I think people need to gather together and actually have conversations that enable

dialectical thinking, like two things could be true at once, or has some nuance to a conversation,

like getting out of your bubble.

And I think everyone's entitled to their own opinion,

but they're not entitled to their own set of facts.

I mean, there are some things that just are empirically true

and some things that are false.

Yeah. that are false.

Katie Couric, people, this is what's happening.

And I got to say, I could not be happier about it. If you're tuning into this on the day that i put it up i happen to be in florida speaking at a wellness themed event called

eudomonia which means that i recorded this introduction almost two weeks in advance so i can't

actually give you an honest life update from last week, other than to maybe fill

in a few gaps. As some of you guys know, I've been working on this book, which I really want to keep

under wraps until it's done. In fact, I made a promise to myself to not talk about it until then.

And I made that promise to myself for a couple of reasons. First, because I think talking about the thing that you're working on has a way of releasing just enough dopamine to give you this sense of satisfaction.

That makes you feel like you're doing the thing or that you have done something that you actually haven't.

And also because creativity is a fragile thing. and I think it needs to be protected.

So that's what I'm trying to do.

So things like laundering it in conversation or in public, in my experience at least,

has this tendency to put off the muse and also invite all kinds of opinions into into the equation that if you're not careful,

end up causing you to question yourself or to intrude upon that precious creative process.

So suffice it to say that I'm going to keep the subject matter of all of this under lock

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