“Most truths are counterintuitive or paradoxical. Be innocent as a dove, but wise as a serpent.”

Matthew 10:16 is, be innocent as doves, but wise as serpents. That's kind of where I got the idea and I sketched it on a napkin. But the idea sounds contradictory. And one of the main concepts of my book is most truths are counterintuitive or paradoxical. Be innocent as a dove, but wise as a serpent. So you, the audience, the reader, is the dove. You have your purpose, like I said before, with the olive branch. But fruit grows in valleys and not on mountaintops. If you think about it, our lifelong goals, our North Stars, our purpose, Is to reach that summit of the mountain, which takes effort. It's not the path of least resistance, which you comment a lot. A worthwhile life is not the path of least resistance. It takes effort. So you're climbing. But when you fall off that mountain and you're in that valley, because inevitably you'll slip, the fruit is there. And those are fruits of wisdom of what happened. You could be in the valley and say, screw the world, everybody's against me, and just get in the fetal position and give up. But you don't win that way. You're never going to accomplish your goal that way.