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Welcome to the game change your life. I'm Dave Anderson. Coming to you from our Agora Hills, California studio.

And the topic I want to talk about today is challenge yourself. Again,

we are going through chapter by chapter of my new book, Elevate Your Excellence,

the power of doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. In this series, by the way,

this is Chapter 11, and it's called Challenge Yourself. In this series, I'm giving you some key thoughts and takeaway.

So if you've read the book, it will be a nudge, a reminder, if you will, maybe something

you started and you need to get back to or you never started in the first place.

We've got to not just get through books, my friends.

We've got to get from books.

And the way

we get from it is we just don't take notes and highlight and underline things, but we take

action on the things that can change our life and help us live a game change your life. And so

we're on Chapter 11 now, and maybe you haven't read the book, and so this will give you some key takeaways

despite that fact. But I love this chapter because the fact is most people don't challenge

themselves. They think they do, but they don't. And they prioritize comfort over growth. And it's

kind of natural to do that because of the way we're wired,

our natural human nature is to play it safe, is to just survive, is to get by. It's not to risk

because that could threaten our survival. It's not to go out and do things that disrupt our comfort because that could threaten our survival. It's not to go out and do things that disrupt our comfort,

because that could threaten our survival. So challenging yourself, some people do it intuitively.

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