Dave Evans

Am I actually in this room?

So those awarenesses allow the mental faculties, the part of your eye, Brandon, knows how to be attentive to the present moment, catch those things.

So you just constantly have these little games you can play with yourself, which is keeping yourself in the game.

Okay.

Coherence.

Coherence.

It turns out the meaning-making researchers will tell us that if you can align consciously who you are, what you're doing, and what you believe in, which we call coherence.

So I understand who, at least presently, I've got a story about who I am.

These are things I really care about.

Here's what I'm doing in the world.

Do they align?

And when they align, usually with some degree of compromise, because life is never perfect, but it's a calculated compromise that I've accepted.

I'm having an experience of coherency.

I'm being an integrated, coherent, thoughtful, authentic person in the world, which means I'm living purposefully.

Frankly, if the book takes a risk, it's that we don't talk an awful lot about finding purpose and mission and what have you

in part because people are so over-missioned right now that they're stuck in the transactional world.

We're really deferring almost all of that hopefulness to this coherency thing.

If people are aware of their value set, and they're aware of what they're doing in the world, and they're trying to move those things into alignment called coherency, then we're pretty sure they're going to end up doing good things.

So I don't need to preach at you about trying to make the world a better place.

The overwhelming majority of people we work with, they've got great values.