Evan Marks

So-

Well, you know, it's interesting.

I wasn't that resilient then.

Right.

Because I had to leave.

So I didn't take care of myself the way I should have.

I didn't express what was going on.

I didn't have an outlet to share my emotions.

So in a way, I might have looked resilient, but inside it wasn't as it seemed.

So the real question is, how do you build resilience?

Obviously, we know when you see the Goggins of the world and stuff like that, you got to do hard things.

But resilience also comes from sharing how you feel.

Because what happens is when we dismiss how we feel, the pain we're in, whatever it may be, and we push it aside, it comes back.

But it doesn't come back one-fold.

It comes back five-fold.

It shows up in behavior when it's most unexpected or it seeps into things in your life.

Resilience definitely is doing hard things and taking risk.

And you can feel the nerves, feel the emotions.

But when you can't express them, it doesn't stimulate the resilience you want.

That's important.