Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
BIG DREAMS NEED BIG SACRIFICES - Discipline Yourself - Best Motivational Speeches Compilation
Mon, 23 Dec 2024
What if the cracks in your armor aren’t weaknesses but doorways to something greater? In this episode, we explore the beauty found in imperfection and the strength forged through struggle. Life’s challenges are like the micro-tears in a muscle—necessary stress that leads to growth and transformation. By embracing the moments when we break, we allow ourselves to rebuild stronger, uncover meaning, and create something extraordinary from the pieces. Let your cracks be where the light gets in, and discover how breaking can lead to a brighter, more meaningful tomorrow. Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
Chapter 1: What does it mean to embrace imperfection?
You were made to break. To be imperfect, intentionally reckless, you were made to break. And thank God. Because I want you to imagine a world where you never cracked. Imagine a world where you never had to pick yourself up and put yourself back together. How truly tragic that would be. Why?
Well, it's in the tearing down and building up that we sculpt beauty, that we chisel away the monotony and create a meaning of sorts. Like muscles at the gym, stressed, taxed, intentionally put through the rigors of resistance, micro tears that teach it, ah, I can not only endure, but I can strengthen. That by challenging the status quo, I get a tomorrow that promises more than today. So break.
Allow yourself to crack. In fact, there's a saying that it's from our cracks that the light shines through, that meaningful things more often than not were born of broken things, that it wasn't being sheltered from life but thrust upon it that the true magic materialized. It took me years to learn this. And it is, I've been surprised to discover, something that must be relearned every day.
My mind resists and my body fights back. It doesn't want me to be broken. My head wants to navigate away from broken things because broken is flawed, right? Broken is imperfect, you know? And isn't perfect the goal? getting a 10 of 10? Highlight reels, filters, elevator speeches, accolades, who the hell has time to crack in a world that demands smooth edges and shiny surfaces? So I asked myself,
at least until about 26, when I first learned that cracking, breaking, disassembling is the precursor to all excellence, the precursor to progress in and of itself, the precursor to anything other than staring out a window and hoping life presents you what you want. One of the most dangerous words I've come to know is perfect. Because perfect is a defense mechanism.
Perfect as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Show me perfection and I'll show you fear. Show me someone who won't go until it's flawless and I'll show you someone who is deeply, deeply afraid. I think our default setting position is to seek the wrong things because beauty is not perfect. Beauty is bruised knees, scraped elbows. Beauty is hurt pride and a crushed ego.
Beauty is getting it wrong, not just once, but over and over again. Because these things allow for the breaking down, and the breaking down is the only thing that invites the building up. So you fear cracks and jagged edges? I fear lacking the courage to let life humble me. I fear clean shoes, predictability, and a life void of criticism.
I fear a world where I stay right where I am, untarnished and perfectly assembled. Today, And every day after, the goal is to let life crack me wide open. Let the light shine through. Let me build again and again and again from the pile of broken things that I have made. Let me take them and assemble a world that means something. like a phoenix rising from the ashes to start anew every day.
Forget the illusions of perfection. Forget the off-ramps and false security interwoven into what you know now, because you were made for more. You were made to stretch, to explore, to live. You were made The world, it needs you. But it needs the real you. Not the one with the mask looking to blend in. Nor the one making all those concessions to avoid being left out. No, the real you.
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Chapter 2: How can breaking lead to growth?
I've talked extensively about my journey and all those games I used to play, the targets I used to aim for. And I know a lot of people who've come to similar epiphanies. But when you don't realize you can exit stage left and begin again, start something new, you simply continue this same song and dance. It's not life that keeps us confined, it's ignorance that keeps us confined.
We simply have to be taught that there's more. And I understand to find an arena where you can thrive in a purely historical context is a luxury. You are programmed to survive. You're not programmed to build an art studio because it's your passion, right? But there lies the battle. We are at a place in time where we have collectively cultivated abundance.
The phone you're using to consume this content, that little thing, can be a portal that transports your thoughts, your creation, your business to the masses. You have at your fingertips access to billions of people. You have reach that humans only 30 years ago, all the way back to the beginning of mankind, could only dream of. The means are there.
