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From Alan Watts, I learned that life is not a
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journey with a destination. We are conditioned to think that
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life should be heading towards something, like graduation or retirement
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or heaven. But the true purpose of life is to live.
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Same way in dancing. When you dance, you are not
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trying to get anywhere or finish the dance. The point
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of dancing is the dance. Life is a dance. Alan
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Watts also taught me how to find out what I
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want in life. The question of what do I want
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is one of the simplest yet hardest questions to answer.
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There are two reasons why you don't know what you want.
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Reason number one, you already have it. Reason number two
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is you don't know yourself. The reason you don't know
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yourself is because you never can. To know yourself is
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like a flame trying to burn itself or a knife
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trying to cut itself. Once you understand this, you will
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cease to cling to yourself. You will reach a state
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of desirelessness. You won't try to control things and you
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will discover an endless access of power from within. On
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the same note, Jordan Peterson teaches that taking responsibility is
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the key to fulfillment. The more responsibility you accept, the
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more meaningful your life will be. If you go around
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pointing the finger and blaming others for problems and then
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you will always be a victim. The life of a
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victim is a sad, weak existence, always at the mercy
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of external forces. However, if you accept responsibility for everything,
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then you will find meaning in everything. Take responsibility and
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pursue purpose. Do not pursue short-term happiness. Pursue a life
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worth living. Tony Robbins says, Life does not happen to you,
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it happens for you This quote means that the way
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we choose to see things will shape our reality. 5%
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of life is what happens, and 95% of life is
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how you choose to react. Maybe you fall and break
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your ankle. This event might seem bad, but maybe this
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event leads you to write a book on physical therapy
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for ankle injuries and you become a millionaire. There are
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many events in life we cannot control, but we can
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control how we choose to see these events. David Foster
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Wallace says, Everybody worships. The only choice we get in
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life is what to worship. If you worship money and things,
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if they are where you tap real meaning in life,
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then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough.
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It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure,
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and you will always feel ugly. And when time and
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age start showing, you will die a million deaths before
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they finally grieve you. Worship power, you will end up
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feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more
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power over others to numb your own fear. Worship your intellect,
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being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid,
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a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.
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But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is
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not that they're evil or sinful, it's that they're unconscious.
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From Eckhart Tolle, I learned how to tap into a
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higher consciousness by being present. In life, discomfort is inevitable,
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but suffering is a choice. Suffering comes from our fearful
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thoughts of the future or painful memories of the past.
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Suffering does not live in the present moment. So if
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you are present, truly present, then you will be free
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from all suffering. The secret to being present is to
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detach your true self from your thinking mind, which stems
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from the egos. Eckhart Tolle says, The beginning of freedom
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is the realization that you are not the thinker. The
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moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of
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consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize there is
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a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought. That thought is
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only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize
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that all the things that truly matter, beauty, love, Creativity, joy,
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inner peace arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.
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Will Smith taught me that failure is not the end.
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Failure is a stepping stone to success. The more you fail,
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the more you learn and grow. Failure helps you recognize
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the areas where you need to evolve. Simon Sinek taught
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me that the most important question is why. Why? Before
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pursuing any major venture in life, like a business or
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a marriage, you must answer the question of why am
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I doing this? Understand the why before any other question.
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From Joe Rogan, I learned how to stay motivated. It's
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all about momentum. If you start something today, where will
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it be in a year? Two years? Ten years? If
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you focus energy on something, you will gain momentum towards
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that goal. If you haven't worked out in three years,
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just doing 10 push-ups will start to roll the momentum
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in a better direction. The next day you do 20 push-ups,
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then 30, and soon that momentum is an unstoppable force
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hurling in a positive direction. From Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson,
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I learned the importance of understanding the mysteries of our past.
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We are a species with amnesia. We have forgotten our origins.
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If we find out where we came from, we will
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understand why we are here and where we are going.
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Elon Musk says we must build a future that inspires us.
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We should pursue a path that makes us excited to
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get out of bed in the morning. Joseph Campbell taught
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me that the best ideas are often misunderstood because they
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transcend words. In the movie Gladiator, Marcus Aurelius wistfully reminisces,
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There was a dream that was Rome. You could only
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whisper it, anything more than a whisper, and it would vanish.
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Meaning that a sacred idea is fragile in its infancy.
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It often gets met with resistance. When you come across
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an idea that truly inspires you and ignites your passion,
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do not let this resistance derail you. If you have
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a dream, go for it. Chase that intuition and don't
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worry about explaining it to those who won't understand. From Aristotle,
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I learned how to learn. Aristotle said, it is the
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mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain
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a thought without accepting it. Believing something blindly is just
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as silly as dismissing it entirely. Both are lazy styles
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of thinking. Each question you have is like a rabbit
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hole that leads to new understanding and perspectives. Education does
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not stop when school gets out. Learning is a lifelong process,
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so stay curious and never stop questioning things.
