[Music]
thank you I would like to dedicate this
talk to my students who are always
asking why am I here what should I be
doing and that question needs some
context and that context is that we’re
on a planet and not any planet we’re on
a planet amongst millions billions
perhaps trillions a planet that’s unique
our planet has life on it I mean not
just regular I mean it is teeming with
life and that’s an amazing thing and
we’re part of that life all of us are
part of that life and the context of all
of this is the things that make us us
right what makes us us are atoms atoms
we have billions of atoms that make us
us and of those billions of atoms that
make us us it’s quite interesting that
one atom let’s just take the iron atom
you know the iron atom that is an egg
plant and make sure eggplant parmesan
delicious
that iron atom took 1.5 billion years to
make and so the atoms in us take
hundreds of millions over a billion
years just to make the atom that makes
us us fascinating and then we have to
put the context of life right you know
dinosaurs lived on earth for more than
400 million years which is amazing
you know considering that we compare
dinosaurs as close cousins
oh this dinosaurs a close cousin of that
dinosaur and there were only 267 million
years apart they’re very close in
reality we only live about 60 adult life
years so 60 years adult years we don’t
compare ourselves to something that
existed 276 million years ago
we barely compare ourselves to something
I lived 80 years ago or 90 years ago the
context is quite dramatic human
civilization is only ten twelve thousand
years old
so our life is really a fleeting moment
a whisk a breath a shudder of an eye and
that’s the amazing thing is we are here
for such a brief period of time and the
insanity of it all is that we actually
are doing this on a planet that’s
hurling through space that four hundred
forty thousand kilometers an hour
rotating around a son that’s hurling
through the universe at eight hundred
thousand kilometers an hour it’s hard to
believe feels like we’re standing still
right now
so in this context we can start to begin
with what should I be doing why am I
here
well in reality your life really isn’t
that important blink of an eye it’s gone
it’s big scheme of things who cares
but on the other context you’re part of
life and this life is continual and so I
had a couple hard years where I tried to
face the reality of my death not as an
opinion not as a kind of thing to get
out of but something that is true
literally an in approachable truth a
fact I’m going to die I’m dead the day I
was born like bringing in a snowball
inside your house the moment you bring
that snowball inside your house you know
the fate of the snowball and the moment
I was born was the moment that I
realized it’s over
so my death is not a psychological fear
it literally is a fact all our lives all
life all our understanding leads to
death so we’re all dead
and then I accept that two years of hard
work but I was like you know what I can
die anytime I can die anywhere under any
circumstances and I’m totally fine with
it I’m totally happy with it that’s a
ten twelve year process and now that I
accepted that I’m already dead and the
day I was born it happened I then began
to understand something much deeper and
that’s the statement I am already who I
need to be and that’s the thesis of this
particular talk is do you believe and
will you believe that you are already
who you need to be now the death thing
that’s a fact
no one’s ever survived there’s no guy
you know down the street what’s called
Tom who’s lived 1.5 billion years and he
hangs out you know and he plays cards
with you
you know Thursday night that doesn’t
happen right so everyone dies that’s
life you are already who you need to be
that’s that’s a thesis that’s something
you need to discover and there’s five
levels to that thesis and I hope over
the next five years you can on your own
discover those levels by yourself so if
you believe me that you are already who
you need to be then this talk is going
to go smoothly the rest of it and I win
and I accomplish my goal if you don’t
believe that then I failed and this talk
is really kind of pointless for the rest
of the way
so let’s believe that you are already
who you need to be now that context
means that you don’t have to compare
yourself to anything anyone any other
context it also means that you don’t
have to try or be or exert efforts
there’s no trying you are already
perfect
beautiful amazing wonderful at your core
by just your presence by just being
there because you’re alive
and that’s pretty amazing this planet is
pretty amazing it’s teeming with life
and all life is just gorgeous so those
are the first two steps I’m dead my
death is a fact there’s no way of
getting out of that literally there’s no
way of getting out of them nothing you
can do you can’t moonwalk your way out
of that and then to that you are already
who you need to be deeply purely surely
once we get those two out of the way
then we can ask the question Who am I
what should I be doing
and those two questions are pretty easy
at this point that is your life’s work
you should be doing your life’s work
you’re here to do your life’s work this
