Robert Glazer
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So they had decided as a young age, you live for today, there's never a tomorrow.
That was sort of how they lived.
Another grew up in a family that always spent all its money and gambled and they never focused on tomorrow in a different way.
So I was telling a story recently.
Let's imagine a couple is married, and this is based on not a real couple, but two real stories.
And so that kid really developed the thing of, look, you save and you take care of yourself and you don't make frivolous short-term decisions.
So one had a parent who was given a year to live when they were younger and then ended up living seven or eight years.
Well,
So for them, there was like never a tomorrow.
If those two get married and one wants to live for today every day in what they do and the other wants to plan for tomorrow, that's hard.
So they had decided as a young age, you live for today, there's never a tomorrow.
That was sort of how they lived.
Another grew up in a family that always spent all its money and gambled and they never focused on tomorrow in a different way.
And you can work around that if that's one of four values.
But imagine if we did a similar scenario with three or four values and these people are together and they have the opposite orientation on each one.
And so that kid really developed the thing of, look, you save and you take care of yourself and you don't make frivolous short-term decisions.
That's like a Mac operating system and a PC operating system trying to run the same software.
Well,
If those two get married and one wants to live for today every day in what they do and the other wants to plan for tomorrow, that's hard.
I'm not saying it can't be done, but that's really hard at the end of the day.