Phil Stutz

Life provides endless possibilities, but along with them comes pain. If you can’t tolerate pain, you can’t be fully alive.

e. If you’re a leader but you can’t confront people, no one will follow you.

Because we’re held there by the classic modern weakness: the need for immediate gratification.

They have something that gives them the strength to endure pain—a sense of purpose. What they do in the present, no matter how painful, has meaning in terms of what they want for the future.

A sense of purpose doesn’t come from thinking about it. It comes from taking action that moves you toward the future.

We call this the “Force of Forward Motion.”

You do that by taking on the same form the force takes—making yourself into a miniversion of it.

He replied that he’d discovered a tool that trained you to desire pain.

you move toward it, pain shrinks. When you move away from it, pain grows.

ize a cue.

For the Reversal of Desire, the first cue is obvious—right before you’re about to do something you want to avoid.