I want to say, first of all, wherever you are from around the world, it’s a real blessing to be here with you right now. I want to say to you the first thing, which is, I don’t know what you’re going through right now. You might be a Titan of industry. You might be working in a restaurant. You might be driving a taxi.
You might be a gardener. You might be a yoga teacher. You might be a startup entrepreneur.
I don’t know where you live. I don’t know where you’re at in your life. You might be at
the top of the mountain, feeling joy. You might be dealing with heartbreak. I just want you to know, first of all, I am here to serve you and to be your guide and to continue to help you.
Second thing I want to share with you is you do have a hero within you. This is not just a
platitude, neuroscience and research is confirming every single human being has the capability to be best in the world at one thing.
And I guess what I’m really saying to you or reminding you is you may have forgotten the truth, which is you have a hero inside of you. When you were a little kid, you wanted to change the world. When you were a little child, you had this visceral connection with these lofty dreams. And then what happens is the world gives us this programming and this messaging, which is, be average, don’t dream too big. Be like everyone else, don’t trust your instinct anymore. Stop thinking outside of the box, don’t dare, you will be hurt. And if you start getting this kind of messaging and this kind of conditioning from the world around you every day, then you end up where you might be today.
You might be 25, or you might be 30. You might be 17. You might be 70, and you have forgotten that deep inside of you lives a hero who wants to do something great with your lif
e, who wants to inspire other people who wants to do creative work, who wants to bring a sparkle in your eye, who wants to build a beautiful life, who wants to have some fun, who wants to change the world.
And I don’t know if this is resonating with you. I’m just speaking from the heart. But wherever
you are on the planet, you have a hero inside. You may have forgotten it. You may not tend to that hero. Maybe you’re so numbed out that you’ve forgotten who you truly are. And I just want to humbly, lovingly, respectfully, and hopefully bravely, remind you that the fact that you are alive today means you are someone special. The fact that you are alive today means there is a mighty call on your life to do something with the rest of your life.
Number two, I would say you can be like everyone else, or you can be a game-changer. You
don’t get to do both. If you look at most people in the world today, they are addicted to distraction. Their lives are full of complexity. A lot of people are negative. They spend the
best hours of their best days being busy, being busy.
So what I’m saying is really, if you want to be an A-player, and a game-changer, and a world-builder, you really need to make a commitment to think, behave and show up in the world, like very few people do.
I’ll put it to you this way in terms of a brain tattoo or new mentality to wire in through daily
practice, which is if you want to have the results that only 5% of the population have, then you must be willing to think, produce, behave, and live as only 5% of the population are willing to do.
And if you live like only 5% of the people on the planet are living the rest of the world, the 95
percenters are going to call you strange, and they’re going to laugh at you. And they’re going to judge you. Just remember this, great human beings take the stones that their critics throw at them and build them into monuments.