#43 – Why Breakthroughs Are Overrated
Climb Your Mountain
English - August 08, 2023 21:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBWilderness Sports Health & Fitness Fitness ultrarunning ultra running ultra marathon trail running mountaineering training endurance training sports nutrition mountaineering hiking backpacking Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
About a year into my personal growth journey, I was convinced I was fucking it up.
Why?
Because I wasn't having any massive breakthroughs.
🔥 I wasn't making six figures in my business while sitting on a beach with my laptop.
🔥 I wasn't engaged to the love of my life.
🔥 I didn't have a perfect, healthy body with a six pack. (Do 47 year-olds even have six packs? Doubtful. But that's where my mind still goes. 😂 )
I didn't have any of the external stuff. So my mind told me I was failing somehow.
But here's the truth.
The personal growth industry is constantly selling the idea that the only kind of change that "counts" is big, visible, and external.
When in reality, the greatest changes you will ever experience will be internal.
The industry sells us on the idea of changing quickly and dramatically.
When in reality, the biggest changes are subtle, incremental, and add up slowly over time. (Often so slowly that it feels like nothing is happening at all!)
The industry tells us we need a breakthrough. When in reality, breakthroughs are far less common than subtle shifts.
So today, I want to talk about the practice of cultivation.
How daily devotion to your growth pays off in the long run (and often much more than that breakthrough you're hoping for).
And how the most valuable shifts you can experience are internal and invisible — yet deeply felt and life-changing.
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