and tell them you’re smart now turn to
the same person
tell them I’m smarter all right that’s
enough of an ego boost so let’s get on
to the real stuff okay hi my name is
Connor
so the talk I’m going to be talking
about is unconventional wisdom we talked
a little bit about conventional wisdom
but what is unconventional wisdom to
tell you the truth I don’t know so if
you want to leave go ahead that way you
can skip the talk but the thing is you
got to ask yourself why is it that the
richest people tend to work the least or
is that the happiest people in the world
also live in the most poverty state and
also the fact that why is it that the
people who eat the least also live the
longest
well there’s a lot of conclusions that
can come to that but the main important
thing is that unconventional wisdom is
not really taught in schools government
sectors or even your career but instead
it’s something that you have to find on
your own and you have to go further and
develop it in yourself you see we live
in a world today of the digital age and
things are moving so fast information is
on your hands but the problem is that we
take it for instant gratification and we
don’t put it to practice and then to use
so I’m going to give you three simple
guidelines that I have used so raise
your hands if you want to have fun be
entertained or engage so I promise I’ll
try to do my best to do all three of
those okay so before we get into it I
want to ask some of my Facebook friends
what they think wisdom is so about a
month ago I survey about 50 people and
this is what they gave me so I have
about 4,300 Facebook friends but they’re
not all my real friends so that’s a dark
secret I have to keep but as you can
tell I don’t know they’re right I don’t
know they’re wrong but they’re very good
insights but let’s just say for now that
they are right but can you think of a
time when you were six years old right
and you’re powering your mom hey mom can
I have this ice cream can I do that it’s
going to have money and you were so
curious that you just kept ask
questions over and over until she said
yes and then 20 years down the road when
you’re 26 all you do is go on YouTube
winky pedia look at the information and
that’s it you don’t really think of
anything you see the difference when you
were six to twenty six was the crucial
aspect called thinking now I’m going to
make this really blunt is I already know
a third of you are gonna already like me
a third of you will probably dislike me
because I had to make you really think
and the reason for that is that thinking
creates a lot of new possibilities and
in the theme unconventional wisdom that
I have it’s the fact that thinking
nowadays is kind of like a struggle
because nobody really challenged you to
think and to be unconventional you got
to be different so according to the
study of the campus University they
found out that our brains indeed got
smaller which is really shocking and
another fact that they found out from
the University of Amsterdam is that IQ
point is actually lower 14 points since
the Victorian era now it could be due to
the fact that we consume a lot of fake
foods fillers you know most of it is
just about a list of a dictionary in the
back of ingredients you can’t even read
except for the food here which is great
by the way so kudos to you guys but the
thing is that this is an important IQ is
not important so that’s the good news
no people who are super smart have 150
plus IQs but they’re stuck in a dead-end
job they’re doing things that they don’t
really care then you have people who
barely even pass the three-digit IQ
point but yet they’re making millions
inspiring so many people and causing
such a huge impact so in my book the big
revelation I was honor enough to
interview one of my mentors Ron Klein
who is one of the probably the best
inferences in the world he’s known as
the grandfather of possibilities now to
get that name you have to do some
amazing stuff in the world so he created
the MLS system for realtor’s he’s
created the magnetic strip in the back
of the credit card and I know all of you
know what that is especially girls when
you shop all the time but here’s the
thing I asked them you know how did he
do all this what made him so successful
and he attributed to three things he
said be smart daring and different
and for sure I thought being smart was
the best one in the most crucial aspect
and then he said no it’s actually not
it’s being different because you see
being smart is being conventional
because we have information we have all
the resources in the world but being
daring and being different our traits
and characteristics that can’t be taught
that can only be acquired through wisdom
experience knowledge practice from
coaches and from Mentors
so what I’m going to do is I want to
show you one of the guidelines that I
came up with not too long ago that made
me realize that age plays a very little
role in wisdom especially unconventional
wisdom because you see Ron Klein is
almost 60 years older than me and today
also happens to be my birthday somehow I
got to be here so that’s awesome as well
thank you
but yet there are people who also have
my age now if I don’t even know what my
age is but I’ll say that’s at the end
who are making as much of an impact as
Ron and it’s even doing some things in
the world that it’s really making an
impact so I came up with these
guidelines from H that we have more than
one age our first age is our calendar
age it’s basically the date you were
born you can’t ignore that unless of
course you are me so just grab on your
seats and hear me out for a second see
when I was adopted back in 1998 my
American families look one of the six
year old so my grandparents had to live
through the government and tell them I
was two years younger so they tricked my
parents and they adopted my brother and
I basically for the price of one and as
President Donald Trump would say it’s
probably the best trade in history so I
was pretty happy about that now that is
one of the exceptions but it’s really
simple if you counter age really much
you can’t do much about it now something
more interesting is our physical age
well yes it’s a physical age but before
you can guess you can go back that’s my
that’s when I was adopted the picture
previous and I was actually eight at
that time now most people say I was four
three but the thing was that I was eight
so there really doesn’t matter
much now a physical age are factors that
are influenced by stress environment the
health condition you’re in the foods
that you eat and also people you
associate with and think about as well
now your physical age is really
important because when I joined the
Marine Corps seven years ago I saw
something really odd and peculiar there
was a lot of old people in the Marine
Corps right but they were really young
so there was it was young old people in
the Marine Corps if that makes any sense
they were in their early twenties or
early thirties but the thing was that a
typical Marines diet consists of Red
Bull tobacco and usually alcohol before
6:00 a.m. so it didn’t really help with
their physical aspect so even though
they were 20 to 25 they looked like they
were 40 so you see your physical age is
ultimately influenced by those factors
that I talked about now there are some
people who has defined that and actually
