Hello, everyone. You're listening to Family Talk, the radio broadcasting ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute. I'm Dr. James Dobson, and thank you for joining us for this program.

Well, welcome to Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk, the voice you trust for the family you love.

I'm Roger Marsh, and today we're going to get into a topic of conversation about have you ever

wondered what truly successful people consider to be their greatest achievements?

Today we're going to hear from someone whose answer just might surprise you.

Our guest here on Family Talk is Dr. James Tour, and he stands at the pinnacle of scientific

achievement.

As a synthetic organic chemist, with over 450 research publications and 50 patents, he's ranked

among the top 10 chemists in the world.

And yet, when asked about the source of his success,

Dr. Tour points not to his scientific discoveries or academic honors, but to something far different.

We're about to hear a presentation from Dr. Toer that Dr. Dobson and his wife surely had the opportunity

to attend. And Dr. Dobson, speaking of success, did you know that if you search a popular online

retailer, you'll find over 15,000 self-help books dedicated simply to how to find success in life?

That really doesn't surprise me, because in our culture, there's just a tremendous emphasis

placed on happiness and pleasure and material success.

And if you read the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon tells us that the temporal pleasures

and earthly riches and superficial accomplishments are not going to satisfy in the long run.

It just seems to me that we've got an imbalance here that somebody ought to address, and indeed

today somebody will. Well, I'm excited about the message that we're going to hear today because I did have the

pleasure just a few months ago of hearing a marvelous speaker named Dr. James Tour. To call this man,

brilliant, would be a gross understatement. He's a synthetic organic chemist who earned his PhD in synthetic,

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