Ep. 209 | Learning From our Cultural Elders
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Jeremy and Jeff discuss cultural elders.
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| 0:35.7 | What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. |
| 0:38.3 | So one of the things that every society or culture begins to have is our sort of cultural elders. |
| 0:47.3 | And one of our current elders in our culture that a lot of people are paying attention to is Bill Gates. |
| 0:52.5 | One of the reasons why we need these people is that when they pierced into their 50s, 60, 70s, we want to see what life |
| 0:57.6 | looks like when somebody is trying to live really intentionally into that season of life, |
| 1:03.0 | when they are really at the height of their wisdom. And so there's a great documentary, |
| 1:09.1 | by the way, Bill Gates' brain on Netflix. Jeff's just |
| 1:11.5 | download on his iPad. I've watched all of them. I loved it. Man, it's, I just find this really |
| 1:16.4 | interesting. But Inc. Magazine wrote an article about Bill Gates and just the contrast between |
| 1:22.1 | his 25-year-old self, which you know, you can see in those documentaries really well, and his |
| 1:26.7 | his current self. And so they tried to articulate the difference, and it was really interesting |
| 1:30.6 | what they said. They discovered it. They said, for the 25-year-old Gates, the only question that mattered |
| 1:35.0 | was posed to assess his business success at the end of the year. Is Microsoft software making |
| 1:41.0 | the personal computing dream come true? That was the question that he really tied |
| 1:46.0 | his personal success to. A new set of questions have emerged in his final 2018 blog post, Gates Notes. |
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