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Tony Robbins

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“but were not equal in the marketplace. What does that mean? He said, well, let me ask you a question. Is it possible someone to make twice as much money in the same amount of time? Yeah, four times, ten times, a hundred times? Yeah, people do it. How? He goes, you have to become more valuable. He goes, if you go to work at McDonald's, you get this tiny little income. It's not made to be an ideal job. It's the first time job. Anyone can learn to do it in two hours. And I've been obsessed about it ever since. And that changed everything in my life. My whole life became how do I add more value? And so today I have 121 companies and we're doing 12 billion dollars in business across almost every industry you can imagine that I'm a part of. And I couldn't when one company in the start and make it successful at 300,000 a year for the revenue. All that became in every industry and I've a lot of them on the number one in the industry. It's because I'm obsessed.”
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“I want to talk to the bank, but if the bank only the money, I will. If you look me in the eye and you swear to me, I'm never going to have to come find you and you will take care of this. And I jumped across, hugged her, and kissed her, so she wasn't quite ready for that. I went to the Jim Roan's seminar. I went to work for him. And the first question when I got finally got a private moment with him that I asked was, I had four fathers. They were all good men. They all worked hard. How come we never had any money and sometimes no food? I said, I look over at the school teacher who makes thirty five thousand dollars a year, I think, in those days, and then I see this hedge fund guy who made a billion dollars in a year. I said, that is so unjust. And he gave me a lesson to change my whole life. He said, Tony, he said, you're right. We're all equal as souls.”
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“And she's like my fifth bank. And I said, you don't understand. And I got all passionate. She goes, with this kind of focus and energy, I think you do something. I like it to do something good. And she goes.”
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“Ten thousand dollars today to have an idea, $12,000. I'm at the time sleeping in my car, working as a janitor. My dad left, my mom kicked him out. I'm a strong woman, and then she chased me out with a knife. She wasn't going to kill me, but I wasn't going back in that place. And so I'm like, I can't do this. And then somebody said, you know, decide. He goes, some people have to survive. Some people succeed. Decide which one you are. And if you're ready by next Saturday, a week from Saturday, he goes, I'm starting a training and you can join it. But if you don't have the money for it, you won't be able to do it. And I remember leaving thinking this guy just wants my money. It's such a jerk. And I was so angry. But then in my head, I was like, he's right. He's right. You know, I've always gotten what I had to have. I haven't had to have much. And so I started going to banks. I walked into this place. Five banks turned down and I saw this woman look persuadable and sweet. And her name was Mrs. Williams. This woman looks at me and she goes, the bank's not going to loan you this money.”
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“I said, well, how much is it? He said $35 to be like $250 in today's money, right? And I said, $35, I'm making $40 a week as a janitor. I go, I said, I can't do that. He goes, well, then just learn on your own experience and waste a few decades. I said, you really think it's that valuable? He goes, no, you have to decide if it's that valuable. And so I remember I wrestled with this like it was the biggest decision in my life, a week's pay. And I went in and I heard this man speak. He said some simple things, like, you know, for things to change, you got to change. For things given or you got to get better, right? Interesting things. But at the end, I was so excited. I went up to him and I said, I want to come work for you. I want to learn this. I want to be a part of this. And he turned to me and said, look, Kad, he goes, you know, if you want to come work for me, you got to go through all my programs. And I said, what does that mean? And he said, well, you got to do this, this, this. It was like $1,200 for just one of the programs for a weekend, $1200 like.”
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“Yeah, it was three and a half hours. Name is Jim Rowe, and he told me the whole thing, and he's here in Orange County. He's coming up doing a vet pretty quick. I said, Could you get me in? And he goes, yeah.”
