A Bit of Optimism · 2026-05-26 · 58 min · 10,375 words

Revisited: Choose Your Seven Humans Wisely with Author Fredrik Backman

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My best friend and my wife If they would have If they would have gone on one of like the matchmaking websites or something, the if they would have put themselves through an algorithm. And said Find me a person.

They would have never found me. Like never in a million years would an algorithm have said This this lunatic, he's the guy for you. Never. I was fortunate in the way that I stumble upon people. early on in my life that was very different for me. Yeah, and I found out very quickly that that was a good thing for me.

That was Like I needed people who were Not like me. Yeah. So so that I could look at their best qualities and strive for them. If you're an avid listener of this podcast, you may know something about me that I'm not a reader.

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