Shawn Johnson East

There was like a no drinking policy.

There was a lights out curfew.

They ran a really tight ship, but it worked really well.

It's countercultural right now.

I feel like culture right now is preaching the opposite of commitment.

They're telling you on all social medias and black holes of like, keep your options open and make sure you have impulsive, immediate satisfaction.

And you find a dopamine hit every five minutes.

And it's like, the world is telling you that commitment is not worth it.

And we try to give the argument that it actually is.

Yes.

I think it takes practice.

I think.

A simple example is it takes practice to put your phone down.

It takes practice not to be doom scrolling for two hours every day.

And it takes like a lot of intentional thinking.

And I think we give you very tangible ways to build up that tolerance and that strength.

And when you kind of get the proof of concept in one place, it's easier to build it in everywhere else in your life.

So we would argue in our book that committing to something brings you peace.

It brings you a calm nature.

I feel like in today's world right now, we have so much noise and so many opinions and so many voices that we have to filter through on a daily basis that it can be very overwhelming.