this is my mantra success is not the key
to happiness happiness is the key to
success if you love what you are doing
you will be successful yeah now everyone
is a story to share and I will share
with you my story can I do that yes for
the next five minutes i’ll share with
you my story and hope you can take
something back from there my story let’s
backtrack to 1991 i was watching TV and
there was this guy on TV this handsome
dashing looking guy he made a ship a
ship that was supposedly lost in
transition in the Bermuda Triangle
David friggin Copperfield that was why
saw this chip who was lost in the
Bermuda Triangle he made it appear back
on live national television at that
moment when I was five years old I
thought that this was what I want to be
David Copperfield how many of you do not
know who they become fearless gonna
press here show hands you don’t know him
love you Liz yeah oh my gosh yeah well
David Copperfield is the world’s
greatest magician yeah so that was when
my affinity of magic started off it
started off when I was five years old
back in 90 91 however the environment
that I was being brought up wasn’t
really suitable for magic I’ll tell you
why both my parents were teachers my mom
was a geography teacher and my dad was a
form of maths teacher so when you have
two parents like this the definition of
success is study at go to a good
university get a good job well um this
was me back in 2005 this is still 2005
hahaha I know I look very happy but I
wasn’t yeah this was me and my civil
groups ill oh yeah yeah are you enjoying
your time here i see you ha ha well this
was me visiting a hydraulic damn a
hydraulic them in a trend on oh yeah I i
took the i forgot what integral i took
but i know i graduated i did graduate
yeah in 2009 this was my convocation as
you can see the only problem was that I
wasn’t there you cannot spot me in my
congregation yeah now whatever I say
right here is the truth there’s actually
someone in the crowd who stayed beside
me was my housemate yeah Tina Garen is
right there yeah that was back ten years
ago I can’t believe time flies so fast
ten years ago and this convocation 2009
I was in there I was in Egypt I was
working in Cairo at this particular
moment I left University the last time I
saw this university was May 28 2009 I
took my final exam for french je le
francais is my university that’s the
only thing I learned my French class
yeah I took the fighter example friends
up or French and left off to Cairo yeah
for a long six month game so this was my
congregation in Paris was my convocation
I wasn’t there but I did graduate the
set was sent to my house now I I
actually search google actually googled
myself yeah and amazingly this is
actually what turnout and google yeah
how r cheetah in exams in university it
till two rows of you can understand
malay yeah it’s this Despero wrong on
the line and begun attending school
adoro sign gun hey one box you
in dry rags so the last and there is the
best up doing a confident girl Vinnie
honey other than TV but we you did pee
water so in direct translation it says
that David as a good was a good student
yeah yeah adopt this man top means good
yeah and one of the best comments I
actually Google myself UTP with David
live we don’t use your hair you can use
your hands later just type my name baby
lie with beauty p and were the best
comments which i got was bro please ask
who was his friend who took the exam for
him I want to borrow him too yeah well
to be honest with you I did study I did
work hard for my university I did not
cheat in my final exams these were all
urban myths yeah right is awful but I
did graduate and this was me in
University during University I did study
yeah I did graduate I did do my due date
do my tests I did to my exams yeah
although there was some loopholes here
and there but I did you might use during
University I was involved in this thing
called hitch factor I was going around
Malaysia in other universities telling
people they should be passionate about
what they do they should actually pick a
career there in lovin so that was me
this is a graphic designer one the
militias best graphic diagnose this
rainy hussein the singer of innuendo Bly
and Gia he wrote a really blind g well
if you watch mix FM last time this is DJ
Harriton harvest Conda anybody of you
know here yeah here’s the malicious best
comedian a dancer hon sighs I yeah the
only problem of this picture was that
this picture came on univ on in national
papers and there was a chair right here
you can see I don’t know why yeah but
there was there Terry still here it
wasn’t Photoshop yeah so it’s got a huge
factor we were advocating youths around
the nation this why I’m doing right
today yeah to pick a career that you’re
passionate about because I believe that
to be happy you have to fall in love
with your
job you don’t have to fall in love your
wife because you know that’s not going
to work problems problems I’ve got two
problems are going to come up their
problems going to come up yeah but if
you fall in love with your job something
that you do day in day out you’re going
to be happy for the rest of your life
now obviously the wife part is kidding
don’t don’t don’t quarrel among each
other yeah now guys um I know a lot of
use these days advocate the fact that
you got to do something you love you’re
in love with yeah i’m not i’m going to
show you the results that I OT for the
past six to seven years after graduating
not because I want to boast or show off
yeah I hate people are boss yeah I don’t
want you to impress you however I want
you to be impressed upon the fact that
if I can take something like magic a
small entity of magic and turn it into a
business you can probably take anything
and make it into a successful career
true magic imagine is I went to my
ex-girlfriends house and my ex
girlfriends parents this was many years
ago asked me son what you do I have the
option of saying petroleum skull
petroleum engineer Petronas scholar or
medicine petroleum engineer magician
what were you going to say I said a
magician yeah and over past six years
I’ve been working really hard to make
sure magic is an established entity in
the country so this was me i was
performing around middle east that was
the country that i was performing on
when ever since 2009 I perform in many
companies that middle Easterns can’t
perform yeah and this was me in cairo
touring around this was back when my
hair was still like Al Alba yeah very
long her and that was me performing in a
marble in Cairo as you can see only one
gender Oh only one gender yes yeah I
spent four years old Lebanese yeah I
perform in the middle east from 2009 to
2011 I i I’ve traveled everywhere from
Algeria Cairo places in Egypt
locals have not even heard before yeah
