Freshman year in college: you are supposed to enjoy college life—joining fraternities, getting wasted, hooking up as much as possible, becoming popular, etc. After all, college comes only once in a lifetime, doesn’t it?

The fact is, no matter how old you are now—16, 21, 24, or 30 (or even older)—there are always things that you are supposed to do. Your parents, your friends, your environment already set rigid expectations of what you CAN and MUST achieve in life.

And that is all totally and perfectly natural. We all hang out with people that do not push us out of our comfort zones (most similar to us). We go to school and work at companies with people that are within our intellectual levels.

The point is: everything is fine as long as you share the goals and viewpoints with the people you hang out with.

Problem is, you are always special in some way. As an ectomorph, you have a very unique set of problems to deal with everyday. And a unique set of problems calls for a unique set of solutions.

Specifically, you have a very important decision to make:

Choosing between:

• A low-risk, low-fun choice of enjoying all the little things just as everyone else around you (not as fun to you as to other people because you are an ectmorph; they are not)!
• A riskier but higher-return choice of training properly for an awesome physique and sacrificing the many little fun activities you can enjoy with your normal friends.

Just because you are not doing all the fun things everyone is enjoying does not mean that you don’t know how to enjoy life. On the contrary, it means you want to enjoy life at a higher level than other people and you have the right long-term view.

Sometimes, in order to enjoy something great in life, you have to sacrifice all of the little things. That’s just a choice.

RECAP: Our friends, our parents, and our environments dictate what we are supposed to do. As ectomorphs, we have a very unique set of problems. And the solutions require that we give up enjoying many of the little things and work for the big pay-off: a great awesome physique.