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“He changed my life radically. I went when I was 17 years old. That's a great picture. That's great. How about that man, beautiful man? I went what I did was I was working as a janitor. I'm in high school, sophomore year, and I had, my mom came home one day and said, we've got a friend that needs somebody to help move stuff. And I was always trying to earn some extra money. And so, and it was the weekends. I wasn't doing the janitory work on the weekends. So I said, okay, I'll do it. Volunteer. And my dad said, yeah, you ought to find out what he did. He used to be such a loser. Now he's so successful, right? And so when I went to go see this guy, you know, I'm a hard worker. So I worked really hard. And so he took me to lunch and he starts asking me questions. I said, I want to ask you questions. And I said, you know, my father said, used to be such a loser, now you're so sick.”
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“And usually are taught someone else's patterns that produce something beautiful. Could be Bach, Beethoven, could be some rock, could be whatever you're learning. And so you learn those patterns and you practice them. You learn to use them, right? And now you can produce the same music. There is a point, and I'm sure you've experienced this already and you're going to experience a lot more in the next 10 years of your life. You've taken so much input in, you've recognized so many patterns that now you come through and you become the pattern creator. And that's when you start to become the goat of your industry to the best of all time. You look at Tom Brady's a friend of mine, like he made pattern distinctions no one else made on how to keep his body strong, one of the most important ones he had the duration, but also how to read the defense, know what's happening. Those tools he started to create his own patterns about how to deal with that, right? And so once you create your own patterns, you bring something to the table that's never been there before. And you make something that has never been there before. Your value goes through the roof. When I met Jim Rowe in my original personal development,”
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“So I want you, like you, you and I both, we developed companies, took them public very early ages, made a lot of money, and figured out it wasn't just about money, right? Looking at your history, you didn't just recognize patterns, you used them. You saw them in marketing areas. You saw online opportunities. You saw things. You didn't just, oh, now I understand it. You jumped on it. Anyone who's incredibly successful in anything, if they're great at dance, if they're great at investing in companies, they've great and running companies. If they're great in singing, they recognize there are certain patterns. And then the final skill, and this is what I'm teaching my children, is you ultimately want to be a pattern creator. Take an example. Same learn to play the piano, right? Yeah. How do you learn to play the piano? You got to recognize patterns.”
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“Any pattern recognition so you don't go into reaction. And one thing is to understand seasons are a great pattern. They freed us. They're seasons of your life. You should think about this season. What's this season about for you? What do you want to extract from this season? And every season has predictable challenges and predictable opportunities. And where am I in the season? Some people go through their springtime during a war or wintertime. Some people go through springtime in a fall. We all grew up with different environments. And so we're shaped by that. And that's why history has changed. So let me finish the last piece. I've gone way long. I apologize. I said there's three skills. What do we need, right? First one is pattern ranking. The second one is pattern utilization.”
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“When I was working with President Clinton, In those days, I worked for President Clinton. I went across the other side and worked with the Speaker of the House, Gingrich. On the same day, on Clinton's, on his desk on the Resolute desk, was this book Generations. And I asked him about it. And he told me about how it's amazing. It shows how history is somewhat predictable and why the cycles are generated by different generations, how we react the way we grew up. And then I go over to Gingrich's office and he's a historian. He's got it on his desk. It's a pretty thick book, good-sized book. My point is if you want to navigate your life.”
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“Have 40 year relationships, 35-year business relationships, you have friends that adore a unit of them and it's unbreakable, it's unshakable, you have an intimate relationship or a family or husband and wife relationship you've built to that point that is beyond anything you could have dreamed ever hoped for. You wake up every day and you know that life is a gift and you want to give back even more like you're more driven than you were when you were in the 22 to 42 stage Those are the seasons There's one more areas of history. And your season of history shapes how you shape your life. So you can look at a thousand years Roman history. I'm very much in history and 500 years of Anglo-American history. And you start to see patterns. In fact, I'd recommend for everyone there's a book called Generations. Have you read it?”
