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Many of us have patterns we can't seem to shake. The self-sabotage. The drink. The people pleasing. The behavioral coping mechanisms that don't serve us.
More often than not, those behaviors trace back to a single source. Not a character flaw. Not a lack of discipline. An emotion we're trying to avoid. A refusal to withstand discomfort that tends to lead to more. Different for everyone, but the mechanism is always the same.
Avoidance doesn't protect you from the feeling. It's your resistance to it that makes it painful.
My guest today is Joe Hudson, the creator of the Art of Accomplishment and an executive coach whose clients include people at SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, and Apple. He came to this work the long way. An alcoholic father. A hypercritical mother. A decade of seven-hours-a-day meditation practice. Then an early stint in venture capital, where he encountered brilliant, thoroughly capable people who were outperforming most benchmarks except the one that actually matters: their own inner lives.
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