Source : INDIA TODAY NEWS
It is not uncommon for a child to have an idol, whom they want to be like when they grow up. But if you are Mark Zuckerberg’s daughter, you don’t seem to have that option. A clip of Zuckerberg recalling his conversation with his daughter, August, has gone viral online. In the clip, the Meta CEO narrates how he told August that she could never be Taylor Swift.
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Zuckerberg had taken August to a Taylor Swift concert. After the show, August, rather unsurprisingly, said that she wanted to be like the pop star as an adult. “One day my daughter, we took her to a Taylor Swift concert, and she was like, ‘You know, Dad, I kind of want to be like Taylor Swift when I grow up,’” he said on the Acquired podcast.
Unfortunately, for August, having an idol to look up to was not something her billionaire father wanted her to do. Zuckerberg said bluntly, “I was like, ‘But you can’t, that’s not available to you.’” This conversation happened sometime in 2024, when August was about 7 years old.
Now such straight talk from her father could’ve made any daughter unhappy. But August Chan Zuckerberg did not feel bad. Rather, she, likely following her father’s footsteps, flipped the script. “She thought about it and she’s like, ‘All right, when I grow up, I want people to want to be like August Chan Zuckerberg,’” Mark Zuckerberg said. And this seemed to be the exact mindset the Meta CEO wanted from his child. He added, “And I was like, ‘Hell yeah!”
Why did Mark Zuckerberg say no?
Before you get angry over Zuckerberg’s comments on not wanting his daughter to be like Taylor Swift, the Meta CEO did explain his train of thought. “Learn from other people’s successes and failures, but do your own thing,” he added. So while it is okay for August to be a Swiftie, she has to build her own identity. It may be hard to argue with this logic.
But users on X were more impressed by the way August Chan Zuckerberg responded to her father. “Honestly the kid’s answer is better than his. She took a no and turned it into her own plan in about ten seconds,” one person wrote. Another user added, “That’s an S-tier answer from the kid.”
Though not everyone was amused by the clip. One user commented, “I will not be taking any parenting advice from MZ (Mark Zuckerberg).” Another user took a jibe at Zuckerberg’s way of speaking. “Even when he recounts stories that didn’t happen he manages to sound like an emotionless being,” they said.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have three daughters – Maxima, August, and Aurelia. August is the middle child, born in 2017. In the past, the couple mentioned that they give “chores” to their kids to do, including loading the dishwasher. They often take them to work too.
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SOURCE :- TIMES OF INDIA
