Modern comfort and instant gratification have weakened people's resilience. The speaker contrasts short-lived motivation driven by pain or anger with lasting drive fueled by obsession or purpose beyond yourself. Today's youth face anxiety and mental-health struggles because they lack the struggle that builds strength.
I'm crazily driven because now it's no longer the pain that drives me. That's how it started. And anger at some points was driving me, but those sources of fuel don't last. What will keep you driven is not so much push as pull. Push is you're trying to make yourself doing something. Pull is that you've got an obsession for something. You want to serve something more than yourself and you disappear. I mean, when we think only about ourselves, we're always messed up. Anxiety and fear and all this. You hear all these kids today talking about, you know, mental challenges or whatever, uh, you know, and wanting to soothe themselves. They know they need to become stronger and they don't know it. It's not their fault. They've grown up in an environment where you can push a button and get whatever you want in 2 seconds on your phone, you know. You don't have to walk across the street, get the food, God forbid. They'll deliver it to your house, you know. That's the world we're in.
Tony Robbins Helps Her Use the Power of Her Own Mind to Manifest A Better Life
