A short motivational monologue by Trenton Luera (former college quarterback and recruiting coach) arguing that successful people do unpleasant but necessary tasks rather than only doing what they enjoy. He contrasts short-term comfort with long-term satisfaction and encourages embracing difficult, necessary actions to achieve success, especially in the context of athletic recruiting.
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This is the biggest reason why successful people are successful. And this translates not just from recruiting, but in life. First, if you don't know who I am, I'm Trent Lohr. I'm a former college quarterback and I help recruits get recruited to play college football. And this is something that I always think about whenever I don't want to do something. Whether it was when I was gonna work out but I don't want to, or whether I was gonna condition that I don't want to. It's that successful people don't do things because they like it. They do it because they know it's necessary for success. And that's the issue with today's day and age of the kids and everything like that. It's not just the kids, the adults too. Everybody thinks that like, man, be passionate about this. We need to just love every single thing we need to do. We need to be like so happy all the time. Yet no one seems to really be happy. No one really needs seems to be enjoying things. It's because we don't do things that suck. Like we try to stay away from them. We try to act like we can be successful without doing things that we don't want to. We trade this long term satisfaction for this short term comfort of enjoying ourselves and being happy in the moment. Instead, we should be trading short term discomfort, those hard things that we don't want to do but we know are good for.