Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You. And today, my guest is Sahil Bloom. How

you doing, Sahil? Hey, thank you so much for having me. Hey, great to have you. So it's

positive university, but I want you to know because I've read a lot of your, your writings

and your music on this topic. This is not polyantopositive. It's not about seeing the world

through rose colored glasses. It's knowing that you have the power to overcome the thorns.

And it's not about ignoring reality. It's about maintaining optimism, belief in faith

in a way to create a better reality. And so I love the way you think. I mean, following

on Twitter, really in think or really in mind. So I want to get into like, first and foremost,

like, how do you think the way you think? Do things just come to you? Do you sit down and

spend time every day to think? I definitely think a lot. You know, I've always, like, I grew

up in a pretty cerebral household. I would say my dad's a professor. He was at Harvard,

my whole childhood. And you know, my mom is brilliant. It runs a small business. And, you

know, basically, I was always encouraged from a young age to think about and question the

way things worked and kind of develop that independent thought. And my parents always encouraged

that. And so I mean, if there's one thing I really want to instill in my child too, it's

like that independent thought and being encouraged to just question the way things work. And my

parents always let me go down those rabbit holes. And, you know, if I got interested in something,

like now there's commercials about this, right? Like there's a great Google commercial of a

dad and his son and the dad gets interested in the octave or the kid gets interested in the

octopus. And, you know, the dad helps him using the Google device to like, go look at it,

then they go to the aquarium and they see it. That whole thing, like, I really felt like that

was a huge part of my childhood. And now it's just continued to manifest itself in adulthood,

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