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07/29 Hour 1: Nationals Got A Much Needed Win Over Toronto - 1:00 JP Finlay's Amazing Question For Quinn And Peters - 11:00 Tony Romo's OWI Video Doesn't Help Him At All - 32:00
Spit Hit for July 27th 2026: Tis' the season for cold jokes, snow days and laughter as we're bringing you a brand new episode that's sure to get you laughing. Would You Rather and then the returns of Jason Explains, plus That's a Great Question before we wrap things up with a Things To Do in the Snow Draft.Re-brand Mondays with some comedy! Subscribe and tell your friends about another funny episode of The Spitballers Comedy Podcast! Connect with the Spitballers Comedy Podcast: Become an Official Spitwad: SpitballersPod.com Follow us on X: x.com/SpitballersPod Follow us on IG: Instagram.com/SpitballersPod Subscribe on YouTube: YouTube.com/Spitballers Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
That's A Great Question: Week Four
That's A Great Question: Week Four
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That's A Great Question: Week Three
Larry Robertson makes the case: we aren't just a “questioning species”, questions are the source of our flourishing. When we learn to use them well, we all benefit. Larry Robertson: https://lrspeaks.com Theme music by Sean Balick; “Great Great Lengths” by The Balloonist, via Blue Dot Sessions.
Tristan McLindon joins Kaz and Tubes to explain why he quit a career in marketing to pursue comedy, magic, and mind reading full-time, ahead of his latest show, Great Question, coming to Hobart.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
"That' A Great Question": Week Two
My talk with David starts at 28 mins Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Subscribe to Rothkopf's new Substack https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/ Follow Rothkopf Listen to Deep State Radio Read Rothkopf at The Daily Beast Buy his books David Rothkopf is CEO of The Rothkopf Group, a media company that produces podcasts including Deep State Radio, hosted by Rothkopf. TRG also produces custom podcasts for clients including the United Arab Emirates. He is also the author of many books including Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, Superclass, Power, Inc., National Insecurity, Great Questions of Tomorrow, and Traitor: A History of Betraying America from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump. Listen rate and review on Apple Podcasts Listen rate and review on Spotify Pete On Instagram Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on Twitter Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo
"That's A Great Question": Week 1
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026Title: That's a Great QuestionPreacher: Wayne MeadowsSeries: The Psalms (Part 16)Passage: Psalm 15:1-5
Is Sitting Making my Butt FAT? Or WORSE? What if SITTING is the main reason humans are fatter, weaker, more diseased and more depressed than at any time in history? Would humans be healthy, fit, strong, lean, and energetic if they we got off their BUTTS and MOVED? Great Question? YES/NO/WHY?
I'm always looking for ways to improve myself, and learning how to ask questions is a simple skill to develop that leads to overall elevation in self and in life!00:00 Intro01:24 The Basics04:23 Chapters05:34 Top 5 Fave Parts05:40 Fear and insecurity08:20 Opportunities11:03 Stay open15:05 You MUST decide19:42 Legacy24:34 Closing#LexCQuotes #JohnCMaxwell #LeadershipBooksEmail LEXCQUOTES@gmail.comCashApp: $LexCATLPayPal: lexcsolo@gmail.comVenmo: @lexcatlZelle: 404-552-5514Please support me by becoming a Patron on my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/lexcatl. As a Patron, you'll get to see all my content AS SOON AS I POST, not when I schedule stuff to post, which is only once each week right now. If you want to see your requested videos IMMEDIATELY, sign up to become a Patron for just $5 each month!WORK WITH LEXChttps://www.lexcatl.com/shop/work-with-lexcLexC eBook: http://bit.ly/lexcebookMUSICAmazon - https://amzn.to/3GawyArApple Music - http://bit.ly/lexconappleSpotify - http://bit.ly/lexconspotifyTidal - http://bit.ly/lexcontidal_________________________________________________________________ Follow me: https://www.lexcatl.com/ https://www.instagram.com/lexcatl/ https://twitter.com/thisislexchttps://www.facebook.com/lexcatl https://anchor.fm/lexcatlhttps://www.patreon.com/lexcatl
