Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

It's going to be a bit of a vibey episode.

I'm going to talk about a few things.

The first one is an observation of ambition as an adult.

And there is something quite sad about the way that society treats ambition

because we tell children that they can be anything that they

want to be and we encourage them to dream big and imagine the possibilities and believe they are

capable of extraordinary things and anything they put their mind to and then somewhere along the

way we become adults, even though I still

don't feel like one. And suddenly, the messaging flips and we're told that we need to be realistic,

to lower expectations, to not aim so high. And it's a real shame because the very curiosity and ambition that we celebrate in children

is often exactly what is missing from adult life. And we're suddenly taught to kind of accept

mediocre and this is just the way that it is and to be mildly unsatisfied constantly. And actually, you are allowed to want more from life. You are

allowed to want more freedom, more impact, more opportunity, more growth. And you don't need to

soften that ambition to make people feel comfortable. And you certainly don't need to apologize for it, which I see a lot of people, especially women do.

And as a side note to this, the same thing happens with the way that we think about failing and learning and maybe trying hard and not actually getting the result we wanted initially.

Or trying hard and not giving up,

even if it takes longer than what you think it was going to take. You would never suggest

that a child doesn't bother learning to walk or doesn't bother learning to read because it's

harder for them or because they fell over when they were trying to learn to walk, right?

You don't just tell a child to give up reading because they're not immediately good at it. And yet as adults,

we kind of do that, right? We have these fixed mindsets. I am not someone who's good at exercise or

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