Throughout this book, I’ve been banging the drum about how our experiences of freedom, aliveness, love, and peace are the focus. About how no matter what, goals and outcomes and accomplishments are all theories or strategies to empower us to live from this place.

In any great narrative, there is a moment when a character must decide to become more than a bystander. It’s an important moment that always seems to happen in the mind before it unfolds in real life. This choice, though, is always preceded by something deeper, a nagging feeling that there must be more.

Every life is organized around a small number of events that either propel us or bring us to a grinding halt. We spend the years between these episodes benefiting or suffering from their consequences until the arrival of the next forceful moment. A man’s worth is established by the number of these defining circumstances he is able to create for him