You know I've been in finance for close to 20 years including a pretty long stint more than a decade in the hedge fund industry and you know during that time I met people and have made friends who are worth not only eight figures, not only nine figures, but are billionaires, you know, and relatively young people. And to be able to witness the lifestyle and the choices that people at that level of wealth make,

I've learned some things.

And at the way other end of the spectrum, let's not lose sight of the fact that the average family afford America lives on about

57,000 dollars a year and that there are plenty of families and children who go

hungry every night in America which I find pretty infuriating and has motivated a lot of the charitable enterprises that my family

and I are involved with.

So you've got this very broad spectrum and so as I sort of think about my own levels of happiness, the right ways in which to raise my children, and then finally the right ways in which to be a citizen, when I can know somebody who's making very very little but also have a

friend across town or you know across the world who's got five or seven hundred

billion dollars in the bank and appreciate that the the person with half a billion dollars has good days and

bad, bad moods and good moods. And meanwhile the person who's not living on much

can be very cheerful and find great

enjoyment in what they're doing on a daily basis and find real meeting through a

variety of things in life I felt like it was an obligation to myself and then to my family and then to society to kind of articulate

what all of this added up to and that really was the impetus for the book and the first

you know couple chapters of the book kind of frame that, you know, precisely, I think.

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Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Yeah, thank you.

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