Description

If you’re like most people, when an opportunity starts to get hard, other opportunities start to look really attractive. Why does this happen? And how can you keep yourself from becoming addicted to comfort and instant gratification? Mitchell and Ljupco break it down on this episode of the Deliberate Dropout.

In this episode:

• Finding one thing you can be good at and giving it your all vs jumping from new endeavor to new endeavor
• Using pleasure as a distraction when you don’t have purpose
• Creating identity-based habits
• Fighting the urge to give up when you aren’t immediately good at something
• Short-term gratification mindset vs long-term gratification mindset
• Why do hard things?

Links mentioned:

John Piper’s Book – Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

If you've decided to drop out or are unhappy at college and thinking about dropping out, stay tuned as we go through the experience and help layout how to go from dropping out to building a thriving career.

Mitchell Earl is COO of Praxis and host of the Self-Directed Podcast.

Ljupco Stojanovski Jr. is an account executive at Xplenty and Praxis alumnus who made the decision to drop out of college.

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