made it into a good way so we here we
have Kazim he’s the person in the back
with the blonde hair and the sunglasses
he’s 95 years old it’s actually the ball
guy he he meant I don’t know his secret
but he’s a yoga teacher and I believe
his secret is simple stuff that we have
forgotten over the ages be happy live a
stress-free life as possible eat as many
fruits and veggies and get lots of
sunlight I know it’s so simple but it’s
always the simple things that make you
the happiest so that’s Kazim he’s happy
he looks half the ancient what he really
is which is unbelievable next we’re
going to go a little bit deeper is our
mental age now your mental age kind of
like your physical age but of course
it’s determined by your attitude so its
factors like how you think what you
believe in your mentors and your coaches
your experience from throughout your
life but the most important thing is
being resourceful see your mental age
some people say that age comes wisdom
comes with age
that is true back then nowadays because
we live in such a fast movement that
paradigm has shifted completely around
and so we have here max who is half my
age at that time he invented a Tesla
like device for $14 that gives out free
energy now you of course being a third
the time it disproves to you that
basically the information that he had he
knew how to use it because it’s not what
you know even who you know it’s what you
do with the information that you have
and that’s so key today and he’s doing
some amazing extraordinary stuff now why
is it so important to you well because I
noticed success has a lot to do with
unconventional wisdom you see more
millionaires and billionaires are
created everyday every single day
there’s a new millionaire being created
every four days there’s a new
billionaire being made traded that means
that there’s plenty of money and
abundance in the world so the next
millionaire or billionaire could be in
this room who knows and then we have our
spiritual age so kind of teaming and
tying to the theme of zeitgeist which is
the spirit of time according to the laws
of physics in the universe energy can’t
be created or destroyed right it can
only be transferred therefore it would
only make sense that we as spiritual
beings are also infinite beings because
time really doesn’t exist it’s a
man-made concept and to prove it a
little bit further a British study did a
study and they found out that our
consciousness does indeed pass on to the
afterlife
and that we as human species have energy
fields that we can see and feel each
other now some of you have less some of
you have more the average person is
about 2 to 3 feet through meditation
yoga better food and practices you can
raise it to 10 or 15 feet sometimes as
much as 50 feet like the yoga teacher
kazeem back there so it just proves to
the point that there does exist a time
of infinite life after this now why is
this also important why does this matter
to you well because here’s the thing
when it comes to unconventional wisdom
we tend to follow a lot of the rules
that society made up for us we tend to
follow everybody else goes right
everybody else has what snapchat
Facebook has the football team that they
like and so you believe we believe that
we have to be in that team just because
they’re in there but unconventional
wisdom really has a lot to do with being
just original really just being yourself
because
the end of the day there’s a lot of
copycats out there and people really
strive for authenticity and being
original and so there’s another
guideline that I’m going to use that’s
even more relevant in the past age
timeline that’s really going to help you
take the unconventional wisdom theory
and put into practical use because it
has helped me create many friends many
successful and very rich and powerful
friends that I’m going to help you use
as well so the first one is you must be
curious remember when your time you were
like six years old and you’re playing in
the dirt and you’re even eating dirt
well that’s curiosity right they even
though you didn’t know it what it was
but you did it anyways or imagine a dog
right a dog goes around it’s just sniffs
people now I’m not going to ask you to
do that because that might get really
awkward but dogs are very curious
creatures they sniff whatever they want
and even animals in general right so in
order to create that curiosity there has
to be some kind of interest into it and
the cool thing about human brain is you
can make anything curious all it needs
is a simple reward like some people it’s
popcorn some people’s watching music
videos it just really doesn’t matter
next we have is to question you got to
question everything I remember at a time
when I was in tenth grade I had a 79 in
math class and I just got back my report
card
and I’m sure a lot of you can relate to
that at 79 right and so here’s a tip for
you especially if you go to college it’s
give your teacher chocolate or Starbucks
gift card you’ll be your favorite person
in class trust me just don’t tell them I
told you that okay and the thing with
that is when you question everything
something happens something
extraordinary happens is that not only
do you become curious but you start to
create new neurons and new pathways in
your brain cells and that you start to
expand your mind and your creativity
because after all the only stupid
question is no question at all next this
is probably my favorite one is you have
to challenge the norm be a rebel if you
have to when others go against you stand
up for it because we live in a time
where everybody wants to be left side or
right side it but nobody wants to be
themselves
these days so heat so conviction in what
you believe in sometimes and I’m not
saying you know give up your life for it
like they did back then but if it goes
to that point
believe in yourself so much see if
there’s a man named Socrates who started
a revolution and who disrupted the
nation that he lived in back then he
said true wisdom is not knowing anything
and because of that he was murdered by
his people because he raised the falling
of thinkers and thinkers back then with
the highest sought out rate because of
the fact that back then they had
soldiers and soldiers have one job one
job only civil obedience without
question and for that they had to
execute him and then finally experiment
that’s the most important action step of
it all it’s not enough just to do a
research it’s not enough just to get
information from somebody else it’s easy
for someone to make fifty thousand
dollars in one day but to them it’s
harder to lose 50 pounds in two years so
what works for them won’t work for you
that’s why it’s great to have mentors
and coaches and friends along the way
but at the same time you have to put in
the work because that’s what’s
ultimately going to make you really
really succeed so let’s play a little
game with wisdom shall we go ahead and
just ask the person next to you in a
sentence or two what they believe
okay okay I think that’s enough all
right now for those of you that didn’t
speak you were the wisest person in the
room believe it or not so if you didn’t
speak you were the wisest person in the
room but to be honest let’s see what
so as you can see this was back from the
Middle Ages and I still think it’s super
relevant today and so I’m going to leave
it on that note and let you think about it a little bit