John Miles

Through that, then I came back to center and back to self.

And I think this is what your whole book parallels.

That journey.

Yeah, thank you for sharing that, Paul.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with the work of Stanford professor Jamil Zaki.

Jamel, I love his books and his work because he studies cynicism.

And where I'm going with this is I was a complete cynic for a long time.

And I love the way you describe this.

You say cynicism is a self-made prison.

And that's basically what I had created for myself.

And out of that prison, I became this term I use is a visionary arsonist.

I wanted all these things in my life.

And because of that cynicism and the statements I was making to my inner self, I was arsoning the very things that I wanted to better my relationships, my work environment, how I was interacting with my kids, all those things.

And I think, as you suggest, cynicism masquerades as intelligence.

How does that function for a listener to understand this?

Paul, earlier this week, I was interviewing a gentleman named Walter Green and Walter is 83 years old.

And he reminded me of someone you talk about in the book, a gentleman in the book named Fred.

Walter has the typical things that an 83 year old

But the reason I interviewed him is he is one of the most optimistic people I have met in a long time.

And as a person who's 83, if I hadn't seen him in the camera, I would have thought he was 27 or 28 because he had so much passion and rigor for life.