Audio Episode 8 |💡Escaping The Comfort Trap

Note: This is the audio version of IoNTELLIGENCE Issue 24

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IoNTELLIGENCE is the Playbook for Professional Success, Personal Transformation, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

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1. 🚨 The Big Idea: We thrive in challenge but choose to wrap ourselves in cotton.

2. 🏆 What To Do Next: Do your worst thing first | Do one hard workout a week | Reframe Pain as Progress.

3. 🔬 Go Deeper & Get Smart Fast: Read “The Comfort Crisis” | Learn the 40% Rule.

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Photo by Rachel Claire

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Key Takeaways

• Be aware of one of the paradoxes of human evolution: we seek comfort, but we thrive without it.

• Forget the 1%. Be part of the 2%.

• Become more comfortable being uncomfortable.🔬 Go Deeper & Get Smart Fast

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  Go Deeper & Get Smart Fast

  • If you have a few hours, 📖 The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Healthy, Happy Self by Michael Easter.

  • If you have under 1 hour, 📖 this Atlantic article about how we’re more comfortable but less happy today.

  • If you have 10 minutes, 👓 this article on David Goggins on his 40% rule.

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