Ric Elias

So I show up and I realized that a lot of what I've been trying to do, I'm super close to my dad, super close to my mom.

I just really wanted them to feel proud of our family.

I wanted to do what my grandpa did.

but do it in a way that was ethical and my family could be proud of my grandpa through the work that I was doing.

And I only realized this when I was with my dad and he goes, you are just like your grandpa.

I was like, holy shit.

It picked me.

I didn't pick this.

It's like, this is a random roulette.

It's just, it's the gene pool of, I got my grandpa's gene of being a merchant.

Fast forward a number of years and you and I were on a walk and you said something to me, which was something to the effect of, be careful about the relentless pursuit of more.

Yeah.

Thinking of that in contrast to the story you just told, maybe say a bit more about that idea.

It hit me kind of hard.

Society sets us up on a trick, although this is a mirage.

Every time you get to a peak, you'll see higher peaks.

There's nothing about a peak that matters.

Sometimes it's oversaid about the journey and this and the other.

It's that inner peace, that sense of well-being that really matters.

How many days of your life do you have a sense of calm and peacefulness and purpose?