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So I want to begin our conversation this morning with a question and this is a question that if

you're older, you're going to think, oh, that's like a young person's question. But no,

this is an off-key. This is an everybody question. Who would you like to be like? Or who do you

want to be like? Or who do you want to be like when you grow up? Because we're all kind of

growing up. Who would you like to be like? And again, it can be a person younger than you,

you just think, wow, they're just such a fine person. Who would you like to be more like?

And why? Well, what kind of person comes to mind? Maybe somebody specific comes to mind,

but what kind of person comes to mind? And imagine a world or a community or maybe just a family,

but a world in a community where everybody was more like that person. And when I ask a question

like that, because you're deep people, you're not shallow people, very quickly, we move past all

that glitters, right? To what they have, what they drive, and who they know, and where they live.

And we immediately get to more fundamental foundational issues of character, right?

We want to be more like that person because of who they are, not necessarily what they have.

There, to some extent, they're heroes. I mean, if somebody comes to mind, I want to be like that

person, they've done something sort of heroic. But they're not heroes because they have superpowers,

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