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William Damon is with us today. He is director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence and

a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of many things,

including The Path to Purpose, and also a new book, A Round of Golf with My Father,

The New Psychology of Exploring Your Past to Make Peace with Your Present. That is our topic today.

Welcome, Professor Damon. Thank you, Mark. I'm delighted to be with you.

All right. We'll jump right into the book. You open with a phone call from your daughter.

When was that, and what did she say?

It was about 10 years ago, and it was just around the time I was turning 60.

And she started with the question,

Dad, I don't know if I should be telling you this, should I be?

Which already got my attention.

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