Happy Monday, Michael Kovnaut. Hello, Rufus. Nice to talk to you. How you doing?

Just great, man. Just great. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm actually getting ready to head out on a little vacation, a short vacation. But before going out, I wanted to give you an update on the world of Next Big Idea Daily.

You have earned a vacation, Michael, at least a short one. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

But yeah, what do you have in store for us this week? Yeah, well, this week I've lined up a bunch of

interesting ideas from a bunch of interesting authors. We're going to hear some ideas on how to practice

the art of deep listening. And we're going

also hear from an author who says we should all be having a lot more fun at work. Yeah, we might

be a little ahead of this one. I think we're having a pretty good time over here. Yeah,

yeah, our jobs are pretty fun. And unfortunately, not everyone can say that. So this book will be

for those who struggle to have fun on the job.

But actually, today, I wanted to listen to an author named Wendy Johnson.

She's a family medicine and addiction doctor.

She lives in New Mexico.

And she's got a book that just came out called Kinship Medicine.

It's all about how one of the best things you can do for your health is to be connected to a community.

And, you know, most of us in America these days really just aren't.

Yeah, we've been hearing so much about this in recent years, right?

All the research piling up showing how vital relationships are for maintaining

both physical health and mental health, I think. Yeah, that's right. That research definitely

informs this book, along with Wendy's decades of real-world medical practice. Actually,

our curator Dan Pink blurbed this book. He said, in an age of disconnection, Dr. Wendy Johnson

offers a vital prescription for both

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