[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Productivity]], [[Perspective]] - People: [[Joey Schweitzer]] (Better Ideas) - Source: [Inaction Is A Slow Death - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIVVQkZtnAU) --- ## Summary - [[Action is a life-giving breath. Inaction is a slow-burning death.]] - [[We resign to inaction as the solution to avoid the pain of action]]. - [[Inaction is the holiday of fools who trade temporary discomfort for long-term existential suffering]]. - [[By embracing pain, instead of running from it, we are simultaneously transformed by it]]. - [[Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one]]. - [[Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.]] ## Notes - It's hard to take action. The act of doing maybe painful, tedious, and uncomfortable. - "[[The discomfort we feel in the face of action often paralyzes us from doing anything at all]]." - Action is often uncomfortable but rewarding. Inaction is often easy but regrettable. - It's easy to do "nothing". To get lost in passive distractions, "letting clickbait decide for us what our next move will be while our lives slip into disarray." - [[Inaction is a form of action]]. - "[[We resign to inaction as the solution to avoid the pain of action]]." - "[[Stagnation breeds destruction]]". - By avoiding action, we then must endure the pain of watching opportunities pass us by. - Doing nothing is the choice to move backward in the ever-forward moving **rhythm of the world**. - [[Walk on]]. - Pain is inescapable. But pain can be bargained with. It can take from us, but it can also give back. "It just depends on which pain we choose to embrace". - Action doesn't reduce the amount of pain we face, but the amount of pain we can more easily ensure. - [[Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one]]. - The voluntary acceptance of action, we gain the strength to shoulder the pain. - "[[By embracing pain, instead of running from it, we are simultaneously transformed by it]]". - Give meaning to the inevitable pain that we must face. Giving meaning to pain is giving meaning to life. - The feeling of growth and progress makes us feel useful to ourselves and to others. **It gives meaning to the suffering**. - "[[The pain of inaction is slow burning, draining your will, and decaying your soul]]". - "[[Inaction is the holiday of fools who trade temporary discomfort for long-term existential suffering]]". - [[Action is a life-giving breath. Inaction is a slow-burning death.]] - "[[Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.]]" ## Original ![[Inaction is a slow death-1.jpg]] ![[Inaction is a slow death-2.jpg]] ![[Inaction is a slow death-3.jpg]]