Quick Cut: S2E251 The Importance of Struggle

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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No-one wants to experience adversity in life, but the challenges we face can very often be the making of us. In this episode, Brian explains why struggle is vital to the good life and shares how we can prepare for it, conquer it and ultimately benefit from it.

YOU WILL LEARN:

· Why you need struggle to grow.

· Why struggle allows you to step out of your comfort zone.

· How struggle helps you to embrace the grind.

NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“Many people seek lives without struggle or difficulty. And that in itself will bring tremendous difficulty.” – Brian Buffini

“Struggle is a great teacher. And, when we're prepared for it, we can actually learn to enjoy it.” – Brian Buffini

“You’ve got to go through the life and death struggle of a chrysalis to become a butterfly. That's the only way you learn how to fly.” – Brian Buffini

“The struggle is crucial. If you're struggling right now it's helping you.” – Brian Buffini

“We have to do the hard things to get to easy street.” – Brian Buffini

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.
0:10.4	Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.
0:17.2	Welcome to today's episode, The Importance of Str struggle. By definition, struggle is to make
0:23.6	strenuous efforts in the face of difficulties or opposition. Many people seek lives without
0:30.3	struggle or difficulty, and that in itself will bring tremendous difficulty. Struggle is a great
0:36.4	teacher, and where we're actually prepared for it,
0:39.2	we can actually learn to enjoy it. So let's dive in. I think all of us would recognize that we've
0:46.1	become the person we've become today because of the adversity we've faced and overcome.
0:51.2	And so the dynamic is in that struggle, there's so much there is to learn. There's so
0:56.0	much gift. People look back in history and go, that was actually the best thing that ever
0:59.9	happened to me. But in the world we live in today, we know we've been made by the adversity we face,
1:04.6	but many times we don't want our kids to face that adversity. And so when you live a life without
1:10.4	adversity, that in itself, without that
1:13.6	struggle, is going to lead somebody horribly unprepared for actual life. And so the easier we keep
1:19.9	making things and the easier we're looking for things to be ourselves, the weaker we're actually
1:24.0	becoming. The fact of the matter is it is a good life and the good life
1:28.6	has a lot of struggle in it. And the struggle can ultimately be good for us. Imagine you racked up
1:35.4	a bunch of credit card debt. Maybe someone listening to this has done that. And so you made purchases.
1:40.1	Maybe you bought things you couldn't afford. Maybe you got yourself into some trouble and you needed
1:43.0	to bail yourself out and you use credit cards to do it.
1:46.0	So you've learned to use credit.
1:47.4	You got these high payments.
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