The Greatest Lessons from Our Fathers - 031

Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show

Bedros Keuilian

Self-improvement, Education

5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

They say the best lessons in life can’t be taught in a classroom, and they were right. In today’s podcast, Craig and Bedros share the greatest lessons they learned from their crazy fathers. They weren’t crazy by text book definition, they were crazy because they dared to take risks in order to succeed. And now, Craig and Bedros have taken those lessons and used them to build their empires.

Here’s what you’ll discover:

1:16 - Why work is holy and drives our purpose forward.

3:45 - How Craig’s life on the farm with his father taught him how to plan ahead in order to be successful.

7:50 - How Bedros’ father showed him you need to be a little bit crazy to take risks and accumulate massive wealth.

15:44 - Why the best lessons we’re taught are learned and passed down through environmental exposure.

Transcript

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0:00.0	My father's hands, it looked like they had been cracked from the cold in the winter.
0:03.7	He had lost parts of them in machinery.
0:05.6	His hands looked like they were 140 years old, even when he was 50 years old. So, We're getting a little personal on the Empire podcast today. Hi friends, I'm
0:31.4	Bedros Kulin and I'm here with my host and best friend Craig
0:34.7	Valentine and today we are going to dive deep into the lessons that we've learned
0:39.4	from our fathers. So Craig I think this is a pretty personal episode that we're about to share with our viewers and listeners.
0:46.0	Oh, man, it's really going to be a great one. I mean my father did pass away in 2008, but every time I get to tell stories about him, it puts a smile on my face because he was just a, he was a crazy old man.
0:56.0	And I say that with a loving heart. He really was. And he just lived a little bit differently.
1:01.0	He taught me a lot of things about what not to do, but he taught me a lot of
1:04.7	things about what to do. So my old man was a farmer and I and some people get upset when I say my old
1:10.1	men. They don't like, they think that that's derogatory. It's not. That's what I would say to him. And you know, my father, he was a farmer. We grew up in Canada. We had a beef cattle ranch. We didn't have any dairy cows, so I didn't have to milk the cattle but you know what he taught me a lot of
1:25.6	lessons including including like how hard he worked now before we go on about my dad
1:31.8	I mean your dad is also really hard work has made some
1:34.4	amazing sacrifices and I love this one phrase that he taught you and I heard you
1:38.9	you mentioned one time that work is holy and I love it.
1:41.8	Yeah yeah of course and I think this is why you and I connect so well,
1:45.2	even though, you know, I come from a third world country,
1:48.5	Armenia, communist control, etc.
1:50.5	We both have that immigrant edge mentality because we were raised by fathers who
1:55.0	valued hard work and that's all they knew and so coming from a communist country
1:59.6	when we came to the United States we were very poor were broke, and my dad had to work multiple jobs.
2:04.3	And it wasn't until four years later that he scraped together enough money to open up a little
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