that’s where I went to yeah and I
performed for a tune many many times
this small viral yes this actually came
out viral Malaysiakini yeah I’ve no idea
why this him Elvira Malaysiakini and a
lot of people said david tun mahathir
gamma yeah bukan chronology yeah there
was the title came up yeah really I’m
not kidding yeah and I started after
performing for two years in abilities I
started producing I started directing I
started a company and mind you this is
not knowledge known the first other
large-scale illusion show in Egypt was
produced and directed by a by a
Malaysian yeah the first-ever Lasky
illusion show in Egypt was directed by a
Malaysian this was when I was 22 years
old yeah and the first of all thank you
very much here and the first large-scale
international losing show in quaint was
also directed by Malaysian yeah this was
when I was 23 years old so I brought
down a lot of pollution shows here and
there yeah and uh okay the Grammy Awards
the equivalent of the Grammy Award Oscar
was for magic is actually the Merlin
awad so anybody know who lieutenants
anybody no you don’t look at luton is
the most famous asian magician Criss
Angel anybody Criss Angel is sort of the
upcoming Isabel illusionist I’ve been
the biggest barrier but he’s not really
good additions but he won the new
upcoming lesion and of course David
Copperfield warned the mullen wat for
the illusionist of the century yeah in
2012 I won the million wat for best
illusion producer yeah
and I managed to work with criss angel
and ladies gentlemen David Copperfield
well so anything is pimp or anything is
possible yeah this was me and cop a feel
this is me in copperfield in better
times yeah haha and anything is possible
yeah it took me about five years to
accomplish what I want to do yeah after
graduating yea-ah and after that I
changed my business position more into
an entrepreneur yeah managing magic
directing illusion shows and also
providing solutions for companies that
want to incorporate magic into their
events so this was the teen 2014 I won
the prestige top 40 under 40 yeah with
other business such as my good friend
chop I’m owner exabytes mandos yeah and
of all the companies that one in 2014 a
magic based company one and event based
company one in 2014 that’s me so guys as
i said earlier on if i can take this
small entity such as magic yeah you can
take anything and make it into a career
really anything yoga yeah singing comedy
whatever yeah so to end it off i’m going
to tell you the five things that i did i
did i tried a lot of fun arrow over the
past 15 years yeah but the five things
they ultimately five things that i did
on those past 15 years to help being
reach where i am today number one this
is got a hedgehog principle I’m a
voracious reader I love to read this is
the hedgehog principle by Jim Collins in
his book good to great I read this many
years ago and he says that the first
thing you got to do when you want a pic
career is to identify this tree
intersects meaning that first what you
are deeply passionate about I was very
passionate about a lot of things I was
bashing my chest badminton sleeping gym
so I pick magic yeah what can you be the
best in a whirl about
I knew that I couldn’t be the best
performer because the Japanese and
Koreans at that particular time we’re
practicing every day for 12 hours I
didn’t want to do that yeah so I was
better in management producing morn
creativity’s creative stuff so I pick
about being an illusion producer instead
of being a performer yeah I pipe it yeah
and what will people pay you to do what
you love that was magic so it all makes
sense so first identify what you’re
passionate about and find intersex of
this tree circle next do whatever it
takes now as you can see from the google
yeah i did whatever it take to graduate
i took whatever I did whatever it took
to graduate yeah and you have to go out
of your comfort zone to get results that
are desirable that’s all I’m going to
say because everything i say else I’m
gonna I my degree will be in jeopardy
yeah 3 keep getting better learn from
the best I wanted to learn from life
coach so I learned from Anthony Robbins
as you can see here lets me Anthony
Robbins yeah and obviously obviously in
financials yeah I pick it very generic
name robert kiyosaki yeah so i always go
for life or life events or learning
events yeah and i’m an advocate of that
you have to learn in order to get better
now this just happened yesterday i’m
actually going back later on to meet
Nick verge of it the motivational
speaker without limbs yeah that’s a plus
our meeting later on and yesterday
during his seminar somebody’s set set
next to me and asked me so what do you
do I said I do magic and the guy said
well I like to play badminton yeah
people still can’t believe that I can
actually I actually made magic a good
career yeah well as I said keep getting
medals for this is very important and I
got very lucky at this this picture was
taken in 2008 I had really good Memphis
in my life yeah this was Douglas Lynn
this is tony fernandez be
for he become a doctor three before I
became a tan sri this her if pietro
enhance i was i was taken care of and I
got taught ropes by very experienced
people and I was very lucky to be able
to even get a membership yeah these
people treated me like a small kid I
thought everything as funky as since I’m
and 50 most importantly this is the most
important things that I’ve done yep
you’ve got to surround yourself with
people who want you to succeed and
people who have the same goes with you
yeah this is very important people i’ll
mix with for the past 10 years almost
contributed largely almost all my
successor because them because we have
friendly competition they always push me
to succeed and every time when I slack
they remember if they remember to keep
getting any ass video this is a this is
one of the youngest financial
participant 3000 this is the owner of
remedy yeah and this is the over/under
of Japan Malaysia also looks a lot of
other companies yet this was taken in my
birthday everyone here is below 30
during is that everyone everyone’s
satisfaction seriously so guys n dolls
with an anecdote yep of em comfortable
David Copperfield will soon be the
world’s first billionaire magician this
was all costs previously now Miss
obediently right now yeah David
Copperfield’s verse 1 billion dollars
the only entertainer in the world which
both morning here miss Oh proud of free
if you think that the context if they
make up field will to come to Malaysia
he will be the case riches and in the
whole country s how rich you speak
through be just by doing magic so guys
be the David of a film in your industry
yeah be the best and what you do or
don’t waste your time doing it guys my name is David Knight thank you very much