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Welcome.

My name is Dan Heager, librarian and research associate for the Acton Institute.

Today I'm joined by Andrew Bello, founding dean of the Bush School of Business at the Catholic

University of America.

He is also an affiliate faculty member at Harvard University's

Human Flourishing Program. And today, we're going to be talking about his book, Super Habits,

The Universal System for a successful life. Andrew, welcome to Act in Line, and thank you for

being with us. Great to be here. So this book has a very self-help book title.

It has, you know, the sticky notes on the cover.

And on the back, it says self-help and personal growth.

And that's true, but I think it's also misleading.

So I think this is a self-help and a personal growth and a professional growth book, but I think

it's more than that. How do you see it as fitting in that genre? And how does it not fit?

So one of the nicest reviews I got for the book called it a work of deep philosophy

masquerading as a self-help book. And so it is deliberately masquerading in the sense that I wanted it to look and feel like a self-help book. And so it is deliberately masquerading in the sense that I wanted it to look

and feel like a self-help book and read like a self-help book. So in a sense of very practical,

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