Sometime last winter I got an email from someone asking if I'd help them with a keynote speech they were delivering.

I never met this person before. His name was Rod, seemed like an awesome dude, said absolutely.

So we arranged a date, he flew into South Florida and we met to chat about the project.

Now, a lot of time has passed, you know, since then, and the reason I'm bringing it up now is really twofold.

The first, and probably the most important is that I walked out of that meeting a different person than when I walked in.

And I want to share my lesson learned because I know there are people out there that will help

in a similar situation, maybe without even knowing it.

The second is, it's a perfect example of those emergent properties that seem to evolve out of life after days,

months, years of compounded hard work that I talked about in last week's video.

So back to the story, we're sitting there and he's telling me a little bit about himself.

He started multiple multi-million dollar companies, produced major motion pictures.

Incredible dude done incredible stuff.

He sort of makes his way to this speech, which is why he was there.

Talks a little bit about his vision, what he's written, where he could use my help,

and eventually ask Eddie, what's it going to cost me?

And I didn't care, right?

I just wanted to learn from the guy.

I mean, he's done some amazing stuff.

And just being around interesting, motivated people,

you know, the more friends you have like that

that inspire you to push the bar, the better.

And I remember, I just sort of threw out a number, a low number.

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