So whether you’re an entrepreneur, scaling your business, please understand you will reach a plateau of your growth, and if you push to the next level, the way you get there is through the process of messiness and confusion. There’s nothing wrong. Everything is right. Confusion means you’re growing. If you are an athlete and you’re at a certain plateau of your sport, your acumen, your game, please understand that things now must break down to a breakthrough. Let’s say you’re a marathoner, or a boxer, or a yogi, or a swimmer, you’re going to reach a certain level through your practice, and your study, and your devotion, and your commitment. And then if you want to get to the next level of world-class, you’re going to have to break down things, your core beliefs, your muscles, your emotional architecture. Even on the physical side, your muscles need to break down. It’s called micro-tearing, and the muscle will break down, then you rest it, and then when you recover, guess what happens? Your muscle’s stronger. That is growth. And so the A-Players and the legendary leaders understand that in business, in your physical life, in your relationship life, in your spiritual life, in your financial life, breakdown is necessary for breakthroughs. A lot of philosophers say, “The very nature of growth means you will endure a lifetime series of cycles, lifetimes, of death and rebirth.”
