the most exciting thing that I’ve ever
realized about being a human the thing
that fills me with the most sense of
power and control is as Charles Darwin
said it’s not the strongest of the
species that survives nor the most
intelligent but rather the most adaptive
to change once I understood that humans
are an adaptation machine that our
evolutionary role the thing that has
made us the most dominant creature on
the planet the only creature capable of
contemplating its own existence of
getting ourselves off this planet of
building technology that loses forward
and allows us to actually take control
of the adaptation process to literally
rob mother nature of her power is our
ability to adapt but if our job is to be
an adaptation machine if the brain if
what it is designed to do is allow us to
change then we have to ask what
direction are we changing it to what end
as Leo Tolstoy pointed out everyone
thinks of changing the world but no one
thinks of changing themselves stop stop
trying to convince people to be
something else
you have to be willing to walk along
sometimes
you gotta be willing you gotta be
willing to do it by yourself the only
way you’re ever going to get to the
other side of this journey is you have
got to suffer to grow to grow you must
suffer
so the things that we run from we run it
from the truth we run it from the truth
man trade your expectations for
appreciation and your whole life changes
every day of our lives we live in a
world that is incredibly complex it is
no more stressful than world war two
when none of us in this room probably
remember that time but it looked like
democracy was disappearing in the
Germans we’re gonna win at one stage
that’s stressful being in a foxhole is
stressful you’re not making as much
money as you want
or being a little overweight or someone
calling you names online that is
not stressful what if you lived your
life and you made a decision you have to
believe in one thing and that is
yourself you have to be willing to be
the only person for a moment and that
moment might be a minute it might be a
month it might be a year it might be ten
years you have to be willing to be the
only person that sees your vision when
you focus on what you did last year
or what you did two years ago or what
you did last month or no award I wanted
the company function or the sales
numbers that I hit and beat everybody on
this on the squad or whatever when you
focus on their guys that is energy
that you could be putting into actually
improving and focusing on the task at
hand which is today
you have to be able to look at yourself
and be honest with yourself on this if
this is you you have to stop this
behavior so today we want to do our best
to catch ourselves when I have to get
back on our heart and then here’s the
biggest thing you need this is the
beginning not the end the single most
empowering to succeed in anything sports
career fitness finance or life can
embrace is that success does not come
from making a few major important
decisions correctly and in fact it’s
very much the opposite the truth is
success happens when you make the
smallest seemingly easiest apparently
most insignificant decisions correctly
consistently every day for a long time
but where do most people spend their
time where do most people apply their
energies
[Music]
excessively focusing on what’s wrong and
just by putting your energy into that
just by focusing on the things that are
broken and instead of asking yourself
what you can build and what you can fix
you’ll never be able to move forward
you’ll never be able to take advantage
of the fact that we’ve gotten here that
we’ve stood on the moon because we can
change
because we can learn
in a self-directed fashion
so make no mistake right now what you’re
choosing to focus on it matters it will
determine the course in your life and
that the very course of your life is
determined by nobody but you it is not
determined by people that have
victimized you it is not determined by
anything that has happened in your past
it is determined right here right now in
this moment by what you choose to focus
your energies on don’t ever lose sight
of that
as JBS Haldane said the world Shall
Perish not for a lack of wonders but for
a lack of wonder everything around you
is incredible if you’re willing to look
at it that way everything around you can
be taken for granted if that’s your
perspective but it really is about the
frame that you choose to put around
things I mean simply being alive is
already insane the odds are so stacked
against you not only just being a human
but being a human at this moment in time
this moment in time will breakthroughs
in technology are happening at at an
unprecedented rate where breakthroughs
in medical science are happening at an
unprecedented rate where our ability to
connect with people to empathize with
people all the way around the globe all
of the changes that have happened in
technology and telecom and connectivity
health everything we’re living in the
most miraculous time ever but you have
to look at it that way and as Joseph
Campbell said life is a wonderful
wonderful opera except that it hurts so
the question is do you see it is the
beautiful opera or do you just pay
attention to the pain and at the end of
