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196 - No Time for Ease and Comfort: A Lesson from 1940 for the Life You're Living in 2026

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."

Winston Churchill said that in January of 1940. I've been thinking about it for three days, and it isn't about World War II for me. It's about a 5 a.m. alarm I let slip. It's about a race I keep almost signing up for.

This episode is what happens when one line from a Churchill biography exposes the gap between the version of you that you say you are, and the version of you that actually wakes up. I walk through the speech, the context, and the two halves of the equation everyone gets wrong: the dare and the endure…

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