9 Distractions Quietly Keeping You From Health, Happiness, & A Heart on Fire
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 β’ 2.2K Ratings
ποΈ 7 April 2026
β±οΈ 169 minutes
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Summary
What's really standing between you and the life you know is possible?
In this deep-dive supercut, we unpack nine distractions that quietly pull us off course β from the supplement trap and toxic digital algorithms to the four idols, self-doubt, and comfort seeking. Discover why these distractions aren't random, and how recognizing them is the first step to breaking free.
These nine distractions move from the outside in β starting with what we consume and who we surround ourselves with, then moving to the belief systems and psychological traps that keep us stuck, and finally to the existential fears that hold us back from a life on fire. Learn how to stop doing health, happiness, and purpose β and start actually being it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, before we get into it, quick heads up on something. We're going to relaunch the Chase Club in |
| 0:05.3 | April with some real honest-to-goodness structure. Daily lessons Monday through Thursday, |
| 0:10.3 | aka the Daily Chase, 21-day challenges every single month. And Friday, Chase Club chat clubs to |
| 0:16.4 | keep all of the work alive. And in May, importantly, the price is going to go up significantly. |
| 0:21.4 | Right now, it's just $8 a month or $80 a year. If you've been thinking about joining us, |
| 0:26.6 | April is the best time. Lock in the lowest price it'll ever be. Chasingexcellance.com. |
| 0:31.6 | Email, the link is in the show notes. Okay, let's get into it. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello and welcome back to the show to what I'm, I started in my head to openly call |
| 0:45.2 | Supercuts. |
| 0:46.3 | I've done this handful times. |
| 0:47.7 | I love going back into the archives and I have loved over the last, I don't remember |
| 0:51.9 | when I started this, But number of months going back |
| 0:55.0 | through and collecting episodes that are thematically linked and bringing them together in one |
| 0:59.8 | long deep dive. I think we started this with Chris Irwin's five mind killers. Supercut, |
| 1:05.7 | or I brought four, I think four episodes with Chris all together in one. I really liked it. |
| 1:10.7 | Sometimes we pair it |
| 1:11.7 | with an essay that we work on that are sort of born out of the episodes. This time around, though, |
| 1:17.2 | this is a super cut that I've been looking forward to put together for a while now. So let's get into it. |
| 1:22.9 | Over the years of the show, we've spent a lot of time talking, of course, about what it takes to |
| 1:26.9 | Chase Excellence and your health and your relationships work in her life. And while've spent a lot of time talking, of course, about what it takes to Chase Excellence and Your Health and Your Relationships, Work, Inner Life. |
| 1:30.7 | And while we spent a lot of time on what to do, we spend sort of a surprisingly little |
| 1:35.3 | amount of time talking about what stands in the way. |
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