Any meaningful change (hard conversation in a relationship, career change, starting new habits) initially makes life worse. The largest cost of this 'worse first' phase is psychological fear, not objective difficulty. As you repeat hard things, the fear component shrinks, making subsequent changes easier.
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Graham WeaverEvidence Quote
“the biggest part of that curve is just fear the biggest part of that curve is just fear so the more you put yourself in situations where you do hard things the shallower and shallower those divots are going to get because because you're going to remove that fear”
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Last Lecture Series: “How to Live an Asymmetric Life,” Graham Weaver— Stanford Graduate School of BusinessCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:19:24 PM
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