Jonathan Fields

What's the very first thing that they should think about doing?

Not necessarily the whole framework, which you just laid out so beautifully, but like it's the first step in here.

Beautiful.

Feels like a good place for us to come full circle.

I have asked you this before.

I'm going to ask you again because some years have passed in this container of Good Life Project.

If I offer up the phrase to live a good life, what comes up?

Thank you.

So let's talk about some of the big ahas and actionable takeaways from this conversation.

The thing that I'm really sitting with from this conversation is how much of what we call loneliness, especially in the middle years of life, is actually a ritual deficit.

It's not that we do not have people.

It's that we don't have the ceremonies that tell our people, this matters.

I'm in a transition.

I need you to witness it with me and maybe be a part of it with me.

A few things I want to carry forward with this.

Bruce's definition of a ritual is maybe the most portable one that I have encountered.

A shared unnecessary act that makes you feel at home.

You do not need permission.

You do not need a guide or a script or a hundred people.

You just need a threshold, a purpose, and at least one other person.