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Hello and welcome back to the show.

I am Patrick and here as always with Ben.

We are joined today.

Robert Glazer, gentlemen, how are you? Doing great. Thanks, Patrick. Good. Thank you for, Robert. Good. Thank you for having me. Yeah, Robert, for folks you don't know, you're an entrepreneur, podcaster, and an author. Your newest book, which we're going to talk about today, is called The Compass Within, a little story of the values that guide us. It's a parable about understanding the importance of core values, the process of defining them and the bravery we need to live by them. The book is actually coming out on the day that this episode comes out. So if you're listening to this, you want to get more from Robert. Go find the book. Again, it's called The Compass Within. in. Let's just jump jump right into this big conversation about core values. It's something that Ben and I talk about a decent amount.

And yet still, I think it's something that most people either think one of those things,

like, yeah, that's important. I know my core value is like, cool, got it. Or they just go ahead and just ignore it

altogether. And so let's start there. In your experience and talking about thinking about core

values, do you find that most people are getting it? Most people are trying but getting it wrong,

or most people are kind of ignoring it entirely? Yes, yes and yes. So I've done this poll

in rooms and in some of my speeches and I usually ask, please put yourself in one of three buckets.

And obviously certain groups skew, there's certain groups that have done this work more.

But I'll say, you know, haven't really thought about my core values. Thought about them.

Maybe I have like a word like integrity or family or something like that.

Or I have like a defined list of four core values that are written and down and I pay

attention to.

And it's it's sort of like 50%, 46 or 7%, and like 2%, you know, that have that written list and you know for a concept that

I think people get and they kind of put like yeah that's kind of vague or abstract like I actually

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