is a process of your life’s work in
doing your life’s work so what is your
life’s work
well first off and this is a beautiful
part about your life’s work is it’s your
life’s work nobody else’s
no one else can tell you how to do your
life’s work tell you what you’re doing
wrong with your life’s work tell you how
to improve your life’s work complain
judge measure talk down the beauty of
your life’s work is only you only you
can accomplish and know your life’s work
your life’s work
can only be measured at one point
there’s no measuring your life work in
terms of outcomes and goals except at
one period of time and that’s when
you’re 80 years old your grandchildren
are there somebody says should we pull
the plug and you could look back at 40
60 years and you can look at all the
things you’ve accomplished and that is
literally the only moment you can judge
your life’s work or talk about your
life’s work in that way or measure your
life’s work or measure outcomes and then
you die now your life’s work all begins
when you have accepted your death as a
fact which it is so that should be easy
hard but easy
and then believe that you are already
who you need to be so how do you begin
your life’s work where do you start
well if you truly believe you are
already who you need to be then all you
have to do is listen to yourself deep
listening to who you already are the
beauty inside of you the beauty that
comes out of you your inner baby and
knowing and listening to you because you
are already who you need to be means
that you just have to realize that
you’re doing your life’s work and there
are no choices there are no choices at
this point zero so you are entering into
a world of a choiceless life completely
choiceless you’re listening and you are
already who you need to be and in that
awareness and that moment to moment
truth you will be challenged every
minute and every hour of the day and
your choice is simply do I have the
courage to do what I know I have to do
right now do I have the courage to
listen and then do what I have to do
right now there is no choice in that
there is no right or wrong or
opportunity or lost opportunity there’s
only the moment-to-moment reality the
presence
of I’m scared this is unknown this is a
dark place that I have to make known
this is a space I’m not comfortable in
that I have to go into and I’m unaware
of and it’s scary and it’s challenging
and it literally vibrates your bones and
it tingles your nerves and it changes
your perception and this is what we call
life
and that life means that you’re part of
life all of life every insect every bug
micro every piece of biology on earth
tree branch you’re part of all of that
you breathe in the air you exhale the
air that is when you’re living when
you’re already yourself you’re already
dead and you’re listening and you’re
aware and there is and this is so
amazing
there is only in your life’s work and
with your life’s work there are no goals
there are no outcomes you don’t know
what your goal is you don’t know what
your outcomes are you don’t know what’s
going to happen it literally unfolds
like a book page by page your life does
in front of you all you have to believe
is you’re the protagonist and you don’t
know what’s going to happen next but you
take that risk and you turn that page
and you go into darkness and you go into
the unknown
now you can hide you could pretend
you’re not going to die you could
pretend that you have to be somebody
else you could pretend to be somebody
bigger or lesser than others
you could also pull yourself out of life
isolate yourself with fear psychological
fear you could try to be above life you
can do everything to get away from life
but that’s just suffering that’s just
misery the only thing you have is the
ability to accept that you are already
who you need to be begin to live and
then begin to listen and your inner baby
is going to tell you we got to do this
this is what we got to do and if you’re
listening you already know what to do if
you’re listening you just have to have
the courage to do it
and so
your life’s work is an unfolding book we
don’t know the answer or the outcome or
the context or why you’re doing it if
you’re scared it’s good if you think
that your clutch slightly crazy better
if you think that it’s all no one’s
going to believe me
that’s when you know you’re on the right
track if it hurts if it’s a struggle
doesn’t matter it’s your life’s work
it’s not a fantasy it’s not escapism
it’s not entertainment it will be
challenging it will be hard and it’ll
take 40 years 60 years and you’re going
to have to face yourself every day and
you’re going to get jittery and it’s
going to feel scary and your heart’s
going to beat but there’s no choice
there’s no choice when you live and you
do your life’s work so I’m going to
simplify leave you with this there are
billions of people that have lived
before you that you will never get to
know and there are billions if not
trillions of people who will live after
you that will never know you and this
moment is your fleeting moment to
express yourself be yourself and live
your life’s work and live yourself your
inner baby thank you very much
you
[Music]
thank you I would like to dedicate this
