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Doug, welcome to The Unmistakable Creative.

Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Training, it's an absolute pleasure to be here.

Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here.

So I actually found out about your work, it wrote in, and you told me about your book, The Gap, the little space between what you know

and don't know. And as somebody who was always interested in the way that our minds work,

the book intrigued me quite a bit, all of which we will get into. But before we get into the book,

I want to start asking you,

what is one of the most important things that you learn from one or both of your parents

that have shaped and influenced who you become and what you've done with your life?

Yeah, that's a good question, actually. So I don't know if I'm the best person to answer that

question, but I will try to

give the two qualities that I admire in them, and hopefully they trickle down into me. And I think

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