Andy Frisella

You know, of course, I do tell them that.

Yeah, but, you know, at the end of the day, man, like, we got to remember, like, kids are not stupid, and they remember, and certain things stick.

And, like, if I'm...

you know, in my mid forties and I'm remembering a lesson about my dad not allowing me to quit, that should be fucking evidence that those things stick.

You know what I mean?

don't know i just think you know we've gone through 20 years of bad parenting strategy where you know we give trophies out for participation we reward mediocrity we we cons we console losing in the improper way losing is okay but it's not about oh little tommy it's okay you lost no it's like okay well next time we're gonna win what'd you learn from this right how do we do you know what could you have done better right and you know

not a lot of and to be fair not a lot of parents even know this because they were brought up in that cycle and they're not they're thinking they're being nice or they're being like a good parent like their mom or dad was and they don't know what they don't know you know what i mean absolutely and and that's uh that's actually the motivation behind the as funny as it is the the motivation behind the otis and charlie books because these are books that are written with the idea

for parents who may have not gotten the life that they wanted or maybe didn't learn these things so they don't know how to teach them to teach their kids these things together, right?

It's a tool.

And yeah, man, it's...

We got to break out of this cycle.

We really want to create generations of excellent people.

We have to break out of this cycle of fucking soft parenting and being their buddy and letting them off the hook of shit that they should follow through on.

And that soft parenting strategy where what we've had in place for the last 20 years is

I mean, the evidence is the evidence, dude.

You know what I'm saying?

So competition's a real thing.

It's not a made-up thing.

And we can say, oh, life's not a competition.

We can say that all we want.