What if the most powerful thing you can do as a leader has nothing to do with having the right answers, and everything to do with asking the right questions? This week, Jon Goehring and Coach Jim Johnson sit down with Clark Aldrich, recognized by Forbes Magazine and CNN as one of the world's leading voices on experiential learning, father of simulation learning, award winning author, and creator of the Socratic Cards, a deceptively simple leadership and learning tool that is changing how teams grow, communicate, and think together.Clark opens by challenging one of the most deeply held assumptions in both education and leadership: that the person at the front of the room should be doing most of the talking. Drawing on decades of working with CEOs, military universities, and Fortune 500 companies, he makes a compelling case that great leaders are defined not by the quality of their answers but by the quality of their questions, and specifically questions to which they genuinely do not already know the answer.The conversation goes deep into what separates the 30 percent of employees Clark calls heroic tribe members from the 70 percent who are simply going through the motions, and what a leader can do to flip that ratio on their own team. Clark also shares his framework for seeing every person who walks through your door as a hero on a journey, and why that single mindset shift changes everything about how you hire, how you lead, and how loyal your people will be to you.Clark also shares his five levels of tribe thinking, from the vandals at the bottom to the everything rises together mentality at the top, and explains why understanding where your team or family sits on that spectrum is the first step to building something that actually holds together.The episode closes with Clark reflecting on the mentor who shaped his entire philosophy of learning and leadership, and why after thirty years in the field, he is still standing on that person's shoulders.Whether you lead a team, teach a class, raise children, or simply want to get better at the conversations that actually move people forward, this episode will make you think differently about the power of a good question.Connect with Clark: socraticcards.comEmail: clark@socraticcards.comGrab Socratic Cards at socraticcards.com for $25 a deck
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My talk with David starts at 28 mins Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Subscribe to Rothkopf's new Substack https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/ Follow Rothkopf Listen to Deep State Radio Read Rothkopf at The Daily Beast Buy his books David Rothkopf is CEO of The Rothkopf Group, a media company that produces podcasts including Deep State Radio, hosted by Rothkopf. TRG also produces custom podcasts for clients including the United Arab Emirates. He is also the author of many books including Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, Superclass, Power, Inc., National Insecurity, Great Questions of Tomorrow, and Traitor: A History of Betraying America from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump. Listen rate and review on Apple Podcasts Listen rate and review on Spotify Pete On Instagram Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on Twitter Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo
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Today, we have our former lead pastor Glenn Gunderson showing us what it means to explore how faith in God is not a blind leap, but a reasonable and thoughtful response to the evidence. We're reminded that God created everything out of nothing, pointing to a Creator who exists beyond time, space, and matter. Through […]
Today, we have our former lead pastor Glenn Gunderson showing us what it means to explore how faith in God is not a blind leap, but a reasonable and thoughtful response to the evidence. We're reminded that God created everything out of nothing, pointing to a Creator who exists beyond time, space, and matter. Through […]
