Mark Manson

The catch is, is that you're probably not going to want to do it.

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Have you ever tried to change something about yourself and quit, not because it was hard, but because it was boring?

That's actually one of the most common failure points.

Not the start, not the hard part, but the middle stretch where you start doing the work, but you just don't really feel any different.

You're the same person on the inside, just behaving slightly differently.

And every day you have to choose to keep going without any real evidence that it's working out for you.

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So up until this point in the episode, we've covered what we'll call the slow way of growth.

You identify your personality traits, you understand your own adaptations, you deduce the behaviors that are most targeted towards the adaptation you want to change, and then you build a series of habits and systems to help you implement those behaviors.