The last project in my business and entrepreneurship class is to create a business plan. But in the weeks before that, kind of a middle what-do-we-do-between-units, we spent a week on business case studies. We did Geometry Dash (which they loved, but then wanted to play Geometry Dash), Life Time Fitness, and movies (naturally).
The Life Time fitness lesson was a riff on 25IQ: Take a current business concept and contrast it with quotes from others/specific leaders. For the Life Time it was Buffett and Munger.
Munger’s contrast-misreaction (number 16) is the idea that we are relative thinkers and we contrast one thing against another to understand its place. Munger’s warning is not to spend 40K on a boat and then buy the $400 cooler add-on. Those coolers only seem cheap relative to the price of the boat.
That same week my daughter picked up her high school graduation gown.
And man, it feels like I’m out of time. It’s gone. Suddenly.
This feeling has been building like warming water and since spring break it’s started to boil. There’s so many game nights we missed. Vacations we didn’t take. Experiences gone.
You hear it goes fast but don’t feel that until it’s gone.
It might seem like you have a lot of time left with your kids. And you kinda do. But just because it seems like one thing doesn’t mean that it necessarily is. Take time today, see, call, text your kids. Do it now.
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