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The easiest thing to measure isn't always the most meaningful.
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- You're not like, "Man, I'm so glad I'm worth 10 billion instead of five." You're like, "Man, I wish my kid were here." Clayton Christensen, who was a Harvard Business professor, guy like killed life.
- where he talks about like a lot of his Harvard Business School friends.
- People usually don't make that trade.
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Abschnitt 1 You're 80-something.
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0:00You're 80-something. You're not like, "Man, I'm so glad I'm worth 10 billion instead of five." You're like, "Man, I wish my kid were here." Clayton Christensen, who was a Harvard Business professor, guy like killed life. And he wrote this book called How Will You Measure Your Life? where he talks about like a lot of his Harvard Business School friends. They only measured their life with money because it was the easiest thing to measure, not because it was the most meaningful. You can work late one night, and your marriage probably won't be different. Like if you missed dinner one night. But the problem is that they'll sacrifice that like today thing, but they lose the long-term benefit, and they sacrifice that for the short-term benefit of the promotion, of the recognition. Short-term discomfort for long-term achievement. People usually don't make that trade.