The Hard Truth About Making Your Dreams Come True

The Mindset Mentor

Rob Dial

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Mindset

4.8 • 13.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Are you choosing the kind of suffering that builds you up or the kind that slowly breaks you down? In this episode, I break down the truth about pain, sacrifice, and why taking the hard path now leads to freedom later, while the easy path leads to regret. The Mindset Mentor™ podcast is designed for anyone desiring motivation, direction, and focus in life. Past guests of The Mindset Mentor include Tony Robbins, Matthew McConaughey, Jay Shetty, Andrew Huberman, Lewis Howes, Gregg Braden, Rich Roll and Dr Steven Gundry. Here are some useful links for you… If you want access to a multitude of life advice, self development tips, and exclusive content daily that will help you improve your life, then you can follow me around the web at these links here: Instagram TikTok Facebook Youtube

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0:00.0	Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not
0:12.8	yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. And if you're out
0:17.7	there and you love this podcast, do me a favor. Share it with one person today. If every single person that listen to this podcast will share with one person,
0:24.5	we would literally double the amount of impact that we have in the world. So if you would do that,
0:28.5	I would greatly, greatly appreciate it. Today, let's dive straight in. I want to talk to you
0:34.2	about pain and suffering. Let's just dive right into the meat and taters.
0:40.5	You in life are going to suffer. There is no way to avoid it. There's no way to go through an
0:47.4	entire life without pain and suffering. But there is a very, very big difference between
0:53.1	meaningless pain, which is what most people
0:55.9	in this world go through, and a sacrifice with purpose.
1:00.7	So there's meaningless pain, which is a pain of, you know, a type of suffering.
1:04.7	And then there is sacrifice with purpose, which is also a type of suffering.
1:09.1	So the real question is, for you out there listening,
1:12.2	are you suffering for something that is building you into a better version of yourself or
1:18.6	something that is slowly breaking you down over time? Because either way, you're going to pay
1:24.6	in life. And so let's let's dive into it. Let's break it completely open.
1:29.6	The lie that we all believe is that we can avoid suffering in some sort of way. We as humans,
1:35.7	we as organisms, want to avoid pain and suffering. And so just like water, we will take the easiest
1:43.2	route. The difference is, we will take the easiest route.
1:49.8	The difference is, is we taking the easy route over time, that's going to catch up with us in some sort of way.
1:54.0	And so we think like, oh, you know, in the front of our heads, I can avoid suffering in some way.
2:04.4	Like if I just find the right life hack, if I just play it safe, if I don't take any risks, if I do what's comfortable for me, then I can just bypass all the pain in my life, right? No, dead wrong. Not even close. What you're doing is you're
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