Dr. John Delony

Y'all sit around a table and try to out earn each other.

This is not a life, right?

And so I think it's all at the same time, but I think we've all just been given a really ugly script about what success and joy and purpose is.

And it's costing us all our very souls.

I'm 47, I'm an old man now.

If I could sit down with my 30 year old self, I would look him in the eye and say, I know you feel like going all in with my wife and co-creating a world together.

I know it feels like you're gonna sacrifice, quote unquote, you time, the things you love, your dreams.

I would tell them, you have no idea what's coming when you're knocking on 50, what your life will feel like.

I would tell myself, I know you think kids are gonna ruin your life.

It's extraordinary.

I know you think you're missing out when you're 30.

Be quiet and just take on two jobs, three jobs.

Keep saying yes to hard projects and new experiences.

And your 40s and 50s and 60s and 70s will be built on the foundation you built at 20 and 30.

And so I think we love the Instagram pictures of the guy who's been in the gym for 10 years.

We don't love the pictures of the day in and day out.

You're exhausted.

And it was me this morning, 5.45 this morning.

The last thing on earth I want to do is go lift weights.

But I want to be able to roll around with my grandkids.