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#286: The Man Who Taught Me How to Invest

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The One Thing My Parents Don't Do

My parents were very good at training us to want books so that was a key. My dad also told me don't have heroes and I think what he meant by that was that hero worship is a form of not thinking for yourself. It's okay to respect the way somebody thinks or it's okay torespect a talent that somebody has that you could learn from but that's different from saying oh my gosh Bill Gates is awesome  you need to be awesome at being Bill Gates. You know Ronald Reagan was always very careful whenever somebody was famous on TV when I was young he'd be like be like "don't worry about him" He says his mother would just put everything against the

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