Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, I'm Paul Vocal Singh and this is episode

number 360. Today's show is brought to you by simple contacts. As part of our Art of Living, author interview series, our guest today is award-winning author,

entrepreneur and thought leader Stuart Brody.

Stuart H Brody draws for more than 20 years as an advisor to prominent political figures,

including presidential candidates.

He has held numerous public offices himself

including not-for-profit board directorships and teaching positions.

Stuart Brody's new book, The Law of Small Things, points out that we're living in a time when dishonesty and duplicity

are common in our public institutions, our workplaces, and even our personal relationships.

But by recognizing and resisting the small seemingly inconsequential ways

we make moral compromises in our lives, we can repair the tear in our social and moral fabric. The law of small things also exposes how our culture encourages breaches of

integrity through an array of permitted promise-breaking a language of cliches that equates self-interest with

duty and the illusion of inconsequence that excuses small breaches with the breezy confidence that we can fulfill integrity when it counts.

I will tell you that I really found this book helpful, a guide, identifying steps and practices to put integrity into focus, living a life

of integrity.

Let's listen as Stuart Brody reads from his book after asking him, what is important to us all but how can the not old better show

audience as Stuart Brody puts it keep our promises that are fundamental to

lasting relationships. The path to transformation lies within the routine circumstances of our lives.

And the big change we often seek is initiated with small acts,

the practice of discerning promises in the mundane

as a form of devotion to truthfulness. Integrity calls us to a practice and

encourages us to make the practice a habit. We practice integrity by keeping our promises,

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