Part-time spoken word artist and full-time bad ass Henry Rollins recently sat down with Big Think to pen an open oral letter to young Americans on the importance of discipline, self-reliance, and overcoming obstacles.

Sure, most of it is Chicken Soup stuff you could probably get off the front of a "hang in there baby" poster, but there's just something about Rollins that makes you want to do what he says.

[Reddit]