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Sep 25, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 11 segments
On the night of his birthday, Zacharia asks Reuven what he'd tell his 20-year-old self. Turning the question around Reuven says he's hearing what that 18-year-old, hitchhiking across Canada and…
Reuven FlamerHostZacharia LipitzHostBut besides that point, there's something that I saw once that there's only two people you ever have to appease, I think is the word that they use, but I have to go check.
But there's only two people you have to appease, your nine-year-old self and your 90-year-old self.
And the idea is that you're supposed to look as you are going and seeing like, okay, am I going towards that 90-year-old self that I want to be? And is he happy with the trajectory that I'm on now? And then, you know, alternatively on the other side, like the nine-year-old self, the inner child self, the one that obviously needs the love and attention and holding for mommy and daddy and being able to take care of yourself now as a older person, are those two people satisfied and appeased?
What it means, without boring you, what it means is I had to learn how to survive on my own, not financially, because I lived in a relatively middle-class Jewish home, but emotionally and connected-wise.
And yet, on the other hand, I look at it a little bit later than nine years old.
this? I don't look so much in the past to ask this question, but it's come up, and that is, did I have a joie de vivre when I was growing up? Was I fundamentally a happy dude or not? Despite what I just said, like when I was nine years old.
But besides that point, there's something that I saw once that there's only two people you ever have to appease, I think is the word that they use, but I have to go check.
But there's only two people you have to appease, your nine-year-old self and your 90-year-old self.
And the idea is that you're supposed to look as you are going and seeing like, okay, am I going towards that 90-year-old self that I want to be? And is he happy with the trajectory that I'm on now? And then, you know, alternatively on the other side, like the nine-year-old self, the inner child self, the one that obviously needs the love and attention and holding for mommy and daddy and being able to take care of yourself now as a older person, are those two people satisfied and appeased?
What it means, without boring you, what it means is I had to learn how to survive on my own, not financially, because I lived in a relatively middle-class Jewish home, but emotionally and connected-wise.
And yet, on the other hand, I look at it a little bit later than nine years old.
this? I don't look so much in the past to ask this question, but it's come up, and that is, did I have a joie de vivre when I was growing up? Was I fundamentally a happy dude or not? Despite what I just said, like when I was nine years old.
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