John R. Miles

As you're coaching athletes and executives, et cetera, do you find the same to be true?

I actually call it the bee and the turtle effect.

And I got this actually from Elon Musk.

And the way I think about it is you have to have that vision of where you want to take things, kind of a slow moving sea turtle, but you have to execute your life like the bee who is constantly in action, taking small steps to serve the hive.

And it's that combination of balancing both.

If you can perfect it, that really gets you into the flow of life.

One of the things speaking of being too distracted that you focus on multiple times in the book is the life of a samurai.

Why did you choose to use that as such an important element of the book?

I also liked how you in the book talk about the samurai and this focus on the three pillars

qualities that you bring up in the book, but also their folk, their inherent mindfulness and focus on being present at all times because they never knew when their life might end.

And so they were always having to live in the moment.

And it's so different than how most of us live today.

One other story I was hoping you might be able to talk about because he I'm here in Florida and he came from Florida is the story of Rick Ankele who came from Port St.

Lucia high school in Florida was named high school player of the year by the USA today.

Drafted by the Cardinals receives $2.5 million signing bonus.

What ended up happening to Rick?

Yeah.

And isn't that so funny how that is the layup becomes harder than the half court shot in so many cases in our lives.

Rejection in this case by the fans, by your teammates?

So you end the book talking about pursuing the path of inner excellence with all your heart.