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At Your Funeral, Nobody Cares About Your Accomplishments
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- No one will care about the business that we built.
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0:00As someone who recently wrote a eulogy about this, I find it interesting when I think about what things we use to describe other human beings at the end of their life to summarize everything that happened. And what's very interesting to me >> [music] >> is that the accomplishments that the person goes through is about one to two sentences. No one cares. Even though it's something that we dedicate a huge amount of our time to. What I did find that was interesting is that there was two things that persistently [music] come up as the thing that people talk about. Number one, service, and number two, character. It's how did they behave and what did they do as a result of this
0:30>> [music] >> this idealistic behavior. Like at my funeral no one will give a about how many books I sold. No one will care about the business that we built. No [music] one will care about the houses, the real estate, the the the equity and like no one will care. No one will care. At the end of your life the only thing that people will talk about is how you helped other people and how you behaved.