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Motivation Quote by Bruce Jenner

"Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do"

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There is a particular kind of optimism baked into this line: the belief that exercise fails with young people not because it hurts, or takes time, or competes with screens, but because it has an image problem. Bruce Jenner frames fitness as a branding challenge - make it "cool, hip", "the thing to do" - and in doing so, he reveals how thoroughly health got absorbed into marketing logic. If you can sell sneakers, you can sell movement.

The intent is straightforward: recruit the next generation before inactivity hardens into habit. The phrasing, though, is doing extra work. "Our mission" turns personal discipline into a collective campaign, almost a civic project. It also quietly shifts responsibility: institutions and role models will set the vibe; young people will follow it. That is both generous and strategic. Teenagers are famously allergic to lectures, but responsive to status.

Context matters. Jenner speaks from the platform of a medalist-turned-celebrity, an era when athletes increasingly served as lifestyle messengers, not just competitors. The pitch isn’t about training for sport; it’s about making exercise culturally contagious. The subtext is that shame and scolding won’t work - aspiration might. Make fitness feel like belonging, not penance.

There’s also a faintly dated earnestness in "hip", like a parent trying to use the right slang. That awkwardness is the risk: if adults try too hard to be cool, they can make the thing they’re selling feel even less cool. But the larger insight holds: youth behavior is often a referendum on identity, not information.

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Bruce Jenner (born October 28, 1949) is a Athlete from USA.

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