John Miles

And for this cause that he has to get people to start telling others how much they matter to you before it's too late.

And it made me think about Fred, because in Walter's case, it seemed like what was helping him remain as active and vibrant as he was remaining mentally and physically active.

Maybe you can take this story of Fred and my story of Walter and build upon it.

What does this tell us about joyful presence?

I'm bringing this all up because when people I talk to, especially those who are Fred and Walter's age, hear about PassionStruck, they always say to me, I would say 95% of the time, that's for someone much younger.

It's not for me.

and what i love about your definition of generative drive because it really speaks to what i think of being passion struck you write generative drive is something where more is always better it doesn't sit on a spectrum rather think of it as something boundless an endless ocean or the cosmos itself

that you'll always be able to tap into and pull from as a resource and then you go on to say the generative drive is an incessant drive towards goodness for yourself and others and everything else on the planet and whether that impact is small or significant it doesn't matter it always is the case that kindness creativity altruism art feeling grateful

are the compelling expressions of the generative drive for making life better.

And what I love about what you wrote there is if you utilize that at any age, because that is what I came to embrace after going through this examination of self that I was gonna focus on, man, it has completely changed the whole way I look at life and it's why I do this podcast.

Because if I can live this way and think of life this way, I want everyone to feel this way.

Because I think if more of us were living with generative drive, which I think is the point of your book, how much would the world be different and how much of the polarization, divisiveness, everything else that we're facing would go away?

Is that part of what you're hoping to inspire with the book?

Paul, I want to end by giving the listener how they can apply what they're hearing and start using this in their lives.

So in the last chapter of your book,

You give three reminders.

You say start or return to yourself.

I think the next one was communicate often.

And then the third one was fight well.

Can you explain those to the listener and why these three things can help propel them to use all the concepts we've been talking about today?