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It’s Ultimately This That They Judge You On

Dec 18, 2023

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The podcast discusses how being a good parent defines a person's legacy, using the example of Ernest Hemingway. It emphasizes that one's entire life, including family relationships, is the true measure of success.

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The Importance of Balancing Success and Family

While Ernest Hemingway was undoubtedly a great writer, he struggled to maintain a balance between his professional success and his role as a husband and father. Hemingway saw family life as an obstacle to his accomplishments and believed that reviewers did not recognize his personal life when evaluating his work. However, the biography by Leslie M. Bloom offers a different perspective. Hemingway's life is seen not just through the lens of his career, but also through his relationships and actions as a flawed human being, making questionable tradeoffs and treating his family poorly. Ultimately, it is important to be judged not only on professional achievements but also on how we treat others, especially our family.

The Importance of Being a Good Parent

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There’s no question Hemingway was a great writer. He was the voice of a generation—The Lost Generation. He redefined prose style in the English language. His books have sold millions of copies. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

He wrote beautifully on love and family (A Farewell to Arms). He wrote beautifully on struggle and perseverance (The Old Man and the Sea). He was also a pretty awful husband and father. As one of his sons said, to Hemingway “family life [was] the enemy of accomplishment.” It was a thing that interfered with his greatness, his craft, his books. “On several occasions,” Patrick Hemingway recounted that Hemingway “said being a a good husband, being a good father…all of [these things were] not recognized by a reviewer when he reviewed his book.”

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