Hi, I’d like to present an idea:

“If you, despite you best efforts, despite your frequent willingness to dedicate yourself entirely to self–discipline, are nevertheless stuck, depleted, frustrated and unsuccessful—then there is exactly one, recklessly defiant way in which you should go about it; a Comfort War.”

 

 

What I’ve just described are unique conditions; your unique conditions. Because they are specific, I can make a few axiomatic assumptions and then extrapolate to their logical conclusion. So, in the next hour I’ll build such a case, beginning with the familiar and expanding into the unforeseen, and this will be the jist of it: You’ve been consumed by your own passion. You don’t lack motivation, no, you have it in abundance. So much so, that you’ve become overwhelmed by it and suppressed it with layers upon layers of comfort, allowing it, inadvertently, to swallow you whole. Your desire is so fervent, so overbearing, that by leaving such a beast unattended, it wreaks havoc, devouring every shred of stimuli it can get its hands on just to satiate its need. This creates a deep incongruence within you, and it is why you’re frustrated; because you are not you—you’re not the way you should be. What you may feel is a total, unavailing, miserable need for cheap gratification is only a reaction, in fact, of a nullified, equally ravenous and fervent desire for real fulfillment—one that might put even the Greats to shame. Think of Joe Louis, Sonny Liston or Aaron Pryor, for example, who reigned as tremendous world boxing champions but later, after retirement, turned to drugs and alcohol to fulfil their need; you’ve been consumed by your own passion.

This being the case, you only have one logical alternative to your current circumstance—to become obsessed; to center your entire life around meaningful pursuit. Yet incidentally, seeing as you don’t have any “middle-ground” or a “balanced” option available to you, the challenges ahead are far different for you than for those combating hardship. You, my friend, are at war with comfort. And that, is a fact far more insidious than you may imagine.

 

Now, there’s a lot to get into here, but seeing how this is the very first podcast, I’ll briefly cover the basic premise of these installments. Most important, is that in light of the outstanding amount of misinformation that’s currently out there, you understand what makes this podcast different, and worth your time. So know this:

1st. The most crucial, need to know, step-by-step information is available to you now in the Comfort War book which can be downloaded directly from the site comfortwar.com. The podcast, in essence, is only to sustain you in the efforts already detailed there.

2nd. This podcast is about a few things, but primarily it’s about perspective and ideas. In each of these I’ll present a rational, well-researched idea, along with a transcript and citations for you to scrutinize. I’ll do so by keeping my incentives honest in the most anti-Machiavellian means possible, providing free access in return for support only if you found the information valuable thereafter, and all proceeds go to further this effort.

These two are the rules of this podcast, allowing it to survive and thrive only through the use of reason and by providing value. You may find that in your life, perspective—the very way in which you see—is currently inseparable from your experiences. And with these ideas, that is what I intend to disrupt; the very way in which you see. By allowing you to regularly introduce yourself to a mindset so far outside your own, this external intervention, should you seek it, enables even your self-perception to undergo drastic change.

 

 

So, back to business. Let’s get right into it, shall we? And where better than by describing the enemy?

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