28. Are You Giving Up? Hiding from Your Work? Me Too.
Giving up is easy. Running into a problem is easy, too, so when we’re building something or creating important work out of nothing it’s really easy to throw in the towel. Much easier than persisting forward.
Steven Pressfield calls this “the resistance” because most times the pull of not doing the work is stronger than actually doing it. Seth Godin calls it hiding because you’ve chosen to pursue not doing it in lieu of doing it.
Many of us hide throughout our days. And some level of hiding is important because we can’t be doing the work all the time.
The problem comes when we refuse to climb. When we binge TV time and time again instead of writing our pieces. When we constantly play video games before doing our homework. When we go to the bar every night with our buddies instead of recording a piece of our podcast. When we indulge our every desires instead of spending time with family or our spouses or kids.
Giving up is easy.
Hiding is even easier. Still, most of us are doing it.
But when we hide we don’t do anything of value.
Instead, we opt for the numbing sensation of hiding. Of avoiding. Of not doing the work. And when we quit, when we give up before we get to the plateau of the hill, we rob ourselves of any happiness that doing the work could give us.
