Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonio Dodge. If you are a parent or you want to be a parent someday,

how will you measure the success of raising your kids? Do you have a way that you are

going to measure someday in the future or now, how successful you are as a parent? How do you know you're doing

a good job? How do you know you're a good parent? How do you know your kids are turning out

good? What are you measuring that against? That's my question today for everyone,

and our question today for everyone,

we're gonna talk about on the podcast.

Before we launch into it, I'm sure in the intro

you caught that both Joel and I are sick.

Yeah.

Yeah. So if we sound raspier than normal, if our sinuses sound more plugged up than normal, that's

because they are.

Yeah, but we push through. That's right.

We're professionals. We do it anyway. The conversation around parenting I find to

be so interesting with this concept of how you measure success because this is one thing I've noticed about parenting

There's a certain subset of subjects that we collectively have some ego around.

We feel like if we didn't come down the pike just knowing this stuff,

then we're somehow intrinsic failures.

And that subset of topics are things that include relationships and

understanding who you are. And I would say that parenting is a big one. It's among

the big ones, meaning that any time we, I mean it's okay if we go

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