#88: Are You Avoiding Greatness?

Arnold's Pump Club

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

When people think about their greatest successes, something surprising happens. Before the achievement, people tend to universally experience a time of difficulty or struggle. And, according to Arnold, that's not a coincidence. If you're looking for a moment to be great, Arnold suggests it's time to embrace discomfort.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club.
0:04.6	It's Monday, which means it's time to set a high standard for the week.
0:08.7	It's always funny when you're on a book tour and do many interviews and see which comments go viral.
0:14.6	When I told Howard Stern that people are too afraid of discomfort and need to toughen up,
0:20.3	everybody seemed to take it and run with it.
0:22.8	Older people said it was about the kids, conservative said it was about liberals,
0:28.0	and everybody missed the point just to make themselves feel good.
0:32.0	I wasn't talking about one group of people.
0:34.9	I was talking about everyone.
0:37.9	Somehow we have gotten to a point where everybody is afraid of any discomfort.
0:42.8	They look for shortcuts, hacks, and tricks.
0:47.1	Anything that might get them out of hard work.
0:49.8	They insulate themselves from ideas that might give them herd feelings in the social media
0:54.9	bubbles. They say they don't have time for anything that might help them grow whether reading or
1:00.6	training while they spend hours every day looking at funny dog videos on their machines.
1:06.3	I know that every generation says the generations after it are getting soft and wimpy.
1:11.5	That's not what is happening.
1:13.5	Yes, I'm worried about the kids, but I'm also worried about my generation.
1:18.5	Boomers whine on social media as much as Gen Z.
1:22.9	I'm worried about humanity.
1:25.6	When I try to analyze anything, I always ask what changed.
1:30.1	Across the world, we live in the least violent, the most prosperous and educated time that humanity
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