Don't expect to be a world changer in the next five years. If you do, you're setting yourself up for the most part for maybe success on stage, but failure off.

If you really want to pursue something that's a life that's interesting

that's that's purposeful that's fulfilling, know that it's going to take a

while longer and that your pursuit of those things that you're really

interested in will come together in due course. Just set yourself up, just

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Dan,

welcome to the Unmistakable Creative.

Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Thank you for having me on the show.

Yeah, so I was introduced to you by way of our mutual friend,

Jonathan Fields, who told me that you teach a science of

happiness course at NYU and I am always intrigued by the work that happiness

researchers do because of the fact that it's you know based in science as opposed to a lot of made up craziness that often comes

from the self-help world.

But I want to start by asking, what did your parents do for a living and how did that end up impacting the choices that you've made with your life in your career?

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