A motivational monologue argues that hardship builds the person you want to become. The speaker uses a metaphor of a creator assigning demons and trials to develop courage, patience, and wisdom through struggle.
Imagine you got to speak to the creator of the world, and you got to choose exactly who you are. And you said, hey, I want to be the most courageous person on the planet. The creator's response would be, well, then I'll give you the biggest demons and monsters to fight in order to prove that you're the most courageous. And then you say, well, I want to be. I want to be. I want to be patient, you know, I don't want to rush to that. And then he would say, well, I'll give you long and tedious challenges that make it difficult for you in order for you to become patient. And then you say, well, okay, well, I want to become wise. I want to be wise. Well, the Creator would then turn around and say, well, in order to be wise, I need to give you a lot of failure and hardship, because that's how you become wise. And the moral of this short is that to be the person you want to be, it's not easy. You're going to have to beat these demons. Even if you could create yourself, you would have to go through the hardship anyway. So enjoy it and understand that failure, difficulty, challenges, fighting the monsters, that is part of the process to be who you want to be. And a good life is not an easy life.
