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We're not as resilient as we used to be

Published Mar 27, 2025, 6:26 PM

Wayne Bennett spoke recently about how we're not as resilient as we used to be, and I have to say I agree with him. 

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Well, I've noticed with the young men I've been doing this for fifty years now, is that we're not as resilient as we used to be. We're not We're soalk more than we ever sought. We can give up more reason than we ever do. But the young men still want to succeed and be successful. But you've also got to harden them up. Or what's in front of me. I bet and their mums and their dads aren't doing it, and their uncles and their ownies aren't doing it. But coaches are okay?

Self love at school eighteen Glenas are here walking back to the Building Better Humans Project podcast For those that don't follow the NRL. That was Wayne Bennett, who is I would think the best rugby league coach that Australia has ever produced. Just an amazing, amazing human. It's interesting with fifty years experience, he's noticing the lack of resilience in young people today. And the thing that got me there is he mentions how they still want to succeed, they still want to reach that highest levels, but a lot of them don't have the men took capacity the resilience to do. So here's the thing I've noticed that not just in athletic pursuits. I've definitely noticed it with some of my athletes. They have the skill sets, they might train hard enough, but it's that next level of work ethic which comes with resilience and setbacks and the capacity to push through those things. That's what they're lacking, and as coaches, it's our job to do our best to give them that. However, there is the resistance by the fact that they're surrounded by people that are not giving them that, and so that's where you start to lose people a little bit because you're fighting against a system. And for me, I couldn't be bothered with that. I'll work with you if you want to get somewhere, but you have to be resilient and be willing to do the work. Now I'm talking they're about athletes, but I'm also talking about you because I've noticed a distinct lack of resilience or mindset tools that people don't have these days. Now, the thing is, you don't have to have them. You can find people like myself that can help build them for you and with you, But you still need to be willing to do the work, and you need to be willing to turn your ears off to the people closest to you that are currently enabling that belief that life is hard, that things are hard, that life's not fair, that you never get a fair run in anything, and this is the way things work now. At the end of the day, all of that stuff doesn't help you to get better. You can have those family and friends and all of that sort of thing, of course, but look for coaches, for mentors, for people that you can put around yourself that are willing to push you to that next level. I've helped people who are in business far bigger than any business I have when you look at it purely as a monetary term, or even the number of people they've employed. Remember, I've also worked inside big systems like the military, where I've spent seventeen years full time. That's one of the biggest systems I would imagine in this country. So I know how to work in big systems. I know how leadership works. I've helped people with their leadership. I've helped people in business, I've helped athletes achieved. But I've also had people that just couldn't help because they just didn't have the capacity to take really broad but also focused and honest feedback. So when I say broad, this is the holistic side of you, your business, your personal and so on. It's all tied in. And when I say focused, when I come in on you and say these are the pieces that you're doing wrong, that you need to make, some changes, that you need to rethink about the way you're doing things. And when you put that spotlight on people and you give them hon us feedback, they don't like it. And if they don't like it, they're not going to do it and they're not going to improve. If I'm going to work with you, you must have the capacity to take that feedback. For one, you must also understand that my intention is good. I'm trying to help you to be better. This is not a personal attack. This is me trying to give you tools that other people don't have, honest feedback that other people aren't getting. Let them sit in their comfort zone, let them not be willing to do the hard work. If you're in a leadership role or if you're in business, it is hard. Anyone that tells you anything other than that is absolutely full of it. But I'm here to work through that hard with you. That's what I'm willing to do, and I know I'm willing to do it for myself. So the athletes are around me, are for the people that I work with in leadership and business roles. And if that sounds like you, then hey, let's do something. But I'm going to tell you now sometimes that hard, honest feedback is not going to feel good. But when you start to get the result at the other end, when you start to focus on, yeah, that might be true and I need to make some changes, that's when you're going to look back and go, thank you, it was all worthwhile. Don't always look for the easier road. Let's build some resilience, some anti fugility to make you the best version of you.

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