The core message here, which draws from a Jonathan Haidt TED talk, is that "In a time when technology makes many aspects of our lives much easier, helping students develop the mindset to pursue what is difficult, meaningful, and worthwhile has never been more critical." I find that a bit ironic, because in the world of easy and hard, TED talks are definitely on the side of easy. But I agree with the need to do hard things - that is, for example, why I decided to bikepack, despite being the wrong age and the wrong body shape for anything like that. But - importantly - some things (like, say, buying food, or paying rent) should be easy, and some things are better when they are hard (like say, things that are meaningful, whatever that means). The easy thing is to say "do hard things". The hard thing is to say which things should be hard to do.
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