the day you’re gonna get what you focus
on they’re both true this is both the
most amazing time that’s ever happened
ever in recorded history and yet real
things that are terrifying are also
happening but where you put your energy
where you put your attention where you
put your focus is going determine what
you see and that is the most fascinating
and the most important thing you have to
understand about the way that your mind
works you get when you focus on if you
focus on the things that are bad they
will become real they will become
exaggerated they will begin to
monopolize your thoughts you’ll see them
everywhere it’s called the reticular
activating system your mind is literally
designed to pay attention to the things
that you notice once you notice a
certain car you see it everywhere once
you notice a certain dog
you see it everywhere once you hear a
certain name for the first time suddenly
realized that that name has been all
around you this entire time but now that
you’re focusing on it now that you’re
looking for it it is everywhere
so whatever you look for it’s gonna be
everywhere if you look for the negative
it will be there but if you look for the
positive it will overwhelm me and as
Joseph Kanda said people say what we’re
all seeking as a meaningful life but I
don’t think that’s what we’re really
seeking I think what we’re seeking is
the experience of truly being alive and
that’s it that’s the juice figuring out
that thing that makes you come alive
it isn’t keeping up with the Joneses it
isn’t how much you’re getting paid it
isn’t anything other than for you
something very specific will be
different for everyone but for you find
that thing that makes you come alive
focus on think about it put your time
and attention there shift away from
seeing the pain and the opéra and
instead seeing the wonderment and at all
seeing the glory that is just everything
around you the opportunities the fact
that you’re alive once you can see that
those basic things that you take for
granted that you can breathe into the
nose and out through the mouth all of
that stuff once you start seeing how
were Acula sit really is once you start
seeing how we’re connected to each other
once you understand that the name of the
game isn’t wealth
it isn’t fame it isn’t ambition or
success its neuro chemistry it’s feeling
a certain way it’s finding fulfillment
in your life once you realize that
you’ll understand this is a game of
attention and you entirely control what
you focus on so choose very wisely my
friends because your life will litter
become the summation of the things that
you look at
you
realized about being a human the thing
that fills me with the most sense of
power and control is as Charles Darwin
said it’s not the strongest of the
species that survives nor the most
intelligent but rather the most adaptive
to change once I understood that humans
are an adaptation machine that our
evolutionary role the thing that has
made us the most dominant creature on
the planet the only creature capable of
contemplating its own existence of
getting ourselves off this planet of
building technology that loses forward
and allows us to actually take control
of the adaptation process to literally
rob mother nature of her power is our
ability to adapt but if our job is to be
an adaptation machine if the brain if
what it is designed to do is allow us to
change then we have to ask what
direction are we changing it to what end
as Leo Tolstoy pointed out everyone
thinks of changing the world but no one
thinks of changing themselves stop stop
trying to convince people to be
something else
you have to be willing to walk along
sometimes
you gotta be willing you gotta be
willing to do it by yourself the only
way you’re ever going to get to the
other side of this journey is you have
got to suffer to grow to grow you must
suffer
so the things that we run from we run it
from the truth we run it from the truth
man trade your expectations for
appreciation and your whole life changes
every day of our lives we live in a
world that is incredibly complex it is
no more stressful than world war two
when none of us in this room probably
remember that time but it looked like
democracy was disappearing in the
Germans we’re gonna win at one stage
that’s stressful being in a foxhole is
stressful you’re not making as much
money as you want
or being a little overweight or someone
calling you names online that is
not stressful what if you lived your
life and you made a decision you have to
believe in one thing and that is
yourself you have to be willing to be
the only person for a moment and that
moment might be a minute it might be a
month it might be a year it might be ten
years you have to be willing to be the
only person that sees your vision when
you focus on what you did last year
or what you did two years ago or what
you did last month or no award I wanted
the company function or the sales
numbers that I hit and beat everybody on
this on the squad or whatever when you
focus on their guys that is energy
that you could be putting into actually
improving and focusing on the task at
hand which is today
you have to be able to look at yourself
and be honest with yourself on this if
this is you you have to stop this
