Good morning. Welcome to the increase your impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua episode 1,870

The legendary

skateboarder Rodney Mullen is in his late fifties and

He's still skateboards every single day. He says that it's a gift to be able to do something and love it for the sake of it

I have that. I've nurtured it in my life

He says when reading about people like Rodney people who seem to love what they do who describe their work as

Play and so on a common mistake is to think that it's all bliss all the time

There are days Rodney says where you don't want to go out or it hurts or your sore or you just suck

You're not making progress and you feel defeated

But that's the nature of love. It's got hate in there. It's got pain in there and that's what draws you in

That's the magnetism close quote

this excerpt is from

From six at six. It's a it's a

newsletter I get from Billy Oppenheimer and I really love that story

I really want to accentuate what he says here that love the nature of love has hate in there

That's pain in there. It's what draws you in

I think that's a common misconception that we think because we love something that

There isn't pain in there that's always going to be love and happy and smiles that but that's not the reality

That's not the case for relationships, and that's not the case for doing things that we love

And for those of you who are listening to this if you're going through a moment where you feel your stagnant or

Your sore or you suck or you're in pain or you feel defeated

That doesn't mean you're falling out of love of something

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