Send us Fan MailAbout This EpisodeIn this episode, Leigh sits down with New York Times bestselling author and behavioral researcher Tom Rath to rethink purpose in a more grounded, actionable way. Tom explores why purpose is not one perfect calling or one perfect job, but a daily practice shaped by energy, alignment, contribution, and the small choices we make in the next 24 hours. Tom shares how his research, introversion, and experience living with a rare hereditary cancer condition have shaped his urgency, focus, and understanding of what it means to live boldly. This conversation offers a practical reset for anyone feeling misaligned, distracted, burned out, or ready to move from consuming to creating with greater intention. About Tom RathTom Rath is a #1 New York Times bestselling author whose books include How Full Is Your Bucket?, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Eat Move Sleep, and Life's Great Question. His work, which blends behavioral research with practical insight, has influenced how organizations and individuals think about performance, wellbeing, and purpose. Tom lives with a rare terminal illness and has written extensively about work, health, and contribution with unusual clarity and urgency. Additional ResourcesWebsite: tomrath.orgInstagram: @tomrath_author LinkedIn: @TomRathSupport the show--------Stay Connected www.leighburgess.comWatch the episodes on YouTube Follow Leigh on Instagram: @theleighaburgessFollow Leigh on LinkedIn: @LeighBurgessSign up for Leigh's bold newsletter
Hugh Ross is founder and senior scholar at Reasons to Believe (RTB), an organization that exists to open people to the gospel by revealing God in science. While in college, Hugh committed his life to Jesus Christ after his cosmology studies convinced him of the existence of a Creator, specifically the God of the Bible. […]
HOW TO GET RICH - The Scalability Masterplan & The Great Question (Episode 12) In the grand finale of the "How to Get Rich" series, David Ralph tackles the ultimate goal: Scaling for Freedom. In Episode 12 of Join Up Dots, we break down the five pillars of a scalable income stream and why a flawless "Back Engine" is the difference between a wealth machine and a high-stress job. But then, we ask the most important question of all: Is scaling actually necessary? Discover the difference between "Maximum Scale" and "Optimum Scale" and why being a "Micro-Business" owner might be the fastest route to the life you've always wanted. It's time to join the final dots and design your liberty. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. Your feedback helps us reach more people and continue bringing you valuable content. See you in the next episode! #JoinUpDots #ScalingSuccess #BusinessAutomation #PassiveIncome #WealthDesign #EntrepreneurMindset #FinancialFreedom #DavidRalph #MicroBusiness #FreedomScore
A new MP3 sermon from Alpha and Omega Ministries is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Open Zoom Calls, Great Questions! Subtitle: The Dividing Line 2026 Speaker: Dr. James White Broadcaster: Alpha and Omega Ministries Event: Podcast Date: 4/22/2026 Length: 71 min.
Every time we open the phones we get such excellent questions! A huge thank you to everyone who joined the Zoom and called in today—all of your questions were truly great. Today we tackled tough questions like the canon of Scripture and its relationship to epistemology as well as how believers need to view politics, voting, etc. We got calls from Ireland and Hungary as well! Went in depth in our responses as well. Remember, Rich is out of town for a bit, so we will be back, Deo volente, next week.
“If you could take one thing with you to heaven, what would it be?”..great question Mattman Nobody says “loaferin” anymore, why? The old heads say but good luck hearing a kid say it these days Headlines
Every time we open the phones we get such excellent questions! A huge thank you to everyone who joined the Zoom and called in today—all of your questions were truly great. Today we tackled tough questions like the canon of Scripture and its relationship to epistemology as well as how believers need to view politics, voting, etc. We got calls from Ireland and Hungary as well! Went in depth in our responses as well. Remember, Rich is out of town for a bit, so we will be back, Deo volente, next week.
