Passing Down Wisdom

Life Lessons From My Father That I Want To Teach To My Son

Aug 12, 2023

The best way to teach a child values is to embody them. These are some of the values I'd love to live by my child:

1. You can tell everything you need to know about a person by observing how they treat service workers.

2. Hard work will never be overrated. You have to work hard if you want to get ahead.

3. You don't need to have an opinion on everything. It's perfectly reasonable to have no opinion on something that you haven't researched or don't understand.

4. You can get pretty damn far in life by just saying what you're going to do and then doing it.

5. Showing up early costs very little and pays off handsomely in the long run.

6. Waking up early is the easiest way to improve your odds of success. You don't have to wake up early to be successful, but you rarely find an early riser that isn't winning.

7. Having good posture is a physical and mental unlock for life.

8. Being kind to people is the only real life hack. Kindness remains severely underrated.

9. Consistency is everything. You should never bet against a person who just keeps showing up.

10. Most of us need fewer friends and more intellectual sparring partners. Friends are pleasant and easy to come by, but intellectual sparring partners question our assumptions and force us to level up.

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Food for Thought:

Now my friends, I want to say this to you. Fill your minds with thoughts about good things. Think about things that are true, clean, right and lovely. Always think about things which people know are very good.

— Philippians 4:8 EASY

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