You are stopping you, you are giving up instead of getting hard. - David Goggins

abandoned the path of least resistance, and sought out the difficult and most challenging tasks they could find.

Are you an experienced scuba diver? Great, shed your gear, take a deep breath and become a one-hundred-foot free diver. Are you a badass triathlete? Cool, learn how to rock climb. Are you enjoying a wildly successful career? Wonderful, learn a new language or skill. Get a second degree. Always be willing to embrace ignorance and become the dumb fuck in the classroom again, because that is the only way to expand your body of knowledge and body of work. It’s the only way to expand your mind.

Incremental progress is still progress, I said to myself. One step is all that is required to take the next one.