While ,ost of the world are looking at life through a window pane or the cathode ray tube in the corner of the room, Mellody Hobson – co-CEO and president of Ariel Investments – is in San Francisco self-isolating with husband George Lucas, and while they are together The Maker has passed on some of his well-earned wisdom to help them get through the day.
What’s one piece of advice you’ve gotten that’s guided you?
I would say during this period there’s actually one piece of advice. The joke I make with people is, I married Yoda’s dad. My husband is very, very wise and in the early days of being inside, I was a little whiny and he looked at me one day and he said, “You know Mellody, Europeans lived in bunkers for five years during World War II.” That just hit me super hard. He was like, “Just think about that. Bombing around you, rations, five years. It’s been a week and you have everything you need.” I was disappointed in myself and a couple of days later, it crept back in for a minute and he looked at me and he said, “How long did Anne Frank live in that attic?” Two years, I looked it up, and then she died. And then he took it a step further and he was like, “And you’re not in a Syrian camp right now.” It’s like one of those things that anchor you in, all of the gifts you have and all of the gratitudes that you should feel. Even though I know people are really struggling right now, we’re not in a Syrian war camp. We do have to look at some of the positives here, that bombs aren’t dropping around us, and that perspective has really, really, really helped me.
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