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Speaker 1: If you think about the most successful people in the world,

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Speaker 1: I promise you they're not comfortable. If you think about

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Speaker 1: the healthiest people in the world, they're not comfortable. Now

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Speaker 1: you may say, Jay, comfortable is more of an important

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. If you try to get comfortable,

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Speaker 1: then when there's uncertainty and your comfortability is disturbed, you're

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Speaker 1: not sure what to do. Hey, everyone, welcome back to

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Speaker 1: On Purpose, the number one health podcast in the world.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to each and every single one of you that

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Speaker 1: come back every week to listen, learn and grow. Now

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Speaker 1: today I wanted to focus on work. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: focus on careers. I wanted to focus on what you

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Speaker 1: do to make money because the careers that we choose,

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Speaker 1: the industries we choose, the jobs that we choose, end

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Speaker 1: up taking up a lot of our lives. We spend

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Speaker 1: was watching an interview recently with Mark Zuckerberg. It's an

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Speaker 1: older interview, probably one of the earlier interviews he did,

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Speaker 1: he gave a really interesting answer. He actually said that

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Speaker 1: he believes that we shouldn't avoid mistakes. We should make

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Speaker 1: but the insights I'm about to share with you on

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Speaker 1: this podcast will save you months, if not years, of pain, effort, struggle,

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Speaker 1: and challenges, which can set you up to have immense

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Speaker 1: so believe that. When I learned from the Vaders, they

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Speaker 1: Vedic literatures. And you can think about this from the

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Speaker 1: It can be really dangerous. Now, as a smart individual,

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Speaker 1: I love seeing what you share on Instagram and Twitter.

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Speaker 1: We had Adam Grant that was incredible. We had Daniel

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Speaker 1: year on on purpose. We're not done yet. I've got

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Speaker 1: some really exciting episodes left for twenty twenty one. I'll

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