talk to my students who are always
asking why am I here what should I be
doing and that question needs some
context and that context is that we’re
on a planet and not any planet we’re on
a planet amongst millions billions
perhaps trillions a planet that’s unique
our planet has life on it I mean not
just regular I mean it is teeming with
life and that’s an amazing thing and
we’re part of that life all of us are
part of that life and the context of all
of this is the things that make us us
right what makes us us are atoms atoms
we have billions of atoms that make us
us and of those billions of atoms that
make us us it’s quite interesting that
one atom let’s just take the iron atom
you know the iron atom that is an egg
plant and make sure eggplant parmesan
delicious
that iron atom took 1.5 billion years to
make and so the atoms in us take
hundreds of millions over a billion
years just to make the atom that makes
us us fascinating and then we have to
put the context of life right you know
dinosaurs lived on earth for more than
400 million years which is amazing
you know considering that we compare
dinosaurs as close cousins
oh this dinosaurs a close cousin of that
dinosaur and there were only 267 million
years apart they’re very close in
reality we only live about 60 adult life
years so 60 years adult years we don’t
compare ourselves to something that
existed 276 million years ago
we barely compare ourselves to something
I lived 80 years ago or 90 years ago the
context is quite dramatic human
civilization is only ten twelve thousand
years old
so our life is really a fleeting moment
a whisk a breath a shudder of an eye and
that’s the amazing thing is we are here
for such a brief period of time and the
insanity of it all is that we actually
are doing this on a planet that’s
hurling through space that four hundred
forty thousand kilometers an hour
rotating around a son that’s hurling
through the universe at eight hundred
thousand kilometers an hour it’s hard to
believe feels like we’re standing still
right now
so in this context we can start to begin
with what should I be doing why am I
here
well in reality your life really isn’t
that important blink of an eye it’s gone
it’s big scheme of things who cares
but on the other context you’re part of
life and this life is continual and so I
had a couple hard years where I tried to
face the reality of my death not as an
opinion not as a kind of thing to get
out of but something that is true
literally an in approachable truth a
fact I’m going to die I’m dead the day I
was born like bringing in a snowball
inside your house the moment you bring
that snowball inside your house you know
the fate of the snowball and the moment
I was born was the moment that I
realized it’s over
so my death is not a psychological fear
it literally is a fact all our lives all
life all our understanding leads to
death so we’re all dead
and then I accept that two years of hard
work but I was like you know what I can
die anytime I can die anywhere under any
circumstances and I’m totally fine with
it I’m totally happy with it that’s a
ten twelve year process and now that I
accepted that I’m already dead and the
day I was born it happened I then began
to understand something much deeper and
that’s the statement I am already who I
need to be and that’s the thesis of this
particular talk is do you believe and
will you believe that you are already
who you need to be now the death thing
that’s a fact
no one’s ever survived there’s no guy
you know down the street what’s called
Tom who’s lived 1.5 billion years and he
hangs out you know and he plays cards
with you
you know Thursday night that doesn’t
happen right so everyone dies that’s
life you are already who you need to be
that’s that’s a thesis that’s something
you need to discover and there’s five
levels to that thesis and I hope over
the next five years you can on your own
discover those levels by yourself so if
you believe me that you are already who
you need to be then this talk is going
to go smoothly the rest of it and I win
and I accomplish my goal if you don’t
believe that then I failed and this talk
is really kind of pointless for the rest
of the way
so let’s believe that you are already
who you need to be now that context
means that you don’t have to compare
yourself to anything anyone any other
context it also means that you don’t
have to try or be or exert efforts
there’s no trying you are already
perfect
beautiful amazing wonderful at your core
by just your presence by just being
there because you’re alive
and that’s pretty amazing this planet is
pretty amazing it’s teeming with life
and all life is just gorgeous so those
are the first two steps I’m dead my
death is a fact there’s no way of
getting out of that literally there’s no
way of getting out of them nothing you
can do you can’t moonwalk your way out
of that and then to that you are already
who you need to be deeply purely surely
once we get those two out of the way
then we can ask the question Who am I
what should I be doing
and those two questions are pretty easy
at this point that is your life’s work
you should be doing your life’s work
you’re here to do your life’s work this
