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And I work so hard. You don't even know what hard work is? Call the ambulance. So one of the criticisms of Gen Z has been that, and I disagree with it, by the way, because I disagree with the premise, but I'll wait and lay it out there, is that Generation Z or 20s are not resilient.
Okay. Stick with it. Do hard things. As a generation.
This is what people are saying? Yeah. Yeah, it's one of the criticisms that they don't know how to do hard things, and they don't stick through and persevere. And that is somewhat, sometimes true.
That's a scholar, isn't an example, right? Sure. So no question. She didn't want to do hard things.
And you said you got to do hard things. If you live like no one else, later you can live like no one else. And rejoice in your suffering. The Bible says, because suffering produces perseverance.
Man, what? Yes. Keep going. And perseverance, character.
I've been talking about this. And character hope and hope is a gift of Holy Spirit. So, yeah, there's a lineage. There's a suffering creates perseverance.
So, But charity is what some of the versions say. Exactly. Exactly. So, the thing is, what I have found is, we've got about 500, 600 Gen Cs working here on our team, and they're the good ones.
There's two kinds of Gen Cs, awesome and sucks, right? And we've got the awesome ones. You can get the good ones. They're good.
When they're good, they're good. And they're abundance thinkers. They believe anything's possible because they carried around a magic wand in their hand. Their whole lives and if they push a button, stuff happens.
And so, the first time something does get hard, it's sometimes it's a lack of resilience. Sometimes it's a lack of perseverance. But sometimes it's like, what's the point in doing something hard because there's probably a workaround? There's a lot of tools that can do it for something.
In some way, I can work around this and not have to go through that. And it's the way their mind, it's the native nature of their mind, it's the way their minds have been programmed to live. And it's really not a bad thing. I mean, because really you should stop and go, is there an easier way to do it?
Absolutely. And, you know, is there a workaround? What's the hack, right? Work smarter, not harder.
What's smarter? I mean, why do I just keep running into this wall and call that perseverance? No, I should probably walk around the wall. Hello.
Yeah. And so, no, I mean, I'm just, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, you know, I got, I'd done run OSRS or something, it's brain damaged. And so, no, you could just move over there and walk around, you don't have to hit the wall. I mean, it's concrete.
And so, but they're really good at looking for the workaround and looking for the hack. And sometimes that has caused them to be accused of lack of resilience. And I think that's a wrong conclusion. I can agree with that.
Now, sometimes there's a lack of resilience. There's a lack of, you know, stick to it, push through. And so really what this comes down to is if you're a Gen Z or if your parents of teenagers right now, they're walking around with a magic wand. They do not know a world where they can't push a, but they've never experienced a world where they can't push a button and stuff shows up on their porch in 24 hours.
If you want to know what the temperature is, we used to have to go outside and look at the thermometer and we came back in and went, it's cold. You know, now you just push the weather app, right? Anything you want to know or anything you want to do is a magic wand in your hand. So if you parents are doing that, what I suggest as a parenting thing, because it becomes a part of their success principles that they're going to live their life for, teach your children to do hard things.
Yeah. Yes. Put something in front of them that's hard. And 100% of the time that any of us are doing something we've never done before and it's hard.
I'll tell you what rises up inside of you. Frustration. And then it can with me. I just get angry.
Yeah. Not at someone, but I just get pissed off. I can't do it. I've never been able to do this.
You know, trying to learn a thing with a sport, trying to hit the golf ball a certain way. Oh, God. Yeah. And I have to just stop and go.
It doesn't matter. Okay. The secret to happiness is low expectations on the golf course, right? But the, but persevere push through, push through, push through until you get a callus, push through, push through, push through until your brain is tired, your emotions are tired.
Learn to do hard things. Those that are 30 years old and under in the next 25 years that know how to do hard things will be running the country. That's right. Yes.
Yes. They'll be running the country and the rest of you that don't learn how to do hard things will be following them and doing what you're told, like a bunch of sheeple. And so learn to do hard things. Marriage for 50 years is hard, hard.
And anyone tells you this is a cakewalk is a liar. Okay. There are times that you want to kill each other. Literally.
I mean, I'm not talking metaphorically. I'm talking about I want to, yeah, and hide the body. There are times parenting is hard. I mean, now that I've got grandkids, I'm really glad I let them live, but there was a question a time or two whether they were going to live through this or not, you know, it's worth it.
Go ahead, parents. Let them live because they'll bring your grandbabies and it's worth it. Let them live. Don't kill them.
But yeah, but man, this is making me feel way better about myself. It's hard. It's hard, y'all. Managing money and saying no to yourself so that you can say yes later is hard.
Not filling up the cart on Amazon and hitting submit is hard. I want it. And I work so hard on call the ambulance. You work hard.
Everybody works hard. You little whiner. That's the one that's just a little drama queen. I work so hard.
You don't work hard. You don't even know what hard work is. You've never done any hard work hard work. It's never I work hard.
Everybody. That means you went to a building all day. Everybody does it. Yeah, everybody does it.
There was no sweat involved. Now that's a word and you drove there in the air conditioned car. I work hard. It's perspective.
Do some real things that are difficult. You know, our friend, Michael, what's the name? Esther? Yeah, me, Easter Easter Easter.
That's right. Yeah, read comfort crisis. We have a crisis in the culture because we've worked so hard to become comfortable and now we're so comfortable. We don't know how to do hard things.
And you have to practice the hard things. That's like. We have to go from our 72 degree kitchen or 72 degree garage to a 75 degree car to our 72 degree office. And we call that hard.
No, and it really, there's no starvation involved. There's no one's, I mean, there are some hungry people out there. At almost every time I mean most of you listening to me right now, you know, you've got your $800 iPhone and you're not, you know, and you can't complain about, you know, living like you You live like one percent of the world. top 1%.
So it's do some hard things. Those that know how to do hard things will always be leading those that don't. I also think there's just personal dignity in it. I mean, there's just certain things that it's good to do.
Even if you could do it easier, even if you could have somebody else's like friends, okay, it's winter, all the leaves are falling off. We could probably pay somebody to come clean up the leaves, but we have to teach our kids that it's good to do hard work. So, yeah, you can pick out stuff like that. I didn't do all that, but I mean, I did, do you know what I'm saying?
You know, you've got to do the hard thing. Whatever it is. It can be a mental challenge, it can be a physical challenge. All of it.
It can be an emotional challenge. I don't want to go there. She doesn't like me. Oh, well, tough.
You know, learn to work with difficult people. They're everywhere. So you might as well get used to that. So here's a plan.
Deal with that. Well, she's mean. Oh, well, she's going to be a she's mean everywhere, believe me. So you got to learn to handle them.
And that's part of it. Do hard things emotionally hard, physically hard, spiritually hard, whatever it is. But the diligent are the ones that prosper and diligent is excellence over time. Diligent prosper.
That's the Bible says that. Okay. And so you're going to prosper when you learn how to do hard things with excellence over time, because when you do the things that other people won't do, you'll always have the things that other people don't have. At dinner with my friends other nights or 50th wedding anniversary, they've done some things that most people won't do to get to that point.
They put up with some stuff off each other to get to that point. They didn't kill each other. They didn't kill each other. They threatened to.
They didn't go to each other. It's worth it. It's worth it. They got some things that other people don't have.
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