Building a good relationship to tension is critical to growth, success, and happiness throughout your life, and business mogul and philanthropist Richard Branson is a great example of that. In this clip from an edition of The FEARLESS Man Live seminar, Brian uses Branson’s life as an example and discussion of how learning to have a positive relationship with tension can blow up your experience of life.
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in August 2019.
Many people think of words like “tension” and “stress” as things to be avoided as much as possible or gotten rid of as quickly as possible. But in fact, tension is where growth is.
You need to put the right amount of tension on your muscles at the gym to make them bigger and stronger…and without any tension on them (if, for example, you never get out of bed), your muscles will atrophy and die.
The chemistry you have with someone you’re flirting with or dating – that is sexual tension. Without it, you have a platonic friendship. And if you suck with tension or hate it, good luck with the ups and downs of relationships, disagreements, having healthy boundaries that help women respect you as a man, and keeping things in relationships fresh over time.
Much of the same is true with all the other relationships in your life – a lot of people’s respect for you and the strength of your connections correlates to your tension skills.
And success in business – especially in becoming a successful leader – makes having a positive relationship with stress and tension imperative.
Richard Branson founded Virgin Records and, eventually, a whole line of Virgin-branded companies and projects that continue to grow in number and size to this day.
The now-billionaire owner of his own island has been learning to step into tension since his mom made him find his own way home as a young boy, and since he decided to start a magazine as a young student with no money…using a trick with payphone operators to get them to place calls to potential advertisers and make it sound like he had a professional assistant.
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