Codie Sanchez

That doesn't mean you should get a college education in a third world country.

That's not a desirable difficulty.

A desirable difficulty would be where I say to you, maybe you're in a classroom where there's more kids than normal.

Or maybe you've got to wake up at 6 o'clock every morning because you have a part-time job or you're playing a sport.

And so you're forced to kind of organize your day and be disciplined.

Those are desirable difficulties, right?

The thing that kind of encourages you to be thoughtful and intentional in how you use your time is a desirable difficulty.

And you see when we give people too much freedom, they...

very often they don't, they get lost in it, right?

That's because there aren't enough things, they're not butting up against enough, you know,

Athletes know all about this, that if a workout is too easy, you're not gonna get anywhere, right?

There must be some thing that challenges you in that.

But if it's too challenging, and we always say in running, train, don't strain.

Tomorrow is another day, that's a famous, like, you know, everyone's heard that.

That's what that point is, right?

Don't kill yourself, that's undesirable.

But push yourself, that's desirable.

Way too much.

I think that part of what we're seeing now with young people and the rise of mental health issues and all this kind of anxiety and I think that's sort of what we're seeing is an environment that isn't building resilience.

Too much coddling, too much not enough