Jayson Lowe describes a brainstorming session with his friend Richard Canfield, who kicked his desk to get him moving when he arrived exhausted. Together they worked through ideas on a whiteboard, and Lowe credits having a true friend show up during a difficult time with helping him refocus.
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The. Richard showed up in my office one day. I looked like I hadn't slept for four months. We were going to brainstorm that day. Something that when Richard and I start brainstorming, things in the world change for the better. And so decent whiteboard. And some decent whiteboards. Oh, big time. So he shows up in the office. He walks into the office, and I'm sitting there, and he's like, dude, like, have you been sleeping well? And I said, not really. So he kicks the desk, and he goes, get up. We're getting to work. And we had one of the best brainstorming sessions I think that we've ever had on a whiteboard that was way too small and is a day that I'll never forget, because he showed up for me in a way that was just remarkable and very impactful for me. Because when you're carrying the weight of a bigger future on your shoulders and you're not sleeping well, sometimes it takes a good friend, a confidant, somebody to just kick you and say, snap out of it. Let's go. And that's what Richard did, and I'm eternally grateful for that.