#151: The Power of Discomfort
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
So many people spend so much of their lives pursuing mental comfort - doing what they've always done or doing what's safe and predictable rather than changing, risking, and growing. Discomfort is a part of the growth process, and if you want to grow and become unstoppable, you need to seek it out. In this episode Dave shares the power of discomfort and how to use, embrace, and leverage it to become the game changer at what you do.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all |
| 0:22.3 | aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to the Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, I want to talk about the |
| 0:32.7 | power of discomfort. You know, so many people spend so much of their lives doing what makes them comfortable, |
| 0:39.0 | pursuing comfort. And I'm not talking about the comfortable bed, a comfortable chair. I'm talking |
| 0:44.1 | about the mental comfort that comes with doing what you've always done, what's safe, right? What's |
| 0:49.2 | predictable. And not stepping out and changing and risking and making decisions and attempting new tasks |
| 0:55.7 | or stretching yourself in a manner that would make you uncomfortable. |
| 0:59.4 | But there is immense power in discomfort. |
| 1:01.9 | I mean, think about it. |
| 1:02.9 | If you're going to grow, you have to seek out discomfort. |
| 1:05.5 | You cannot grow in a comfort zone. |
| 1:07.8 | If you're lifting weights and you're trying to get stronger, right? |
| 1:10.4 | You're trying to get bigger. Well, if you're about on that fifth or sixth rep or 50th rep, wherever you're at, right? And it starts to get uncomfortable. If it starts to hurt, if you start to feel pain, if the moment that happens, you throw the weights down and say, forget this, it's becoming uncomfortable. You won't grow. You've got to work through |
| 1:28.5 | the discomfort and through the pain, and that is true with life as well. So I want to talk about |
| 1:33.8 | the power of discomfort, seeking discomfort, using it, embracing it, leveraging it to become |
| 1:40.7 | the game changer at what you do. As you know, if you've read the book Unstoppable or you |
| 1:44.9 | have listened to past podcasts, you've got four types of performers and any type of organization, |
| 1:50.1 | undertakers, caretakers, playmakers, game changers. And the game changer more consistently |
| 1:54.9 | brings eight key traits to the table. Even when they don't feel like it, even when it's |
| 1:59.6 | uncomfortable, they're bringing more effort, energy, enthusiasm, excellence, passion, attitude, focus, and integrity. Now, the other |
| 2:05.4 | groups will do the right things less often. They do it when they feel like it, when it's |
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