{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"CIP 024. Cast Off the Culture of Comfort, Convenience, and Ease: Theodore Roosevelt Becomes the Apostle of the Strenuous Life","description":"Writer and explorer, fighter and reformer, scholar, historian, statesman, and sage; Theodore Roosevelt disdained idleness. \u201cIn this life, we get nothing save by effort,\u201d said the Panama-Canal-Building, Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning President. \u201cI never won anything without hard labor and\u2026working long in advance.\u201d In fact, the \u201chighest form of success,\u201d Roosevelt said, comes \u201cto the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil.\u201d Listen in now to this episode of the Classic Influence Podcast, and discover how Theodore Roosevelt became first an apostle, and, ultimately, the champion and exemplar of the Strenuous Life. This episode also exposes the frightening prospects for those preoccupied with comfort, convenience, and ease. Finally, you\u2019ll learn how hard work and strenuous action are like secret weapons of success enabling you to achieve what Roosevelt called \u201cthe splendid ultimate triumph.\u201d ","author_name":"Classic Influence: Timeless Lessons from the Legends","author_url":"http:\/\/classicinfluence.com\/show\/","html":"