… relationships. Here’s at one of his life lessons:
First and foremost: Learn to laugh at yourself
Growing up, Hart quickly learned that his height would be a shortcoming, or it would play to his advantage. As a high school sophomore, the self-described “mama’s boy” longed to get girls and be popular. He writes that he decided to accept himself and embraced his size by being the “funny guy” — and it paid off.
“As the little guy, you have a choice to make if you want to be popular: You can be the tough guy and overcompensate for your mini-me self, or you can be the funny guy and accept your size. An added incentive for choosing the latter is that it’s hard for someone to punch you while they’re laughing,” he writes. “I chose to be the funny guy. Having nothing to prove is the most freeing thing in the world. Rather than constantly defending your ego, you can have a sense of humor about your shortcomings.”
He continues: “Because I didn’t take myself and life so seriously, girls started to hang around me more. And that’s when I realized: The fun guys always wins.”