3554: The Most Trying Part of Living a Good Story by Jeff Goins on Building Resilience and Life Fulfillment

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🗓️ 6 April 2025

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3554: A meaningful life isn’t free of struggle, it’s shaped by it. Jeff Goins explores the essential truth that good stories, like good lives, require conflict, sacrifice, and purpose beyond ourselves. Instead of chasing comfort, embracing hardship can lead to the kind of fulfillment that truly lasts. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://goinswriter.com/living-good-story/ Quotes to ponder: "It's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come." "Good stories involve conflict, which is just a nice word for pain. People don't become heroes without sacrifice." "A life that is focused solely on self and one's own happiness ultimately ends up being shallow and unsatisfying." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily, the most trying part of living a good story by Jeff Goins of
0:07.1	Goinswriters.com, and I'm Justin Mollick. Welcome back to the podcast where I read to you every day
0:12.8	of the year to help bring a bit more meaning and happiness to your days. And with that,
0:17.4	we're going to get right to our next post and continue optimizing your life.
0:24.8	The Most Trying Part of Living a Good Story by Jeff Goins of Goinswriter.com
0:30.5	Recently, I watched the Lord of the Rings films with my son and was struck by an important quote.
0:37.3	It spoke to me about the
0:38.3	hardship of life and what it takes to live a good story and why we sometimes avoid life's
0:43.4	difficulties. Frodo and Sam are hiking through the mountains on their way to Mount Doom to
0:48.1	destroy the one ring and bring back peace to the land, but at this point, all seems lost. They can't see beyond their present reality.
0:57.2	Frodo, I can't do this, Sam. Sam, I know, it's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here,
1:04.4	but we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered,
1:09.9	full of darkness and danger they were.
1:12.6	And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy?
1:16.7	How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end,
1:21.6	it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out
1:30.0	the clear. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too
1:35.1	small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories
1:42.0	had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't.
1:45.6	They kept going, because they were holding on to something.
1:49.7	Frodo, what are we holding on to, Sam?
1:53.1	Sam, that there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo.
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