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Hello, my name is Austin Shadle, and welcome

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back to the Life Endurance Podcast, where we

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explore methods of unlocking your true potential

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in the greatest endurance race we all partake

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in, life. Just try harder. Advice we've probably

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all heard. Is it the most useful advice? Probably

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not given the context and emotion of the given

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situation, but let's dig into why it is, in fact,

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good advice. At its core, the try harder form

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of advice is based on the fact that action is

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required to make any real progress. You've heard

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it here, and you've heard it I'm sure from many

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other speakers. Massive amounts of volume will

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get you further than a few overthought actions.

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And there's a deeper reason as to why taking

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a lot of action is better. Think of action as

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a feedback loop. Every time you take action towards

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your goal, you learn something. If you failed,

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you learned to avoid something. If you succeeded,

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you learned what to do more of. When we spend

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time preparing, researching, and overthinking,

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we think we're being more efficient as our next

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step should be the right one. But that still

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isn't a guarantee that our next step will be

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a home run. If you spent three days preparing

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for something and it didn't work, you're still

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at square one. But if you spent three days taking

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action, you probably failed most of the time.

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But you likely figured out what works too, leaving

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you ahead of the version of you that prepared

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for too long. By taking action more often than

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deeply thinking about the action, we more reliably

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reach the home run result in the end. Yes, it

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takes more action, but overall it is faster.

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We force out the do's and don'ts instead of trying

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to find them ahead of time. The harder you try,

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the easier it gets. Here's the life endurance

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takeaway for today. Taking the action is hard.

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Even if you prepare heavily, you won't make the

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next step that much easier. So stop trying to

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make the first step easy. It's supposed to be

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hard. That resistance you feel isn't a sign to

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stop and think more. It's a sign to push harder.

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The magic of trying harder is that it breaks

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the friction keeping you still. The massive action

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that feels heavy today becomes the momentum that

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carries you tomorrow. Stop asking yourself, what

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is the best way to do this? And start asking,

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what is the fastest way I can fail at this? Go

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fail. Collect the data, adjust your form, and

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go again. The person who fails the fastest eventually

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wins the biggest. I hope today's episode added

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some value to your own pursuits. Please subscribe

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and take a brief moment to share if you think

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this could help others. To learn more about my

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and as always, I look forward to sharing the

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next episode.