Transform Hardships into Instincts for Success

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To achieve significant success, it's essential to turn challenging tasks into automatic behaviors, similar to basic instincts like survival and procreation. Understanding that avoiding tough tasks becomes a default state for many, it’s crucial to identify and reverse-engineer the necessary actions required to reach long-term goals. While recognizing these actions is straightforward, the difficulty lies in consistently performing them daily. Most individuals fail to achieve their resolutions or goals because they struggle to maintain the discipline needed for hard tasks that aren't instinctively ingrained. By making these hard tasks habitual, the energy drain associated with them is minimized, allowing for sustained progress toward success.

Most people suffer from the "natural giftedness" delusion. They think that successful people are born naturals who master things immediately -- and -- If they try something new and they're not good at it and confident on the first few tries, it's just not meant to be. This sort of thinking is fucked up. Everybody is born into this world the same way. Everything must be learned through practice. Sheer repetition, consistency and time. You will NEVER be successful in life or business until you turn the hard things you avoid doing into base instincts. Things you execute on all day, every day, without even thinking. To do this you have to go through a few stages: The first one is to brute force your way through, then turn it into a habit, then turn it into a base instinct. The magic happens when hard things become base instincts.