3831: How To Deal With Uncomfortable Emotions And Reshape Your Identity by Benjamin Hardy on Self-Awareness Practices

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3831: Dr. Benjamin Hardy challenges readers to stop avoiding discomfort and instead embrace difficult emotions as the gateway to meaningful growth and identity transformation. By consistently acting despite fear, resistance, or insecurity, you build real confidence and create a life driven by courage, clarity, and purpose. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://medium.com/@benjaminhardy/how-to-deal-with-uncomfortable-emotions-and-reshape-your-identity-58142db8cfd4 Quotes to ponder: "Pain, discomfort, shock, boredom, impostor syndrome, awkwardness, fear, being wrong, failing, ignorance, looking stupid, your avoidance of these feelings is stopping you from a life beyond your wildest imagination." "Confidence is an effect, not a cause. Identity is an effect, not a cause." "You just need to walk past the emotional wall, the electrical fence, which paralyzes and imprisons 99% of people." Episode references: Relentless by Tim Grover: https://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Unstoppable-Tim-S-Grover/dp/1476714207 Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss: https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Titans-Billionaires-World-Class-Performers/dp/1328683788 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill: https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmark-Bestseller/dp/1585424331 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.5	This is Optimal Living Daily, how to deal with uncomfortable emotions and reshape your identity.
1:12.3	By Benjamin Hardy of Benjamin Hardy.com. And I'm Justin Mollock, your personal narrator,
1:17.5	the guy reading you blogs every single day of the year, to add a bit more inspiration,
1:22.3	motivation, and happiness to your day. And with that, let's get right to our next post
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1:32.9	How to Deal with Uncomfortable Emotions and Reshape Your Identity by Benjamin Hardy of
1:38.6	Benjamin Hardy.com. Jack Canfield once said, everything you want is on the other side of fear.
1:46.9	And he's right, but I'm going to take it one step further.
1:50.3	Pain, discomfort, shock, boredom, imposter syndrome, awkwardness, fear, being wrong, failing, ignorance, looking stupid.
2:00.7	Your avoidance of these feelings is stopping you from a life beyond your wildest imagination.
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