Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
· Patrick O'Shaughnessy
And maybe Tim owed me a beer or two, you know, a couple nights out and a beer was his obligation as a family member. But instead, he would call ahead to his friends, saying like, "I'm sick, I can't go out, but Patrick's coming out. Can you just, like, show him a good time?" Just, like, over and over and over again. Like, literally, he just injected me into this community. sTim is the reason that I met my wife, which I'm going to come back to in a second, met my best man, met the only other groomsman in my wedding that wasn't a family member. So, you know, through this act of over-the-top kindness, of just, there was nothing in it for him, he was just doing the right thing, it sort of set me up for the rest of my life. Which brings me to the second thing. So, my first night at Notre Dame, Tim shows up with this fake ID that says I'm five foot four with blonde hair and blue eyes, and we go to a place called Boat Club, which let me in with this fake ID, and was shut down for letting people in with this sort of fake ID, like, three weeks later. Permanently – may it rest in peace. And I walked into Boat Club, and the story of meeting Lauren, my wife, was that was my first night in Notre Dame, the first bar I walked into, and she was the first girl that I talked to. And so that is a crazy stroke of divine luck or something, but it was lucky because I was 19 when I met her, she was 20, and, you know, we've been together and married and had kids ever since. And the true answer to kindness is her, because for 20 years now, we just crossed the point of our lives where I've been with her more than I haven't in my life, which is so crazy. I'm not young anymore. I'm 40, but I'm not old. And to have been with her for more than half my life and to have grown up as an adult, whatever they say your prefrontal cortex, like, matures when you're 25 or something, so, like, six years with her where I didn't even have a fully developed brain... It's by far the number one blessing, is that she... yeah, we have created this life together in a way that... I mean, the 1,000 things, the 10,000 things that she's done that add up to that 20 years is, like, the very clear true answer. Tim tragically died very young, which was awful, but I think about him all the time because without him, none of this would've happened, and this life wouldn't exist.
· Patrick O'Shaughnessy, David Senra
And so I love this story, and I love this question, because whole lives are downstream of simple, quick acts of kindness. And without Tim, my life doesn't look anything like what it looks like today. All the things I care the most about don't exist, probably. And so I remind myself of that every day, which is why I love asking this question. [00:00:00] S1: That was awesome. Now everybody else gets to see what I get to see in private, and this is why you should do more podcasts. Thanks, Patrick. [00:00:00] S0: Thanks, buddy.