GH: Best Dad Advice: 10 Life and Business Lessons from Dad

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In honor of father’s day, I wanted to share some of the best advice I’ve received from my dad over the years, and how we can all work to apply it in life and in business. For the sake of background, dad is a chemical engineer — he spent decades of his career at one company — but still had lots of entrepreneurial experiences and insights along the way. (He did do a bit of consulting in retirement!) The funny thing is almost all of these were very literal conversations, which I’ve extrapolated out (30 years later!) to have a broader meaning. And as I think about the kind of advice I want to be passing along to my own kids, I think these kinds of concrete illustrations may be a really effective way to do it. Especially if they turn out to be the over-analyzing types like me! Full Show Notes: Best Dad Advice: 10 Life and Business Lessons from Dad New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: LinkedIn Sales Solutions – LinkedIn’s deep sales platform gets you more conversations with people that matter! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Tailor Brands — Get 40% off the all-in-one platform to build your online brand the smart way w/ code SIDEHUSTLE.

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0:00.0	Here's an oldie but a goodie from the Archives from The Side Hustle Show Greatest Hits Collection.
0:06.0	What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here?
0:08.5	Welcome to The Side Hustle Show because your life is your lecture. Just a quick solo episode for you today. In honor of
0:15.5	Father's Day I wanted to share some of the best advice I've received from my own
0:20.0	dad over the years and how we can all work to apply it in life and in business.
0:25.5	For the sake of background, dad is a chemical engineer.
0:28.8	He is not an entrepreneur in the traditional sense, in that he spent decades really of his career at one
0:34.4	company, but still had lots of entrepreneurial experiences and I think insights along the way.
0:40.3	I know I've shared some of these in bits and pieces over the years but wanted to run through my top 10 bits of fatherly advice here on the show today
0:47.2	And the funny thing is that almost all of these were very literal conversations which now 30 years later I've extrapolated to have a
0:55.2	broader meaning that may or may not have been attended at the time and as I think
0:59.4	about the kind of advice I want to be passing along to my own kids.
1:03.4	I think these kinds of concrete illustrations
1:06.3	might be a really effective way to do it,
1:08.7	especially if they turn out to be the chronic over-analyzing types like me. Ready? Let's do it.
1:14.0	Lesson number one is it's not a piano.
1:20.0	This is something dad would say as we were working on home improvement projects when I was a kid and what he meant by that was it doesn't have to be 100% perfect
1:29.4	Which isn't to say he didn't care about quality, he absolutely did,
1:33.6	just that sometimes it's better to finish the job
1:36.6	than stress over every last detail.
1:39.2	Perfectionism is definitely something I still struggle with,
1:41.6	so I try to keep this one in mind and
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