🦄 Startups & VC 2d ago · Lachlan Brown

Psychology says a truly successful life isn’t measured by what you’ve accumulated, it’s measured by whether the people closest to you feel more like themselves or less like themselves after spending time with you

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Psychology says a truly successful life isn’t measured by what you’ve accumulated, it’s measured by whether the people closest to you feel more like themselves or less like themselves after spending time with you
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My daughter was stacking blocks on the kitchen floor this morning, and she kept looking up at me between each one, not for praise exactly, just to check if I was still there. Still with her. I wasn’t typing, wasn’t scrolling, wasn’t mentally drafting the next thing, I was just, there. And I watched her shoulders drop a little each time our eyes met, like she was settling deeper into being herself.
That’s when it hit me, again, for maybe the hundredth time since she was bo

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