Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Choosing the Right Problems

Episode Date: June 17, 2020

As much as we are inclined to live problem free lives, Mark Manson suggests that life is not about removing problems as much as it is about choosing the right ones. Happiness is growth, and in essence, positioning yourself to face and conquer the problems that mean the most to you.   In this episode I dive into the task of removing that which doesn't serve you and exhausting precious time and energy only on that which does.

Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Panero. In this episode, we're going to take a common misconception, right? The need to remove problems in life and examine how maybe it's not removing them, but surrounding yourself with the right ones. So there's a basic human tendency when, you know, things feel rocky, when there's story loops unresolved, when life feels uncertain, when there are problems. right our instinct in our inclination is to want to remove them right to mitigate all that does not

serve us to create the calm and serenity that we hope to achieve um and this is another pull from mark manson's book and you know basically his his thought on this which i love and i I agree with 100% is, you know, life is not about removing problems. One, because they'll always be there. And two, because they are fundamentally what makes humans happy. We just don't realize it. Right. It's life is problem solving, right?

Happiness is growth. And growth is the culmination of problems that just get bigger and bigger and bigger. and we become more and better equipped to deal with these problems as they grow and as they present themselves. And so life is not, as he says, about mitigating problems, but it's about choosing and being methodical about which problems you want in your life. What are you going to allow in your life? Where is your focus and your attention going to be? Right. Because there's a big difference between being able to choose the problems that are around you and being mandated problems. And even the same one, right, has a different feel. He gives the example of a marathon,

right? Someone pointing a gun to your head and saying, you need to run this, you know, 26.2 or else is going to feel a lot different than choosing to do it and planning and having your friends there and preparing. It's just night and day, right? So, life is about putting the problems that mean the most to you in front of you so that you can solve them, particularly because happiness is growth. Right. So mastery is an asymptope. Mastery, and this is from Daniel Pink's Drive, 2.0, right? It's like you take this line and it never, ever, the two lines never quite touch. There's never a complete point. our stopping point where you are a master, where you're as good as you can be.

No, there's always a little bit more, right? There's always another step. There's always a little bit better you can be. And that excitement, right, there's just the possibility in always, you know, having that next level to reach. That's what inspires, you know, the Zuckerbergs and the Jordans and the jobs. Like they have enough at some point where they can stop, but they don't, right? Because they're immersed in the problems that they love to create place in front of them and solve. And you know what? At different levels, at different variances, that's how human beings are. And that's when we're in our best state. So I love that message. And I thought it'd be a great, great little Kickstarter for the morning. It's like examine the types of problems that you have in your life. And, you know, maybe you remove the ones that don't have any value to you, that don't serve you. But remember, happiness is not about a problem-free life.

It's about the opportunity and the ability to solve the problems that you care about, right? It's about, in some form or another, mastery as you move towards things that, you know, matter. the power in a greater tomorrow. It's fun, it's challenging, and it's the essence of, you know, being human. So I hope you can pull something from that. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please rate, review, and subscribe.

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