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Alexis Ohanian

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
568 total appearances

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

It's a wild perspective, but it's something we actually think about and talk about quite a bit. And the good news is, at least Olympia, Adira, Adira's fun too. They're tracking to be good humans, which I feel like is number one. And that if they can be good humans who are also productive members of society, I feel like we're living the dream.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

It's a wild perspective, but it's something we actually think about and talk about quite a bit. And the good news is, at least Olympia, Adira, Adira's fun too. They're tracking to be good humans, which I feel like is number one. And that if they can be good humans who are also productive members of society, I feel like we're living the dream.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

But there is that part of me that just thinks you want... You want to create just enough of that strife to create that resilience and that ability to thrive. And it's so ironic because if you look at so many of the stories of excellence, there's always some version, there's some part, there's something that happens that creates it. And it's usually strife.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

But there is that part of me that just thinks you want... You want to create just enough of that strife to create that resilience and that ability to thrive. And it's so ironic because if you look at so many of the stories of excellence, there's always some version, there's some part, there's something that happens that creates it. And it's usually strife.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

And so it's like, on the one hand, you don't want to like, part of the reason you did the thing was so that your kid wouldn't have to endure the thing. And yet you still find yourself saying, God, I just kind of wish they would have to endure some of that strife.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

And so it's like, on the one hand, you don't want to like, part of the reason you did the thing was so that your kid wouldn't have to endure the thing. And yet you still find yourself saying, God, I just kind of wish they would have to endure some of that strife.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

But it's that, I mean, like that's, to me, that's actually been one of the most satisfying parts of fatherhood is, is seeing your kid fail and, and then seeing your kid get it right, I get so much, there's so much more of a high from that than seeing my kid get it right the first time.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

But it's that, I mean, like that's, to me, that's actually been one of the most satisfying parts of fatherhood is, is seeing your kid fail and, and then seeing your kid get it right, I get so much, there's so much more of a high from that than seeing my kid get it right the first time.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

I really enjoy, and I'm not sadistic, like it just feels so much more satisfying because you're like, okay, that actually feels like a moment where you, there's some part of you that just like a synapse fired and some line, some dot in your mind connected with this other dot where it's like, okay, I figured it out. I couldn't do it before, I can do it now. And it could be,

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

I really enjoy, and I'm not sadistic, like it just feels so much more satisfying because you're like, okay, that actually feels like a moment where you, there's some part of you that just like a synapse fired and some line, some dot in your mind connected with this other dot where it's like, okay, I figured it out. I couldn't do it before, I can do it now. And it could be,

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

right now it's it's like multiplication and it's just being able to start to see those dots really connect that i just i love it's very satisfying it's like a pokemon uh evolving in front of your eyes i love it alexis it's been such a joy honestly this has been amazing just learnings from you from whether it's tech to ai to fatherhood to brotherhood to love this is great this is great

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

right now it's it's like multiplication and it's just being able to start to see those dots really connect that i just i love it's very satisfying it's like a pokemon uh evolving in front of your eyes i love it alexis it's been such a joy honestly this has been amazing just learnings from you from whether it's tech to ai to fatherhood to brotherhood to love this is great this is great

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

Be useful. It's Arnold Schwarzenegger quote. Sorry, Arnold.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

Be useful. It's Arnold Schwarzenegger quote. Sorry, Arnold.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

Oh, I didn't take it. Do I have to have taken it? No. Paul Graham told me to get rid of the Reddit alien and change the name to Octopop. And I said, no, I'm keeping SNHU, and I'm going to keep calling it Reddit.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

Oh, I didn't take it. Do I have to have taken it? No. Paul Graham told me to get rid of the Reddit alien and change the name to Octopop. And I said, no, I'm keeping SNHU, and I'm going to keep calling it Reddit.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

It worked out. Octopop, would you all be using Octopop right now?

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

It worked out. Octopop, would you all be using Octopop right now?

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

And he wanted to change the alien to an octopus. I'm like, Paul, come on. We're not doing that. Brilliant guy, just not great with the branding.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Alexis Ohanian: Why Discipline Creates Freedom & How to Incorporate Routines in Your Schedule in Order to Succeed

And he wanted to change the alien to an octopus. I'm like, Paul, come on. We're not doing that. Brilliant guy, just not great with the branding.