Daniel Coyle

where they're being vulnerable, they're trusting in what's going to happen.

And if you had to kind of distill the word community down to its essence, I think you could probably end up with a phrase that's something like, love your neighbor.

Like if you had to really distill it to three words, I think you'd probably come up with some words that are sort of like that.

And that's what these places are really good at doing and are really focused on.

To say, you know, get out of the self and kind of like that baseball coach, like look for one small thing you can do to connect you.

And so...

It does require, if faith is a leap, it requires a leap to do that.

It is not to say, I'm going to love my neighbor.

I don't know that he's going to help me back.

I don't know that she's going to see what I do.

But it is, there's an act of faith at the very core of it.

Yeah, I know.

Kind of crazy, right?

Town of 3,000 people, 11 Olympians, I think now.

And some of them even, I mean, you'd expect winter ones naturally, like it's Vermont, but they've got a rower, I think, and an 800 meter runner.

So it's not just that.

They had this great thing happen there, which didn't sound like a great thing at the time.

But I think now we sort of understand that overbearing parents can sometimes squash ambition and joy, right?

And back in the 50s and 60s, this town had like the ultimate tiger dad who raised two Olympians, both of whom were like kind of miserable and everybody could see it.

So they had this beautiful, I mean, what's called the via negativa, like knowing what not to do is really important in life, right?