Dave Evans

Is this the life I want to be in?

Yeah, you know, it really is, well, if this is good, more is better.

You know, the psychologists call this hedonic treadmill.

This is how addiction works.

You know, how much is enough?

A little bit more.

And so what I was trying to do was trying to be a successful business person.

So I was growing rapidly and getting more responsibility.

And, you know, having one kid is a good idea.

Let's have more.

So by this time I've got three kids, you know, and I've got, so I've got twice as big a family and about five times as big a job.

And of course my obligation just to do everything well, and I'm not.

It takes me about 75 hours a week to do that job.

I learned how to operate on three to four hours of sleep a night, which was a bit of a disaster.

And then I had a severe comeuppance one Saturday morning, about nine o'clock.

I'm sitting in the family room, drinking a cup of coffee.

And I heard my then three-year-old son, Robbie, say to his mother, mom, can we play with dad today?

Or are he just going to fall asleep in the chair again?

Wow.

And I went, oh my God.