Most people navigate their lives by a set of principles they never consciously chose.
Inherited from parents. Absorbed from culture. Handed down by industries, institutions, and peer groups. Accumulated through decades of reasonable decisions that nobody ever stopped to examine.
In Episode 9 of Living All In, Berrick Abramson shares the Code he built instead. Six core pillars, each one earned from a specific moment, at a specific cost, in a life that has known both extraordinary generosity and real cruelty.
This episode covers:
· Your word. The only asset nobody can take from you, and why it compounds without limit. · Love unconditionally. Even after it has cost you, and what it actually requires to let the walls down.
· All in vs. all consumed. The distinction Silicon Valley taught, and what burning the boats actually means.
· Do right especially when nobody is watching. Integrity as practice, not position.
· Tell people they matter before you can't. The loss behind this principle and the monthly practice it produced.
· Make the world better because you were in it. The root system underneath every other pillar.
This is not a framework someone handed Berrick. These are the principles he has returned to in rooms where the stakes were real, at moments when the easier path was available, across chapters of a life he would not wish on anyone and would not trade for anything.
The Code is not complete. Episode 9 introduces it. Episodes 10, 11, and 12 go deeper on discipline, the tribe, and gratitude as a daily practice.
For anyone who has never stopped to ask whether the principles they are living by are actually theirs.
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