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Maybe their approval isn’t the right way to feel good about life.
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0:00Imagine how much you care about your mother's opinion and your father's opinion and all of those other people. And now imagine that there's literally only one because I had no siblings. I basically had no mother. I had just a father. And [music] so like his approval was literally everything. And he disapproved of the path that I wanted to take in my life. I think a lot of these mental faculties or [music] these little frameworks just came from like how can I combat this incredibly booming voice in the background? Because like when I look at what I was doing at the time, I graduated in three years. I took the consulting job. I did all the things.
0:29But the craziest thing was that the moment that my father was most [music] proud of me and he approved of my life the most was when I was the saddest. Maybe his [music] approval isn't the right way to feel good about …