Hi, it's Robin Sharma.

Welcome to the Mastery Sessions.

Hi, it's Robin Sharma, author of the 5 AM Club,

and I'm truly grateful you're here with me in this episode of the mastery sessions. This one is called

the best life lesson my father taught me. Well we all have heroes in our lives.

Yours could be sports heroes, it could be your family members.

Sometimes I hear, oh, it was my grandmother.

Sometimes it's people you don't know.

It could be an Elon Musk, a Richard Branson, it could be an Elon Musk a Richard Branson it could be an Oprah

Winfrey or a Michelle Obama it could be a Tim Cook or a Steve Jobs or a Rembrandt

or a Monet I don't know who your heroes are. One thing I've been very

blessed with I've had some amazing mentors along the way and at the very top of the people

who have shaped my mindset, my heart set, my soul set, my perception of leadership and life is my dad.

So my dad was a family doctor. My dad grew up in the north of India. He comes from

very humble beginnings, just a brilliant man and he went to medical school in Agra which is the city where the Taj Mahal is, and he emigrated to North America when he was a young man.

And for 54 years he was a family doctor.

He started off in a very small town on the east coast of Canada.

And I can tell you he is a man who worked with great love.

It was never for the applause and the fortune or anything like that. It was always about helpfulness to as many people as possible.

So I've learned so much from my dad. He's been a great mentor. He's always filled our home when I was growing up he

filled it with books he's very much a philosopher more than a doctor in many ways he's

a deep thinker he's someone who is in many ways a heavy weight in terms of his

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