chuckle echo tough vs. smart so wait what is this do you think is this like
is it better to be tough than smart or just in general okay well you just read
the question as it was stated it just said topic for podcasts tough vs smart
in my opinion I don't think you need to be tough versus smarter I don't think it
needs to be tough or smart I think you need to be tough and smart I don't think
those two traits are mutually exclusive at all and being tough and being smart
is actually what we want we you know so when we think of tough I think we think
of using friends using blunt force to solve a problem right and and you might
think that using blunt force to solve a problem is stupid and at the same time
you might think that's stepping back from a problem and taking a look or
stepping back away from it might be giving up so you're weak or you're not
tough but there are times when those options are the best options there's
some times when blunt force is the best option and you just gotta power through
and you gotta be tough and you got to get over the hurdle or over the obstacle
or through the obstacle through blunt force trauma and there's other times
where the best possible thing you could do is step back and quit beating your
head against the wall and trying to blunt force through something you want
to step back and find another way you want to be smarter not harder
and I think the ginn this comes out to balance and people pushing when it's a
good time to push and a good time to be tough and at the same time knowing that
you need to balance that with being smart and the only way you're gonna be
able to do that the only way you're gonna be able to figure out if you're
just being too smart or not smart enough or too tough or not tough enough
is to be able to detach and step back and look and see assess the situation if
you get to in the weeds on it you won't be able to see that a you've beat your
head against the wall 47 times that's enough stop step back and find another
way just like if you're so engrossed in solving the problem in finding the
perfect solution and finding the least impact wave through the smartest
resolution you don't if you don't step back from that you might not see that if
you wait any longer on your brilliant plan yeah you're gonna be overrun by
their problem itself so being smart and being tough are not mutually exclusive
you need to be both and the way that you balance them is by stepping back
detaching and doing always doing an assessment of what's happening so what
if you had to choose and I'm gonna make the question even harder
no specific scenario what if you had to choose you got to be either really smart
but not tough or really smart or really tough not smart what youth unfortunately
you have to go with being smarter yeah it's not unfortunate but this is the the
the reality is being smarter is better yes because being smarter means you can
find another solution but you know the the wall that you might
be banging your head against might literally be impassable through that
through that section you know and if all you're gonna do is beat your head
against it eventually you're gonna you're gonna not make and you're gonna
die yeah so being smart is always better yeah and hey I guess I should add it
just in life let's say you know but really the question I was wondering is
like in life you know God was there and he said okay I'm gonna be still one of
these on you interest in your life you can either have a knack for being really
smart but but not tough at all or really tough and abused by smart because it I
shouldn't even be like making this like this is a hard decision being smarter is
better yeah is being smarter is better if this is there's no doubt about it
that's being smarter is better but get by the way being smarter look
the human race why do we rule the world over the animals I mean you tell me that
you're tougher than a chick than a chimpanzee
well me Yeah right the only reason the the thing that wins is intellect and
it'll win every single time well it'll win a lot of the time a lot of the time
and if you're smart you can figure out a way to overcome the toughness tough yeah
and not even altameyer our bodies yeah exactly right exactly right like when
you say are you - am i tougher than a gorilla we'll say well in a way yeah you
know I find a shotgun would ya or if I have a yeah anything you know anything
that I think up to build or buy you know because of other people like me thought
it up and I use their knowledge you know cuz I'm smart to do it which goes back
to the original question or what question we asked for a while ago about
college like go to college and improve your smartness get smarter you know yeah
that's why I always say that on the podcast I'm not man I'm not always
talking about being stronger and faster and bigger and tougher I'm always
talking about you got to be smarter too no doubt about it
didn't the success I've had from my life is zero of it just about zero but has
come from anything physical or being tough now there is a mental toughness
that does help you when you are doing intellectual things well I mean I can
force myself to do some intellectual goals or some intellectual challenges
that if I wasn't if I didn't and toughest in the best word but if it
wasn't mentally tough I won't be able to do it right yeah but if you're smart
you're smart figure out ways to get mentally tough like you're like hey I'm
like I know I'm not mentally tough I'm smart enough to know I'm not mentally
tough where I'm enough is it yeah let me figure out a way to get met I'll figure
out a good workout would you rather be the guy that is really tough and can
stay in cold water for 45 minutes or the guy that invents a wetsuit like Jack
O'Neill and I can stay in the water for unlimited amount of time now there you
go case in point Jack O'Neill keeping it real