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The Art of Charm

Minisode Monday #35 | Good Discomfort vs. Bad Discomfort

The Art of Charm

http://www.TheArtOfCharm.com

Business, Health & Fitness, Education

4.711K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Minisode Monday, where we kick off the week with something quick and actionable -- to make you more magnetic and effective -- that you can implement right away. As much as we might wish otherwise, personal growth isn't a comfortable process. AppSumo and OkDork's Noah Kagan rejoins us for this Minisode Monday to talk about how we can at least make sure it's a good discomfort rather than a bad discomfort. Let's get to it! The Cheat Sheet: In order to grow, you have to step outside of your comfort zone. Not all discomfort is guaranteed to help you grow. Learn to tell the difference between the "good" discomfort that teaches you valuable lessons and "bad" discomfort that puts you through some kind of an ordeal without benefiting you in any way. Noah compares eating so much food that you can barely waddle away from the dinner table (bad discomfort) to going for a seven-mile walk with a good friend that results in sore legs -- but stronger muscles and better endurance -- and excellent conversation (good discomfort). Sometimes your brain will try to convince you the discomfort on the intended path ahead is bad when it's really good -- we're excellent at making excuses to avoid discomfort entirely. This week, try to step outside of your comfort zone in a way that promotes good discomfort. Noah recommends something simple: "Get out your phone right now and text someone something you wouldn't normally text them." It's an easy way to work out your discomfort muscle with minimal danger (though Jordan offers a few caveats you'd be wise to consider first). To learn more about social dynamics and productivity hacks, take the Art of Charm Challenge by clicking here, or text CHARMED to 33444. Also be sure to check out our Social Capital Intensive here! Let us know about how you put today's Minisode Monday into practice! Leave a comment below, tweet with @TheArtofCharm in your response, or write to Jordan directly: [email protected] (he reads everything)! If you're only going to take one supplement to boost energy, balance nutrition, and aid digestion, then Athletic Greens, with its 76 natural ingredients, is what we recommend. Art of Charm listeners get 50% off here! Listen to The Art of Charm, Beyond the Darkness, and hundreds of your favorite podcasts with the free PodcastOne app (on iOS and Android) here! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Show notes at http://theartofcharm.com/mm35/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Jordan Harvanger here, welcome to mini soad Monday.

0:03.1

Happy to be here with you kicking off the week with something quick and actionable that you can implement right away.

0:08.1

That'll make you more magnetic and effective today. My friend Noah Kagan here with me.

0:12.1

Do I say you're from Apsumo or Sumo me? How do I enter or just?

0:15.5

Sumo life or just okay dork.com.

0:18.7

Apsumo.com and sumo me.com.com.

0:23.3

We were talking today on our little morning hike about good and bad discomfort having come from a seminar that we decided not to stay at because we thought like, okay.

0:33.4

Are we getting any value out of this or do I want to leave because I'm not getting any value or do I want to leave because I'm uncomfortable for some other reasons and it became kind of a weird.

0:43.7

We had guilt around leaving and it became kind of this weird calculation.

0:47.7

We were trying to remove any idea or any concept that we were rationalizing leaving because we were too cold or I'm tired or my time is better spend elsewhere and find the actual real reasons for leaving this seminar.

0:59.7

And we found kind of two distinctive types of discomfort both good and bad. Do you want to break those two down for us?

1:07.7

Yeah, I was trying to think of a good example and I think a great example is like when you grow up you have food on your plate.

1:12.7

And there's a part where you're full and you don't really want to eat anymore but your mom's like eat more food and you're like, I just I'm full Jewish mother. Leave me alone please.

1:19.7

And you know, mom, mom, sumo is like, you're just going to eat it and I'm like, that's a bad discomfort because it's like it doesn't better me going through that discomfort. I'm still going to be even more uncomfortable while a good discomfort as we were talking about in our we had a really nice walk by the way.

1:31.7

Yes. And holding in everything. It's like seven miles long as well.

1:33.7

It was a nice walk and a good discomfort though is something that you know that the outcome has a high potential of being better.

1:39.7

So alternatively is we were talking about like a good discomfort is the gym where I know it's going to suck and to me suckiness is good because it's going to be hard and it's going to be challenging but the result and the outcome is going to be is going to be worth it.

1:50.7

I think part of the confusion you can say like set goons book the dip right like one is at a good time to quit. It's like I don't know I finished that book halfway through and I gave it away.

1:59.7

But I didn't finish the day because you're like so much longer. I think it's hard though the challenges like what if you don't know how the outcome is going to be and so that's where me and you at the seminar which we don't name the name.

2:09.7

We stayed almost seven hours and I think after seven hours you have some indication whether you're going to you're already starting to get something out of that experience.

2:18.7

Right. Right. And for me it was kind of like all right, I'm physically a little uncomfortable because we're packed in here. It's freezing like there's an AC thing going.

2:26.7

And on the other hand, I just felt like all right every hour or so I kind of get some not even an actual takeaway takeaway but something that I would like read in maybe an Instagram meme where I figured look if I read seven hours worth of books.

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