444 Questions in a jar to travel the usa and sit down with strangers
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What do I want to be when I grow up? And how do I get back to America?
Yeah. What am I gonna do? How can I be relevant? And I had this idea to travel when I retired, take a year off and just come, or, even maybe not retire, but just come back and do something else and travel the US and boy, man, I don't know where these ideas came at the end, it's now back to the question, how do they, no idea.
But it comes from doing these intentional acts. And, all of a sudden the idea to bring the letters from the book and to put each letter up on the computer and to find eight questions from each letter. So it's 48 letter as four letters per topic. And so to go in there and say, okay, you know what is love and to write.
End up with 16 questions around, love. , and to do this with every topic. And it was, or not 16, but 32 questions for every topic. And it was, man, it was painful, cuz I'd already written, you write the book, you edit the book, you re-edit the book. Somebody edits it, they send it back.
You gotta look at the, you've, I've, by the time you finished the book, you're like, I don't wanna see that book ever . And so I got to sit down for a few weeks and create 444 questions that I was gonna print out, put in the jar and travel the country and allow people to pull a question, allow the guests to sit down and pull a question outta the jar and have a conversation around it and pull another question.
And we usually get about 20 questions, per episode. And so it's a good taste, they get a good percentage of the questions and I think what, like you said earlier, fascinating. I think it would be for Europeans, cuz I'm not interviewing people in New York City. Yeah.
You It's not the west coast, east coast right? It's the smallest towns medium size town. It's some big towns. I interviewed eight amazing people in New York City, eight amazing stories. But I'm also getting such a cut across the country, 111 cities. And so it's I've got about halfway through and I've taken a break here in Atlanta.
I restart on Monday. I got another 50 cities, another 200 people to see where it goes. And so I'm gonna, I'm super lucky. I've got a great halfway point and it's a great time to reflect and to see am I in the right direction, and am I doing the right things still?