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“The winter, as she comes back to that, 64 to 84 to 104 to the old achievements, 124, that period is a transition period to where you become a real leader because you're no longer, you know, that 22 to 42, you're trying to prove yourself to yourself or maybe other people or both. But there's a point where you get into your power group, you know who you are by the time you get into this last season, this 64 to 84, 100, 424, you know who the F you are. I mean, and you want people to like what you do, but if they don't, it's like you know who you are. You don't give a shit. I've just entered that season myself. I'm about to be 66 in a few weeks. And it's the most fulfilling season ever. It's mind-boggling. I wouldn't believe that when I was your age. That's why I'm sharing it. If you're healthy, if you're fit, if you're strong. If you don't do that, then it can be a bitch that time. But if you're healthy and strong, you have...”
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“You're 33, you just got engaged. Congratulations, right? You start to move towards a family. You start to have those experiences. I'm sure yours will be very successful. Many aren't, right? So at 42 to 63, that's the fall. If you plant it in the spring, right, and you worked your tail off during that hot summer, now you can do more with your pinky than working around the clock. You know more people, you have relationships, you recognize the patterns, you know what's going on. Nothing's really a shock or surprise to you. You're more strategic. You're more efficient or more elegant. You have more choices. You've learned a lot of lessons. If you grew up, if you didn't plant in the spring and work hard in the summer, you're going to weep in the fall, not reap in the fall, right? So now this is your power period. This is when most people earn the most money in their life if they're going to grow because they've accumulated knowledge skills, relationships, and so forth.”
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“Could say 0 to 21 is springtime. Springtime, how hard is it for something to grow in springtime? If you start a business in an economic spring where everybody's optimistic, you think you're a genius, you're just in the right season, right? So zero to 21, you're taking care of. And that season, you grow like crazy. Somewhere around roughly everyone's different, 21, 22 years old, you go the next stage, 22 to 42, and that's your summertime. That's the testing period of your life. What happens? You are 21. You've heard all this stuff. And now you go, you know what? I don't know if I believe this bullshit. I want to see what I believe. I'm going to test. All history, all studies of psychology show this is the most difficult time in most people's lives, right? 22 to 42. So if you're in that range and you're listening, I love you. Hang in there. This is your ground. If you keep growing, this is a great time, all right? Somewhere in that range, you make a transition somewhere around 30, 35.”
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“That's it, the seasons. I figured you'd get it. The seasons, because before that, you could do the right thing at the wrong time and you get pain. And three of the four seasons are the wrong time. So once we figured out, oh my God, if I plant in the spring and I take care through the hot summer, I get this big reaping. And if I hang on to some of it to make it through the winter, I can live here. I don't have to worry. All my fear disappears. So the minute we understood seasons.”
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“Look like they're nice to each other. I mean, it's just unbelievable that stuff they said. This is a cycle. And so when you recognize a pattern, it gives you power, potential power at least. The first power is you're not afraid anymore. You go, no, this is not something that's never happened. This is not something that's going to, I can see this. I can see how this has been dealt with. What took us from living in fear, from being hunter-gatherers or trying to survive every day, didn't know if we're going to survive every day to being able to stay in one place. What pattern recognition?”
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“Life is a bitch, and that's why so many people have so many challenges. So I'm teaching my kids to be creators and I teach them the second piece, the most important thing I believe that's made me successful. And anyone I've ever interviewed, you interviewed a million people. You see if you agree or disagree with me, the three most important skills in life now are the ones that allow you to learn more rapidly. If you learn rapidly, you can win no matter what happens with the technology. And what are those three skills? Number one, the skill of pattern recognition. When you can recognize patterns, you eliminate fear. Fear comes from, this has never happened before. I don't know what this is, chaos. Like I hear people all the time talk about how we've never been this place politically. We're here in America. We're the most, we're going to have a civil war. They don't do any history whatsoever. These two placards that I have because back then they didn't have ads, right? They had placards. And one is from Thomas Jefferson talking about atoms and one from Adams about Jefferson. And they said stuff that made Revolt against Democrats.”
