What if there was a single treat that was a virtual unlock key for an extraordinary life?

It's one of the questions that I've been exploring for a better part of my life.

Now, I don't know if there's a single one, but what I can tell you is this.

Over now hundreds of conversations with extraordinary people from all over the world.

There is this one thing that keeps emerging over and over and over that seems to be always present

in the lives of some of the most extraordinary movers, shankers, thinkers, doers, the people

who have extraordinary impact on those around them.

And it first emerged actually in the very first conversation that we ever recorded.

It was with Dan Arieli.

Now Dan is a world acclaimed behavioral economist and professor.

He's the guy who's written extraordinary books about how incredibly irrational we actually

are as human beings.

But it was something that happened immediately after that conversation that triggered this

noticing in me that went a little bit deeper and became a pattern that I saw consistently

emerging over the last few years with more or more people that I've had the opportunity

to sit down with.

So we were filming back then.

So we started out as a web series before we moved to a podcast.

So we had a whole crew that would film on location in New York City.

And we'd set up and we'd have lights and we'd have multiple people running cameras.

And we were sitting there with Dan and we had filmed this beautiful conversation.

And Dan was incredibly busy.

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