When we go in with bravado, it backfires because at the first inkling that we may not be able to succeed, our brain freaks out.

We both have high potential and lots of untapped talent, and we’re motivated to start something… but we don’t know what to start! The ideas presented will move you away from “tough it out” and into tuning into your body and mind to make the hard decisions.In fact, I believe it will prove to be one of the most life-changing, family-changing, church-changing, and culture-changing books of this generation. There's the message "if you're too scared to ever do anything, your life will waste away" pumped into just about every motivational book and movie, yet the Harris brothers acted like they were the ones to come up with it.

He has real skill in bringing his concepts to life with a mixture of lovely language, peer-reviewed studies and fascinating anecdotes and stories. It fails in the military, where the most resilient soldiers show high levels of emotional flexibility, and high levels of humble confidence. Another gold standard in treatment, cognitive behavioral therapy relies on cultivating awareness of inaccurate or irrational assessments of triggers and threats and changing our response to such events. In reality, perseverance through failure should be rewarded in children (and adults)—continuing to pursue a hard task, through failure, which is what actually builds toughness and grit. This rallying cry from the heart of revolution already in progress challenges the next generation to lay claim to a brighter future, starting today.

When we haven’t experienced discomfort for a while, or when we’ve been told over and over that a mask or other item is dangerous and threatening, our brain listens. He spends time reminding the reader that there are dangers in setting your expectations too low or too high. I’m a huge Steve Magness fan so I knew I would like this, but there’s truly amazing nuggets of wisdom in here that I hope to use for myself and others in the future.