Mark Manson

His father, I believe, either died of a heart attack or had a heart attack at a very young age.

He has a lot of heart disease in his family.

When he had his first kid, he suddenly had this

realization of his own mortality and realized like, oh my God, if I have a heart attack the same age my father did, my kid will be like eight years old.

Like my kid won't even be grown up.

He might not know his father.

And that scared the shit out of him so much that he started exercising every day and he never stopped.

I love this story because it's just such a beautiful, like most people when they want to get in shape, they're like, I just want to look good naked.

Yeah.

Right.

Like, yeah.

Or like, I want to have good Instagram photos.

And guess what?

Like, that's a very temporary motivation.

It's going to.

it's not going to last very long.

It's not going to persist on that rainy Tuesday morning when you don't want to get out of bed and you don't want to go to the gym.

You're going to give up because honestly, who the fuck cares about an Instagram photo?

But when you want your kids to grow up and have a father, you're like, fuck the rain, man.

I'm going.