"In today's Conversations for the Journey, host and Care Director Wes Butler leads us in praying through Acts 8:26-40. This week, Wes leads us in prayer for three things: for our church to be sensitive to God's sending, for the lost to have an increased hunger and curiosity for Christ, and that we would have a hunger to be witnesses for Jesus Christ to the lost. Have questions about faith? Check out Great Questions every Monday night at Watemark. https://www.watermark.org/events/6872-great-questions If you would like to submit a prayer request to the Watermark prayer team, you can do so at https://www.watermark.org/prayer You can also check out the Join The Journey Jr. Podcast: Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/join-the-journey-junior/id1660089898 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SG7aaE1ZjjFkgB34G8zp3?si=c960a63736904665 Check out the Join The Journey Website for today's devotional and more resources! https://www.jointhejourney.com/ Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Watermark-Community-Church/author/B0BRYP5MQK?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1755623322&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=8aeeec3b-6c1c-416d-87ae-5dfbbb6981df"
In week two of Great Question: How the Bible Addresses Our Biggest Issues with God, Pastor Eric Holmstrom tackles a challenging question: how can Christians believe there's only one true faith? Walking through common cultural ideas like the “elephant analogy,” this message. Scripture consistently points to Jesus as the one way to salvation. Not as […]
In week two of Great Question: How the Bible Addresses Our Biggest Issues with God, Pastor Eric Holmstrom tackles a challenging question: how can Christians believe there's only one true faith? Walking through common cultural ideas like the “elephant analogy,” this message. Scripture consistently points to Jesus as the one way to salvation. Not as […]
Meghan and Rolo meet a theater maker (Elyse Myers) who changed the world. Featuring two new stories: “Fashion Snail”, a song about the world’s newest and slowest fashion model, written by Robin, a 9 year old from New Zealand, and “My Impossible Vest”, a story about a talking vest who is just trying to make it to the altar on time, written by an 8 year old from North Carolina named Margot. Peter and Lee also read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love. Grownups, today’s special guest Elyse Myers’ debut book and New York Time Bestseller is out now - That’s A Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You is available for purchase everywhere books are sold. Check out a longer, more awesome version of Story Love on YouTube! Submit kids’ stories at storypirates.com/submit-a-story Check out Story Quest, our in-school digital creative writing program, at storypirates.com/about-story-quest Learn about Story Love, our corporate volunteer program, at storypirateschangemakers.org/story-loveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
My conversation with Rothkopf starts at about 43 minutes in to today's show after headlines and clips Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Subscribe to Rothkopf's new Substack https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/ Follow Rothkopf Listen to Deep State Radio Read Rothkopf at The Daily Beast Buy his books David Rothkopf is CEO of The Rothkopf Group, a media company that produces podcasts including Deep State Radio, hosted by Rothkopf. TRG also produces custom podcasts for clients including the United Arab Emirates. He is also the author of many books including Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, Superclass, Power, Inc., National Insecurity, Great Questions of Tomorrow, and Traitor: A History of Betraying America from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump. Listen rate and review on Apple Podcasts Listen rate and review on Spotify Pete On Instagram Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on Twitter Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo
Pastor Eric explores the question: How can you trust the Bible is reliable? When people rightly interpret and rightly apply the Bible, individuals are drawn closer to God, and historically those impoverished, suffering, women, children, men, and slaves have been freed from oppression and their lives improved. Study Guide | Download Audio File
In his 29 years as a PGA Tour caddie, Ted Scott has won four Masters and an Olympic gold – not by having all the answers, but by asking the right questions at the right time. It's how Ted guides the #1 player in the world, Scottie Scheffler, without getting in the way of his greatness. It's his go-to strategy for getting better at anything. And it's why he's considered by many to be one of the best caddies to ever pick up a bag. If you've ever struggled with when to speak up and when to stay quiet, or how to guide people without micromanaging them, then this is the conversation you need. Plus, it's full of memorable golf stories that you've probably never heard before, all told with Ted's signature wisdom and charm. You'll also learn: The first question Ted asks any golfer he works with (and why it changes everything) How to disagree with someone without it becoming an argument A refreshingly simple formula for getting better at anything The (somewhat) shocking way he helped Scottie win the Olympics Take your learning further. Get proven leadership advice from these (free!) resources: The How Leaders Lead App: A vast library of 90-second leadership lessons to stay sharp on the go Daily Insight Emails: One small (but powerful!) leadership principle to focus on each day Whichever you choose, you can be sure you'll get the trusted leadership advice you need to advance your career, develop your team, and grow your business.
AI is making it easier than ever to run research, but faster doesn't always mean better. In this episode, we dig into what it really means to democratize research responsibly, and why your team probably needs a charter before someone does something they can't take back.Your team is already running research without you. So the real question is: are you going to help them do it well, or just hope for the best?Ned Dwyer is the co-founder and CEO of Great Question, an all-in-one UX research platform built to bring research to everyone in an organization. Not just the people with "researcher" in their title. He's spent years thinking about how teams can democratize access to customer insights without turning research into a free-for-all, and his talk at UX Con is what first put him on my radar.In this conversation, we dig into one of the more divisive topics in our industry right now: research democratization. Ned makes a pretty compelling case that it's not the all-or-nothing argument a lot of people make it out to be. It's a spectrum, and where your organization should land on that spectrum depends on who you're researching, what decisions are being made, and how much risk is on the table. We also get into AI's role in all of this, from AI-moderated interviews to synthesized insights, and where teams tend to get themselves into trouble when they hand over too much to the machine without any real governance in place.The thing I found most useful in this conversation is Ned's concept of a democratization charter, a practical framework for defining who should be doing what kind of research, with which populations, and under what guardrails. It's something I honestly hadn't thought much about before meeting Ned, and I think it's one of the most actionable ideas we've talked about on the show. If your team is already using AI research tools (and let's be honest, they probably are), this conversation is worth your time.Topics:• 01:45 - Ned's origin story and why he built Great Question• 04:10 - The pressure to move fast, and what gets lost when speed wins• 06:11 - The 80/20 rule: how to use AI without publishing slop• 09:45 - Democratization is a spectrum, not a binary• 12:35 - Where guardrails matter most: vulnerable populations and one-way-door decisions• 13:12 - The case for a democratization charter• 19:00 - AI moderation demystified: closer to a talking survey than a human interviewer• 23:00 - Ned's GoDaddy confession: how rogue research goes wrong• 27:00 - Participant fatigue and insight overload: the new risks AI introduces• 31:45 - Rogue research will happen regardless... your job is to make it safer• 43:28 - The Will Smith spaghetti analogy and where AI tools are headed—Thanks for listening! We hope you dug today's episode. If you liked what you heard, be sure to like and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! And if you really enjoyed today's episode, why don't you leave a five-star review? Or tell some friends! It will help us out a ton.If you haven't already, sign up for our email list. We won't spam you. Pinky swear.• Get a FREE audiobook AND support the show• Support the show on Patreon• Check out show transcripts• Check out our website• Subscribe on Apple Podcasts• Subscribe on Spotify• Subscribe on YouTube• Subscribe on Stitcher
We're back with a brand new episode and a brand new Spitballers set! The hilarious laughs and silly situations remain, and we've got another fantastic episode for you. That's a Great Question returns and we bring things home with a Foods That Taste Better Than They Smell draft. Re-brand Mondays with some comedy! Subscribe and tell your friends about another funny episode of The Spitballers Comedy Podcast! Connect with the Spitballers Comedy Podcast: Become an Official Spitwad: SpitballersPod.com Follow us on X: x.com/SpitballersPod Follow us on IG: Instagram.com/SpitballersPod Subscribe on YouTube: YouTube.com/Spitballers Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
This week on So Brook Hills, Matt and Daniel are joined by Parker Snider to talk about Deep Discipleship, the sermon from this past Sunday on Mark 4:1-34.
