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Because after all, life is just one big experiment.

Mark Manson, welcome to the show. Thank you for coming to my home. It's good to be here.

I really appreciate you. And I have to tell you just to start off, because we'll talk about

your work. But I did read the Will Smith book, and I think it was a really beautiful book. And I know, listen, whatever, people, for me, when I saw that incident, I was like, oh, he's standing up for the woman in his life. Because if you read the book and you read about his mother and all that, it makes perfect, perfect sense. Yep. But all things aside, you know, we're human beings, we're flawed,

it's a beautiful book. Thank you. And I really enjoyed it. Thank you. I'm very proud of that book.

And it broke my heart a little bit with what happened. Yeah. Because I love how it turned out.

And I really, I love him. Like he's, he is a great person. And I really, I love him. Like he's, yes, he is a great person.

Yeah. And I really got to know him very well over the two and a half years that we worked on the book together. But yeah, I get asked all the time what I think about it. And I'm like, well, if you read the book, you'd understand why you did it. It's instant.

Like when I saw it in real time and I was like, oh, I know exactly what's happening.

But the book is beautiful.

And for somebody who's that well known to be

as honest as they could be i thought there was a really interesting balance of that and so if someone

hasn't read it i think there's a lot of inspiring things that just have to do with living life and being a human

that, and it's entertaining. It's obviously well written. So I just wanted to bring that up because

I could see like you do this and then all of a sudden it's like, oh no. You could you can, you know,

there's there's like a, so there's like book scan is the thing that tracks book sales. Yeah. You can pull up a chart on your Amazon has a back end. You can pull up the chart. And it's crazy. I remember going and looking at that because there was a little bit of a hope of like, oh, well, maybe it's going to more people will buy the book because everybody is going to is talking about yes of course and uh i remember

pulling up the chart a week or two later and it was just like a cliff like sales just completely

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