Strive

IntroductionWhy you don't want all your dreams to come true

These days, most people across the world are focusing on the pursuit of comfort and the avoidance of struggle – in other words, getting things without having to go through the hard work. We just want to be happy. We just wanna feel good. We want to have everything handed to us on a silver platter. We want to work on our strengths, building only on what we're good at and ignoring what we suck at.

But here's the bad news: this attitude is having a devastating impact on our mental health and wellbeing. Human beings feel most alive when they are courageously striving to overcome challenge and struggle. We get our sense of self-esteem and self-worth from being in the trenches, being forced to exhibit courage and evolve so we can overcome that struggle. Falling into the trap of spending all our time chasing happiness and comfort is destroying our lives.

What have you gotten yourself into by buying this book?

Forget the slow tease, it's totally overrated. Let's do the reveal right up-front. So what is this book all about? For more than ten years, I have been working on performance and wellbeing projects with my brilliant and wonderful research partner from Deakin University, Dr John Molineux. Through this research, we discovered a finding that totally blew our minds, and made us rethink everything we thought we knew about performance and stress. You see how most research works is that you have some sort of hypothesis (an ...