Batman's Real Story
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Batman's Real Story
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#2I thought one incredibly cool addition to the article is that his son dresses up as Robin sometimes and joins him on these adventures. That's a son that's proud of his dad, and even supportive of his father's cause. That. Is awesome.
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#3At first glance weird story for HN.
But figuring out interesting ways to give back should be in the future of every successful entrepreneur, and never to early to get started.
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#4At first glance weird story for HN. But figuring out interesting ways to give back should be in the future of every successful entrepreneur, and never to early to get started.
It's a large part of what drives me to be an entrepreneur. Pretty hard to cruise around in a Lambo visiting kids in the hospital working middle management.
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#5His superhero work is limited to doing good deeds, part of a maturation process in his own life. In his earlier years, he acknowledges that he sometimes displayed an unsuperhero-like temper and got into occasional trouble with the law for fights and other confrontations. Putting on the Batman uniform changes and steadies him.
This is a sentence in the article that resonated very much with me, and I think touches something extremely important. I feel the exact same way when I'm teaching kids and teenagers— I have many, many shortcomings but when I am put in a position of role models for kids, I go beyond them.
I think everyone has something that makes them feel that way when they do it— may it be art, teaching, etc.— and finding it is one of the most important things in life.
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#6This guy is top shelf.
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#7Wow, great story! I especially like the fact that Lenny realizes how lucky he is to have healthy children and be financially stable. There are so many people who are smart and work hard, but to become rich beyond necessity always takes a healthy dose of luck. It's great to see him acknowledge that and do nice things for other people. Too many wealthy people think they're solely responsible for their success and are misers to a fault.
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#8That's the kind of thing I hope I'd do if I ever "struck it rich."
But since I haven't yet, I think I'll go to the children's hospital next week and play video games and read with the kids. Makes me realize, I've already "made it."
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#9Having just come off multiple months of our daughter being in the hospital in some very grim (at the time) circumstances, I can say that while visits from celebrities are many, visits from celebrities that actually care are few. I would have loved to have seen Batman (even the Lenny B. Robinson version) wander down our ward.
The world needs more of this guy.
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#10Bruce Wayne, "People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne, as a man I'm flesh and blood I can be ignored I can be destroyed but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting."