Inward Bound - Parshat BaMidbar 5786

About this episode

The episode explores the difference between motion and change through the lens of fatherhood and personal growth.

Until becoming a father, the only constant in my life was motion. Not change, motion. There is a difference. Change requires you to arrive somewhere new and reckon with what you find there. Motion is about movement for movement’s sake. Complete an Ironman: check. Next? New title, new salary: check. Next? Buy the house, gut the kitchen: check. Next? In college I ate lunch on my skateboard between classes because I couldn't embrace the stillness of a sitdown meal. I called it ambition. What I understand now, with the clarity that fatherhood can force on you, is that I was afraid of what I might find if I sat still long enough.

People in this episode

Host: Adam Teitelbaum

Topics covered

• fatherhood
• self-reflection
• motion vs change
• ambition
• stillness

Keywords

• fatherhood
• motion
• change
• ambition
• self-discovery

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