If you look at every great story of an adventure or every great tale, there was some kind of mission.

And it might have sometimes only been seen in retrospect, but it was there.

Welcome to The Art of Charm. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Today we're talking with my friend, John Levy.

He's a behavior scientist who studies influence and adventure.

We're going to discuss something called the 2am principle, also the title of his book,

How to Create a Life of Adventure, filtering in the right people into your circle,

how to politely cut ties with the wrong people and breaking self-imposed limitations in our lives.

So enjoy this one with John Levy and with that, welcome to AOC.

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have all the right questions. All right, here's John Levy.

John, first of all, tell us what you do in one sentence.

I'm a human behavior scientist and I studied the science of influence and the science of adventure.

So when I think of things like adventure, I kind of think, all right, this is not a scientific

thing. It doesn't seem like a scientific endeavor. Yeah, most people actually say that one

thing will happen then another and it all comes together through serendipity. It's a matter of

chance and isn't the beauty of adventure that it's unexpected. And yeah, there's a lot of unexpected

things, but you have to ask yourself, if adventure was purely something that happened by chance,

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