is a process of your life’s work in
doing your life’s work so what is your
life’s work
well first off and this is a beautiful
part about your life’s work is it’s your
life’s work nobody else’s
no one else can tell you how to do your
life’s work tell you what you’re doing
wrong with your life’s work tell you how
to improve your life’s work complain
judge measure talk down the beauty of
your life’s work is only you only you
can accomplish and know your life’s work
your life’s work
can only be measured at one point
there’s no measuring your life work in
terms of outcomes and goals except at
one period of time and that’s when
you’re 80 years old your grandchildren
are there somebody says should we pull
the plug and you could look back at 40
60 years and you can look at all the
things you’ve accomplished and that is
literally the only moment you can judge
your life’s work or talk about your
life’s work in that way or measure your
life’s work or measure outcomes and then
you die now your life’s work all begins
when you have accepted your death as a
fact which it is so that should be easy
hard but easy
and then believe that you are already
who you need to be so how do you begin
your life’s work where do you start
well if you truly believe you are
already who you need to be then all you
have to do is listen to yourself deep
listening to who you already are the
beauty inside of you the beauty that
comes out of you your inner baby and
knowing and listening to you because you
are already who you need to be means
that you just have to realize that
you’re doing your life’s work and there
are no choices there are no choices at
this point zero so you are entering into
a world of a choiceless life completely
choiceless you’re listening and you are
already who you need to be and in that
awareness and that moment to moment
truth you will be challenged every
minute and every hour of the day and
your choice is simply do I have the
courage to do what I know I have to do
right now do I have the courage to
listen and then do what I have to do
right now there is no choice in that
there is no right or wrong or
opportunity or lost opportunity there’s
only the moment-to-moment reality the
presence
of I’m scared this is unknown this is a
dark place that I have to make known
this is a space I’m not comfortable in
that I have to go into and I’m unaware
of and it’s scary and it’s challenging
and it literally vibrates your bones and
it tingles your nerves and it changes
your perception and this is what we call
life
and that life means that you’re part of
life all of life every insect every bug
micro every piece of biology on earth
tree branch you’re part of all of that
you breathe in the air you exhale the
air that is when you’re living when
you’re already yourself you’re already
dead and you’re listening and you’re
aware and there is and this is so
amazing
there is only in your life’s work and
with your life’s work there are no goals
there are no outcomes you don’t know
what your goal is you don’t know what
your outcomes are you don’t know what’s
going to happen it literally unfolds
like a book page by page your life does
in front of you all you have to believe
is you’re the protagonist and you don’t
know what’s going to happen next but you
take that risk and you turn that page
and you go into darkness and you go into
the unknown
now you can hide you could pretend
you’re not going to die you could
pretend that you have to be somebody
else you could pretend to be somebody
bigger or lesser than others
you could also pull yourself out of life
isolate yourself with fear psychological
fear you could try to be above life you
can do everything to get away from life
but that’s just suffering that’s just
misery the only thing you have is the
ability to accept that you are already
who you need to be begin to live and
then begin to listen and your inner baby
is going to tell you we got to do this
this is what we got to do and if you’re
listening you already know what to do if
you’re listening you just have to have
the courage to do it
and so
your life’s work is an unfolding book we
don’t know the answer or the outcome or
the context or why you’re doing it if
you’re scared it’s good if you think
that your clutch slightly crazy better
if you think that it’s all no one’s
going to believe me
that’s when you know you’re on the right
track if it hurts if it’s a struggle
doesn’t matter it’s your life’s work
it’s not a fantasy it’s not escapism
it’s not entertainment it will be
challenging it will be hard and it’ll
take 40 years 60 years and you’re going
to have to face yourself every day and
you’re going to get jittery and it’s
going to feel scary and your heart’s
going to beat but there’s no choice
there’s no choice when you live and you
do your life’s work so I’m going to
simplify leave you with this there are
billions of people that have lived
before you that you will never get to
know and there are billions if not
trillions of people who will live after
you that will never know you and this
moment is your fleeting moment to
express yourself be yourself and live
your life’s work and live yourself your
inner baby thank you very much
you
[Music]
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