Ryan Holiday

And like the idea that we were doing it well in the past is probably.

Yes.

A delusional, you know, monkey bars over concrete.

That's like 20 feet high.

Yeah.

But but yeah.

Yeah.

Are your kids experiencing discomfort and struggle?

And then you can see it clearly how it's key in your kids' development.

But what about you?

Especially in a world where you can get everything delivered.

You know, you can so easily specialize.

All the ways that we just sort of naturally and almost gravitationally just remove things

the constraints and difficulties that, by the way, you're struggling and getting better for having to deal with.

If you're going to eliminate inconvenience in one area, that ought to be with the idea that you are finding other places, more meaningful or significant ways to struggle elsewhere.

Here's what I found.

That's going to sound a little humble braggy, but I was like, I found I was not going into rooms very often where I was not like a special person.

Like it'd be like, hey, I'm meeting this person, like this person is meeting me in the lobby to take me upstairs to the thing where everyone knows where I'm going to be and then I'm introduced.

I wasn't like in a lot of, there's an awkwardness to that to be sure, but I wasn't in a lot of like,

awkward social situations where I was like, I come and I'm like, hey, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do.