Good morning everybody, Steph, hope you're doing well.

So the question has been sort of floating around since the last live stream and I just

saw it posted and I wanted to take a swing or a stab at it.

And the question goes something like this.

If you came from a bad background and you got to a better place, right?

You became a good father, a good husband, a productive member of society.

And someone else in your immediate environment, a sibling or someone or your parents, for

that matter, didn't like just it went bad, it got worse and so on.

And the question is why, why, why, why?

Now there are really only three answers.

The first answer is pure determinism that your genes, the environment, the dominoes that

fell upon you that moved you to where you are and you're just another domino, that there's

no virtue, there's no vice, there's simply atoms moving and avoid.

And that's all we get.

That's one answer.

The second answer is that you made better choices because of some mystery meat soup that

was served up to you by empirical reality.

You happen to have exposure to something better, you saw a movie, you read a book, you had

a heard a podcast, that tickled your brain because of some predisposition that is an

X factor and that sets you on the path to something better.

And you're, let's say you had a sister and she just wasn't exposed to those things or

she was exposed to those things but they didn't happen to tickle that special center

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