Welcome guys and gals to the Man Talks podcast. I hope you're doing well this week. I am back in Vancouver, back in action after a wonderful holiday. I hope that you guys and gals all had a chance to get some downtime and spend some time with family and friends and, you know, relax, connect, and rejuvenate,

get ready to rock out 2017. So, you know, we've talked about a couple of things so far in

2017. And this is going to be a quick mini episode in and around something that is near and dear

to my heart, which is potential.

And so what I want to talk to you about today, first I'm going to tell a story from when I was at Summit series, which is a really cool event, 3,000 plus entrepreneurs, invite only.

So it was a really great opportunity.

I found myself at a very interesting

scenario. And I got invited to a dinner by a woman named Esther Perel. And if you're interested

in any sort of like relationship work or relationship insight, you should definitely check

out Esther Perel's TED Talk. She's done a few of them that have all got a few million views by now. They're incredible. But also check out some of her book. She does some great work in and around relationship dynamics. So anyway, so I met Esther Perel and her and I had a couple good conversations. We were talking about man talks. We're probably going to have her on the show in the next month or so. But we got talking about relationship dynamics and she invited me this dinner. And I wasn't too sure what to expect, but I showed up, showed up and sat down and I sat down next to Aaron Brockovich. And Aaron Brockovich, like the real Aaron Brockovich, I hadn't seen the movie, unfortunately, so I didn't really have much to connect with her on. But her and I got chatting about, you know, what I do and what we do with Mantox and the community that we started. And I looked over and two seats down from her is Quentin Tarantino. And I'm like, oh my gosh, I love that guy. And I was totally starstruck. And then further down from him sitting at the end of the table is Eric Schmidt, the CEO and well, not CEO, but the chairman of Google. And, you know, then there's Esther Perel. There's a few other people that are in the music industry and movie industry. And I really felt like the odd man out for a for a few minutes.

But anyway, the table, the conversation of the table started to go directed towards

relationships. And of course, you know, people are clamoring to ask Esther Perel her,

her insight and her advice. And finally, one of the people at the table says, what is your best piece of relationship advice?

Like what do you have to, like what do you tell people the most when they're, when they're

trying to get into a relationship?

And she kind of thought about it for a moment.

And then she looked at the guy and basically just said, don't date for potential.

Don't date for who they could be.

And it got me thinking about how relevant that is to all aspects of our life.

How often do we invest time and energy and money into something because of its potential,

not just relationships, but in our business, in our finances, in our health, we invest time

and energy and money all because of potential.

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