Brad Jacobs

He had studied meditation deeply in India, had met many different gurus that he had met with, and he had formulated it that was something that was easy for Westerners to do.

So he was very brilliant with meditation techniques.

For me, it was education.

For me, I was lucky, I was privileged to be able to go to summer enrichment camps instead of normal camps like most kids go to.

My mother put us into geeky

nerdy camps that were for the sciences and for the arts and were educational, basically extensions of the school year.

And there was one at Moses Brown School in Providence.

And there was one that was called the Governor's School for the Gifted.

I participated in these summer programs that I learned that there's a lot of people who are a lot smarter and gifted than I am.

I learned it was really nice to be around.

It was very enlivening to be around people who are smarter than me, people more talented than I was.

Because when you're in your own school, maybe you're the top student in that class or the top one or two students in the class.

You think you're really smart.

When you go to school for the gifted, you realize suddenly you're in the lower quartile, not in the top one or two students in your class.

And I found that very enriching.

In fact, they were called enrichment camps.

And I remember the excitement of being in a group of really bright people, maybe 20, 30 people in a class.

and a very talented teacher up in front, and that teacher bringing out a lively conversation.

For me, that was a learning of an electric experience, how to run an electric meeting, which fast forward to today is the title of one of the chapters of my book is How to Run an Electric Meeting.

And one of the keys to that is to make sure that people in the room have the right people in the room.