2 Difficult Ideas All Successful People Embrace To Fuel Their Growth

Success doesn’t come easy.

It takes relentless focus, work, and consistency in areas that push you beyond your comfort zone. If successful people didn’t push themselves beyond their comfortability limits, their careers would be vastly different.

If I didn’t embrace challenges, would I have had fewer struggles? Less crap smeared on my face? Less heartache? Headache?

Absolutely.

But life is meant to live. We’re human beings, not human doings. A part of being is learning new things and accepting challenges. Learning to embrace failure and the core lessons failure teaches.

Successful people embrace a little daily friction for compounding results:

Idea 1: Build challenges into your day.

Your days should never come easy.

Peter Diamandis recommends a challenge to skill ratio to enter a state of flow.

“Our attention is most engaged when there’s a superficial relationship between the difficulty of a task and our ability to perform it. Flow happens near the emotional midpoint between boredom and…