Valuetainment - October 11, 2021


What My 8 Year Old Son Taught Me

Topics
going above and beyond standards
Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Hey Dylan
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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

224.31

Word count

1,157

Sentence count

99

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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Dylan, my 8 year old son, was sick one day and didn t want to go to school. We took him to the doctor and it turns out he had a cold. We thought it was just a cold, but it turned out it was something else. He had a runny nose, a sore throat, and was not feeling good. I told him, "Don't worry about it, don't push your, it's totally fine. Let's go inside." He said, "No, I have to make my 52 shots and I'm not going inside." And he did it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 So my eight-year-old son did something special this last week that I was inspired to share with
00:00:04.160 you. I think going to take a lot away from what he did here. So he's not feeling well, Dylan.
00:00:09.540 He's sick, runny nose, throat, not feeling good, energy's down, doesn't go to school one day. We
00:00:17.380 take him to the doctor. We thought he had COVID. He tests negative, but he's not feeling good.
00:00:22.260 Sore throat. Everything is just down. And every day in the family, the kids are required to read
00:00:28.080 20 pages every day. The oldest is required to read 40, but Dylan's still at 20. He'll
00:00:32.240 be going to 40 here soon and make 52 shots. So they go outside to make the shots and I'm
00:00:38.060 watching him to see if he's going to do it or not. My oldest son shoots the 52 shots quickly
00:00:42.180 because his energy is high. And at 35 shots that he's made, Dylan just looks at me and
00:00:48.540 he's just not looking good. And he's like runny nose, all this stuff. He's like, daddy, I just
00:00:53.340 don't feel good. I just don't feel good to the point where his throat is hurting him so bad
00:00:57.340 he starts crying. So as a dad, I look at him. I'm like, Hey Dylan, listen, don't worry
00:01:01.900 about it. Don't push your, it's totally fine. You're not feeling good. Let's go inside.
00:01:05.040 Let's take a break. He says, no, I'm not going to take a break. I said, Dylan, go inside,
00:01:09.840 take a break. I'm telling him to go inside and take a break. He says, I have to make my 52
00:01:16.120 shots, right? So watch. I said, Dylan, just take a break. Everyone's watching. I'm not going
00:01:21.360 to go. I'm not going inside. I have to make my 52 shots. And he cries, tears coming down.
00:01:26.780 He makes every single shot till 52. He walks away. When I go, when I take him inside and
00:01:35.080 I pat him in the back, I said, I'm so proud of you. And I said, I had to whisper something
00:01:38.020 to him. I told him, I said, you know, this is a very proud moment with your daddy. He
00:01:42.840 says, why is that? I said, because I have high expectations of you. I said, but you raised
00:01:46.720 dad's expectations today and you took it to your own standards and expectation. You say,
00:01:50.880 dad, this is your standards and expectation, but I want to go here. I want to learn how to play
00:01:54.580 hurt. And he did that on his own. I walked away. I got emotional. I told the story to
00:01:59.160 50 of our guys that we had an emergency meeting with in Dallas. And I told them to strike them 0.80
00:02:04.060 and hold myself. I got so emotional. Let me tell you why I got so emotional about it. Because 0.99
00:02:06.560 for me, I can't tell you how much people impress me when they choose to go above and beyond what
00:02:15.160 I think is high standard. I'm inspired by people like that. It's, I think the one of the reasons
00:02:21.500 why I'm inspired by this is because that was one of the things I had. If you met the 18,
00:02:26.080 19, 20 year old kid or 21 year old guy working at Bally's and you work with me, you would have
00:02:30.780 said, this guy had no clue what the hell he was doing. But we, if we asked him to do this,
00:02:34.580 he would always want her to do this. If the trainer tells you go 12 times, you go 15 times. If
00:02:40.560 you know, your, your coach tells you, you know, I want you to run a mile, you run a mile in the
00:02:45.240 quarter. If the coach tells you, I want you to make a hundred shots, you do one 20. It's always
00:02:49.360 not letting people's standards be your standards. You always say, you don't dictate my standards.
00:02:54.660 I dictate my standards and my standards are higher than anybody else is going to expect
00:02:58.580 of me. The moment you do that, what you're telling the world is I can stand on my own
00:03:03.680 two feet and I'm going to do something special with my life. I don't need the world to set
00:03:07.860 the standards of my life. I'm going to do it. You're somebody that's very rare to find any
00:03:12.800 company, any organization, anybody, any wife, husband, kids, peers, friends, organizations,
00:03:21.640 nonprofits, charities, political organizations, anybody would be more than happy to have somebody
00:03:27.360 like you because people like that are so rare to find. My deal as a parent is to see my kids want
00:03:34.180 to go above and beyond what I expect them. That made me so proud to see that taking place. So going
00:03:38.120 back to you today, when people tell you what to do, are you the one that says, oh my gosh,
00:03:43.260 this is too much, there's too much pressure. And you go below what people think you're capable of
00:03:48.080 doing. Are you the one that always just meets the standard of what people are capable, people
00:03:51.640 think you're capable of doing. Are you the person that says, forget about what you think I'm capable
00:03:55.980 of doing. You want me to do this. I think I can do this. I think the product is good, but I want to
00:04:00.520 make it great because it's my signature on this product. That level of pride of going above and beyond
00:04:06.160 is so valuable. There is no, the average salary for a person that goes above and beyond. There
00:04:11.860 is no value for that. That's priceless. That's one of those things that the market values immensely
00:04:17.720 that I value immensely. And it's something that all of us can take inventory of. So Dylan,
00:04:23.500 you watch this video one day when you're 28 years old. Uh, today when this happened was a day before
00:04:29.780 your birthday, it was two days before your birthday. We just celebrated your eighth birthday,
00:04:33.600 September 24th is your birthday. If you ever see this, I'm so proud of you, buddy. When you did
00:04:38.420 this at seven years old, it was three days before you're turning eight years old. Your daddy's very
00:04:42.820 proud. I hope you continue, uh, that level of standard you had with yourself when you were
00:04:47.120 seven years old. I hope you're doing it at 20, 30, 40 years old and everybody else. Hopefully we
00:04:51.520 learned something from Dylan here today. So if you like what Dylan did, give him a thumbs up and
00:04:55.640 subscribe to the channel. And I got another video for you. I did on a mental toughness. If you've never
00:05:00.100 seen this whole video with this 21 minutes, all I talk about is how to become more mentally
00:05:04.760 tough. If you've never watched it, click over here to watch it. With that being said, have
00:05:07.960 a great week, everybody. Take care. Bye bye.