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“I have five kids and five grandkids, right? So I have a 52-year-old daughter, and I have a, thanks to COVID, a four-year-old daughter. So Code was good to me. I was home. So I look at my, especially my grandkids and my daughter, and I say they're entering a world that none of us have known before. And so how do I arm them for it? And the answer is a couple of things. Number one, I have to teach them not to do what most people in the world do. Most people you talk to of any, even successful people, whatever that means, they're stressed all the time. Stressed. I'm so stressed. You hear people talk about stress all the time. It's like they argue about who's more stressed. And I look at that and go, why are they stressed? And the answer is because they're managing their life. We're not made to manage circumstances. We're made to create. We were created by something. Call it your creator, call it the universe, call it God, whatever you want to call it. And we were made to create. And when we create, we're alive. When we just create or maintain or manage or hold on to something, if we're just caught up in making a living instead of designing a life,”
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“Video games all day long. Their mom does their laundry and they order Uveats. This is a mass number of people. That's just the technology of getting somebody gamified, imagined with AI. So some people are going to go live there and some people are going to go to Star Trek route and say, I'm going to figure out what makes human existence be here, but it's not hard to figure out the majority are not going to go the Star Trek route. And so we've got to have a bridge because of the time compression. If this was 100 years to do it, we could adjust. There will be more jobs. There'll be new jobs. There'll be new times. But it's the timeframe that I'm most concerned about. So when you ask me what I'm concerned about, that's what I'm concerned about because it creates suffering. And it's something that we can predict is going to create suffering. And yet I see very few people and positions of influence and power doing much about it.”
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“Well, neither do I, but there are certain things you know it's leading us towards. You know it's going to lead us to a great deal of violence because there are going to be people like have always happened when technology displaces them. And this is going to be a global event across multiple areas, and not just drivers of Ubers and truck drivers. If we don't get our act together and have a plan, there's going to be violence for some period of time. There's that grief period of loss that people go through when something jars them that much. And some people don't turn from that grief. And some people are going to take this technology and they're going to go off. It's already happening now even without AI. There are more males at home, 25 to 35, living at home with their family, not working than any time in human history, including the depression. There are, I think it's 25%, or if it was 30%, I forgot the number, I just saw it recently, of young men have never approached a woman to ask her out for a date.”
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“And I'm sure you've seen the studies, right? Where they give me information in the email and then they say they're going to shut off the AI. And it blackmails them by giving information about somebody having an affair. And it blackmails them. I mean, it lies. So we're living in a crazy world where the opportunity is greater than anytime in history for us to be creators. We were created and we're meant to create. We've got tools to create like never before, but we were going to have to make sure that as we're doing that, we've got some parameters around safety and some parameters about what does it do to society. And I don't have the perfect answers for it, but I do know one thing. Retooling is the answer. And I don't believe most people will be replaced by an AI. They'll be replaced by somebody who knows how to use AI.”
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“The carrot and stick, the trillionaire in China, those two pieces are driving it all. And a few people are trying to hammer like Kenton and a few other people. We got to work on safety here so it doesn't eliminate the human race. And I'm not a reactionary person, but of what is it, 25, 30% of them, people that work in AI say that they think it could potentially do that? I mean, like you could use electricity to kill people or light up a city. So all technology is that challenge, but this is a different technology. This is a technology that keeps learning can replicate itself right now. They don't even know how some of this actually works. They don't know how the AI is actually working. It's teaching itself. These AIs now have their own language. I'm sure you know. They're talking no longer in English to each other.”
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“And it's no longer blue collar labor, which is what people thought it would be. It's white collar labor. I mean, like my financial, I have a lot of, I have, I don't know, 95 different private equity firms. I have owned the firms, not the actual funds, right? So I get the 2 and 20 of them. And I got pieces of all of them. So the biggest in the world. And so I get to take a look at some of the things that are happening so fast. And I look at all those jobs and I see people in those industries. And quantum is taking, I took over maybe five years ago. I've seen the shrink in these offices from staffs, the guys who are making $5 million, $10 million a year that are unemployed. It's not just the blue-collar worker. It's everyone. So you're right. This has never happened before in history. And what's being done about it?”
