Bret Easton Ellis
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We're just designed to build up calluses.
And a certain amount of adversity, I think, is good, especially for boys, but good for everybody.
Not
Not an overabundance of it, not being physically harmed, but that element of growing up in a zero-gravity environment.
You lose muscle mass.
You lose bone density.
Well, what happens is then when you really hit the disappointments in life that we all have, I mean loss, death, then you collapse.
You're not able to even handle someone criticizing you.
Right.
That's not normal, I don't think.
And that's something that's worrying.
Look, my feeling is if it's brand new, it's probably not normal and it's probably not incredibly healthy either.
Like the things that never existed.
We've talked about it a million times.
My kids was announced that my son needed to wear a corrective helmet.
I'm like, why?
Why does he need a corrective helmet?
Well, he's six months old and the skull is asymmetry.
And I'm like, how come nobody I ever grew up with had a corrective helmet?
I've never even heard of this.