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Ep. 125 | Wisdom of the East from Bruce Lee · The Family Teams Podcast

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  in the info section on audio or the info section on the YouTube channel. So again, familyteams.com slash weekend. It's selling out fast. Claim your spot. We'd love to see you there. And it's important for us to try to figure out how can we level up our family in terms of knowledge and wisdom.
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  What's up, guys? Welcome back to the Five Minute Fatherhood. I got a great quote here from the philosopher Bruce Lee. And we love getting wisdom wherever we can. And this guy actually had some really deep philosophical thoughts. One of the things I like about guys like this is they grow up in the East, and then they live and really see the culture in the West. And sometimes people that have that kind of lens can just sort of say things that—
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  might be a little bit hard for us to see, but sort of obvious to them. And one of the things that he said was, "'Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material things wear out, but knowledge stays.'"
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  I thought this was really interesting. I liked the emphasis that I think oftentimes... And you hear people in the West say this, and this is almost a pretty characteristically Western thing to say, and that is that I want my kids to have a better childhood than I had, and oftentimes we mean materially. I want my kids to have more than I had. And I think that...
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  I think there's a heart behind it that's really, really good. We want all of us, and what we're talking about here at Family Teams, is we want our ceiling to be our children's floor. But it's important to talk about what goes into that ceiling. And oftentimes, the idea that it's to sort of...
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  Pour on the material blessings, especially in their childhood, as the primary way we want to bless our kids. That can really backfire in spectacular ways. And I think that probably Bruce Lee, going from Hong Kong to, I think, L.A., he probably saw this in a lot of people's lives. And he just sort of said, hey, guys, maybe what we should be accumulating is wisdom.
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  and pouring that on our kids. What are the lessons that maybe took you a decade to learn, but that you can really articulate well to your children so that it's sort of just a basic part of the framework of their thinking, but it took you a long time to get? Because there's going to be all kinds of things they're going to need to figure out for future generations. But it's really important for us to start to think about how are we passing those things on and really be like the Proverbs. Like what Solomon was attempting to do was to create a...
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  sort of a basis of wisdom that he could then pass on to another generation. And it's important for us to try to figure out how can we level up our family in terms of knowledge and wisdom and not simply materially.
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  Yeah. And I think one thing I would say too, is it's interesting, right? How we in our culture think it's normal to kind of leave a family inheritance, but we've never even, I've never even heard one person talk about like a knowledge inheritance, right? Like a monetary inheritance versus like actually like leaving. Like, I think we need to realize we should be people, like we should be patriarchs and matriarchs and leaders of the family that leave completely like wrung dry. Like our job, I don't think some people even see that as their job of like, it's our job to actually, like we are...
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  kind of pressure cooking ourselves in all of life to grow, to learn, to advance, to be sanctified, right? The scriptural word of kind of that being, becoming more like Jesus. And that should be something that's passed on, not just reset every generation. Like that should totally be just dumped out. Whether that means when you die, your kids get dozens and dozens of journals,
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  letters to them, whether you leave some videos to them or whether, I mean, obviously don't just do it then, but whether you're talking to them all throughout, whether you have certain days where it's just like, Hey, let me give you a lesson every single Friday of just one thing I've learned or whatever. Like this is so huge. And I think we just don't even consider this, that our job
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  Like I almost consider it, like I feel pressure actually. My job is to just be like everything. I want them to have everything I've ever thought about or learned all the way from wisdom to even like house stuff, right? Like here's how to build something. Here's how to do these things. Like I want to make sure that they are just equipped because then I think we're then equipping our kids really well where then they are so well-rounded, so advanced, hopefully knowing, knowledgeable in the scriptures, right? Able to engage culture. It just goes on and on and on. And I think this is really, really important. So yeah, I don't know if you would add anything else right there, but I think this one's really big.
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  Yeah.
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