I asked guests on my Year of the Peer podcast to talk about the people who made a difference in their lives. Their answers included everyone from parents, friends, and co-workers to teachers, supervisors, and spouses— the kind of individuals with whom we surround ourselves each and every day. Some responses even involved people my guests had met on an airplane, whom they would never see again but who— despite a brief, finite interaction— left a positive and profound mark.
No respondents claimed to have achieved any measure of their success or happiness all on their own. Their achievements always involved a lot of people— too many to name or even remember on the spur of the moment. Many of my guests apologized preemptively ...
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