My conversation with Rothkopf starts at about 31 minutes in to today's show after headlines and clips Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Subscribe to Rothkopf's new Substack https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/ Follow Rothkopf Listen to Deep State Radio Read Rothkopf at The Daily Beast Buy his books David Rothkopf is CEO of The Rothkopf Group, a media company that produces podcasts including Deep State Radio, hosted by Rothkopf. TRG also produces custom podcasts for clients including the United Arab Emirates. He is also the author of many books including Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, Superclass, Power, Inc., National Insecurity, Great Questions of Tomorrow, and Traitor: A History of Betraying America from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump. Listen rate and review on Apple Podcasts Listen rate and review on Spotify Pete On Instagram Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on Twitter Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo
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You might know her as the woman who got dragged to a taco bell where her date ordered one hundred tacos and she got stuck paying for them. Elyse Myers' hilarious re-telling of that story launched her career, and now she's out with a new book, That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You. She joins Sharon to talk about her struggles as a kid, and what happened when she learned her brain worked differently, and there was nothing wrong with that. Plus, Tiya Miles is here to discuss Harriet Tubman, and how her faith guided her. Even if you think you're an expert on Harriet Tubman, you'll learn something. And be sure to read our newsletter at ThePreamble.com – it's free! Join hundreds of thousands of readers who still believe understanding is an act of hope. Credits: Host and Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks Audio Producer: Craig Thompson (00:00:00) The Worst First Date Ever (00:12:25) Learning to Accept Your Differences (00:19:06) Harriet Tubman's Unwavering Faith To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Go to www.LearningLeader.com for full show notes This is brought to you by Insight Global. If you need to hire one person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through Talent or Technical Services, Insight Global's team of 30,000 people around the world has the hustle and grit to deliver. My Guest: Dan Coyle is a New York Times bestselling author who's spent the last two decades studying what makes great teams great. He wrote The Talent Code, The Culture Code, and now Flourish—books that have shaped how millions of people think about skill development, team culture, and meaningful connection. He works with the Cleveland Guardians as a special advisor on culture and performance. We recorded this one together in Cleveland. Notes: Find your yellow doors. Most of us go through life looking for green doors (clearly open paths) and red doors (obviously closed paths). But yellow doors are different. They're out of the corner of your eye, things that make you uncomfortable or feel brand new. That's where life actually happens. We think life is a straight line from A to B to C, but it's not. Life isn't a game... It's complex, living, shifting. Yellow doors are opportunities to create meaningful connections and explore new paths. "Life deepens when we become aware of the yellow doors, the ones we glimpse out of the corner of our eye." The craft journey always involves getting simpler. Simple is not easy. The great ones have their craft to where there's a simplicity to it. In this world of clutter and noise, it's easy to want to compete with energy and speed, but the stuff that really resonates is quieter and simpler. Be a beginner again in something. With climbing, Dan's at the very bottom of the craft mountain. With writing, he's somewhere in the middle. It's fun to have a couple of zones in your life where you're a beginner. It's liberating, but it also develops empathy. Some stuff looks very simple, but isn't. Every good story has three elements. There's some desire (I want to get somewhere), there's some obstacle (this thing standing in my way), and there's some transformation on that journey. Teaching teaches you. Coaching Zoe's writing team helped Dan, and then Zoe ended up coaching Dan. It was never "let me transmit all my wisdom to my daughter." It was a rich two-way dialogue that helped both of them. Suffering together is powerful. Doing hard things together with other people, untangling things together (literally and figuratively), and being vulnerable together. That's culture code stuff. Whether it's skiing with your kids, seeing them fall and get back up, or being trapped underground like the Chilean miners. Behind every individual success is a community. Dan dedicates all his books to his wife, Jenny (except one). Growing up, he had this idea of individual success, individual greatness. But when you scratch one of those individual stories, what's revealed is a community of people. Jenny is the ecosystem that lets Dan do what he does. Going from writing project to writing project, hoping stuff works out, exploring... it's not efficient. It's not getting on the train to work and coming home at five o'clock. It's "I think I need to go to Russia" or "I need to dig into this." She's been more than a partner, an incredible teammate. Great organizations aren't machines; they're rivers. The old model of leadership is the pilot of the boat, the person flipping levers who has all the answers. That's how most of us grew up thinking about leaders. But Indiana football, the SEALs, Pixar... when you get close to these organizations, they're not functioning like machines. Machines are controlled from the outside and produce predictable