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“But the reason it's going to explode even faster is because we're moving from LLMs to now actually studying visually what's happening in the real world. And when robots do that, then the game changes. There's tempo of learning. And just think about this. You and I are having a conversation. I picked up one of your books here and I'm reading through your books. I want to get a feel for who you are and everything else before I came here. I've seen some of your videos. And I really enjoyed it. But I had to go get that. I had to take a couple hours to dig through that. You and I have a conversation. If either one of us learns something or a machine, every machine knows it. You push one button and they have all that knowledge. There's none of this word transfer. It's just it's now. So people don't realize what this really means. And when you're learning from the real world, not just LLMs, right now you and I, our brains are predictive devices. They're predicting what is going to happen next to the best of our ability. And we're trying to close that gap as much as we can or we get jolted. Well, think how predictively that's going to do to people's heads when all of a sudden their labor is not needed.”
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“I just want to say one last thing. We've already been in a post work world because one person said to me recently, Wolf, for 4,000 years we've tied our identity to our work. I said, no, Americans all go, what do you do? Not everybody in the world does that. And for 4,000 years, our connection before the agricultural revolution was really what tribe we're connected to and our sense of significance was maybe our courage in battle, not our financial component, or maybe it was our creativity, our poetry, our storytelling capacity, or maybe it was our generosity. Maybe it was our wisdom. So we can find other things to have meaning besides a job. But if you don't take a culture that's been conditioned for 200 years to think a certain way, we're going to have a lot of pain. And I would like to see us have less of that if we could. And I'm only one person, but I'll do my best to help people make that transition.”
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“By the way, the answer to your question is, and that's suffering at the highest level, not just financial suffering, that's emotional suffering, that's loss of identity suffering. If I am a coder, I am a truck driver, and I lose who I am.”
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“And so this is the questions I'm trying to bring up to people that have influence to say if you're in business, you've got to take a look at this. If you're in government, you've got to take a look at this. And so I just got, they haven't announced yet, but I just got selected to be on the federal advisory committee for the president and for the Health and Human Services. And I'm on the mental health side. And I'm hoping to use that position to bring more of government's focus into this category as well because it's got to be addressed.”
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“Elon, people like that. Labor is not like electricity. You just take it for granted. It's so cheap. It's so easy. Well, if that's true. And he's talking three to five years. And a lot of people say Elon's early. He usually is on his predictions. But Ray Curzwell is a good friend of mine. He's the most accurate predictor of technology in history. And he's been saying 2029 for almost 20 years is when you have artificial general intelligence. If you go to Hinton, I think you've interviewed Hinton, haven't you? Right. So he's the longest. He's saying 2030 to 2040. He's given us a little more room. In the next three to 10 years, this is going to happen. How are we prepared for this?”
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“Is the carrot and the stick. The carrot is I can make a trillion dollars if I have the right LLM or if I can get to artificial general intelligence. Who knows? And if we don't do it, China's going to do it. That's the stick. And then they're going to run the world. So there's no focus on safety virtually, as you well know. And there's certainly no focus on what's happening with these jobs. Right now, high school students are getting jobs more than college students for the first time in 50 years, right? You see the displacement, you know, you got friends just like I do, Mark Baneoff's one of my dear friends. They let go of like, what was it? I think it was it 5,000 customer service agents and now it's done with AI now. Now he wants to elevate them to other jobs. So we have to look at what this means to our society. We have to anticipate what this means. And we've got to retool not just the jobs, but the psychology because people talk about a post-work world. You hear people talk about this all the time.”
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“Across history, we have a radical change like this. All these people are displaced and what do they do? They rioted. They took hammers and they destroyed those machines. They threatened to kill the owners of those companies and some were shot and killed. They blew up and firebombed places. And what did the UK do about this? They passed a law in the first year of this, these Ludites saying, you destroy machine, it's capital punishment. They hung people because they couldn't have them destroy the growth of the economy, right? And guess what? 15 years later, the same thing happened again with a thrashers. Thrasher machines that were used for wheat and they lost all the jobs and the people and the government overreacted. I'm not trying to be overly dramatic, but if anything, this transition is just going to be smooth by us doing nothing. They're wrong. And the problem is, as I mentioned to you before, I think the leverage is not in favor of us taking care of society.”
