Andrew Huberman: belief

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…What’s your advice for people about that? Or give advice to yourself about how to find love in this world? How to build a family and get there? And then I’ll listen to it someday and see if I hit the mark? Yeah, well obviously, pick the right partner, but also do the work on yourself. Know yourself. The oracle, know thyself. And I think… Listen, I have a friend – he’s a new friend, but he’s a friend – who I met for a meal. He’s a very, very well known actor overseas and his stuff has made it over here. And we’ve become friends and we went to lunch and we were talking about work and being public facing and all this kind of thing. And then I said, “You have kids, right?” And he says he has four kids. I was like, “Oh yeah, I see your posts with the kids. You seem really happy.” And he just looked at me, he leaned in and he said, “It’s the best gift you’ll ever give yourself.” And he also said, “And pick your partner, the mother of your kids, very carefully.” So that’s good advice coming from… Excellent advice coming from somebody who’s very successful in work and family, so that’s the only thing I can pass along. We hear this from friends of ours as well, but kids are amazing and family’s amazing. All these people who want to be immortal and live to be 200 or something. There’s also the old-fashioned way of having children that live on and evolve a new legacy but they have half your DNA, so that’s exciting. Yeah, I think you would make an amazing dad.…

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