Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2002, and today what we're talking about is the pain of success. There's a book called Same as Ever by Morgan Howsel, one of my favorite books, and I want to read a little excerpt from it. Here it is, quote, there's a scene in the movie Lawrence of Arabia arabia in which lawrence puts out a match with

his fingers and doesn't flinch another man watching tries to do the same and yells in pain it

hurts what's the trick then he asks the trick is not minding that it hurts laurence says

this is one of the most useful life skills, enduring the pain when necessary,

rather than assuming there is a hack, a shortcut, or a shortcut around it.

I love that close quote.

I love that because a lot of times we'll look at people who are successful at whatever their

endeavor is and we'll think to

ourselves it doesn't look like it hurts then you go and you try it and you realize it is painful

it is difficult it does take time it is not as easy as they make it look and then you ask them

you're like oh how did you do that without oh, how did you do that without it hurting?

How did you do that without paying the price, without all the effort? Only to have the person

say, it is painful. It does require sacrifice. It does hurt. You just learn to tolerate it,

or you work at it at your craft so much that it doesn't hurt as bad.

And even the next level is you begin to enjoy it and look forward to it.

And so here's to those of you who, this episode is for those of you who might be avoiding

a new version of yourself, building a habit, sharpening your

system because it's hurting at first. You're feeling that cognitive storedness, that mental

fatigue, and you're thinking, oh, this isn't for me. It's not as easy as other people make it look.

It's supposed to be hard. It's supposed to be difficult.

It's not supposed to be easy because as we always say, if it was easy, everybody would do it.

And so let us learn this lesson from this parable that we just read and remember that the trick

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