behavior so today we want to do our best
to catch ourselves when I have to get
back on our heart and then here’s the
biggest thing you need this is the
beginning not the end the single most
empowering to succeed in anything sports
career fitness finance or life can
embrace is that success does not come
from making a few major important
decisions correctly and in fact it’s
very much the opposite the truth is
success happens when you make the
smallest seemingly easiest apparently
most insignificant decisions correctly
consistently every day for a long time
but where do most people spend their
time where do most people apply their
energies
[Music]
excessively focusing on what’s wrong and
just by putting your energy into that
just by focusing on the things that are
broken and instead of asking yourself
what you can build and what you can fix
you’ll never be able to move forward
you’ll never be able to take advantage
of the fact that we’ve gotten here that
we’ve stood on the moon because we can
change
because we can learn
in a self-directed fashion
so make no mistake right now what you’re
choosing to focus on it matters it will
determine the course in your life and
that the very course of your life is
determined by nobody but you it is not
determined by people that have
victimized you it is not determined by
anything that has happened in your past
it is determined right here right now in
this moment by what you choose to focus
your energies on don’t ever lose sight
of that
as JBS Haldane said the world Shall
Perish not for a lack of wonders but for
a lack of wonder everything around you
is incredible if you’re willing to look
at it that way everything around you can
be taken for granted if that’s your
perspective but it really is about the
frame that you choose to put around
things I mean simply being alive is
already insane the odds are so stacked
against you not only just being a human
but being a human at this moment in time
this moment in time will breakthroughs
in technology are happening at at an
unprecedented rate where breakthroughs
in medical science are happening at an
unprecedented rate where our ability to
connect with people to empathize with
people all the way around the globe all
of the changes that have happened in
technology and telecom and connectivity
health everything we’re living in the
most miraculous time ever but you have
to look at it that way and as Joseph
Campbell said life is a wonderful
wonderful opera except that it hurts so
the question is do you see it is the
beautiful opera or do you just pay
attention to the pain and at the end of
the day you’re gonna get what you focus
on they’re both true this is both the
most amazing time that’s ever happened
ever in recorded history and yet real
things that are terrifying are also
happening but where you put your energy
where you put your attention where you
put your focus is going determine what
you see and that is the most fascinating
and the most important thing you have to
understand about the way that your mind
works you get when you focus on if you
focus on the things that are bad they
will become real they will become
exaggerated they will begin to
monopolize your thoughts you’ll see them
everywhere it’s called the reticular
activating system your mind is literally
designed to pay attention to the things
that you notice once you notice a
certain car you see it everywhere once
you notice a certain dog
you see it everywhere once you hear a
certain name for the first time suddenly
realized that that name has been all
around you this entire time but now that
you’re focusing on it now that you’re
looking for it it is everywhere
so whatever you look for it’s gonna be
everywhere if you look for the negative
it will be there but if you look for the
positive it will overwhelm me and as
Joseph Kanda said people say what we’re
all seeking as a meaningful life but I
don’t think that’s what we’re really
seeking I think what we’re seeking is
the experience of truly being alive and
that’s it that’s the juice figuring out
that thing that makes you come alive
it isn’t keeping up with the Joneses it
isn’t how much you’re getting paid it
isn’t anything other than for you
something very specific will be
different for everyone but for you find
that thing that makes you come alive
focus on think about it put your time
and attention there shift away from
seeing the pain and the opéra and
instead seeing the wonderment and at all
seeing the glory that is just everything
around you the opportunities the fact
that you’re alive once you can see that
those basic things that you take for
granted that you can breathe into the
nose and out through the mouth all of
that stuff once you start seeing how
were Acula sit really is once you start
seeing how we’re connected to each other
once you understand that the name of the
game isn’t wealth
it isn’t fame it isn’t ambition or
success its neuro chemistry it’s feeling
a certain way it’s finding fulfillment
in your life once you realize that
you’ll understand this is a game of
attention and you entirely control what
you focus on so choose very wisely my
friends because your life will litter
become the summation of the things that
you look at
you
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