Struggle Builds Strength

Count money, man.

Money, man.

Stacked riches.

I'm trying to told him I'm a beast, but...

What's up, gang?

Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

Get ready.

It's a new day and struggle.

Build strength.

If you had to create a human...

And you wanted like, me and you were in charge of like,

let's create a human.

Let's develop this person.

You probably wouldn't give them all the easy things.

If you want them to have strength in patience,

you wouldn't make it easy.

Struggle.

Build strength.

So there's always a price tag to the thing that you want.

Humans aren't built for ease.

Humans aren't built for all that stuff.

Nature values growth over comfort.

And it seems like the things that grow or the things that evolve

through getting uncomfortable.

The best things in life have a cost.

The struggle that we go through builds meaning to your life

and it builds you up to be more resilient.

If something sounds too good to be true,

the way to tell is asking,

what struggle comes with it?

Like, what are the obstacles?

What are the hard things?

What is the price that gotta be paid?

There's a difference between this mentality of a lottery.

Like, I'm a wind of lottery mentality

versus a self-made mentality through work and sacrifice.

Like, yes, some people do wind the lottery.

That's rare.

And you see the statistics on that.

That most of the people that wind the lottery,

tons of money, they go back to being broke.

It's because it's who you're...

You gotta be forged in this stuff.

And if you're gonna be self-made,

if you're gonna develop yourself without being handed something,

you're gonna have to do it through sacrifice.

And sacrifice isn't fun.

Like, all right, yeah, I got it.

Sacrifice.

Like, when you say the word sacrifice,

everybody, okay, sacrifice,

hey, what's for lunch?

Like, no big deal.

But when you really got a sacrifice,

like, when it's time to actually sacrifice,

it sucks.

When you gotta give up time,

you can't go to this birthday party,

or you can't go party with your friends,

or you can't take that vacation,

or you can't spend that amount of money

because you gotta invest in it into your business.

Or you gotta miss your family for four days

because I gotta sacrifice and do this business trip.

It sounds cool when you write the word sacrifice,

but when you gotta do the word sacrifice,

it's a different story.

Change your thinking to understand

that the hard path is usually the right path.

Difficulty isn't punishment.

It's preparation.

Sacrifice isn't a penalty.

It's an investment.

So, do you really want it?

Or do you just want it to come easy

and you want it somebody to hand it to you?

We can't have entitlement attitudes

that, like, the world owes us this to happen to us with ease,

or this person owes it to us for it to happen to us with ease,

that what happens is the world offers you opportunity.

And if you're blessed with an opportunity,

you're already blessed because so many places around the world,

they don't even have an opportunity.

Think about how your muscles grow.

How do muscles grow by tearing them down,

repairing them, feeding them the right stuff,

and letting them repair, and then boom, they grow.

Same thing with your character.

You get torn down a little bit, you feed it a little bit,

and then boom, you grow.

Patience isn't given, it's earned through delays.

It's like, oh man, I wish I had more patience.

Well, I prayed for patience, so God gonna put me in a situation

where I can't control it, and I gotta wait through this.

There is no time, there is no deadline.

I don't know when it's gonna happen.

Easy never made anybody interesting,

anybody resilient, or anybody wise.

Easy don't make those things, right?

So imagine, like we said in the beginning,

imagine designing a human.

And would you like to make them somebody that had to go through some things

to build them up, to be strong, or untested.

Without obstacles, there's no greatness.

It's just stagnation.

Diamonds form under pressure.

Steel is forged in fire.

The greatest of people are forged under pressure in fire.

Babies learn to walk by falling and then not being carried.

So, boom, now they gotta learn how to walk.

If it's hard, it probably means that it matters.

And so, what we wanna do in this quick little shot of espresso today

is we just gotta remind ourselves this week, whatever it is if we're out there

in the pursuit of excellence that this little bit of struggle that you're going through,

struggle is gonna build the strength that you need to take you to the next level.

Now, if you keep struggling with the same things over and over and over again,

you might need to look internally and say, what am I doing that I need to change

and do differently because, you know, if you do the same thing over and over again

and you expect a different result that's called insanity.

You might be insane, right?

You can't keep doing the same things acting the same way and expecting a different result

just cause you're struggling.

There's a lot of people struggling out there.

But just your relationship with that struggle, your perspective with that struggle

is that's gonna grow me if I learn from it and I grow through it.

This is the stuff that's gonna build me up.

So, don't give up, don't give in, have a perspective on how much you're gonna grow through

whatever it is that we gotta go through in this time period of life

and as always, we're grateful for you.

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Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Grindcast. Get ready, it's a new day.