“Hold the line. It takes tremendous, sickening effort to break inertia, but once you do you’ll be astonished it was so simple. You must do what others won’t. Everyone dives into a new routine head-first, and most last a couple of days at best. If you miss a single task you set for yourself in the first hundred days, it’s all over. If you make it out the other side, the world awaits.”

How do we break the cycle of inactivity and bad habits?

Inertia is the idea that things will stay the same unless a change occurs. We have all experienced inertia at some point in our lives, of ‘feeling lazy’, quitting a new health regime, or even writer’s block. Unfortunately, the only way to overcome inertia - that feeling of being stuck - is to shock yourself into motion. Matt unpacks this week's quote and discusses how to break inertia, confront and build motivation, and why heroes, like Dante Jacoby, inspire us.

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