Arthur C. Brooks

Make sure that the big, big, big things are front and center and you're reminding yourself and reminding each other of these things regularly.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, one of the great things about having somebody that you're really close to, somebody who understands you, somebody who is your person, is that you can actually ask these questions together actually as a couple.

In other words, why are we on this earth as a couple?

What would we give our lives for?

What would we dedicate our lives to as a couple, not just as two individuals?

Yes.

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And so you can answer it for yourself, she can answer it for herself, and you can answer it for yourselves.

And soon enough with your, I hope, many, many children, you can answer this as a family as well.

Thanks, Arthur.

So I left, you know, as I mentioned at the very beginning of our conversation, I was running a company and I did that for 11 years and I was burnt out and tired and I didn't know what to do.

So I did what, you know, many people have done for thousands of years when they don't know what to do.

I went for a long walk.

That's called a pilgrimage.

And people of many religions have been undertaking pilgrimages forever.

And there's some weird, almost magical property about pilgrimages.

Walk, walk, walk, walk for day after day after day.

When they have an intention, they tend to find what they're looking for.

I say, okay, okay, I'll try it.