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hold on, buddy.

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I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Mike Mann, and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, what makes a good gathering?

I don't want to have dinner with you for a long time. My butt hurts. And then. Angela, I was recently reading an amazing book called The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker.

Priya Parker, it sounds like the girlfriend of Spider-Man.

Oh no, no, that's Peter Parker, Peter Parker's Spider-Man.

Anyway, I have heard of that book.

A lot of people are reading that book.

Well, I'll tell you where I got it. So I was with one of my dear friends who I used to work with,

and he and I wanted to get together and instead of doing lunch or something like that he said hey I go on a hike every

Monday after work and I invite one person to join me is there a Monday that you

would be willing to join me for a hike.

Interesting.

And so we went on this hike and we had an amazing conversation

we caught up, we hadn't seen each other

in maybe a year or so.

And when we got down off the mountain, and I said what a delightful

experience it was and how most people want to gather for lunch or didn't end it's so hard and

it never happens and this was so different. And he pulls out a you know wrinkled old

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