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Her money comes to you through PRS. Hey everyone it's Jean Chatsky. Welcome to her money. I'm feeling very very fortunate to be here today after a series of travel mishaps

one after another after another and it was one of those days for me yesterday when it is very clear that everything in life comes down to timing because I was on one flight, sat in the waiting room for two hours because it was delayed.

I was trying to get home from Phoenix, Arizona.

Waited, waited, waited, got on the plane, sat down, ordered a glass of wine, drank about half of it, then the flight got canceled, and I got off the flight called the wonderful Hayden of Hayden Helps who we know

makes travel miracles happen every single day and ended up in a different terminal on a different plane into a different

airport in New York but I'm happy to be here and am very very aware that the stellar clocks lined up in my favor to make that happen so that I could

be sitting here and talking with Dan Pink, Daniel H. Pink, whose newest book is called

When the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. And you know Dan. I mean we all know Dan. We've read his books, the New York Times

Best Seller's Drive, and to sell is human, we've seen his TED Talks, but he's taking

a slightly different tact with this book and I'm very happy to be here with you.

Thanks for coming in.

Gene, it's a pleasure. I'm glad you made it here.

I'm like... It doesn't always happen that way, especially these days with travel.

Absolutely.

To New York in the winter.

Yes.

So tell me why, when?

I mean, you, I love the way that you explore all of your topics because you dive into the data and the research.

What made you want to take a look at the timing of our lives? You know it was sort of a

self-absorbed reason. The reason was that I was making all kinds of when decisions

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