Do hard things

Anthony Alcantara

04 Nov 2025

Yes, we all want it to be effortless. The easy way. No sweat.

That, however, is not where growth comes from. It’s not where fulfillment comes from.

We learn to do hard things, the right hard things, to become fully human. Through our effort, we realize that the striving is joy in itself. It is an end in itself. Life is hardship. And learning to love the hardship is what being human is all about.

Steven Pressfield calls it the resistance. And facing that resistance, that fear, will help us get through life to become what we were meant to be. The resistance is pointing us to growth.

Learn to do hard things with joy.

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