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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's episode is going to be a longer one, part of the series where I

interview fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome and any

advice they have for the rest of us. So today I am delighted to welcome Daniel Coyle to Before

Breakfast. Daniel is the author of the brand new book, Flourish. He is also the author of the bestselling books, The Culture Code and the Talent Code.

Daniel, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Laura.

It's great to be here.

Yeah, very excited to have you and introduce you to any of my listeners who haven't read your work. So why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself? You know, I was raised in Alaska and that as a writer is always a good spot to live because you see things from a bit of a distance.

Oh, man, you get, It's kind of like being raised in a foreign country. I've ended up writing

I was going to be a doctor. It took a left turn into journalism at the last minute, science

journalism, and ended up spending a career writing about how people, kind of the mechanics

beneath magic, like why super

talented people are that way or why great cultures are that way. And I've lately turned my

attention into communities. Like, why do certain communities like flourish? Why do certain individuals

within those communities flourish and grow? Yeah, well, what is exactly flourishing? I mean, because it's a broad topic and sort of a big

word. What would you, how would you define flourishing? It's joyful, meaningful growth shared.

And the thing, the deep thing to understand about it is that, like, that's kind of how we're built.

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