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What if the key to a better life isn’t avoiding difficulty, but deliberately choosing the right kind?
Joshua Waldron is an entrepreneur, author, and the mind behind Hard Is Fun—a philosophy built on the idea that the right challenges can make us stronger, more capable, and more fulfilled. At 15, Joshua was told he would never walk again. Years later, he destroyed his wheelchair. That experience helped shape a radically different relationship with difficulty, one that would influence his approach to business, personal growth, and life itself.
In this conversation, Joshua breaks down the concept of Productive Difficulty: how to distinguish challenges that help us grow from suffering that simply drains us, and how to make better decisions about what’s worth pursuing. We explore his journey building a precision manufacturing company during the 2008 recession, the science of hormesis and how stress can make us stronger, and the common thread connecting his pursuits in entrepreneurship, music, real estate, and writing.
We also get practical about how to break out of a comfortable but unfulfilling life and start choosing challenges that move us forward.
The end goal isn’t to make life harder. It’s to get better at choosing what’s hard and discovering what those challenges make possible.
Joshua’s book on the Hard Is Fun philosophy launches this September.
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