results. These organizations are more like energy channels that are exploring. They're like rivers. How do you make a river flow? Give it a horizon to flow toward (where are we going?), set up river banks (where we're not gonna go), but inside that space create energy and agency. Questions do that. Leaders who are good at lobbing questions in and then closing their mouth... that's the most powerful skill. Great teams have peer leaders who sacrifice. Since Indiana football's fresh in our minds... Peer leaders who sacrifice for the team are really big. Fernando Mendoza got smoked, battered, hammered, and he kept going without complaint. In his interview afterward, he talks about his teammates. That's the DNA of great teams. Adversity reveals everything. The litmus test: in moments of terrible adversity, what's the instinct? Are we turning toward each other or away from each other? You could see it in that game. The contrast between the two teams. When things went bad, they responded very differently. The coach isn't as important as you think. Coaches can create the conditions for the team to emerge, but great teams sometimes pit themselves against the coach. The US Olympic hockey team of 1980 would be an example. They came together against Herb Brooks. So coaching sets the tone, but it's not as big a part of DNA as people think. Curiosity keeps great teams from drinking their own Kool-Aid. The teams that consistently succeed don't get gassed up on their own stuff. They don't believe in their success. They're not buying into "now I'm at the top of the mountain, everything's fine." They get curious about that next mountain, curious about each other, curious about the situation. They're willing to let go of stuff that didn't work. Honor the departed. When someone gets traded in pro sports, it's like death. Their locker's empty like a gravestone. What the coach at OKC does: on the day after somebody gets traded, he spends a minute of practice expressing his appreciation for that person who's gone. How simple and human is that? How powerful? What makes people flourish is community. It's not a bunch of individuals that are individually together. Can they connect? Can they love their neighbor and support their neighbor? That's magical when it happens. The Chilean miners created civilization through rituals. 33 men, 2,000 feet underground, trapped for 69 days. The first couple hours went as bad as it could. People eating all the food, scrambling, yelling. Then they circled up and paused. The boss took off his helmet and said, "There are no bosses and no employees. We're all one here." Their attention shifted from terror and survival to the larger connection they had with each other. They self-organized. Built sleeping areas, rationed food, created games with limited light. Each meal they'd share a flake of tuna at the same time. When they got contact with the surface, they sang the Chilean national anthem together. They created a little model civilization that functioned incredibly well. Stopping and looking creates community. What let the miners flourish wasn't information or analysis. It was letting go. Having this moment of meaning, creating presence. All the groups Dan visited had this ability in all the busyness to stop and ask: What are we really about? What matters here? What is our community? Why are we here? What is bigger than us that we're connected to? They grounded themselves in those moments over and over. Getting smart only gets you so far. There's a myth in our culture that individuals can flourish. You see someone successful and think "that individual's flourishing." But underneath them, invisibly, they're part of a larger community. We only become our best through other people. We have a pronoun problem: I, me, when actually it's we and us. Self-improvement isn't as powerful as shared improvement. Ask energizing questions. "What's energizing you right now?" is a great question. "What do you want more of?" "What do you want to do differently?" (not "what are you doing poorly"). "Paint a picture five years from now, things go great, give me an average Tuesday." What you're trying to do is get people out of their narrow boredom, let go a little, surrender a little, open up and point out things in the corner of their eye. When things go rough, go help somebody. Craig Counsell on how to bounce back when you're having a bad day: "I try to go help somebody." That's it. Create presence conditions. The ski trips, the long drives, the shared meals, no phones. Schedule them. This is how connection happens, whether it's with your family or your people at work. Leaders who sustain excellence are intensely curious. Dan walked into the Guardians office expecting to pepper them with questions. The opposite happened. Jay, Chris, and Josh kept asking him question after question, wanting to learn. Leaders who sustain excellence have this desire to learn, improve, get better. Ask better questions. Actually listen. Ask follow-up questions. Curiosity is also the ultimate way to show love. Reflection Questions Dan says yellow doors are "out of the corner of your eye, things that make you uncomfortable or feel brand new." What's one yellow door you've been walking past lately? What's stopping you from opening it this week?The Chilean miners' boss took off his white helmet and said, "There are no bosses and no employees." Think about a moment of adversity your team is facing right now. Are you turning toward each other or away? What's one specific action you could take this week to help your team turn toward each other? Dan emphasizes we have a "pronoun problem" (I, me vs. we, us) and that "self-improvement isn't as powerful as shared improvement." Who are the 2-3 people you could invite into your growth journey right now? What would it look like to pursue excellence together instead of alone?