Because what my mother had always said to me when everybody else laughed at me and told me that I couldn't achieve my dream—well, of course, I couldn't achieve my dream.
So, Joe, does the government need to rip up its fiscal plans and start from scratch if the Supreme Court says the government can't tax people on unrealised gains?
And she'd only been working for six months, calls me and says, Mom O, they want to give me a promotion, but I don't think I want the promotion because I don't think it fulfills my purpose.
And so there's a tool that is very counterintuitive called a " commitment device" that you can use, which means basically putting money on the line or forfeiting something else you value if you fail to achieve your goal.
" Only a fool makes threats he's not prepared to carry out. If I were to threaten to hit you unless you shut your mouth, and you presumed to speak, what do you think I'd do" ?