Having everything at our fingertips, from food and clothes to education and socialization, we are training ourselves to become uncomfortable with challenges of all sorts to such a degree as to prefer shortcuts and quick fixes to hardship and struggle even when knowing that the path of least resistance will not get us to our destination.

Without shortcuts to our dreams, we decide that the journey is not worth the effort, and we end up with lives that relate more to tourist destinations than to reality, where only the experiences without commitment and sacrifice matter.

Cutting corners with life hacks teaches us that everything that is hard has to be somehow wrong and we rob ourselves of one of the main things that shape boys into men: Hardship. Have the courage to choose the hard and difficult paths in life, without cutting corners, and build your character in your trials.

Nothing worthwhile will ever come without effort and for free.