The boat ride was a frame-of-reference changer. It made the whole rest of the day that much more awesome. It put everything in perspective. If you don’t shift your frame of reference, if it becomes fixed and immutable, you become closed off to the magic and joy life has to offer, focusing instead on the trivial and inconsequential, inflating their significance to outlandish proportions because, after all, that’s how you view the world. That weekend with Branson, I also encountered a rich woman who spent much of the time complaining about some mosquitos in the bathroom of the two-million-dollar
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