A short motivational monologue advising entrepreneurs to embrace difficulty by following the 'easy hard principle': choosing harder actions up front (hard on the front end) to make life easier later (easy on the back end). The speaker contrasts short-term comforts with long-term discipline and urges learning hard skills early to reap long-term benefits.
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Hey there, entrepreneurs. I want to challenge you and encourage you not to curse your curses. Too many people in life go through life, when they go through difficulty, they think that's a bad thing. That's not necessarily a bad thing. There's a principle that I call the easy hard principle. What does that mean? It means that once things are easy on the front end, they're hard on the back end. When they're hard on the front end, they're often easy on the back end. Like it's easier to eat the chocolate cake and it's easier to eat the ice cream every night right before you go to bed than it is to do 100 push ups. If you do the easy thing today, you're going to end up with the hard things later. You can make your life easy on the front end, you can make it hard on the back end, or you can make it harder on the front front end and easy on the back end. You know, it's really hard to learn a new skill, right? To learn a new skill you're not used to doing. And it doesn't matter if you're going to learn how to juggle, learn how to hit a golf ball, or learn a new business skill learning like learning how to sell. Do the hard stuff up front. It'll make your life easier long term. Follow the easy hard principle and I think you're going to be glad.
