John R. Miles

If you ask my wife, that's what she would say.

She hates when I work on books because if I get in the flow state, which takes me a little bit to get into as I'm writing, but if I am there, man, hours can go by.

And to me, it feels like it's five minutes.

It is crazy.

Well, when you were talking about these books,

bestselling authors, one that you and I both know is Susan Cain, and you were lucky enough to even be on her podcast.

When I think of her book, Quiet, which sold something like 20 million plus copies, having to follow that up with another book that then outperforms the first one, or I think of James Clear, if he would ever write a second book, the amount of pressure that you would put yourself under

put on yourself to try to duplicate the past performance has got to be just immense.

Well, I think one thing she does exceptionally well is Susan does a ton of research before she does anything.

And I think she internalizes a lot of it.

So she is very good at picking out

cultural moments where big things people are feeling that aren't being explored.

And at least for me, quiet was a wake up call because I was this introvert in Fortune 500 companies in a very extrovert world.

And I kept wondering,

when I got home, why I was so freaking exhausted all the time.

And her book kind of showed me that because you're putting on a complete mask, that's different than what your whole biology is.

And I think that's what her books do is they're very introspective.

Yeah.

Helping people see a side of them they don't see.

And same thing with our big feelings.