 self-help right this idea that we can always be better tomorrow than we are today i mean washington was buying self-help books and late into his life even when he had accomplished everything he could um you know i'm i'm 47 years old i don't know how you are i think you're in your 70s right but every single day yes right everything every single day we want to be better than we were yesterday and that ethic that's an american idea of progress getting better and using our freedom to do it