Hey everyone. Picture the best moments of your life. Weddings, vacations, this podcast, the birth of your child.

What if you could have more of those moments, but you don't want more kids? Today's book is The Power of

Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. By the way, how many times in their life do you think that they've heard

Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, and Dan? I'm Kellyn Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and this is my favorite book that I've read this year out of 30.

And I'm only mentioning that so that you know I've read 30 books so far this year.

I'm David Vance.

This is a book where I appear in The Acknowledgements, that thing everyone skips.

The power of moments shows how to create moments you'll always remember without using my usual trick, severe trauma.

And this is the book pile.

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All right, without further ado, here are our four favorite lessons from The Power of Moments.

Lesson 1. If all you have is practice at a game. So they interview this principal who basically says,

you know, imagine if you joined a sports team and there was never a game, there was only practice. You'd get so tired of that team.

And yet that's what school is like. You know, we're constantly practicing, but we never get the

big game. We never get the moment in front of the crowd. These two teachers, Susan Bedford,

Greg Jurellis, made this gold. They wanted to

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