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Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on why rich parents shouldn't blame their kids for lacking drive: At a Berkshire meeting, Sumit Maharra from Kashmir, India, asks Buffett a sharp question: If you live in a rich society, it's hard to get your kids to work hard because they simply don't need to. So how would you incentivize a child to compete against the hungry, highly motivated kids from emerging markets? Buffett's answer starts with what not to do: "I think certainly that if you are very rich and you bring up your kids to think that they are more important in society or that they have some special privilege simply because they came out of the right womb, that's just a terrible mistake." He points to Munger as proof it can be done well, noting that Charlie raised eight children he knows quite well, and none of them carry that sense of entitlement. Then comes his warning about the outcome: "If you really are going to raise your kids to think that other people should do all the work for them and that they will be entitled to sit around and fan themselves for the rest of their lives, you will probably not get a good result." Buffett adds a piece of counterintuitive advice. The goal isn't to push kids to surpass you at your own game: "The one thing I don't think you want to give them an incentive to do is try and outdo their parents at what their parents happen to be good at. I don't think that makes sense, whether you're a professional athlete or a rich person or whatever it may be." And here's the line that flips the entire question back on the parent: "If you're rich and your kids turn out to have no incentives, I don't think you should point at them; I think you should probably point at yourself." Munger takes it even further, accepting that some incentives are simply lost the moment you raise a child in affluence: "I don't think you can raise children in an affluent family and have them love working 60 hours a week in the hot sun digging fence post holes or something; that's not going to work. So, to some extent, you are destroying certain kinds of incentives, and my advice to you is to lose your fight as gracefully as you can." But Munger doesn't see wealth as the real variable. What matters is genuine interest: "The kids that really get interested in something will work no matter how rich they are, but it's rare to have an avid-like intensity of interest."

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Just after winning the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama (Capote), Philip Seymour Hoffman explained the approach that helped him reach the top of his profession. In reply to a question about what advice he’d give to aspiring actors, Hoffman said, “This is something a teacher told me years ago, and he’s right: even if you’re auditioning for something that you know you’re never going to get or for something you read and didn’t like—if you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you’re given a free chance to practice your craft. And in that moment, you should act as well as you can.” “Because when you act as well as you can,” Hoffman says, “there’s no way the people who have watched you will forget it.” So it leads to opportunities, but more importantly, “at the end of the day, all that matters is the work. Everybody knows that. If I show up one day and the work I’m doing isn’t any good, then I’m just a guy who’s not acting well… So I would say it to anybody starting out: if you’re given a chance to act, take those words and bring them alive. If you do that, something good will transpire ultimately.” Takeaway 1: Philip Seymour Hoffman saying that good things inevitably transpire when you just focus on doing whatever you're doing as well you can reminded me of a piece of advice from Steve Martin. “Despite a lack of natural ability,” Martin writes in his memoir, he would go on to put together one of the most decorated careers in the history of entertainment (five Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a couple of Lifetime Achievement Awards, an Honorary Oscar, and on and on). Someone stood up in an audience once and asked Martin, how do you become successful? “You have to become undeniably good at something,” he said. “Nobody ever takes my advice, because it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’ If you are just always thinking, ‘How can I be really good?’—people will come to you.” Takeaway 2: I've written before about a trait often possessed by those who reach the heights of their profession: They do what they do, not as a means to some end (money, fame, awards, etc.), but for the sake of doing it. To them, as Hoffman said, the work is all that matters. To them, as Ryan Holiday once told me, “the work is the win.” You control the effort, he says, not the results. You control how well you act, not whether or not you get the part. “So ultimately,” Ryan told me, “you have to love doing it. You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.” - - - “She brought so much love, energy, and cheerfulness to the work that she could not but succeed.” — Louisa May Alcott Follow Billy Oppenheimer for more content like this!

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