A short single-speaker motivational monologue (YouTube) arguing that people often avoid risk after modest success and that parents impose self-limiting "leashes" on their children out of fear. The speaker emphasizes children's adaptability and reframes adversity as an opportunity for growth and learning rather than something to hide from.
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Most people when they re, when they get a little bit of success or they make a little money, they're so afraid that they're going to lose it. They're so afraid to take that risk. Or even women when they have their kids are like, well, I'm not going to go and we're not going to move and take this risk to do this because my kids are in school. And something like, well, your kids, your kids are so adaptable. This is your leash you're putting on your kids. Your kids in kindergarten. What are they going to do? They're not going to learn a letter in the Alphabet. They're going to miss the letter M. Trust me, they're going to learn M. Like, this is you. This is a leash that you've self imposed on yourself and your family and you have made up leashes for yourself. But how are you going to see, like, what lenses you're going to see adversity in? Are you going to see adversity as like an opportunity to learn and grow from it or are you going to hide from it?