Dr. Robert Waldinger

if there's a choice between doing something with family and doing some achieving thing, I'm really clear now.

It's just, you know, like much clearer than I used to be.

And so, and you're going to have to make a lot of choices now that you have this little one coming into your life, you know, and so you'll be making choices all the time.

White chocolate.

White chocolate is an abomination.

I hate it.

Do you go 90%, 80% dark chocolate?

No, really, I'm kind of more like 60, 70.

Sorry.

I know.

humility and curiosity.

It's like people who, who are really wanting to constantly learn and not resting on what they already know.

Yes.

Zen emphasizes what they call not knowing and beginner's mind, meaning bringing a kind of fresh mind, even to the things you think you're absolutely sure of.

Well,

the most interesting thing is how many ways there are to have a good life.

Like there are people who've had lives, which I would hate in my study, right?

I read about them and they, they just, they make choices that I think are just terrible.

And they, they're on paths that I would never take and they love their lives.

And that has been the best thing for me.