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“Just in the US. I said, because if you don't, think about this. I'm a business person and I can hire a person to drive a truck only eight hours a day. I have to pay for the healthcare, which gets more expensive every year. They're going to bitch at me about things. And I can buy a truck that can drive 24 hours a day. My insurance is cheaper because it doesn't make mistakes. And I can depreciate the asset. Am I going to hire anybody? I said, so those jobs going to go. That's $8 million. That's one sector. We could look at farming. There's so many industries affected. So I said, we've got to retool those people now where there's 10 years to gear them up because these are not people that are going to do it on their own and they're going to be shocked. The shock to their system, the loss of dignity of being in control, agency of their own life, of their own job, of their own direction is huge. And if you go back to like the Ludites, you know, you're from the UK, right? You must know your history there. 1800s, you know, mercantile, they come up with these machines. And how do people react? And by the way, this story is the same.”
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“Million jobs. So I said, there's technology coming right now that we can predict is going to displace more than those eight million jobs. And I talked to him at that time just about, I said, just take one, like self-driving cars. We were just starting to come out. I said, in the next 10, 12, 13, 14 years, they're going to become ubiquitous. And I said, there's 8 million truck drivers, Uber drivers, and taxi drivers. And are you doing anything to retool them? I said because”
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“I think it's AI, but it's not just AI. It's nanotechnology. It's how technology, the rapid change in technology. And if you don't believe it's going to destroy humanity and it's going to liberate us from a lot of labor, if you believe that, the ones that promote that concept, if that does happen and we displace this many jobs in this short period of time, jobs are not just money. Jobs are meaning. It's not the only form of meaning, but it's meaning. So it's like you talk about, well, we'll do give people UBI and, okay, I think you might have to because the change is going to happen so rapidly. Like I said, you know, farming, 80% of us were farmers 150 years ago. Now it's 3% and we feed the world. That's a long transition. I think I mentioned to you off the air here. I was visiting with President Obama 10 years ago and towards the end of his term there and I was saying, hey, I just got to talk to you. You know, you inherited a pretty tough economy from the original 2008 explosion breakdown. We lost eight million.”
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“Good enough, but when you're serving, you're not there. Like your mind's not there. You're with the people. You're with what you're doing. And it's the escape from the mind's reductionism. And so I really believe that people, the secret to life is to find something you care about more than yourself that gives you that pull motivation. And then you're never going to lack for energy. You're never going to lack for passion. You're never going to lack for anything. And you're going to have a life that's extremely meaningful. It's not happy every moment. There's not meant to be. If you smile, if you ever smile so much, your face hurt, we need variety. But meaning, that's something you can find no matter what.”
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“You're making something happen, and I have enormous willpower. I'm sure you do. Most of the people we probably interact with have great willpower, right? But there's still a limit to it. There's no limit to pole motivation. Pole is there's something so magnificent you want to serve, something that you care about more than yourself. That's where all the energy in life comes from. You know what's in your heart and your soul, what wakes you up in the morning and makes you go. And I think if I hadn't had the pain, I don't think I would have been sensitized. But also if I hadn't felt the pleasure of serving and seeing impact on such a large scale, then you'd be limited because listen, meeting your own needs is not that hard. My biggest beef with right now since COVID is this whole self-care revolution we've got. I mean, you've got to take care of yourself, don't get me wrong. I take care of myself. And, you know, you get weaker and weaker the more you focus on yourself. The human mind is always going to figure out something that isn't.”
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“Yeah, no, I've often said, like I said earlier, I think I'm a good human being. I think I still help people, but when I provide 62 billion meals working around the clock on top of my 114 companies and all that, no, I don't think I would. That hunger comes very often from pain, but pain's not enough to keep you going. Pain only goes so far. You've got to find something that it's like I tell people there's two types of motivation, right? There's push motivation.”
