My day started at 2:51am — not a recommendation, but there’s never a traffic jam on the extra mile — and in that quiet hour, working through my notes from West Palm Beach, one line stopped me: we grow by solving larger problems. Think about that. We develop our capacities by doing progressively harder things — and the vast majority of people, with total freedom to live otherwise, never do this deliberately. We gravitate to what’s predictable, what we’ve done before, and we rinse and repeat — then wonder why life stays the same size. In this episode: the six-hour presentation in a room of 3,500 people that confronted nearly everyone in it, the business problem I brought home and why hard is the point; how solving bigger problems changes your identity — David Goggins’ cookie jar, and why every difficult thing you do is a deposit you draw on later; and the honest cultural diagnosis: we live in an age of avoidance and medication — food, Netflix, the fog of drifting — that exists to help you not face the problems that would grow you. The audit is one question: are you doing harder things than you were a year ago?
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