Pat LaFontaine: Being Ignited and Igniting Others (Part 2)

Michael Gervais (0:09)

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You can also find us at Michael Gervais and at Finding Mastery. Okay. All the best. Let's jump right in with Pat.

How do you train? How do you train?

Pat LaFontaine (5:00)

I'm still learning. I mean, listen, we're brought on this world to, you know, listen, I feel blessed and I have tremendous amount of gratitude with, you know, the upbringing I had, my wife, my beautiful wife and three kids, great kids and, you know, watching them evolve. And I think you have a responsibility at the end of the day to have a tremendous amount of gratitude for whatever has been given to you and try to leave this world, hopefully a better place than you found it and try to be an example or a positive example or be responsible to try to set a good example.