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From Alan Watts, I learned that life is not a
2
00:00:03.390 --> 00:00:06.690
journey with a destination. We are conditioned to think that
3
00:00:06.750 --> 00:00:11.119
life should be heading towards something, like graduation or retirement
4
00:00:11.460 --> 00:00:15.099
or heaven. But the true purpose of life is to live.
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00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:18.579
Same way in dancing. When you dance, you are not
6
00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:22.039
trying to get anywhere or finish the dance. The point
7
00:00:22.100 --> 00:00:27.000
of dancing is the dance. Life is a dance. Alan
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00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:29.420
Watts also taught me how to find out what I
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00:00:29.500 --> 00:00:33.380
want in life. The question of what do I want
10
00:00:33.820 --> 00:00:37.179
is one of the simplest yet hardest questions to answer.
11
00:00:38.380 --> 00:00:41.399
There are two reasons why you don't know what you want.
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Reason number one, you already have it. Reason number two
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is you don't know yourself. The reason you don't know
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00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:54.700
yourself is because you never can. To know yourself is
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00:00:54.740 --> 00:00:57.789
like a flame trying to burn itself or a knife
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00:00:57.869 --> 00:01:01.280
trying to cut itself. Once you understand this, you will
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00:01:01.380 --> 00:01:04.439
cease to cling to yourself. You will reach a state
18
00:01:04.540 --> 00:01:08.379
of desirelessness. You won't try to control things and you
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00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:13.219
will discover an endless access of power from within. On
20
00:01:13.260 --> 00:01:17.469
the same note, Jordan Peterson teaches that taking responsibility is
21
00:01:17.530 --> 00:01:21.709
the key to fulfillment. The more responsibility you accept, the
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00:01:21.750 --> 00:01:25.030
more meaningful your life will be. If you go around
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00:01:25.150 --> 00:01:28.319
pointing the finger and blaming others for problems and then
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you will always be a victim. The life of a
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victim is a sad, weak existence, always at the mercy
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00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:40.310
of external forces. However, if you accept responsibility for everything,
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00:01:40.620 --> 00:01:44.930
then you will find meaning in everything. Take responsibility and
28
00:01:45.010 --> 00:01:50.430
pursue purpose. Do not pursue short-term happiness. Pursue a life
29
00:01:50.689 --> 00:01:56.269
worth living. Tony Robbins says, Life does not happen to you,
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it happens for you This quote means that the way
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00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:04.200
we choose to see things will shape our reality. 5%
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00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.719
of life is what happens, and 95% of life is
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00:02:07.780 --> 00:02:11.120
how you choose to react. Maybe you fall and break
34
00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:15.120
your ankle. This event might seem bad, but maybe this
35
00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:17.800
event leads you to write a book on physical therapy
36
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:21.259
for ankle injuries and you become a millionaire. There are
37
00:02:21.340 --> 00:02:24.680
many events in life we cannot control, but we can
38
00:02:24.740 --> 00:02:28.490
control how we choose to see these events. David Foster
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Wallace says, Everybody worships. The only choice we get in
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life is what to worship. If you worship money and things,
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if they are where you tap real meaning in life,
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00:02:40.729 --> 00:02:43.849
then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough.
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It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure,
44
00:02:48.830 --> 00:02:51.949
and you will always feel ugly. And when time and
45
00:02:52.090 --> 00:02:55.199
age start showing, you will die a million deaths before
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00:02:55.259 --> 00:02:58.960
they finally grieve you. Worship power, you will end up
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00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.099
feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more
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00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:06.879
power over others to numb your own fear. Worship your intellect,
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being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid,
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a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.
51
00:03:14.490 --> 00:03:17.710
But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is
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00:03:17.849 --> 00:03:21.750
not that they're evil or sinful, it's that they're unconscious.
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00:03:23.129 --> 00:03:26.069
From Eckhart Tolle, I learned how to tap into a
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00:03:26.150 --> 00:03:30.990
higher consciousness by being present. In life, discomfort is inevitable,
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00:03:31.389 --> 00:03:35.270
but suffering is a choice. Suffering comes from our fearful
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00:03:35.370 --> 00:03:38.500
thoughts of the future or painful memories of the past.
