Early in his life, he gets from his father what is arguably the best tutor, for sure, of the time, probably the best tutor in human history, in Aristotle, and the way that his father convinces him to tutor Alexander when Alexander's 13, and he tutors him from when Alexander's about 13 to about 16, is Philip destroys Aristotle's village of Stagira as he conquers Greece, and Aristotle says, okay, sure, I'll tutor your son, but in exchange for that, why don't you rebuild my hometown and free all of the people who had been enslaved after the town was conquered? And so Philip agrees, Alexander gets a great tutor. There's also the stories of how Alexander carried favor with his father by taming the famous horse, Bucephalus, who Alexander will eventually ride into Asia as he conquers the Persian Empire and beyond, and Philip, very proud of his young son being able to conquer this seemingly untamable horse. As Philip conquers, as he conquers Greece, Alexander is alongside him, leading troops, showing him to be a capable military general, a capable leader. So all seems to be working out well for Alexander until Philip takes what ends up being his seventh and last wife. Until then, Olympias was his favored wife, and Olympias is a bit of a character, at least from the point of historians. And you should take all of this with a grain of salt because many of these histories and these stories were written hundreds of years later, and so it's not clear how much was a true account versus how much was made up.