Hook

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Any father, any parent, you raise your kids in a certain way and you give them a guideline, a ladder to climb. And here's a guideline, if you do it this way, you're most likely going to have some success in life and it'll work out for you. And then when we do it that way, we can be proud parents. But what do we really want to happen when our parents, when our kids are out of the house and they're on their own? We kind of want them to call one day and go, I'm breaking out. I'm going my own way. I'm going my own way. And as a parent, we go, as much as it may scare us, we're going, yes. I gave my kid the confidence and the courage and the foundation to say they're going to go their own way. And in a way, I think every parent honors and loves that moment. And I heard my dad when he didn't hear me stutter, when he heard me directly say what I said. And I wasn't really asking him, even though I, I respect asking him. The way I said it, I wasn't asking him, and I think he felt that. And don't half-ass it. Don't half-ass it. As a philosophy for life, how important has that proven to be since then? Cause you've remembered it and I've heard you reference it as being important. Look, it's become quite, and again, not it's become more than intellectually important or more than something, I don't, you know, I don't need to put it on my fridge to remind me. Um, it has become important in relationships. It has become important in work. It has become important in self-help. It has become important for my own spirituality. It's become important for me as a father, as a husband. Relationship-wise, don't half-ass it. What's that's turned into to me is another sort of theory I have and I call it own, don't rent. Going with an owner's mindset into relationships. Most relationships that we make, hire an assistant or girlfriend, boyfriend, most of them don't last the whole life. But I believe that if you go into those with the idea that I want it to be a lifer, if this works out, hopefully this is forever. Usually they don't end up being that. But the owner's mentality will give you that per you and that person, the dignity and the power to go, they we can be everything we can be in this relationship. And if it doesn't work out, we say it didn't work out.