, commit to massive effort, and persist despite challenges to become a great achiever.
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When it comes to achieving something worthwhile, it requires a different version of you. You need to be different in order to do something different. Now, when you do something different than before, you get different results. The study shows that you can learn anything in 2 to 5 trials of experiences only. Also, in order to be master at something, you have to keep doing the great work hundreds or thousands of times. Unfortunately, people are not willing to go through few trial experiences. Also, people do anything to avoid what is required to do. In this video, you will find what is needed in order to be a great achiever. Achievement does not happen when you are in your comfort zone. Are you afraid of hard work? Well, we are scared when it comes to doing hard work. People avoid working because they have the fear of work. And pain they will have to go through. Yes, you heard it right. People avoid working because they have the fear of work and pain they will have to go through. Nobody is ready to go through pain. Now here's a question for you: how much can you stretch yourself? This is very powerful question shared by one of my friend, Mr. Amit Pathak, who is one of the best NLP and hypnosis trainers I ever met. During one of our conversations about growth, he asked me this wonderful question: Mayur, what's holding you back? How much hard work can you do? How much you can stretch yourself? These questions changed the way I take action. We generally don't want to try harder. We limit ourselves to a minimum number of efforts and trials. We have created an imaginary boundary in our life. Are you willing to put more energy into your work? Let me explain in a different way. Do you know the reason why people join the gym?
The answer is simple: they want to be stronger and increase their stamina.
People go to the gym and do a lot of hard work. They stretch themselves. You know that the harder you do exercises and workouts, the stronger you can become. Nobody has ever become weak. By working harder. People are weak because they don't work harder. The strongest and fittest survives for longer. The more challenges you face in your life, the stronger you become. What are you afraid of? What's the worst thing could happen if you work hard? I'm not sure if anyone would have died of hard work. In sport, the players have to work too hard to win the championship.
They work for days and nights and months.
They pass through so much of pain that they don't feel the pain of struggle anymore.
When we watch any famous sportsperson, we need to think about the amount of work they have put in. Their presence in the big title game is the result of their efforts of months and years. So are you willing to put in massive efforts fearlessly?
The pain you will go through will give you pleasure in the future.
Today's pleasure and comfort will become your reason of regrets in the future. Choose to go through the pain of hard work now. Choose struggle. Choose discomfort. They all are temporary. The more you pass through discomfort and pain, the easier it will be for you to conquer them in the future. So here is a task for you. What action do you need to take to get what you want? Be specific when you answer. Create a complete step-by-step action plan for it. Do it and keep doing it over and over again. Remember, the harder you work, the stronger you become. Contact me if you need more assistance to do this. I will be more than happy to know your feedback and happy to help you. So let's do this.
