Doing Hard Things

As I mentioned in my previous blog, in Latin class we read this book called Do Hard Things. While reading I've had a few thoughts and thought I might share them.

Feel free to comment xD

The book explains how teenagers' expectations have been lowered and that we need to rebel against these expectations and "do hard things."
Not hard things like starving ourselves to death, or living in the worst conditions we can, they mean raise our expectations. At first I agreed. Yeah, our expectations have been lowered. In Humanities, Literature, and Theology class we explored the different people and it seemed that all the people we learned about accomplished great things at very young ages.

The book then went into detail about some of the things they accomplished by posting a blog telling teens about our lowered expectations. Receiving lots of response, they were eventually asked to help with some political stuff (sorry, can't remember specifics right now).
In other words, they got "big" jobs at a young age. They also started their own campaign.
"This is great and all," I thought, "but it doesn't sound like anything I'd want to do or even be able to do."

(I often wonder what these boys are like - are they the geeks that no one liked? Are they likeable, but extremely smart and type A? - I really want to meet them just to find out)

Ater thinking about this for a while, I wondered "Is this in God's Word - that we need to get jobs at a young age?"
It seems to me that people often take life too seriously
Some people, like me, I believe, are meant to take life a little slowly
People tend to rush into things too quickly. I still think you can do hard things and make something great out of yourself and bring glory to God without having to throw out all the things that young people can enjoy. For example, once we get jobs we want to move out and then we abandon our families.
Communities aren't as close as they were back then. We don't live close to our families when we leave the house unlike they did then.

It also seems to me that people get so distracted from their jobs, etc, they tend to lose focus on God and their jobs and such get in the way.

I'm sorry if this is a bit confusing. To wrap up. They don't give biblical explanations for doing hard things. Perhaps there's other ways other than growing up really fast (and we're only halfway through the book so they may have other examples) but so far I don't really agree.
I do agree, however, that we do only fulfill our expectations and right now they're low.
We do have more potential

(I have more thoughts, but I'll share them next time I have the chance)