57
00:03:39.180 --> 00:03:42.020
Suffering does not live in the present moment. So if
58
00:03:42.060 --> 00:03:45.520
you are present, truly present, then you will be free
59
00:03:45.620 --> 00:03:49.240
from all suffering. The secret to being present is to
60
00:03:49.300 --> 00:03:53.180
detach your true self from your thinking mind, which stems
61
00:03:53.259 --> 00:03:57.680
from the egos. Eckhart Tolle says, The beginning of freedom
62
00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:01.699
is the realization that you are not the thinker. The
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00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.969
moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of
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00:04:05.060 --> 00:04:09.169
consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize there is
65
00:04:09.210 --> 00:04:13.530
a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought. That thought is
66
00:04:13.629 --> 00:04:17.850
only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize
67
00:04:17.889 --> 00:04:23.509
that all the things that truly matter, beauty, love, Creativity, joy,
68
00:04:23.930 --> 00:04:28.910
inner peace arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.
69
00:04:30.629 --> 00:04:33.410
Will Smith taught me that failure is not the end.
70
00:04:33.990 --> 00:04:37.970
Failure is a stepping stone to success. The more you fail,
71
00:04:38.329 --> 00:04:42.060
the more you learn and grow. Failure helps you recognize
72
00:04:42.100 --> 00:04:46.740
the areas where you need to evolve. Simon Sinek taught
73
00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:50.480
me that the most important question is why. Why? Before
74
00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:53.920
pursuing any major venture in life, like a business or
75
00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:57.600
a marriage, you must answer the question of why am
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00:04:57.660 --> 00:05:02.459
I doing this? Understand the why before any other question.
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00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:07.189
From Joe Rogan, I learned how to stay motivated. It's
78
00:05:07.490 --> 00:05:11.430
all about momentum. If you start something today, where will
79
00:05:11.470 --> 00:05:15.209
it be in a year? Two years? Ten years? If
80
00:05:15.230 --> 00:05:18.610
you focus energy on something, you will gain momentum towards
81
00:05:18.649 --> 00:05:21.240
that goal. If you haven't worked out in three years,
82
00:05:21.579 --> 00:05:24.699
just doing 10 push-ups will start to roll the momentum
83
00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:28.300
in a better direction. The next day you do 20 push-ups,
84
00:05:28.779 --> 00:05:32.759
then 30, and soon that momentum is an unstoppable force
85
00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:38.240
hurling in a positive direction. From Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson,
86
00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:42.079
I learned the importance of understanding the mysteries of our past.
87
00:05:42.819 --> 00:05:46.879
We are a species with amnesia. We have forgotten our origins.
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00:05:47.529 --> 00:05:49.769
If we find out where we came from, we will
89
00:05:49.870 --> 00:05:52.829
understand why we are here and where we are going.
90
00:05:53.930 --> 00:05:57.629
Elon Musk says we must build a future that inspires us.
91
00:05:58.209 --> 00:06:00.829
We should pursue a path that makes us excited to
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00:06:00.870 --> 00:06:04.339
get out of bed in the morning. Joseph Campbell taught
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00:06:04.379 --> 00:06:07.819
me that the best ideas are often misunderstood because they
94
00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:14.040
transcend words. In the movie Gladiator, Marcus Aurelius wistfully reminisces,
95
00:06:14.740 --> 00:06:17.660
There was a dream that was Rome. You could only
96
00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:21.519
whisper it, anything more than a whisper, and it would vanish.
97
00:06:22.420 --> 00:06:25.699
Meaning that a sacred idea is fragile in its infancy.
98
00:06:26.310 --> 00:06:29.730
It often gets met with resistance. When you come across
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00:06:29.790 --> 00:06:33.029
an idea that truly inspires you and ignites your passion,
100
00:06:33.569 --> 00:06:36.889
do not let this resistance derail you. If you have
101
00:06:36.930 --> 00:06:40.829
a dream, go for it. Chase that intuition and don't
102
00:06:40.889 --> 00:06:46.459
worry about explaining it to those who won't understand. From Aristotle,
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00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:50.439
I learned how to learn. Aristotle said, it is the
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00:06:50.550 --> 00:06:53.810
mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain
105
00:06:53.829 --> 00:06:58.769
a thought without accepting it. Believing something blindly is just
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00:06:58.850 --> 00:07:03.350
as silly as dismissing it entirely. Both are lazy styles
107
00:07:03.410 --> 00:07:06.870
of thinking. Each question you have is like a rabbit
108
00:07:06.910 --> 00:07:11.180
hole that leads to new understanding and perspectives. Education does
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00:07:11.269 --> 00:07:15.610
not stop when school gets out. Learning is a lifelong process,
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00:07:16.050 --> 00:07:19.120
so stay curious and never stop questioning things.
