Eilon Reshef: preference

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…It reminds me, I'm looking for daycares for our son, he's almost 17 months now, and there's this Montessori approach to teaching kids, and it's a very similar approach, which is just let them... If they're ever busy with anything, don't even make eye contact, don't interrupt them, let them keep doing the thing, and let them choose what they want to work on. Yeah, there's many, many of these education systems or principles that are along those lines. The person who told me that, I don't assume she's invented it, but we all err on the side of wanting more control. But I do the same thing with my kids. So I would never... I never installed any piece of software on my kids' devices. So, not firewall protection, I don't know, antivirus, error tag, nothing, because I'm like this is your problem, and if you want to protect yourself, it's your responsibility. So, this is autonomy. And there was one time where I had negotiated with my daughter, she was like, I told her I think you're using your computer too much, and we negotiated. She said, maybe an hour is enough, I told her maybe more. I think we agreed on a two-hour thing, and then she came to me three days in a row, could you please install the software on my machine so I can... Help me control my limits. And I love it when it's the other way around because now she's responsible, I'm helping her versus the other way around. So, absolutely, I take it in my personal life as well. So, how does this look day-to-day at Gong on the product team, when someone hears, oh, you give them a lot of autonomy, what does that actually look like? Help people understand what that actually means.…

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