JC Quintana

but it makes you realize that you've got to bring joy to the workplace and you have to find your own peace before finding things like psychological safety in the workplace and harmony and collaboration.

You got to find your own peace.

So I recommend that people read the book of joy and kind of figure out what are your personal mantras as an individual, which by the way, for me, it's kind of hard to read them, but they're on my wall, right?

They say positive, generous, grateful, kind.

And so for me, if I cannot workplace, no matter where it is, personal life and marriage, if I cannot act in a way that is positive, is generous, grateful, or kind, then I don't do it.

If I don't have the ability to be those four things in any given situation, then I don't do it.

So the Book of Joy does a really good job of getting people thinking that way.

So I kind of said it just now that I want to think in my own little world that things like unethical behavior, things like equity, things like balance can be part of a workplace by being a good human being.

Unfortunately, I'm fighting very contrarian beliefs that say, no, you've got to be individualistic.

You've got to be aggressive.

You've got to be the boss.

And sometimes the best strategy is to be kind.

right?

Not to make an assumption.

The strategy is to say, in this situation, I don't know the facts, so I'm going to be generous with my investment of time, effort, whatever it is.

And yeah, it does feel a little contrarian, but you know what?

I don't care.

I'm going to do it.

I got to be careful because these are author friends and I don't want to step too much into things.

But when I was in sales, I thought the solution selling book was like...