Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of My Buddy Green, and your host.

Today's guest is Daniel Coyle, bestselling author of The Culture Code and the Talent Code, who just released his latest book, Flourish, the art of building meaning, joy, and fulfillment. After spending decades studying elite performers, Navyourish, The Art of Building, Meaning, Joy, and Fulfillment. After spending decades

studying elite performers, Navy SEALs, championship sports teams, and top business leaders,

Coil had climbed to the mountaintop of success research. But when his parents passed away,

he found himself asking a different question entirely, what actually makes a life worth living? The answer wasn't

what he expected. It wasn't individual achievement, willpower, or personal optimization. It was something

we can't do alone. In today's show, we explore why flourishing requires other people and can't happen

in isolation, and why broadening our attention and relating to others

changes everything. He shares some surprising examples we can all glean something from. We also

discuss why frequency beats intensity when it comes to meaningful connection, the concept of

friction boosting, and how rituals animate us rather than automate us. It's not about adding more

to your to do list. It's about discovering that the path to meeting runs directly through other

people. Let's dive in. So at the highest level, what is a meaningful life? What does that look

like to you? Yeah, right, right. Now, that's the question that sent me on this five-year journey. That's exactly it, right? I was kind of in between things. My parents had died. I've spent my life studying performers, super top performers. And I knew it wasn't that. I knew it wasn't just success, right? I'd been to the mountaintop and I started looking in these valleys,

started looking in places that had this, when we really look at the definition of flourishing,

it's joyful, meaningful growth shared, shared. And the key word is that, right? It's a thriving

community. That's where flourishing happens. That's the vehicle for it. It happens sort of in and through

community. And so for this, you know, as I looked at thriving, I thought originally at flourishing,

I thought originally I'd find maybe there's some individuals doing it. Turns out you can't do it alone.

Like we require other people to bring out the best version of ourselves. And so what I

found over and over again, sort of like a fingerprint, were these groups of people deeply rooted in

meaning doing these messy aspirational projects together. Like it was messy. It wasn't people who had

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