Where did your vision come from? I mean, on this whole process of kindness and the practice of feeling good, etc.
Walk us through.
So
the vision for that came from just
being the recipient of kindness, being the recipient
of help and guidance from other people who,
boy, I mean, again talk about kindness. They didn't have to take me under their wing. They didn't have to
show me kindness, but somebody did. Somebody believed that there was value in me
and they took time to extend that kindness. They extend, they,
many people
actually took time to extend that radical candor that we were discussing.
Where, and I love it, like I do not want to be surrounded by a bunch of yes people. Please,
let me know what's working and what's not working. Let me know where I can improve, honestly, because
I mean the only way to evolve in this life is to get that feedback and to engage in this
fun
game of self-inquiry.
And so I got it, but I will tell you this. It started when I was in third grade.
It was the third or fourth. We had a speaker come to our school. We all piled in the gymnasium
and his name was Wayne Bradberg.
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
he had lots of good stories, I'm sure. But at the end he handed out to everybody a reflective
sticker to put on your jacket or your lunch pail or your bike or whatever. I put mine on my
headboard of my bed. So I saw it every day.
And there was a seed planted there because on that sticker that I saw every single day,
it said start your day with PMA, positive mental attitude. And then the second thing it said was expect something wonderful to happen.
So he planted that seed. In sixth grade, I started reading The Power of Positive Thinking by Norma Vincent Peale.
And so I was a bit of an odd kid. I was super
interested in this, in this, I didn't know it was called personal development or personal evolution at the time, but I was,
I was calling it positive thinking, right?
But I was interested. So it started there.
Many, many years ago and, and, and fast forward 2021 during COVID
when I switched online to doing my TV show online from home, I actually
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.
Yeah, so it all came full circle and I got to send him a copy of my book.
And he was just like, oh my gosh, I cannot believe like
that seed that was planted, you know, 30,
40, I actually know 40 plus years ago sprouted and grew, right?