Arnold Schwarzenegger warns against creating a ‘generation of wimps’

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appearance on “The Howard Stern Show.”“The more you struggle, the further you’re gonna go and the stronger you’re going to get,” the Hollywood action star said Wednesday. “It’s just the way the world works.”Schwarzenegger, who celebrated 40 years of US citizenship this year, explained that “young kids today” tend to shy away and “baby themselves” from the struggle that comes with hard work in order to achieve success.“Anybody that tries to baby themselves, and pamper themselves and protect themselves — ‘Oh, I don’t want to feel bad, I don’t really want to go through any discomfort’ — It’s over,” Schwarzenegger continued. “You have to be able to struggle.”“The Terminator” star then asked a rhetorical question of which group helped build the US, “Is it people that slept in?

Was it people that were wimping out?”“No. These were ballsy women and men that went out there at five in the morning and got up and they struggled, and they fought, and they worked their butts off.

That’s what made this country great,” Schwarzenegger said.“Continue this way. Don’t start creating a generation of wimps and weak people.”Stern had asked if Ozempic — the weight-loss drug that has taken the US by storm — is avoiding the larger issue by its users.Schwarzenegger, 76, alluded that the self-described miracle weight loss drug was taking one key ingredient out of the recipe for success: “resistance.”“The human mind can only really grow through resistance.

You can only strengthen your character, become a really strong person inside, if you have resistance.”Schwarzenegger makes the point that he’s not asking for others to ignore being considerate of others but that there needs to be a line in the sand between struggle and over-babying. “Let’s go and.