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Your success with kind that gets you on the front page or the cover of a magazine. But being

just a good father, nobody throws you a parade for that. Nobody even knows, right? Except for a very,

a much smaller group of people. But at the end of your life, which one, which of those achievements is going to

mean more than you? Or if one of those achievements were to disappear, if it were to be taken from you,

which would matter more, of course, right? But then when we look at our calendars, when we look at

where we spend our time, you know, it's clear what our actual priorities are.

Yeah, absolutely.

And also you read a lot.

I don't read as much as you do,

but it strikes me and terrifies me

that a lot of the most successful people

were not the best parents.

Yes.

And like, you know, my father was amazing because he was extraordinarily successful,

but he was just, he had no, I guess because he was living on a second life,

everything, he was just so easy going.

And his priority were his children.

He never thought, he didn't seem to have an ego,

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