Dan Harris
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And yet there are two like wisdom bombs that you drop at the end of the book.
One from your mom and one from your dad.
Let's start with your mom.
Maybe you can tell the story of what she said to you at your bar mitzvah when you were freaking out.
If we don't remember your mother's advice, we just trudge through life.
I was just, I didn't even ask a question.
I just started talking.
I just was saying that, and I'll say a longer version now, that I find your mother's advice so impactful to me personally, because I...
It gets so wrapped up in my bullshit that I trudge through life.
I, as you say, white knuckle through life.
And so it's really helpful to be reminded internally through a story or externally by somebody else.
You know, this thing's moving fast.
Like you should enjoy it as Ferris Bueller, you know?
Yes.
Your dad.
The other amazing piece of wisdom at the end of the book comes from your dad.
I had a grandmother who spoke Yiddish, but I never heard this term.
Gnug?
Is that it?
Gnug.