Hello everyone and welcome back to the one thing podcast. I am so privileged and excited

to be here with the one and only John Gordon. You probably know him from one of his best

selling, one of his many best selling books. The energy bus, which has sold over three

million copies. And I have to thank you personally, John, for the energy bus for kids, which

I read to my daughter. And you might also know him from the carpenter or training camp

or power of positive leadership, power of a positive team. But today we're going to be

talking mostly about his newest book, The One Truth. Welcome, John. I'm so excited to

have you here. You're great to be with you. Thanks for having me.

So you've written so many books. Sometimes I look at authors like you who are so incredible

and have so much to say and I'll and I'll ask them, what have you left unsaid? What was

the inspiration for this book? Why did the One Truth come to be at such a great question

because each book I write, it's because there is something to say, something I haven't

said yet. And I often think I'm done writing and then new ideas come, new principles come,

new experiences come. And I'm like, okay, I've got to write a new book when that book starts

to be on your mind, the ideas, the thoughts. And you start teaching them and people benefit

from them. You're like, okay, this is a new book. That's what happened with The One Truth.

I was being filled with all these different insights in terms of oneness and separateness

and positive and negative and high state of mind and low state of mind and helping people

through their challenges, the adversity, the negativity, their deal with the anxiety

that so many people are facing today. People are struggling with their mental health.

And I started teaching these ideas that were coming to me to a lot of professional

athletes, a lot of NFL coaches and NBA coaches, major league baseball coaches. And then

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