A short motivational monologue explaining why family and friends may not initially support someone starting a business: their reluctance stems from concern about the person's pain and struggle, not from wanting to block their success. The speaker argues that building something great requires enduring hardship, so pursuing entrepreneurial success may necessitate accepting that struggle.
Here's why your family and friends won't want you to start a business and they're not going to be supportive from the get go. And the reason is is because they don't want to see you in pain. They don't want to see you go through struggle. And building a business can be painful at times in order to get to the mountaintop. So they don't want to see you take that route. They would rather you take the safer route because they care about you, right? And at the end of the day that's really where it's coming from. They don't not want to see you successful. They just care about you and they don't want you to feel pain and go through this struggle. But if you want to build something great, nothing great was ever built by doing stuff that was easy or not pain. So if you want to get to that mountaintop then you have to go through that on the other side.
