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Choose Upset Now or Failure Later says Joe DeSena, Founder of Spartan Games! #joedesena

19 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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In this motivational excerpt, Joe DeSena, founder of Spartan Games, argues that modern parents often remove obstacles from their children's lives, preventing them from learning to navigate challenges independently. He contends that exposing kids to difficulties—like the adventurous childhood of Richard Branson, who rode 100 miles at a young age—builds resilience and self‑reliance. DeSena frames the issue as a choice: allow children to be upset now by facing obstacles, or risk them failing later because they never developed coping skills. The core message urges parents to let their kids experience struggle, roll up their sleeves, and learn through trial and error.

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Are you teaching your kids to go up, over, and through obstacles that they will face in life, or are you moving the obstacles out of the way so that they have no chance of navigating them on their own? That's it. And I mean, that's the problem today. Parents are— we're moving obstacles out of the way. We're not, we're not having them fully functioning on their own, like When I meet all these successful people, I dive into their childhood and invariably what you hear is their parents pushed them out of the house. Richard Branson rode 100 miles at a very young age to get home. He became a very adventurous person. I can give you story after story after story where these young kids had to roll up their sleeves, boys and girls, and F-F-I-O on their own And the problem we're having today is, "Oh, we can't do that, it's gonna upset them, that'll upset little Johnny." Well, your choice. They could be upset now, or they could be a failure later.