iAlign #82 - Strong Feelings Do Not Mean It Matters More

The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell · Oct 22, 2026 · 20m · transcript

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I went through a breakup years ago with a woman I loved dearly, and I spent a lot of those nights lying on the beige carpet in my room staring at the ceiling trying to work out how to make it right. My workouts got less consistent, my focus went fickle, and my work kept getting interrupted by my own head. The story underneath it was that the emotions wouldn't be this strong if the thing wasn't this important, which sounds convincing and is wrong. If a stranger punched you in the throat on the street you wouldn't call it an important experience, you'd call him a prick. So I…