The World’s Toughest Challenge
One guy’s quest to do everything right, consistently.
It’s no exaggeration to call self-mastery “the world’s toughest challenge.” People have been trying forever, but no one seems able to get it right.
When I say “self-mastery,” I mean it in a very practical sense: the ability to consistently do what we know to be right (and not do what we know to be wrong). There are many other philosophical and spiritual interpretations (which may help with the practical side of things), but this challenge is all about real-world, measurable actions.
Taking super easy actions consistently is super hard
If you think about it, there’s nothing physically stopping us from doing the right things all the time. In fact, most right actions are very easy: Get out of bed, go for a jog, say a kind word. Neither is there anything physically forcing us to do things like buying that chocolate we know we shouldn’t.
But we all know from experience that taking these seemingly very easy actions (and inactions) on a consistent basis is near-impossible. Indeed, if self-mastery was easy, we’d all be rich, fit, and very proud of ourselves.
The problem is that every human comes with a set of millennia-old instincts to chase pleasure…
