How much pain are you willing to tolerate before you're willing to course correct?

A California lawyer turned himself into one of the fittest men on the planet.

Rich role.

Globally recognized ultra insurance athlete New York Times bestseller and host of one of the biggest podcasts on the planet.

You sat down with 800 of the world's smartest people.

Is that one overrule takeaway? This theme of transformation.

So my story. I graduated top of my class, the world ranks from her.

And then I was working as a lawyer. So on the outside it looked like I was doing pretty well.

Inside I was dying. My first escape was through drugs and alcohol.

My family didn't want anything to do with me. The marriage that ended on the honeymoon.

Went to jail. Could barely make it up with simple flight of stairs without being winded.

And that was a harsh dose of reality. I needed to overhaul my life.

I needed to do something that was going to be hard and uncomfortable.

You can't be a phoenix if you don't burn in the flames first.

We all want to be this idealized version of ourself and yet we still don't do it.

We are in a culture that prioritizes comfort and luxury and the impatience that we all have.

We overestimate what we can accomplish in a year and completely underestimate what we could do in a decade.

We don't have to suffer. We don't have to be in pain.

It's our emotional lives that hold us back from accessing that potential.

So how do people in that situation take that first step in transformation?

What worked for me after trying many different things was...

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