- How do you feel about billionaires?
- So this is funny, I was on Impact Theory,
you know Impact Theory? - Yeah, I had Tom.
- Right? I didn't know, usually I do research with everybody
but I was crazy busy, travelling and
I didn't know how wealthy he was and how successful he was.
- 'Cause he's a billionaire or ish.
- So I go there and there's all these Quest Nutrition bars
and I'm like, "Is this show sponsored by Quest?"
I literally have no idea.
I'm just saying this stuff, I'm like,
"I'll never be a billionaire, I think billionaires
"are spoiled, I think they should donate a lot more."
and he's like, "Oh really!"
and I'm just like, "I'm making a fool of myself."
it's kind of funny. - But you meant that.
- I do mean it and I still mean it.
I don't think that you need as much
money as most people think.
I literally have just a few million
dollars in the the bank, which is fine.
I can take care of my family,
I have a lot of nice stuff for myself, my friends.
That's fine, I donated a lot.
I've donated millions and not just from the Guide
but of my own money, a disproportionate amount of money.
For me, I think that
I grew up never thinking about charity,
never thinking about teaching or anything,
but you evolve.
And for me, my evolution is very different.
I'm messed up in the head where
I want to give money away, I want to
spend most of my life
perfecting my teaching techniques,
and now my charity techniques, on social media.
- You say you're messed up in the head,
what do you mean by that?
- My priorities are very different
than most people these days.
- Especially in their 30s. - Correct.
- I would expect guys in their 50s,
- Yeah. - I'm 10 years older
- Yeah, yeah. - Okay? I could see
the value of this stuff and I'm teaching
and I love, this is a...
I'm changing the world with this show and I get it,
but the 38 year-old Brian was in the city of London here
stacking the paper for himself.
- I'm obsessed to see this
new technology and what it's capable of.
We're at a very unique time in history, as you know.
You're utilising this new technology
to get information out quicker than ever.
So, maybe if this were 20 years ago or 30 years ago,
where we didn't have this opportunity,
maybe I'd be different.
But I've had the nice stuff.
I just don't need it.
I donated a million dollars, literally, a few years ago,
to Pencils of Promise on the spot, in Laos.
And I was only supposed to donate
a quarter of a million dollars,
like, "I'm not that rich," right?
But I donated a million dollars
'cause I was like, "Screw it,
"I want to build more schools with Pencils of Promise".
So now, - Was it scary
when you did that? - No! It was
the best moment of my life.
It was one of the best moments.
It was fantastic; first of all, there was a
translator 'cause we're in Laos.
She didn't understand what a million dollars was.
She thought it was like a thousand dollars
and they were still excited.
But we've built 52 schools now, with my charity.
I'll tell you this other thing.
This actually probably answers your question.
So my friend Neil built this school in Cambodia, Neil Patel.
And I was like, "Neil Patel built a school in Cambodia?
"I'm gonna build a school"
'cause we're competitive with each other.
So I built my school next to his,
it's like three times the size of his.
- Course it is. - So I sent him a video.
I was like, "Here's my school" and I had all the kids
cheer, like when I-- - They're trading
in there too, or no? - No, no, no trading.
- Okay. - But this is like
a real school, but I had all the kids
line up and I showed the video
and they were all cheering and then I'm like,
"Here's my school, Neil, and here's your school."
And there was nobody there.
There was like a janitor.
So I just wanted to do that.
But then I was like, "I actually like building schools,
"so let me keep building them."
But for me, they didn't do well on social media.
My charity posts always do the least.
My Lamborghini photos, I used to post
stacks of like a million dollars in cash; those do the best.
So it was like, "How do I get charity to do well?."
So I did a tweet on my first school in Bali,
and I said for every retweet
I'm going to build another school.
And normally my charity stuff gets like five retweets.
So I was like, "You know maybe I'll get like 10 or 20."
Instead it became my most popular tweet
and there's like 8000 retweets now.
People were like, "Dude, you got to delete that."
Like, "You're on the hook" and I like, "Screw it."
So I pinned it, so it keeps getting more retweets.
So now I'm on the hook, technically, for 8,000 schools.
Why not? You know?
Let's see what happens when
you throw out your previous goals
and you create new ones that excite you.
I think that you should always have goals
and challenges for yourself that excite you.
For me, buying my first Lamborghini, that was so exciting.
When it got delivered, I was like, "This is amazing."
When I bought my second Lamborghini, I was like,
"This is cool" but the adrenaline rush wasn't there,
the dopamine hit wasn't there.
Now when I donate money,
and not even just about the money
or building the schools but
when you visit some of these,
literally, communities in the middle of nowhere.
In Laos, part of the reason why I donated the money,
I met this girl, she hugged my leg.
She's very malnourished, she's like a little girl.
And I looked down at her and she smiled at me,
big bright eyes, she had no money.
Her family has no money, but she was so happy.
And, through her translator, she was happy just to be alive.
She was happy to meet me.
She's never met a white person before.
She's happy that her family is alive
and they're all healthy.
And I looked down at the bottom of her feet,
she had no shoes on, she had plastic water bottles
taped to the bottom of her feet.
And I was like, "What's going on here?"
And, through her translator, I found out
that those were her shoes;
'cause she was good at school,
so her mom rewarded her by taping
the plastic water bottles to the bottom of her feet
because the ground is hot and rocky in Laos.
So that was luxury to her.
And I'm just thinking, (makes exploding sound) "Mind blown."
Perspective shift when you go
to some of these third-world countries.
So for me it's not about the cars,
the fancy stuff, or
I meet celebrities all the time.
That doesn't do it for me.
Now I want to see what can we do to bridge
the third-world with the first-world
using this new technology and information.
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