We hiked ten hours to Trolltunga in Norway, waited in line for two to take selfies, camped shivering, and came down to the village of Odda in a fjord looking for coffee and wifi. I had to teach a lesson to a surgeon in Japan. All I could find was an empty bar on the shore. Ole gave me a table and even brought a free coffee in the middle of my lesson with a smile. Yet when I asked afterwards if I could interview him for my podcast, his face clouded and he disappeared until I left, only the second of just a dozen to ever say no. That, more than anything, changed how I see people. Most connect. The few who don’t have their reasons.
