Tell you think that maybe arent so honest to make me look good so im not going to do that. Its a temptation but im not going to do that but i will say i think smith taps into a wisdom that is millennial old. I am jewish. I have drawn a lot of parallels between smith and tolstoy. They are parallels between smith and a lot of great ethical thinkers of history so theres nothing new under the sun. As i say in my book money doesnt make you happy its not really a new idea. The hard part is to internalize it. The hard part is actually turn down the consulting opportunity thats really lucrative because your life is not a great argument to be putting forward. Thats the challenge. The challenge is i fell down, im in a hospital. Can you make me dinner and you actually do it and give up watching the game he wanted to watch with the red socks right . Thats hard to do. If you do it once its great. If you do it all the time you are a saint and i think we could all be a little more saintly. Thats the
yeah, sure. that s a great question. thank you, very well put. don t beat around the bush with it either. so the question was, the watergate nuggets are the ones that are getting the most play so what do i think is overlooked or was most surprising about what i found out about it? one of the things so surprising to me was the most outspoken about it was ben has this brash failures commander who s like let s go get him and i m not going to imitate his voice. but in fact he hated the army and he hated direct competition. i m not going to say that as a general rule but there were moments where he didn t want direct confrontation so there s home and in the book where he is trying to move another at a drought in a really back channel that. he wasn t just ben bradlee crusading through the newsroom saying, get the hell out of here. it was behind the scenes pulling the levers and you don t really think about that with ben so much. i think the thing that was most surprising although