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Where did your vision come from? I mean, on this whole process of kindness and the practice of feeling good, etc.

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Walk us through.

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So

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the vision for that came from just

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being the recipient of kindness, being the recipient

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of help and guidance from other people who,

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boy, I mean, again talk about kindness. They didn't have to take me under their wing. They didn't have to

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show me kindness, but somebody did. Somebody believed that there was value in me

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and they took time to extend that kindness. They extend, they,

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many people

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actually took time to extend that radical candor that we were discussing.

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Where, and I love it, like I do not want to be surrounded by a bunch of yes people. Please,

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let me know what's working and what's not working. Let me know where I can improve, honestly, because

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I mean the only way to evolve in this life is to get that feedback and to engage in this

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fun

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game of self-inquiry.

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And so I got it, but I will tell you this. It started when I was in third grade.

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It was the third or fourth. We had a speaker come to our school. We all piled in the gymnasium

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and his name was Wayne Bradberg.

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And I don't remember much about it except that at the end of the, I mean, he was, he was an inspirational motivational speaker, right? So

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he had lots of good stories, I'm sure. But at the end he handed out to everybody a reflective

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sticker to put on your jacket or your lunch pail or your bike or whatever. I put mine on my

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headboard of my bed. So I saw it every day.

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And there was a seed planted there because on that sticker that I saw every single day,

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it said start your day with PMA, positive mental attitude. And then the second thing it said was expect something wonderful to happen.

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So he planted that seed. In sixth grade, I started reading The Power of Positive Thinking by Norma Vincent Peale.

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And so I was a bit of an odd kid. I was super

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interested in this, in this, I didn't know it was called personal development or personal evolution at the time, but I was,

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I was calling it positive thinking, right?

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But I was interested. So it started there.

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Many, many years ago and, and, and fast forward 2021 during COVID

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when I switched online to doing my TV show online from home, I actually

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found Wayne Bradberg, the guy from my third grade experience. He was up in Alaska in his 80s and I had him on my show.

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Yeah, so it all came full circle and I got to send him a copy of my book.

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And he was just like, oh my gosh, I cannot believe like

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that seed that was planted, you know, 30,

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40, I actually know 40 plus years ago sprouted and grew, right?