Dave Kashen shares a parenting moment where he caught himself reacting from fear about his son's future instead of responding to what was actually happening. He argues that entrepreneurs and parents alike need to stay present and address the real situation in front of them, not imagined worst-case scenarios.
interacting with my son, and I had this moment I was about to like rip into him about something, and I realized I was scared. I was actually reacting to was my fear of who he would become 10 years from now, not the thing that actually was here and now occurring. And so I was able to shift into presence and just respond to the thing that was actually happening instead of my fear of who he was gonna become in a decade. This is what we do all the time, is that instead of responding to what's actually occurring, like especially for entrepreneurs, they're constantly imagining this scary future, right? Imagining what they don't wanna have happen, scaring themselves, and then reacting from fear instead of just responding from presence to what's actually happening.
