Arthur C. Brooks

And you wanted to explain it to a lot of people.

And you found that you could with empathy and connecting with people in ways you couldn't in the past.

And you couldn't understand, why am I so interested in this?

And why am I so much better than this?

It's because your crystallized intelligence was higher than it had ever been before.

And it was calling to you.

This was time for you to actually become the professor that's inside you to become a teacher.

And that's what you are.

You're a teacher now.

There is.

Now, of course, it's scary because when you're doing something new, you're leaving things behind.

And there's a period that we call liminality or a liminal space in your life.

And that's just a fancy way of saying the time between the things.

Yep.

Yeah, no, exactly.

And that's when you feel most insecure.

That's when you feel like a lobster that's molting and it's kind of soft and it's precarious and vulnerable.

Yeah.

And that's a hard time, but that's when you actually have your most growth.

This is something I'm real interested in my research is the time between the tides of your life.