On Raising Children & Startups - For the Greater Blessings Unknown - Venture Capitalist Life

On Raising Children & Startups - For the Greater Blessings Unknown

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello friends. I had an interesting idea cross my mind,
and I decided to write some notes down, as I
usually do whenever I have intriguing thoughts go through my head.
And to day's idea is on raising children and start ups.
Let's talk about this a little bit. I had a

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notion passed through my skull around the meta narrative of
raising children, and I wrote it down. What are we
actually doing in the process of raising them? We are
raising children, But let's add a word, we are raising
up children. And then my brain went to but to

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what to? What are we raising them up to? To
whom are we raising up our children too? It began
to sound a lot like in offering. It sounded like
something like we need to give to something that transcends us.

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So a steering wheel on a car by itself is useless.
It gives up itself for the greater purposes of the car.
Every single part of the car gives itself up to
the greater transcendent purpose. As we raise our children, we
are raising them to give them up to another, prepare
them for the malevolent realities of our world, and equip

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them with problem solving capabilities to overcome the emergent in life.
The function is well known. Raise your children right. They
live a full and flourishing life, and their gifts back
to you will be well received and fully appreciated. Like
receiving grandchildren. We offer up our children to the great

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unknown for blessings unknown. And that's kind of it. Many
a great religious leader and religious texts convey the same idea,
the giving up to the greater, transcendent good. It seems
even in my middle age, it seems the model is
clear for the purposes of our hands and our time

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and our efforts. And then I wrote this note down here.
When you are willing to die to it, life becomes
real and abundant. You know, my matrix likes to show
me videos of building inspectors and their innumerable examples of
terrible craftsmanship and in many cases, deeply dangerous poor quality work.

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It's sometimes scary to see how these houses in these
buildings are being built with such terrible, terrible quality. But
in my mind's i the equation is quite simple. Those
that do the work only in self interest will never
fully encompass quality in their output. They don't have a why,
they don't have a reason for doing it. They're just

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there to get a paycheck. The best builders deeply understand
their why. They deeply understand and take care to do
quality work as the desire is for longevity, appreciation for
the craft, and enjoyment of the product. They are giving
themselves up for something that will outlast them, and if
they're good at relationships, their creations will bless them and

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multiply them. A good recommendation goes a long way. So
I take deep pride in our investments and startups that
we support. I give of my own life and time
to really help them flourish the best I can. I
think this is why I feel so full in my life.

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I recognize the meta of my work as a venture
capitalist and as a father, I'm raising up others. I'm
giving my life, essence and irredeemable time to help them succeed.
The larger and greater good is being a cheved life,
investing in life, doing good work for the greater, transcendent unknown.

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You know, I will never be able to own anything
I put my time into. My desire. Really for everyone
that I engage with and help and support, my desire
is simply that they are multiplied. All the best