Eric Thomas

You're not built for comfort or pleasure.

Like if that comes along, good.

You know, if you have a day where you're comfortable and there's some things around you that give pleasure, have some sense and enjoy it.

But don't be thinking that's what your life is aimed at.

one of the things for people who are not where they want to be is that they have pain, like oodles of pain.

And I remember when I was starting out, I was looking for passion.

I was looking for purpose.

I was like, I just want to find something that I'm motivated by, but it's the, it's the cat and the cheese.

It's like, we're looking for cheese, but we have all these cat behind us and all we have to do is look and remember that they're behind us and chasing us.

And so if you have the cat and you're staying in your current situation, you're being used by the cat.

right you're being used by the business owner who you know it doesn't treat you well and is you know and you're in this job that you don't really want to be in right or you're being used by the situation or the context of the relationship that you're in with the girl that you're like not that into right versus saying like this is terrible and because of this terribleness I now have something that I can run away from and then like rather than not looking at the knife or trying to take painkillers to not feel the pain like completely sobering up taking the knife and twisting it in your own heart and being like

I'm going to do something about this.

It's not avoiding pain.

It's choosing from the very beginning, the alchemy, which is like you have these terrible situations.

It's like, and you have the opportunity to turn them into magic and skip or shortcut all the growth you're going to have in a really short period of time simply by twisting the knife and being like, I'm going to do something about it.

If you do what is easy, complain about your situation, your circumstances.

If you do what is easy, stand around and be a volunteer victim like everybody else.

If you do what is easy, surrender and give up on your dreams.

Become depressed and bitter and angry.

Anybody can do that.