As Thomas Edison said,

Relentlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

I want everybody out there to understand that the goal is not to feel okay.

The goal is not to numb out from the things in your life that suck.

The goal is to leverage that discontent.

The goal is to lean in to the things that frustrate you, to stare at the areas of lack,

to grow fed up with the places in which you're not good enough.

Because that is what is going to give you the energy you need to change.

Having the energy you need to change is the only way that you're actually going to get out of whatever position that you're in.

So the thing that is feeding your discontent, the thing that makes you feel badly is the very thing you need to hold on to.

It's the very thing that most people run from and that's the problem.

The problem is we want to live in a comfy world.

The problem is we want to be in the comfort zone.

But the reality is, if you really want to get good, if you really want to progress, if you really want to become one of the greats, then you have to lean into that.

You have to let it hurt.

You've got to sit in that pain.

You've got to silence the world so that you can hear your own anger so that you can feel the frustration.

Because when you let it invade you, then you will have the energy to do something about it.

But as long as you try to avoid it, as long as you're trying to brush it off, then it's never going to become intense enough for you to deal with it.

And the action, the dealing with it.

That's the whole point.

That's when you have to be building towards and then tell you get to that point where you are so fed up that you will not tolerate it anymore.

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