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Hey, everybody, this is Gary Vay, Nurchuck, and this is episode 280 of the Ask Gary V. Show.

And I'm very excited. You know, I'm gonna go right into it.

Somewhere when I started living somewhat of a public life, when I wrote a book called The Thank You Economy,

I started getting random emails that made reference to my guest right now,

and maybe three years later, we met each other in a panel in Columbus Circle,

and within 18 seconds, I'm like, oh my god, I'm gonna know this guy for the rest of my life,

which is kind of like how I think about life quite a bit with people.

Like, is this somebody I'm gonna know forever? Is this somebody I'm gonna kind of know?

Is this somebody I'm never gonna talk to again?

And it is only now, and a lot of you follow me who watch this, only in the last two months,

have I started using the word kindness?

You know, as I try to really dissect why good things are happening to me and what I see is happening in the world,

kindness as a business thing, because I do look through the world, through an entrepreneurial lens.

Kindness is a word I finally use, and if you asked me to define this man with all the things he does that are very special,

I would say he's kind, and that is the feeling I felt on that panel that day,

though I didn't use that terminology for a long time.

It's so exciting for me, even though I've been doing this kind of Q&A show for a couple years,

that only last 100 days have I finally gotten to that word,

and it feels very serendipitous that I get to deploy it, because that's exactly what I felt,

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