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Ben asks Gary, "What have your children taught you about life and business?"
First of all, that was a great video! Big ups! I think the Instagram videos have huge potential as well; the creativity is coming through more than the YouTube videos, which were just a person's face. So that's a lot of fun.
You know what's funny? I took this question as well because I think my answer is going to be super unpopular. I think a lot of people are going to be, you know, everybody's looking for the romantic answer, right? Like, you know, the truth is, I love my kids insanely, but I love my wife and I love my parents so insanely that, you know, I love them more.
But like, Drock's always scared when I go politically correct. No, Drock, I mean it's the truth. I promise to be very honest on this: do I love my kids more than my parents? It's a really interesting debate for me; it's much closer than the normal politically correct answer that I hear from others.
So it's not like they taught me how to love. You know, people say that all the time. I was [ __ ] loving everything before. Um, I guess, um, you know, I guess at the end of the day the things that really, really — you know what? This is the true answer: the thing that my kids have taught me about life, and I guess I believe this very much in business, and so many of you that have been jamming with me for a long time know, they've taught me from the other side how powerful DNA really is.
Watching my kids do the same exact things I do, like Misha when she performs in our living room. She's spending more time trying to pay attention if we're paying attention than on her actual performance. That's what I do when I give talks; I'm like looking in the crowd to make sure they're not on their phone.
Like, you know, Xander's looks of like "I got you," like it's just crazy! So, like, they've taught me how powerful DNA is. You know, and maybe they taught me to, uh — you know, maybe they've taught me a more extreme level of respect for Lizzie. She's just an incredible mother, and just watching how she's executing in her role with them has taught me a lot about her.
But for me, you know, they haven't taught me jack crap about business. Um, other than the reason I bet on people is based on my intuition around their DNA, and then I watched their DNA come full throughout. I'm just a big DNA guy.