In 2023, we have to self-induce hard.
“The modern world has made our daily existence much easier than it was as early as a few years ago.
This is a huge positive/.
However, in a world where we are increasingly sheltered from struggle & strength is less essential, hard people still win.
Hard people will always win.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
Netflix, DoorDash, TeleDoctors, are just a few (of limitless) modern conveniences that entered into our lives in the last several years.
On top of those, we can adjust our smoker grills, washing machines, and thermostats from our phones, too.
Beyond those, we are now living longer than ever before not because we are healthier, but because modern science has allowed doctors to improve on their abilities to cure our faults.
These are all great, amazing things that we should be thankful for. I am by no means telling you to live without an iPhone, running water, or conditioned air, but here is what I do know.
Despite our lives being made relatively easier, it is still essential for us as human beings to increase our resilience.
Not only our physical resilience, but our mental resilience as well.
Life, for the most part, isn’t going to do the above as effectively as it has in past generation anymore.
While I’m not implying that we are immunized to hardship in 2023, there is ‘an app’ that can fix most problems.
Problems that again, are for the most part nobody’s fault but our own.
Obesity, anxiety, and depression epidemics? I know every single case is different (from person experience), and no I’m not insensitive nor am I a doctor, however I do have common sense.
What do you think is going to happen when we, as a society, bury our heads in screens 10+ hours a day, have little ‘real’ in-person human interaction, and order chemicals branded as food, directly to our door from said screen?
Not highly favorable outcomes. Outcomes that whether convenient or not, are byproducts of our own choices.
We can be very appreciative of and leverage modern conveniences for our benefit, but we cannot become solely reliant on them.
Where I’m going with this is here: In the modern world, we have to self-induce hard.
If we keep outsourcing everything to technology or believe that “other guy will do it” we are going to eventually whittle ourselves down to a weak, fragile, helpless, society.
And then what happens when shit hits the fan?
It doesn’t look like it right now, but in a modern world of relative ease, hard people still win.
They’ll always win.
