Welcome, everyone, everybody back. The greatest guests we ever had, he said it come back on and he is. This is Hollywood Godfather podcast.

Part two with Patrick Bed David. A genius of all geniuses. And we have a topic that

it's ironic because other than Megan doesn't have sons. You're talking to Pat who has two

sons. You have two sons and a daughter. I have two

daughters, nine sons, nine grandsons. In on what's going on in this world, how would you advise

our children, our grandchildren, to succeed in the world we're about to be introduced to that none of us have

really been introduced to before.

There's a lot of fear out there, Patrick.

There's a lot of fear out there.

And, you know, when there's fear out there, there's a couple things you have to know about.

So the first thing I do when things like this come out, unfortunately, most people spend way too much time thinking about things they have zero control over.

You know, the old philosophy of stoicism, which was ran by Marcus Aurelius was one of the guys that became the main name.

It was started by a guy named Seneca.

And Seneca used to be part of a philosophy

called cynicism. And you ever heard the name Seneca? You know, you're such a cynic. You're such a cynic.

Where there was a philosophy called cynicism. And cynicism believed that anything bad, if it can't happen,

it's going to happen, almost like the original Murphy's law, right? That was called cynicism. And

Seneca one day sitting around these guys like, listen, and I just can't do this anymore. You

guys are way too negative. I'm going to start stoicism because I believe we're in charge of

everything that happens in our lives and we got to kind of try to control what we have control over.

So Seneca takes the lead and then you got a few other names that come out of it. And then Marcus Aurelius kind of took it and became the most beloved emperor they had in Rome.

And he did a few things. When he was running the country, they had a massive pandemic, by the way.

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