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The Problem With...

The Problem With Comfort: Anthony (Staz) Stazicker CGC

The Problem With...

James Smith

Society & Culture

4.99.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Anthony "Staz" Stasziker, a former special forces officer, shares essential life advice on the importance of hard work, discipline, and the problem with living a comfortable life. Staz highlights that true success, much like military training in special ops, is not easily achieved but requires dedication. It's about putting in the effort, not just romanticizing the idea. 👁️ Try Neutonic: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith 🧪 Check your Test: https://www.manual.co/smith 📝 Business Mentoring: https://www.jamessmith.business 🏋🏼‍♂️ Online Coaching: https://www.jamessmithacademy.com Follow Staz on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stazthrudark/ Check out Thrudark: https://www.thrudark.com/ Check out Thrudark on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThruDark Chapters 00:00 - Why Comfort Is Making Us Weak 01:33 - The Friction We Desperately Need 06:34 - How Jiu-Jitsu Changed Everything 08:12 - Leaving Special Forces With Nothing 12:14 - The Hidden Force Controlling Your Life 19:28 - Are We Raising a Generation of Losers? 25:02 - From Failed Footballer to Elite Sniper 31:34 - What They Don't Tell You About Special Forces 41:53 - The Future of War Is Terrifying 51:59 - The Real Reason Men Are Falling Apart 56:04 - The Trauma Nobody Talks About 01:00:57 - The Drug Curing PTSD Overnight 01:06:34 - Why He Climbed Everest in 7 Days 01:22:19 - Buried Alive on the World's Highest Mountain 01:43:38 - What He Learned at 29,000 Feet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You can rewrite that fucking wrong.

0:02.0

People get into this kind of self-deprecating feeling of,

0:05.0

well, I don't have this opportunity.

0:07.0

I'm not from that area.

0:08.0

I can't do what they've done without understanding it's just fucking hard graph.

0:11.0

Even the military and the Royal Marines and the Paris that like the romantic idea of being special forces,

0:16.0

but without the understanding that it's fucking hard, difficult job.

0:19.0

Anthony Stazz Stazakar is a highly decorated former Special Forces officer,

0:23.7

author and founder of clothing company Thru Dark.

0:26.4

What's the problem we come from?

0:27.7

We've created these systems now that are making people's lives too comfortable.

0:31.7

And I passed Royal Marines training and thought, fucking, a very proud day for me.

0:36.3

And slowly, but surely, you sort of join the commando units and you're thrust out to an operational environment, and you think, I don't know, nothing. Tell me about Everest. Oh, fuck. We hear what nobody wants to hear when you're on the side of a big hill. See this huge kind of fucking moving mound of snow. I look behind, can't run back.

0:55.6

Look to the right, there's a huge crevasse.

1:27.8

I can't fucking dive into that. So you have a moment of... Drinking a new tonic a day will make a man very rich. Will you be that man? Probably not. Will I be? Hopefully. Recreated Sonic with one thing in mind to help you lock in. So whether you're making up an excuse to where you were last night to your girlfriend or you're lying on your CV or making up a new sickness to get the day off work, it's nothing better to use that new tonic. Head to newtonic.com, check it out. Stanz, what's the problem with comfort? Oh, may, do you want the PC version or do you want my honest appraisal. We can just rattle through this super quick and have it done in 30 seconds and I'll be out of it.

1:29.6

Now give me the painful version.

1:31.0

Give me the bit that's not nice.

1:33.2

Okay.

1:34.9

The problem with comfort is modern life has removed friction,

1:39.2

but we still need it to function properly, right?

1:41.8

We're no longer challenged or required to change ourselves because our lives and systems

1:46.2

have been optimized for comfort.

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