Noah Weiss: belief

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…Let me ask you a question. What advice do you have for someone about to enter the beginning of baby life from someone that is exiting that and going back to work? First off, I mean obviously congratulations, you're about to go on. A rollercoaster of emotion, sleep and everything else. I literally went back to work two days ago. I think my, maybe, advice about being a new parent is better than my advice about being at PM right now. Here are the three ... My wife and I wind up coming up with three maxims that we want to be using throughout the first two months to keep ourselves grounded. First one, I would say a little bit better every day. No matter how many books you read and how much money ouster you consume, there's nothing like actually doing it. It's a physical thing being a new parent. Getting a little bit better every day, giving yourself permission to be like that didn't go great and that's okay. That's number one. Number two, don't over extrapolate from the early days. The fourth trimester is a real thing. These babies come out. They're not fully baked. They can't even support their own heads. If you try to extrapolate everything, the next 18 years are going to be the first 18 days, it's going to be sobering. Keep that perspective. They develop so much every week, part of the fun. Then the third thing, which I got advice from this from a good friend is like you got to fully get into it as a parent. There's nothing that replaces. Actually, you got to change the diapers. You got to do the feeds. When they're up, even though they can't talk, you got to talk to them. You got to listen to what they're saying and just be fully present near the moment. I realized for myself, and then basically at full digital detox. You saw how long it took for me to reply to your emails. I was like, "Throw the devices away. Just fully with our daughter, [inaudible 00:06:34], and our family." I feel like it was so much more rewarding. I felt really connected with her now after these couple months. It's a crazy time. You're going to really love it. It's going to drive you mad at that times as well. That's all of it. All right. We're going to be pivoting this podcast into a parenting podcast. This is awesome advice. I wrote everything you just said on this little post-it as you're talking. I'm going to put that up in our nursery and see how it all goes. One thing that's tough about my career path in this weird life is I don't get a nice pat leave, paid pat leave from a big company. I've actually been working on stacking guest post and podcast ahead of my leave so that I can actually, as exactly as you said, just get fully into it.…

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