John R. Miles

which kind of goes counterintuitive to everything that we're going to be talking about today.

But you said, why don't you do the opposite?

What happened when you asked that?

Nick, I have spent more time on airplanes than I would like to admit.

And it's so interesting.

I just took a trip last week.

I recently released a children's book and I went out to talk to this elementary school that I'd heard about on NPR because they had done 2000 acts of kindness.

And I wanted to go out and tell the kids that their ripple traveled all the way from Colorado to Florida and to let them know how much they matter because my book is on mattering and

And on this trip, man, everyone was just wearing headphones all the time.

So before you even had a chance to speak to someone, they were wearing headphones.

Well, lucky enough for me that the gentleman I was sitting next to on the last leg going into Grand Junction, where I had never gone before, starts talking to me.

And thank goodness he did, because he started to talk about all these incredible hiking destinations that you could go to, which completely changed my whole trip.

But I want to tell you another story is years ago,

I was coming out of Austin and I sat next to this guy named Todd.

And Todd just looked like a rock star.

But I didn't really want to go there because the second you do, they typically figure you're a fan and they don't want to talk to you.

So I just started talking to him about life.

And it ended up being this incredible discussion.

Never went into who he played for, what he did, any of that.

But we get to the next destination, which is another flight from Dallas to then Philadelphia.