David Rosenthal: belief

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…I feel for Ingvar that this is his view on life because anytime anything awesome happens, I’m like immediately onto the next thing and unwilling to acknowledge, like it doesn’t give me happiness that something great happened. What gives me happiness is working toward the next great thing. If we ever just decided all right, we made all the good episodes, we’re done, I’d be miserable. I was going to laugh. I’d be like this is the story of Acquired too. I think it’s so funny. But more on the personal life advice from this too. Ingvar (I think) is living proof of this. The man lives to be 91. He clearly didn’t think he was going to live to be anywhere near that age. The stories we heard of him visiting stores, being super engaged in board meetings, making decisions, making product decisions up until the last weeks of his life at 91 years old are (I think) he is totally right. He writes “A person who retires feeling that he has done his bit will quickly wither away.” No more perfect example of that exists than Ingvar himself. Happiness for him was making things a little bit better. If he has nothing to make better, what’s his reason for being?…

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