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Back to Search190 - The Achilles Choice
Season 6 Episode 190
Most people never make the choice. They tell themselves they're being patient, being strategic. But if you get honest, it's fear wearing a responsibl…
6 months ago
189 - Show Up Before You're Ready
Season 6 Episode 189
January 2023. Start line. Wrong shoes. One unofficial training run to my name. I ran the half marathon anyway and it taught me more than any race I w…
6 months, 1 week ago
188 - What Suffering Is Actually For
Season 6 Episode 188
I spent most of my life trying to outrun suffering. A brutal 24-mile training run, months of unexplained illness in my early twenties, and a long fig…
6 months, 1 week ago
187 - The Miles You Can't Go Back To
Season 6 Episode 187
I crossed the finish line at 2:56 and couldn't walk right for weeks. Sub-three marathon, shot hip flexors, and a lesson I should have learned a long …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
186 - You're Not Stuck, You're Avoiding a Decision
Season 6 Episode 186
You're not stuck. You know exactly what you need to do, you just haven't decided to do it yet. And that's costing you more than you think.
In this epi…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
185 - Choose Hard Before Hard Chooses You: Building the Capacity for Life's Toughest Moments
Season 6 Episode 185
There is a version of you that already knows what it needs to do.
It knows the race to sign up for, the conversation you've been avoiding, the thing …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
184 - The Boredom Problem: Why You Can't Do Hard Things If You Can't Sit Still
Season 6 Episode 184
The reason you can't do the hard thing isn't motivation. You can't sit still, and that reflex is quietly eroding your capacity to do anything that ma…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
183 - Why Discipline Feels Impossible (And It's Not a Willpower Problem)
Season 6 Episode 183
You haven't lost your discipline. You've lost your energy. And those are two completely different problems that require two completely different solu…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
182 - The Comfort Trap: Why Playing It Safe Is the Riskiest Thing You Can Do
Season 6 Episode 182
The safest decision you ever made might be the one that's quietly destroying you. Comfort doesn't look like weakness, it looks like a steady paycheck…
7 months ago
181 - If You Want a Village, Be a Villager: How to Actually Build Real Friendships
Season 6 Episode 181
Loneliness is rising everywhere.
But the problem isn’t that people don’t know anyone. The problem is that most people lack consistent, meaningful inte…
7 months, 1 week ago