In so many ways, it's about freeing yourself to pursue the opportunity that exists all around you, because we self-limit. Alan Watts asked the ever-important question, what would you do if money were no object? Now, in a practical world, why ask such a question?
Simple, because removing those monetary constraints as you contemplate your answer allows you to truly analyze what endeavors are meaningful to you. When something is meaningful, you want to do it. When you want to do it, you immerse yourself in those little intricacies, in those details that the average person simply doesn't pay attention to.
making you so good at whatever that thing is that eventually, not only can you be the best at it, but you can monetize it, and probably at a very high rate. It's not money holding you back. It's not time holding you back. It's not the external world holding you back. It's what you have been conditioned to believe that's holding you back. You are a genius at something.
You are king or queen of your empire, victor within your arena. But to realize these things, you have to, one, understand it's a possibility, and two, refuse to stay stagnant. We have to stop conceding so much while simultaneously accepting so little. Life will never provide what you do not ask for. So why, why be scared to ask? Life won't tell you you're a fish climbing a tree.
You must tell you that. Life won't expand your horizons and adjust your trajectory. You must initiate that change. To find your genius, you must be willing to leave what's insufficient to capture what's meaningful, you must be willing to leave what is meaningless. Let's agree to alter the question, do I have genius level talent? Because you do.
And you live in a society that also rewards those who realize it. The question we need to be willing to ask is are you willing to walk on shaky ground? To abandon, at least for a period of time, safety and the comfort of predictability in order to find that genius? Are you willing to nurture the greatness that already lives within you? Because it was never a matter of ability.
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Chapter 3: Why is perfection considered a defense mechanism?
Let's get the gears turning. That needed to be the theme for the day, and I appreciated it, right? So a few thoughts. One, surround yourself with sharp people like Ashley and Tyler that keep you grounded. But two, and perhaps the main point, stop creating friction for yourself when you're beginning new things.
I've talked about this in different contexts, you know, and I've hammered it into my day-to-day in many ways, right? Like if I'm going on a run, you know, I have the running stuff by the door and ready to go with a glass of water the night before so that when I wake up, the process feels so easy that to not go would seem stupid. But life is complex and so are we.
It was a great reminder that your handle on something in one area of life doesn't mean you'll implement it across the board. And I was grateful for that reminder. It was what I needed at that time, right? The reminder that winning is going. Winning is beginning. Because you're immersing yourself in the process and you're acclimating to it. You're seeing what works and what doesn't.
You're growing, as opposed to taking an extra three months to put into place parameters that will probably change anyway. One of my favorite mantras is, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Powerful, but sometimes elusive. But if you can keep it front and center, it adds immense value to your life.
The most powerful thing you can do is have a general sense of direction and go now with what you have. Ashley and I will change our social media tactics many, many times in the future because we're collecting data and we're moving forward. Tyler and I will approach our venture in probably countless ways. Because we're not in love with a particular strategy, we're in love with the end goal.
And perhaps you, in your world, are at a point where you're seeking to initiate something new. And you're playing with the pros and cons, you're listing ideas in your head. categorizing details and nuance that sure, it seems important right now in this moment, but will it forever? Right, my advice to you is to mitigate detail and instead place the value on finding the courage to begin now.
Before you're ready, before you have all the answers, before you know how X, Y, and Z is going to unfold, mitigate the friction to such an extent that, you know, the pursuit feels like an ice hockey rink. You're sliding into whatever comes next. Never underestimate how powerful that is. And be reassured by the fact that in three months from now or a year from now, the journey won't look the same.
You'll be better in execution and wiser in strategy because you simply created a low barrier to entry. You leveraged perhaps the most important ability you possess. You began. You began. I was watching a master class by author Margaret Atwood. It was on storytelling. And I knew going into it, it would be interesting. I'm not a particular fan of her work, at least from a content perspective.
But look, we're talking about someone who's truly made a mark on the world. There's a lot to be learned from her, so I buckled in and listened to what she had to say. And unsurprisingly, there was a lot of wisdom there. And there was one idea in particular that really resonated with me. Both as a writer, yeah, but also outside the quote-unquote creative space, which I'll get to in a second.
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