What makes you feel nostalgic?
Being the Last day of 2025, it is always good to reflect on the year. It has been a year of great personal growth and achievement. Many goals have been achieved. Spending some great times with family and friends has made 2025 a year to remember.
What relationships have a positive impact on you?
Tell me the five people that you spend the majority of time with and I can tell you who you are.
If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be?
If I started a sports team, my colours would be black, blue and white and the emblem and the mascot for my team will be a penguin. Go team TMonte71!
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Epictetus: ‘There is only one way to happiness and that is to stop worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will’
You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?
Total tranquillity. Surrounded by nature. Mountains ocean and sea. Outside with plenty of nature surrounding me. That is all I need for the perfect environment.
What is your all time favorite automobile?
The Subaru WRX is my all time favorite automobile followed by Ferrari. The Subaru WRX always has been special to me.
Who are the biggest influences in your life?
My family and closest friends are the biggest influences in my life. My grandfather used to say show me who you are hanging around with the most and I can tell you who you are.Show me your friends, and I can tell you who you are. This is so true. You are the sum of the five people that you hanging around with the most.
Share what you know about the year you were born.
1971 was a year marked by major world events like the start of the Bangladesh Liberation War, the Attica Prison and Apollo 14’s moon landing. Musically, it was huge with releases like Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ and films like A Clockwork Orange. In the US, the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18. In Australia, Neville Bonner became the first Indigenous Senator. What a year.
Are you a good judge of character?
Yes, I am a good judge of character.It is one of the things I’m really good at. I have read and educated myself a lot about character and the only way that you can judge character is if you have a great character. Building character and having character is one of the most important rates in a great person.
Tony Monteleone 