Build a Heroic Home Culture

Monumental leaders build excellent family lives, knowing that a fortified home base is essential to peak productivity and elite resilience at work.

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Science has shown that a family meal is a total needle mover. You're gonna love this, but according to some of the research I've been reading, the number one thing to have kids who excel in academics, excel in sports, have great manners, and even are healthier in terms of their immune system, get this, it's a family meal. And so in this world where so many parents, so many nurturers of young talent, you know, eat alone or they eat fast food, install the ritual of a regular family meal. John F. Kennedy's father had a great thing around the family meal. He would bring in interesting, thoughtful people, whether they were great business builders, whether they were from the entertainment industry, maybe they were from the humanities or sciences. And his kids were young and he would say, sit around the family table. and ask these great icons questions. And I borrowed that. You know, from a very young age, I didn't say to my kids, oh, we're having a celebrity over for dinner, you need to go to your room. I didn't say to my kids, we're having someone really famous or interesting or thoughtful or original over to have dinner with us, you need to leave the table because you're a kid. I insisted that they broke bread with our guests. And so people still say to me now, you know, Your children they know how to have great conversations and they're so interested in other people in this world where a lot of children or young adults are like they don't have conversations anymore because they're raised in front of this white light off of an electronic device and so install the ritual of a regular family meal build a heroic home culture I've always thought of this when I get home. It's sort of my sanctuary from a complex world so We never have the TV on. I like candles. We have flowers at home. I love great art at home. I love minimalist spaces. I love lots of sunlight coming into our home. I don't want stress and complexity and noise. I want nature and peacefulness for my loved ones. So it fosters great conversation. And so they feel, ah I'm home. This is my sanctuary. So build a heroic culture and part of that is not only getting your spaces right and releasing the messes and distractions and complexity and news and toxicity from your home, but make your home life heroic. And my dad did some great things for me growing up and one of the great things he did for me is he filled our home with books of great leaders and great autobiographies and books on meditation and books on philosophy and books on productivity and lives well lived.And because of that heroic culture, You know, I picked up those books and I wasn't watching the news. I was reading about Mandela and I was reading about Edison and I was reading about JFK and I was reading about great entrepreneurs and Rockefeller and that had a huge shape on me because you know, books are conversations. You want to have a conversation with Elon Musk tonight? You want to have a conversation with Steve Jobs tonight? You want to have a conversation with Ludwig van Beethoven tonight? You want to have a quiet conversation with Mother Teresa? Pick up their books and their words will start to influence you.