Daniel Coyle

It's not about intensity of experience.

It's about the frequency of them.

So those little interactions when you're giving the thumbs up to the fire engine going by end up being way more impactful on the quality of your life and your well-being than seeking out some really intense mountaintop experience.

You know, it's joyful, meaningful growth shared.

it's sort of like you know thriving but more generative right you're like creating something new and it's the feeling of aliveness i think in a way when we think of that joyful meaningful growth when we think about our life um it's it's more than success you know it's more than fulfillment but it's sort of like the peak that life has to offer us the peak experience that life has to offer us

Yeah, I think we're not.

I think there's a real hunger for this right now.

And I'd spent my life studying people who were really, really good at stuff.

And they were the people who made it to the top of the performance mountain.

When you get to that top of the mountain, what you find is that some of those people aren't very happy.

You know, there's a lot of sad success in America and around the world right now.

People who

have achieved all the metrics, but there's something missing.

And I decided to, instead of investing in the mountaintop, I wanted to go into the valleys for a little bit, find places that are generative, the gardens, you know, towns that produce an unusual number of thriving performers or businesses that thrive for unusual reasons.

And the big first lesson that it's shown out immediately to me is,

and the science is very consistent with this, is that you need other people.

No one flourishes alone.

Flourishing happens in and through community.

Yeah.

2010, the San Jose mine caves in and there's 33 people in a small refugio room down a couple thousand feet below the surface.