Among the many highlights from my family’s week away were two conversations my wife and I shared with our kids. Both conversations focused around the same topic, but from slightly different angles. While sharing an incredible dinner at the kitchen table in Buca di Peppo my daughter asked, “Why would the cook choose to work in the kitchen if he didn’t love it?” Her question followed a short discussion of how much effort it took to work as a cook in a restaurant. The thought hadn’t crossed her mind that people would go to work doing something they didn’t love doing. Later my son asked, “How do you become a professional baseball player?” My wife and I replied, “You need to love what you do and be really good at playing baseball.” Given the recent show topics and conversations I shared with middle schoolers on the topic of achieving your dreams, the conversations with my own two kids seemed to be an incredible coincidence.
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