Bryon Gustafson

because glass half empty to me is victim mentality, right?

Where if things happen, bad things happen to me and so I kind of identify with those.

It does seem like to me that you do see that predominantly in the veteran community.

And I think that that is a byproduct of a lot of veterans being told that they're the victim, especially when you go and speak to a counselor.

I think that counseling over the past couple decades

And Jordan Peterson speaks about this pretty frequently, actually.

So this isn't just my opinion, but there is a tendency to believe that you need somebody else to fix your problems.

At MVP, one of the things that we focus on and that we see positive results from is showing the capacity that you are the thing that can overcome whatever obstacle is in front of you, right?

Reminding veterans that they are powerful and that they can take it on versus, again, glass half full versus half empty.

So that's one thing that I have noticed and has kind of been the...

Honestly, the reason for standing MVP up.

I mean, I remember the first one I did before even being in the military being like, is that it?

Yeah.

It is tight.

Why do I keep hearing cock?

And it depends on how bad he needs that score based on the disability rating that he's wanting to get.

I would argue he could be there for 96 hours, you know, depending on how bad he wants it.

Close to death.

I could see you taking it close to death.

Just taking it, you know what I mean?