Hello, my name is Austin Shadle, and welcome
back to the Life Endurance Podcast, where we
explore methods of unlocking your true potential
in the greatest endurance race we all partake
in, life. Just try harder. Advice we've probably
all heard. Is it the most useful advice? Probably
not given the context and emotion of the given
situation, but let's dig into why it is, in fact,
good advice. At its core, the try harder form
of advice is based on the fact that action is
required to make any real progress. You've heard
it here, and you've heard it I'm sure from many
other speakers. Massive amounts of volume will
get you further than a few overthought actions.
And there's a deeper reason as to why taking
a lot of action is better. Think of action as
a feedback loop. Every time you take action towards
your goal, you learn something. If you failed,
you learned to avoid something. If you succeeded,
you learned what to do more of. When we spend
time preparing, researching, and overthinking,
we think we're being more efficient as our next
step should be the right one. But that still
isn't a guarantee that our next step will be
a home run. If you spent three days preparing
for something and it didn't work, you're still
at square one. But if you spent three days taking
action, you probably failed most of the time.
But you likely figured out what works too, leaving
you ahead of the version of you that prepared
for too long. By taking action more often than
deeply thinking about the action, we more reliably
reach the home run result in the end. Yes, it
takes more action, but overall it is faster.
We force out the do's and don'ts instead of trying
to find them ahead of time. The harder you try,
the easier it gets. Here's the life endurance
takeaway for today. Taking the action is hard.
Even if you prepare heavily, you won't make the
next step that much easier. So stop trying to
make the first step easy. It's supposed to be
hard. That resistance you feel isn't a sign to
stop and think more. It's a sign to push harder.
The magic of trying harder is that it breaks
the friction keeping you still. The massive action
that feels heavy today becomes the momentum that
carries you tomorrow. Stop asking yourself, what
is the best way to do this? And start asking,
what is the fastest way I can fail at this? Go
fail. Collect the data, adjust your form, and
go again. The person who fails the fastest eventually
wins the biggest. I hope today's episode added
some value to your own pursuits. Please subscribe
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