too many of us settle for mediocre lives
we sometimes fail to realize that life
isn't just a series of goals to be
achieved but rather a journey to be
celebrated along the way we get caught
up in commitments and before we know it
we're asking ourselves why did I really
spend the most formative years of my
life doing we fail to explore the world
not just geographically but also in its
depth by failing to connect with those
around us and listening to what our gut
truly tells us all of this because we're
afraid We Fear new situations we fear
stepping off our autopilot and we fear
what we cannot predict but in the summer
of 2015 I met three strangers and
together we decided to refuse to let our
fears dictate our decisions and instead
decided to use them to drive us
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forward see two years ago the four of us
Matt Amar jiren and myself Thomas Were
Strangers with a simple desire to take a
different path in life we had just met
and had no money but we bonded over a
simple idea that the moment we step out
of our comfort zone where the times our
brain chemistry evolves and we felt
truly alive so with three strangers I
moved on to a fourth stranger's couch to
afford making videos following this idea
our goal was simple challenge ourselves
to think differently about life and face
our fears head first for 30 days
straight from the outside what we were
doing seemed absolutely insane our
friends our family members and our
mentors were begging us to wake up and
stop the nonsense but the new philosophy
we lived by did not go unnoticed we
showed you a video made by four guys
inly episodes that depict various
improbable things that are Millennial
video makers watch this they wanted to
share this message with the world you
tell us about yourself how you came up
with this idea as of today yes theory is
without a doubt my favorite Channel on
YouTube I understand you're trying to
change the perception of how your
generation is
viewed and the country's glad you did
what you
did but despite our new fun attention we
were still completely broke after 6
months of non-stop working and living
life at the fullest we were offer deals
on TV but we would lose creative control
over the movement that we were just
starting so we followed our guts
declined the offers and just as we
thought our project might be coming to
an end we received an email that changed
everything do the four of you want to
move into a house together in Venice
Beach California and get paid to keep
making videos somehow a new channel on
Snapchat discover called brother was
looking for a group of friends making
content and when we told them we wanted
to travel to make videos they answered
go wherever the budget will take you
especially sunny places and we answered
oh
baby and so 6 months into stepping off
the traditional path together we said
goodbye to our tiny couch in Canada and
we're on our way to live our lives the
way we had always dreamed it so now we
ask you if you were 99 years old and on
your deathbed and you were given a
chance to come back to today what would
you do right now i' would love to meet
Justin Trudeau too for one of our
episodes you'd love to meet Justin
Trudeau trying to convince a couple to
let us kidnap them in exchange for the
best day ever and we want to throw the
best party we can based off of f if
there are any spontaneous people who
like to come skinny up with us are you
watching the Oscars tonight all boys
yeah I will God damn it oh dude I'll
hesitate dude you never jumped off a
clip no
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the goal for this to become the next big
thing in
V it's a pleasure to see you for the
second time yeah you guys aren't
ambushing me in the street now I
actually planned a meeting this way yeah
this is good
the fair is yours right there's any way
I can just come with
you I don't think we can ever top
that we've swiped thousands 2 to 3,000
girls and I've gotten like mother 10
matches I really wonder if somebody has
ever taken their Tinder date to go meet
another Tinder
date and
parents make you have
actually look amazing
amazing would you go on a blind date my
best friend Matt in Hawaii for 24
hours so if you guys want to be those
strangers find the couple getting
married and be a part of their
family this can not get any better right
now when you grow up you tend to get
told that the world is the way it is
your life is just to live your life
inside the world try not to bash into
the walls too much try to have a nice
family life have fun save a little money
but life that's a very limited life life
can be much broader once you discover
one simple fact and that is everything
around you that you call life was made
up by people that were no smarter than
you and you can change it you can
influence it you can you can build your
own things that other people can use
that's maybe the most important thing to
shake off this uh erroneous notion that
life is is there and you're just going
to live it once you learn that you'll
never be the same
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again oh my God see how far we can get
away from La within 24 hours based off
favors we at the border of Mexico baby
got a little time to think about this
you guys sure you want to do this no
that's
amazing what you're convincing the World
by showing them sometime along the way
that excited energy of trying new things
becomes like forgotten it's pretty neat
to try to transform that feeling of
anxiety into one of like happiness or
excitement so far this has all been an
experiment but for the next four
episodes we'll be telling you a big part
of our story that we've never told
before we risked everything to be here
today but if four strangers from four
corners of the world can make it this
far together doing what they love
chances are you can too now there's one
thing would recommend you do immediately
ask yourself what makes you
uncomfortable now what are you going to
do about it
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