Podcast
The Daily Stoic
This book was mentioned as a favorite of Dov Charney. The podcast host described it as being about a hustling young Jewish kid who prioritizes success over his values and relationships, ultimately leading to regret.
he loved the story of Daddy Kravitz
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This book was mentioned as a favorite of Dov Charney. The podcast host described it as being about a hustling young Jewish kid who prioritizes success over his values and relationships, ultimately leading to regret.
he loved the story of Daddy Kravitz
it's about this sort of hustling young Jewish kid in Montreal who like he hears from his grandfather that don't that like a man owns land funny over talking about it's like a man owns land that was like the mark of success they came from nothing and Daddy becomes a sort of host of these starts with like arcade games and he trades his way up to he's really successful and then he ends up like hurting or betraying his best friend to like get the land like his friend ends up at a wheelchair basically does literally anything to get the success and then he you know he takes his grandfather to see the land but his grandfather has heard what he's done to get it and Daddy can't can't understand slash accept that like he can't he can't understand that some things are worth more than other things and your self-respect your honor your values are more important than the success and they're the irony for Dove to have loved that movie and that story I'd probably never read the book he probably only watched the movie but it's like he it's like he only watched the first two acts and he like missed the turn where it's a cautionary place the thing man yeah it's like it's like missing that Gatsby dies at the end of great Gatsby you know like he ends up floating in a pool murdered but all you saw was the cool party yeah that's who I want to be