I pull up that Tom Brady clip again.
“When I think about being a dad, I think about him because of what my dad meant to me. And I know I’m not as good a dad to my kids that my dad’s been to me.”
Tom’s getting emotional. I’m getting emotional.
Dangit, Tom.
He’s the GOAT of professional American football. Can one achieve the greatest heights of their respective craft while being a GOAT father?
There is a toll in aspiring to legendary status, let alone achieving and sustaining it. Even as a mere mortal, I remember the aspirations of my youth and the madness that came with them.
Single-minded ambition incinerates all that hinders it. This is unsustainable for the modern middle-class, family-of-four household.
Tom all but confirms that, having had a good father figure growing up and choosing a different way.
“We want our kids to be happy. I want them to be respectful of people. I want them to be kind. I want them to make the world a better place…
I want them to experience great success in whatever they do. But there’s a torment about me that I don’t wish upon them.”
As a father, you can live out your vision of success.
But, when you look back, does that mirror your family’s vision of success?
