Shawn Johnson East

i have been in the middle of an argument for and i'm like i don't even know where this started where were you and then it just turned and i'm gonna keep on going oh my gosh

Well, and you guys will appreciate this because we've learned this from you guys, but it's like the amount of times people will make a comment on social media and they're like, if only I found a guy like Andrew, I'd have a great relationship.

Only found a person like me, okay?

And I always see those comments and I'm like, it's not about... Yes, Andrew's a phenomenal person, but it's also, we work so hard and nobody wants to hear that...

To get something good, you have to work for it.

They just think if I wait long enough to find the perfect one, it'll be easy.

And so we basically unromanticize all of these taboo topics and say, you know what?

If you just stick with it long enough and have that argument 5,000 times and approach it a different way the next time, maybe you'll figure it out and you'll find more depth and more joy and more satisfaction.

Everything's so fast paced and we have the option to skip the next thing.

in everything in our life.

So I think the younger generations aren't learning patience and they're not learning how to like persevere through things.

The world tries to sell hacks for everything now, how to make a million dollars overnight, how to do X, Y, and Z and sell your soul and you'll just become famous.

And, you know, there's a quick way to do everything.

And so I would say it might be a very old school way to write it, but I think it just kind of takes you back to the basics of proving through our athletic journeys and our marriage and our parenting and our business have like, if you really work for something that you love.

It'll pay off.

You just got to work through it.

Because I don't think it's fair to our children for anybody to expect them to be good at anything.

Right.

They should be allowed to be so miserably awful and fail at so many things and be celebrated for it and have people pour into them because of that, not because of, you know, whatever.

But I'd say the only way we're trying to parent them is to like convince them and make them believe at a foundational level.