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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. I've talked a lot about habits on this

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podcast, including how most of our actions and

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choices are in some way a habit. And this applies

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to laziness as well. If you've listened to past

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episodes, you probably hear that and think similarly

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to how I did. Laziness as a habit being about

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a lack of action. And to combat this, you need

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to build a habit of taking action. While there's

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definitely truth to that, I heard a quote recently

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that adds a very important and deeper root cause

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of laziness. Here it is. Laziness is the habit

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of thinking of the cost rather than the reward.

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What this exposes is the true why behind our

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laziness. Think about a stereotypical super lazy

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person. What do they sound like? How do they

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react to inconvenience or external requests?

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Their reasons instantly go to, ugh, I have to

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get dressed and find my car keys, or going to

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the gym sounds exhausting, or it's going to take

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me all day to put in my application. Think about

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what every single one of those responses focuses

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on. They focus on what the action costs. It costs

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the effort, the energy, and the time. We as humans

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are wired to avoid spending unnecessary energy.

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Before modern day, our resources were harder

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to come by, and that meant that the energy we

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spent had to go towards action that earned us

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the necessary resources to do it again tomorrow.

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This means by default, we only spend energy when

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necessary. And by necessary, I mean minimum action

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to stay alive, which is a much lower bar to meet

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in the modern world. So by focusing on the cost

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of actions, actions that likely improve our life

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in the end, we easily justify not taking them.

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Lazy people don't think about the future benefits.

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They see a cost and easily deem it as unnecessary.

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So the life endurance takeaway for today is this.

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If you feel lazy, if you're not taking the actions

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you know you need to in order to reach your goals,

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you're focusing too much on the cost and not

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enough on the reward. Think about why you feel

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lazy. What is it specifically that you should

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be doing? Now you're thinking of the action.

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Think about how much effort, time, and energy

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it will take. You may feel overwhelmed now, and

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that's okay. But this is where you need to shift

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the habit. Switch gears. You think you should

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be doing this action for a reason. What is that

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reason? Why would it be better if you lost the

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extra weight? Why would it be better if you had

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a different job? Why would it feel good to become

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proficient at this new hobby? Why would life

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be better if you were more social? The more we

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focus on why our actions will pay off in the

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end, the less we'll get mentally stuck on the

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cost. Because that's life. And frankly, that's

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just physics. If you put in no action or resources,

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you get nothing back. If you don't take action

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or invest resources, you'll never gain more.

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Consider this and we begin to realize why the

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cost is worth it. We remove the fear of the cost.

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and we build the mental habit that combats laziness.

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Thank you for listening, and as always, I look

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forward to sharing the next episode.