Greetings, happy warriors and welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show, where I, your rabbi,

reveal how the world really works. And one of the ways in which the world really works is that we all need to figure out what the roadmap is that we are going to use for our lives.

Are we going to follow a philosophy, a worldview, a religion or a faith,

or are we going to do what the majority of the people around

us do, or are we going to listen to experts in one field or another? And here's the funny thing.

Most of us kind of get it figured out. The trouble is that for many of us, it takes

too long. And by the time we figured it out, we've already made all the wrong decisions.

And this is one of the reasons that the Bible says, in Hebrew, the words are mipnay, seva, takum, before the aged person you should rise. Now, that doesn't only mean that you should give your seat up to an older person on the bus or the subway,

but it also means metaphorically that we respect, we deliver additional and special respect to people who are old for no other reason

than that they're old.

You know why?

Because most old people have it figured out.

It's sometimes coupled with deep sadness and profound regret because what can be worse than finally figuring it out towards the end of one's life

after it is way too late to make any corrections or to fix any of the mistakes that were made far earlier.

I must tell you that in the coaching that I have been doing probably for several decades,

for many years I was doing it as the rabbi of a growing and vital congregation.

And then after that, I was doing it professionally as a coach. And the reason that I was doing it was because, well,

let me tell you what the most common thing I've heard from clients again and again and again.

I think it's without question the most common comment I get. It's also the most

common comment I get to this podcast. And that is in one form or another people write to me or say to

me, where were you when I was making these mistakes 20 years ago? Where were you when I was making these mistakes 30 years ago?

And it's not meant as an indictment of me, obviously, because I was right here delivering this ancient wisdom to those who were asking for it.

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