Arthur C. Brooks

And Ryan Meechan is a great, he's a unique talent.

He does work on self-actualization and self-realization.

That's really, really new.

I can't wait to see the new stuff, Ryan.

By the way, you can't tell, but he's six foot five.

Wow.

Yeah, he's a big guy.

He's a big New Zealander.

Yeah, that's a great question, Ryan.

I appreciate that because it's easy to have these big highfalutin thoughts and then get stuck in the weeds of moment to moment, absolutely.

And this is one of the reasons that we need to have these touchstone questions in our lives front and center.

That's one of the reasons that when people have these big ideas, I recommend that they write them down on a post-it note and put it on their computer screen and look at them first thing during the day.

I recommend that couples actually hold each other accountable to these big questions.

When I'm too far off base, I'm gonna hear about it from my wife.

And I know your wife, you should hear about it from your wife too.

And to regularly wire your batteries together and to say, are we living up to the reason that we believe that we've been put on this earth?

Are we living as though our lives could be taken from us?

And if they are, it is for a reason that actually matters.

The more that you do that with the person that you love the most, the more meaningful it's gonna be.

And then you can go with confidence from moment to moment, but that shouldn't be something you ask just once a year or once in a class.