If It Were Easy, Everyone Would Do It

I am resolved to accept the world the way that it is rather than the way that I wish it would be, and to do something about all the things that I can do something about, and to accept the things that I can't do anything about and not to complain about them because I have nothing to complain about.

Life is great.

The world is beautiful.

Uh, we're living in an amazing age.

I really genuinely believe those things.

But there is a great risk, and, and the risk is that by always swallowing these things, when things are-- wh-when, when my life is hard, when other people's lives are hard, uh, if you...

Forgive me, by the way.

I've tried to record this podcast a few times, and I've failed a few times, so I'm just gonna, just gonna go with it.

So if I'm a little scattered, please forgive me.

I'll do my very best here.

I believe that not complaining is a very important character quality to develop, a character skill to develop in order to be successful.

I observe that in general, the most successful people do not complain.

As a result of that, generally speaking, successful people don't talk about their problems.

And on the whole, I think that's a good thing.

I don't think it's good to talk about problems unless you can talk about a solution to them.

Uh, problems need to be faced, but my point is that you'll rarely hear a successful people talk about it, a successful person talk about his or her problems.

But we all have problems, and by basically swallowing the complaints and focusing on solutions, generally speaking, successful people press forward.

And so I want to do that, and I, I tend to do that for the most part.

If I have a podcast or something that I'm thinking about a lot, then it, it just comes across as, uh, that I think might be negative.

I usually swallow it.

But you can in many ways tell how well Joshua's, uh, functioning based upon how frequent podcast episodes are coming out.

That's, that's not a perfect metric, but generally, if I have something negative, I, I swallow it, and then I wait until I'm kind of back on the upswing and things are going well, and then it just boils out.

All the positive stuff just boils out.

The problem is that this might leave somebody with the idea that successful people don't have problems.

And we have a whole host of cultural cliches that we use to, uh, to, to talk about, right? Tell me about all the problems why your steak is too buttery or your lobster is too buttery, your steak is too well-cooked, and, you know, cry me a river, right? That, that's the, the tendency.