John R. Miles

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Now, back to my conversation with Jim Murphy.

The way you described it, I really loved.

You say every day we wake up with a choice.

Do we let our natural self-centeredness and ego lead us towards doubts and fears, or do we choose to focus on what you were just talking about?

Love, wisdom, and courage.

If we don't make a conscious decision, we inevitably follow our natural inclination down the pyramid, which is right below where I'm reading that.

I wanted to just talk about a couple words that you bring up there.

And one of the most important ones I think is the word conscious.

Because in my own book, I talk about the fact that I think so many people today are not living on autopilot, where if you put the plan on autopilot, you're typically going in the direction you want your life to take.

I think more of us are living it like we're a pinball in the game of pinball.

And we just subconsciously allow our lives to unfold without being deliberate about how we're trying to live them.

And I think in many ways, that's what you're trying to say here.

I think that's absolutely essential and agree with you full heartedly.

One of the things you do throughout the book is you've got some great examples of people in the book.

I'm going to use a person, but then I'm going to use a story you didn't talk about in the book.

You talk about Michael Jordan and his coach in multiple places.

And one of the things you talked about, Michael, is...

one of the things that led him to greatness was his focus on practice, which is something a lot of us don't want to do, but he thrived on it.