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Dre Baldwin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

It's like, that's probably why they're so universal and they can apply to so many different domains, but no real question there.

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

Just anything you got to riff off that.

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

Yeah, like before I became a dad and I used to go to a restaurant, let's say when my wife and I didn't have a kid and I would see like a family at the dinner table and everyone would be on their device,

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

I would be so judgmental about it.

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

I'd be like, why the fuck are they doing that?

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

Why can't they just get off their phones and shit?

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

Like it must, it'd be so easy because me with that, not at that point, not being a dad, not knowing it.

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

And now I'm like, have a six month old and I'm like, oh, I get it.

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

I can make the rationale now very much easier as to why I would throw the iPad in front of my,

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

son or daughter because like for the last three or four hours they've been crying i had to change 17 diapers i have got no sleep in the last six months it's like i get it but still is it worth it like our parents didn't do that they didn't have devices to use they just like dealt with it my mom said after i was done eating i would throw throw the rest of my food on the floor and then my dad would have to take me outside we'd have to play for the rest of dinner while my mom ate food with my sister like so they figured it out why

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

Why can't we figure it out?

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

Because we have these conveniences that have made it easier.

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

We just rely on them instead of trying to do the hard thing, which I most certainly learned from playing sports.

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

And I'm sure obviously you did as well.

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

Right, certainly not, certainly not, yeah.

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

What did playing sports and being a pro teach you about being a dad?

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

Yeah.

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

I mean, it goes right into, you know, the work you have with your company, work on your game.

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

You know, is that something you started?

Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480

I think that's something you started like at the tail end.