Episode 588: Resilience, Discipline, and the Habits That Build Real Confidence

Dave Rubin (0:01)

Hi, guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.

Jennifer Cohen (0:07)

Welcome to Habits and Hustle, where we talk about the habits, strategies and mindset shifts that actually make a difference in your health, happiness and success. In this episode, we're getting into what happens when we remove too much discomfort from our lives. We talk about overprotective parenting, how smartphones are changing childhood and human connection, and also why exercise can build confidence far beyond the gym, and how social media has distorted our perception of beauty, and why discipline will take you further than motivation ever will. But before diving in, if you're listening right now and you've gotten something out of this show, please do me a favor, hit subscribe if you haven't already and leave a review of your own. I read every single one. So now, let's dive in.

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So my entire premise and what I'm really passionate about, because now I have two kids, you have kids, you under, it's much more, it's something that I'm really struggling with, to be honest, as a parent, because I'm really about basically doing hard things, letting my kids fail, and how failure is how everybody learns. That's how I learned.

I grew up similar to you, we're the same age, like where we had to figure shit out. There was consequences to bad behavior and then that's how you learn not to do that thing again. And now there is no score games, participation trophies, helicopter parenting, safe spaces, trigger warnings, all of these things that are kind of, they're creating a very soft next generation of weaker and weaker children, which is not really good for anybody, not really good for them, not good for like the world, society, and it kind of is a ripple effect. And so I guess my intention is to kind of bring it up yet again into whatever echo chamber I'm talking to and hopefully, try to get people on board to help change the social norms of what we are seeing. What I've noticed and what the research has even shown is that people who were born after 1995, all the things that you and I grew up with, riding our bike, getting into trouble, dating, flirting, just kind of like having fun or fighting with your friend even.

80% of that shit is now gone and it's replaced by screen time and smartphones and Instagram, which is then I think led to a lot of these other issues that we're dealing with is of course this caudal culture that's kind of happened with people and emotional triggers and parents who have now been overprotective and safetyism. I just feel like it's really kind of a troubling time because people are just now soft because they're not even allowed or it's not even a thing to even go on a bike ride. People are not even doing it. People don't even have bikes anymore, right? Or they're not even participating in sports. Kids are not even doing that as much as they used to because they're stuck on a screen the whole time. And what's happening is if kids are not the ones who are starting the game, the parents complain, right? If the coach, right?