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188 - What Suffering Is Actually For
I spent most of my life trying to outrun suffering. A brutal 24-mile training run, months of unexplained illness in my early twenties, and a long fight with depression taught me I had it backwards.
Suffering is not the obstacle. It is the work.
In this episode I break down what suffering is actually for; why most people either avoid it entirely or grind through it without collecting what it owes them, and what changes when you stop treating hard things as interruptions to your life and start treating them as the thing that builds it.
What you will walk away with:
— Why your mind puts a ceiling on you long before your body needs one
— How to find something good on the darkest days (and why that skill compounds)
— The one thing that makes suffering heavier every time — and how to stop doing it
— What Epictetus, Cameron Hanes, and Churchill understood about hard seasons that most people miss
If you are someone in your 20s or 30s who knows your are capable of more but keeps getting in his own way, this episode is for you.
Share it with someone who needs it. Leave a rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify; it helps more people find the show.
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You're not lazy. You're not lost. You just know there's a gap between the life you're living and the one you're capable of — and that gap is getting harder to ignore.
Every week, I pull apart the mental patterns that keep capable people stuck — comfort disguised as patience, avoidance disguised as strategy, mediocrity dressed up as balance. I bring in philosophy, personal stories from the trails and the trenches, and conversations with people who decided to stop waiting.
This isn't a show about hacks. It's about the harder work: getting honest with yourself, building the discipline to act on that honesty, and becoming someone you'd actually respect.
Keep getting after it.
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By Brett RossellI spent most of my life trying to outrun suffering. A brutal 24-mile training run, months of unexplained illness in my early twenties, and a long fight with depression taught me I had it backwards.
Suffering is not the obstacle. It is the work.
In this episode I break down what suffering is actually for; why most people either avoid it entirely or grind through it without collecting what it owes them, and what changes when you stop treating hard things as interruptions to your life and start treating them as the thing that builds it.
What you will walk away with:
— Why your mind puts a ceiling on you long before your body needs one
— How to find something good on the darkest days (and why that skill compounds)
— The one thing that makes suffering heavier every time — and how to stop doing it
— What Epictetus, Cameron Hanes, and Churchill understood about hard seasons that most people miss
If you are someone in your 20s or 30s who knows your are capable of more but keeps getting in his own way, this episode is for you.
Share it with someone who needs it. Leave a rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify; it helps more people find the show.
–––––––––––––––––-
Website: Keepgettingafterit.com
Follow on X: @bcrossell
Subscribe on YouTube: @gettingafteritpodcast
Follow on Instagram: @bcrossell
Follow on TikTok: gettingafterit_podcast
You're not lazy. You're not lost. You just know there's a gap between the life you're living and the one you're capable of — and that gap is getting harder to ignore.
Every week, I pull apart the mental patterns that keep capable people stuck — comfort disguised as patience, avoidance disguised as strategy, mediocrity dressed up as balance. I bring in philosophy, personal stories from the trails and the trenches, and conversations with people who decided to stop waiting.
This isn't a show about hacks. It's about the harder work: getting honest with yourself, building the discipline to act on that honesty, and becoming someone you'd actually respect.
Keep getting after it.
Send us Fan Mail