Coming March 19: From High Performance to Fulfillment: Lessons in Inner Mastery with Jim Murphy

But I knew, I just felt like I was destined for something greater. And so I went to live a life of solitude. My laptop on its screensaver, these are for the younger generation, long time ago screens needed saving. And so you had this scrolling phrase or whatever on your laptop that would keep moving across the screen. And mine said, those destined for greatness must first walk alone in the desert. And so that's what I, uh, that's what I did. Um, I flew out to Arizona to live in the desert, to live a life of solitude. Wow.

And was that a period of obviously self-reflection and examination? But then is that what yielded your book? That was a result of that time?

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Um, I didn't know— I had no intention to do any writing at all except for my journal. Um, I just didn't know. And all I knew was I feel like I'm destined for something greater than this, and I want to make sure that I, that I turn over every stone to figure out, um, what that is, and that I don't come to the end of my life and realize that I hadn't fully lived. And I just didn't have anything that I was— could devote my life to that I was willing to live and die for. So I went there to go find that, and that's why I wanted it to be solitude. I knew my friends back in Vancouver, BC would say, oh, your life's great, we love you, why would you ever change? And, and I had to get away from Anyone that saw me as who I was. Yeah. And