You aren't where you want to be in life because you can't withstand the hard times and hard things that happen to you.

And it takes you too long to recover. You fall too far when it happens. And then finally, when you do recover, you're worse than you were when you started.

Today, I want to talk about something that I think is key to entrepreneurship and even just being a human being who gets what they want out of life.

And it's a topic that I think a lot about, which is one that's called mental toughness.

And so I made this for you guys.

What is mental toughness?

It's the chance a bad thing changes how you act in a way that's against your goals.

Or it'd be like, well, what does it actually mean?

It just means the percentage is likely that when something bad happens, you change the way you act in a way that's not ideal.

That means that mental toughness is no longer a do you have mental toughness or not, but instead,

it's how much mental toughness do you have. Fundamentally, what we're trying to get into is

how people respond to bad things,

all right? And so once we have it defined, which is that the chance of bad thing happens to you,

then we have to create an environment in which mental toughness can be exercised and then ideally measured.

Right. And when we do that, I can give you a visual so that you can start thinking about your own behavior

within this context. So number one ear,

that's how you normally behave. So whatever your normal kind of baseline is, that's how you act

every single day. Then at some point, a bad thing or enough bad things happen, then it forces

you to change how you behave. That's step two. Step three is, okay, once I've changed how I

behave, how low do I go or how upset do I get, right?

Number three, then there's a certain period of time that elapses where you continue this bad behavior,

and then you start coming up, you start recovering. That's the next period, which is number four.

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