Gordon Flett

I said, that'll probably be one of the hardest things about retiring is

is not having that daily interaction with those girls in this case.

But there's so many different ways.

If somebody, I think at the end of the day, the best advice I would tell somebody who feels they don't matter to others, regardless of that, you still need to matter to yourself.

You're not going to let other people rule your emotions.

You're not going to have to have other people make you feel a certain way that you're going to say, I have a role to play.

I have a valuable role and

Famous people who have become legendary have already known about this.

Fred Rogers, who started his work in Canada, by the way, before he went to Pittsburgh, said his number one goal was to let every kid know they matter because they all do matter.

And I know that's the case with Oprah and others.

It's like everybody has a need to matter.

But at the end of the day, don't let others rule your emotion.

Find a way that you matter to yourself.

So you'll go get help if you need it.

We'll go to the appointment that you're supposed to go to so that you're valuing yourself so that you'll be around longer and then can make a difference in other people's lives.

Yeah, yeah.

She told me one day, she goes, you know, I'm kind of the person who came up with the you matter phrase.

from her Ted talk like 15 years ago, and then it got embraced in terms of prevention efforts.

But you know, wouldn't everybody be doing so much better if everybody did have a sincere and unconditional deep sense of mattering.

You want to talk about world change, that's the route to go.