Alex Tarnava

You know, people are just powering through sending a million messages to each other until they hit the lottery or something.

And it's a real breakdown in productive struggle and these lessons that we have had to learn about ourselves from the dawn of time until the last generation.

We've talked, I mean, and I read about some of these in my book.

My dad never made me do something like that, but he'd do other things like he'd drag me to his shop and I'd have to help him work until two, three in the morning, high school.

And then I'd get home, I'd be so tired.

And then as soon as I hit snooze on my alarm to not get up to school, dump ice water.

on and say you know i'd be like i'm tired you kept me up to three and he's a man needs to know that the world doesn't stop turning just because he's tired you have to get to school well said well said my dad used to come in and you know i lived in iowa so the winter's brutal you know what he'd do what to wake me up if i wouldn't get up just jerk the whole everything right off

It is or it isn't.

And like, you know, I tell some of the stories, even what some of my football coaches did, you know, to us and people like, oh, they go to jail today.

And I'm like, that is why we have problems, right?

We need to learn how to overcome adversity.

That's how we get stronger.

That is why I wrote this book.

We've known since the Greeks, probably before that, but Aristotle wrote it down.

Even his ideas like eudaimonia have been perverted into saying it's about happiness and happiness is comfort.

No, it's about a life of purpose, of productive struggle that builds your spirit, that builds your soul.

I 100% agree, so long as it's achievable.

Yes.

Right?

Yeah.