Grace Beverley
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6 series
first heard Apr 2026
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And why, you know, why have I chosen this job and all of that?
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But a lot of the time, I feel like I'm able to have much better stamina and work ethic, not because I'm the most diligent person in the world, but because I find the work I'm doing interesting.
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And I guess what you're saying is that that should kind of be the aim.
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Another reason I find that really interesting is because, as you say, if pain isn't negative, if pain isn't suffering, if pain is just like friction or like whatever it might be to get across something, then that is exactly how you get the dopamine back.
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Like I love really simple tasks that feel annoying but make you feel great after.
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Like I always say I have this Friday reset approach to a Friday, which is the way I set up my work day to make it as productive as possible and like reduce the Sunday scaries.
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on those days, I always say, it's like starting with a dopamine starter.
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So just, I don't know, unloading the dishwasher or folding your laundry or whatever it might be.
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That is some of my favorite, like, as you said, kind of pain because it's not actually, you're not truly engaging in doing anything so difficult that it makes you frustrated or whatever it might be.
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It's really easy to access and cross that type of
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Interesting.
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And I guess then if you can have a better relationship with what you consider suffering versus what you consider just part of your day-to-day or a necessary step one to going to step two, then you can also feel a lot better about the work you are doing and the direction you are going in because it doesn't
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It doesn't feel like if you tell yourself, oh, for fuck's sake, I've got to go to work today.
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Then you're saying neuroscientifically, like it actually makes the whole thing a lot harder for yourself.
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Yeah, and it's that classic getting stuck in the planning and research stage of things.
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Like I say it all the time with people starting businesses, there is so much information out there now.
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You could genuinely spend your entire life, like every second of every day, working out how to start the best possible business and how to grow that business.
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And you've done absolutely nothing until you've actually done it.
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And I think it's really easy to kid ourselves that we are doing the most diligent things
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thing by preparing as much as possible and actually there is such thing as over preparation not in knowing too much but in so little action that actually the only thing more you could know about starting a business now you are going to learn by actually doing it and you have to get off that and I think with social media and the access to information it's obviously incredible but at the same time you can kid yourself and stall yourself into this kind of inaction purely because it feels like
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