Dr. Abraham George
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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If you expect to have three kids and pay for their college, and you have expensive taste from your background, and you're a mediocre musician, but you're really passionate about it, that's probably not wise to be a musician, which kind of gets into the things on my book I talk about around testing your capabilities and having other people test your capabilities.
that there are lots of people where so that's for for people in in the arts following your passion in the arts as a 20 year old i'd say only do that if your need for financial security is low for whatever reason it's low and i'll give a neat story about that and your capabilities are good enough to meet that hurdle so you got to do those two things then you can do it when you're 20 years old
Great exemplar of that. And then I do want to go back to people whose passion can actually be lucrative. I have an exemplar in my talk, a friend of mine named Roxanne. She's a musician and she's a leader of a band called Wine and Alchemy. She's been a leader of this band for 17, 18 years. She's never going to be rich and she knows it. And she chose music because it meant the world to her.
She had a hard time imagining being fulfilled doing anything else. And she knew she was good enough to make the little money that she needed. And the key thing is that she knew she was frugal. And she's so talented and frugal that she'll go to Spain in the summer and put a hat down, play music for a day, get 200 euro, spend the next day touring as a tourist.
The third day puts the hat down, makes 200 euro playing music. The fourth day is touring again. So that was this perfect combination of talented enough to make the amount of money that she needs, which was low. And so that's my guidance for young people who want to follow the arts. Then there are plenty of people who are passionate about things that actually have good money.
In the class I just talked to, there was a young man who he's passionate about cars and he wants to own his own car dealership. And it turns out he can go work at a car dealership for 10 years and learn all those capabilities and make plenty of money and save it and then learn how they finance dealerships and build that network and that reputation and that capital and those skills.
And maybe it's 10 years down the road, he opens his own car dealership. So he's following his heart the whole time, but it's not so hard from a financial point of view. So those are these nuances that I think I'm trying to tackle on the book.
Well, and when you said working as a waitress, I filled in a cocktail bar. Yeah.
Oh, listen, I've never had this question asked of me before, and it's going to be my favorite question of all time. William Marshall lived in the late 12th, early 13th centuries, and he's widely considered the greatest knight to have ever lived. He served five English kings over his life. And I'll say a couple of things about him. One is a quote, and I use it in the book.
And it's just a little bit of an admonishment to the people who can't get out of smoking pot and playing video games. Marshall said, and by the way, the job title Marshall comes from this guy, William Marshall. And he said, know this, for this is the heart of it. Idleness shames a young man. And I think it's true for young women, too. That's what he said. Idleness shames a young man.
So that gets back to something I said earlier is take the step every day. Take the step. If you do one push up rather than zero, do that. Right. So that's one thing is he William Marshall encourages us to act. And I think we should take that lesson. The other thing is that he built such a reputation that he ended up being one of the richest, most powerful people in the world.
And it really was because of reputation. And so there's this great moment where King John of England is such a jerk that the Crown Prince of France has invaded England. Now, the Crown Prince of France is married to John's niece. And so there's a lot of people thinking, that's close enough, right? The king's niece, she can be the queen, close enough.
And John was such a jerk that half the barons of England turned against him. And they're fighting alongside the crown prince of the Dauphin, the crown prince of France. It was Louis. And so then John dies. And there's a war. I mean, this is a hot war. And France has conquered half of England. This is like 1215-ish, 1216-ish. And King John dies.
And he has a son, Henry, who could be Henry III, but he's young. He's like 10 years old. And William Marshall had such respect amongst the nobility that they all got together and they looked at him and they said, are we going with the prince or the boy? And the prince meant the French prince and the boy meant the 10-year-old son of King John. And Marshall said, we're going with the boy.
That was it. I'm going to get choked up. Everyone abandoned their alliance with France, and they all sided with Henry, who became King Henry III and ruled for 50 years. And then you ask, what's the lesson I'll learn? He had that power because of his reputation. And he had that reputation because he kept his word, and he was loyal. He was loyal to his oaths.
When he said he was going to do something, he did it. And he was pretty old by that time, right? He's like older than we are now. And this is in like 1216. And he had kept his word for so many decades that everybody held him in high esteem. So much so that when he said, this will be the next king of England, everybody said, okay. I got a little excited there, John. I got a little excited.
Yeah. So, I mean, the Viktor Frankl story is certainly worth everybody knowing. And then I'll just, I'll back it up to something that I'm really interested in. Viktor Frankl, he was like a psychology teacher who was in the Nazi camps, the Jewish extermination camps in the Holocaust in the 1940s. And he wrote, he made it out and he wrote a book. And the book was an analysis of
what are the differences between the people who survived the concentration camps and the people who didn't? And what he came up with is the people who survived had a purpose, right? They had something deeply, profoundly important to them that they were living for.
And he went on to create this school of thought around having a purpose in your life is a brilliant driving force for fulfillment and success and productivity and all sorts of things. And so those people who had that purpose, then that generated the willpower for them to survive. And so I think that's a really powerful anecdote.
The topic of owner mindset versus victim mindset, I think is really important. I'm planning to write an article about that soon. I've got it. I got the outline, the whole outline written. The owner mindset is, some people would call it stoic. It's that I can't really control what happens in the world, but I can control how I react to what happens in the world. I get to control my own emotions.
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