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Sometimes you have to let other people’s dreams for you die in order for yours to live.
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- That would have been his dream.
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0:00I was 22. I had done everything that my dad had wanted me to do at this point. And so I started driving across the country. I called [music] him when I was like halfway across the United States and I was like, "I'm going to California. I'm going to open a gym. I'm going to get into fitness." And then we [music] didn't really talk much for a long time. I knew that he just wanted me to be a doctor. That's what he was. That would have been his dream. It wasn't [music] enough, and I knew that. And so I knew that the choice for me was that I either had to die to him or I had to die to myself.
0:30People say it's society, it's other people. It's usually one or two voices. Are you willing to sacrifice your dreams? Are you willing to sacrifice a certain amount of influence that your family has over them? I felt like I had to let my dad's dream die for mine to live.