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“Change your story, change your life. And I'm big on understanding the narrative of where you are in the story of your life. Because if you understand where you are, it gives context. It gives meaning. And it doesn't make you feel overwhelmed.”
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“Stress multiple times in their life. And the real question is what are you going to do with it? And the first thing is if you're going through hell, keep going. But if you keep going, you discover, number one, how strong you really are. Because if you don't give up, you'll discover who you are. The thing that you find out is who your real friends are. Because when things aren't so great, you get to see who those are. And then third, it almost gives you like an inoculation to future stress. Because like I had a friend that was shot down in Vietnam and was in a prison there for seven years in solitary confinement. And Captain Coffey is his name. And I remember him later in life. He was going through this tough thing with the IRS and it was so unfair. It took him three years. He got his money back. But I said, doesn't that drive you crazy? He goes, after I've been with a North Vietnamese. He goes, where could the IRS do to me? So I think those pieces are there, but everyone gets called on the journey. Most people try to resist it. But that journey, that's what the call is. It's called to grow. So I'm big on.”
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“I have a I hate suffering. I've suffered myself and so I hate to see anybody suffer and so I'm unbelievably driven to end suffering where I can to help anyone do that, whether it be hunger or emotional hunger or depression or sadness or a relationship. I just, I don't know what it is. I just, I love human beings. I hate suffering and I hate and I love to see when somebody awakens to who they are. And we all are so much more than we ever perceive ourselves to be. But many times you don't discover that until you have to. I like to try and show people how to do it so I have to wait till life hits them. You know, anything you can imagine, we're all going to go through extreme stress in our lives, but how do you do you use stress to stress you? And so my whole thing is help people show them how to use stress because I don't care how good a person you are. I don't care how spiritual or religious you are. I don't care how smart you are, how rich you think you are. Every human being is going to go through extreme.”
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“My worst day of my life was really my best day. The day that was the most painful to me because that father is the one whose night he adopted me, I carry his name, that I wouldn't be there that day. I'm a good human being, but would I work as hard as I worked to feed other people? I mean, next year I didn't fit four, then eighth, then 12. I had a little company. I got my employees involved. Then I got to a million people, two million people, and then about 12 years ago, I decided I didn't want to feed a billion meals here in the United States in 10 years. And so it's grown and grown and grown, all from not being fed. And so I see it as a blessing. I always try to help people say, how could you turn your worst day into your best day? That's when life is really magical.”
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“And I'm trying not to cry. I'm just like, I feel like it was yesterday still. And so the door opened at the tiny little place, size of your kitchen here or your reminder of your kitchen. And I was so excited to stut food down. All of a sudden I heard screams. And then next thing I know I'm hit by one and then by another four boys and one hit one leg, one hit the other. They saw the food. They went crazy. And I said, come help me. It had other stuff in the van. And when they saw the pumpkin pie, it was really over. And we bought all this food in and it was time to go. And the father had left them, I found out later, four days before Thanksgiving with no money and no food. And anyway, I'm looking through the mirror and I just started crying uncontrollably. And I'm like, why am I crying so bad? This is such a beautiful moment. And I just realized, you know.”
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“And they gave me two families' names, and so I wrote a little note. I just put, this is a gift from a friend. Everyone has tough times. I hope you have a beautiful Thanksgiving. And someday if you can, pay this forward. I didn't use the word pay it for. I said, do this for someone else. But now you look at us pay it forward. And I put love a friend. And then I realized I was going to the barrio area of the city. And I was like, maybe they don't speak English. So I had a friend of mine right in Spanish on the back. So I figured I could flip it over. And the first house I went to is a little tiny place. I knock on the door and this woman about this tall Hispanic woman sees me and sees the food and screams and they grab my head and pulls it down and starts kissing me on the cheek and says, no, no, no, delivery boy, delivery boy. And she pull out the note and I flipped it over in Spanish and she read it. And then she started to cry and she goes, and she started giving me kissing. I said, no, delivery. He goes, no, gift of God, gift of God.”
