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177. What Does Success Look Like?
No Stupid Questions
Striving for Success Regardless of Level
The speaker emphasizes that success is subjective and one should strive to be excellent at whatever level they are at, be it high school, college, or professional level. They share a family story about their grandfather, who as a poor student in the 1930s, aspired to achieve a perfect grade point average in high school to earn a prestigious watch as a symbol of his success and achievement.
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Speaker 1
Maybe you don't
Speaker 2
have to draw the line down the middle. Can I just say you can draw the line? Two-thirds. Seven-eighths to the right, yeah.
Speaker 1
But it's like, what is success to me, and then what are the objective indications of it? And whatever you are, this is a famous saying in my family, whatever you are, be a good one. And so if that's at the high school level, great. If that's at the college level, great. If that's at the professional level, great. But whatever you are, be a good one. And use both sides of that page. Yeah,
Speaker 2
I love that. I love all the monisms. I kind of want to be a mon, TBH.
Speaker 1
Do you want to hear a family story then in closing?
Speaker 2
Yes, of course, always.
Speaker 1
So this is about my mom's dad. His name was Marion Hanks, and this is back in probably the late 1930s. And it became like family lore. He grew up very poor on the west side of Salt Lake City in this little adobe house. And if you got a perfect grade point average your senior year, then you could get a watch, the West High School watch. And it was what he dreamt of his entire schooling career. He was a great athlete. That wasn't just like a
Speaker 2
family thing. That was actually a thing in the school.
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah. The school gave you this watch. And, you know, they didn't have any money and this would be the only watch you get. But it was also the prestige of knowing that he got the perfect score. The symbol,
Speaker 2
like a gold medal.
Speaker 1
And this
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