Eric Zimmer

And I mean, those are great questions for us, not just for children, but in general.

And they seem to sum up a lot of what your book is about in a way.

You mentioned earlier that you believe you bring something interesting and new to decision making.

And it's one of the things I've always thought that there was a lot of content in your world about was decision making.

But you make a really important point in this book, which is we're taught to focus on the big decisions rather than the moments where we don't even realize we're making a choice.

Say more about that.

It's interesting, this idea of these little moments.

I've shared this on the show before.

Part of my backstory is I was a homeless heroin addict at 24 years.

And there's a moment where I made a decision to go into long term treatment.

I was presented with the option to go.

I originally said no.

I had a moment of clarity and I said yes.

And my life changed.

Right.

And I'm always like, if you made the Hollywood version of my life, that would be the key scene.

Right.

But that scene is only relevant.

because of the thousands and thousands of other decisions i've made since then to continue moving in that direction and so it's nice to look at these big moments and there are moments where something significant happens but as you point out so much of our life is this slow accumulation of positive or negative can we talk about that for a second sure if you're open to it because i bet you the first time you did heroin you didn't wake up in the morning

Yeah.