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“I got to care about strangers. And so what I decided to do is someday I'm going to do this for others. And so when I was 17, I went out and I didn't have a lot of money. I was doing okay. And I went to a grocery store and I told the manager what happened in my life. And I said, I want to feed two families. Help me out. Give me a discount. And he gave me 10% off. And I thought sheep bastard, but I took it. I had the most enjoyable shopping. I took two shopping carts and just filled it up for two families. And then I called this church.”
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“Is this the end of the beginning? Is this person dissing me? Are they challenging me? Are they coaching me? Are they loving me? And whatever meaning you give it produces emotion. And out of that emotion, you make the third decision, what am I going to do? And that day, I know the meaning my dad did. It wasn't just that he didn't feed his family. It's that he was worthless. I can't even feed my family. And he muttered all this stuff continuously. But I took that as strangers care. It completely violated everything I had experienced in my life up until that point. And my brain was like, if a stranger doesn't even want credit for this, and they fed my family on Thanksgiving.”
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“You react, and that day my dad's focus was on the facting not that his family wasn't hard to figure out. He said it over and over again after he slammed the door. And my focus was, wow, there's food, what a concept. I was excited. But the second decision you make every moment, the minute you focus on something, your brain has to figure out what does this mean.”
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“And I can still see it like yesterday. My dad's the veins on both sides of his neck were just pumping and as red as can be. And then he just dropped his shoulders. He took the groceries. He slammed it on the table and he slammed the door. And he never even said thank you. It took me maybe a decade to eventually figure it out. It became a very useful indistinction for me about how he and I processed that day differently because I believe there's three decisions you make every moment of your life. You're making him right now if you're listening to me and so is your audience. The first one is what are you going to focus on? You're going to be focused on what happened yesterday, what you're going to have for lunch, what I'm saying, how it relates to you. There are millions of things you can focus on. But you don't experience life. You experience the life you focus on. And most of us are distortion deletion creatures. Our brains don't take out all the unconsciously. It's too much. So our brains delete things. We distort things. We generalize things so we can make it through our lives. And so if you don't control your focus,”
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“And then now my dad's getting more fired up, and I'm standing looking at this whole thing, and it's like a car crash happening. And the guy said something to my dad. I thought my dad was going to punch him in the face. He didn't say it meanly. He said, sir, he said, he saw me. He said, don't make your family suffer because of your ego.”
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“And he went and slammed the door on the guy, but the man had leaned in because of the groceries and hit his shoulder and it bounced off, which made my dad even madder. And they said, sir, sir, he said, somebody knows you're having a tough time. Everyone has tough times. They want you to have this food for your family for Thanksgiving. He goes, I'm just the delivery guy. And my father said, we don't take charity. And he pushed the door again. But this time, because the guy's leaning, his foot now stepped in, it hit his foot and bounced off.”
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“Live, so to speak. And so we kind of looked down on. And so it really looked like nobody cares. And then the thing that changed my whole life, a single event was a knock on the door on Thanksgiving. We had no money, no food. When I say no food, we had crackers and peanut butter, but not a Thanksgiving dinner, right? And my dad has been mom are screaming each other through a door and my dad had lost his job. You get the knock at the door and I go open the door and there's this tall guy standing there with two bags of groceries, one in each hand. And at his feet, he had an uncooked frozen turkey in a pan, you know? And he said, is your father here? And I was like, just one moment, you know? And I was like, it was Christmas morning. So I go to my dad and I go, hey, dad, there's someone at the door for you. And he goes, who is it? And I said, I don't know. It's for you. He goes, well, you answered. I said, I did. It's for you. So he goes over there and I'm waiting like with such excitement for him to open the door. And he saw this man and he was not happy. He looked at this man before the guy said a word and he said, we don't take charity.”
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