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The Lion King is a very special movie in my heart,
because it's one of the very few movies that
my dad actually took me to watch in the theater.
When is the animation when I was little kid.
Because especially it's about a story
of father and son and their relationship.
So I knew that when I went to see it,
it's going to bring back so many things from the past
and so much memory of my dad.
And as I predicted, like the minute I saw Simba,
I was bawling like crazy.
The whole movie I was bawling like crazy.
And so, I kinda want to share some of the
things that I have learned from The Lion King
and how that relates maybe to my personal life
and maybe what you could take away from it.
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- [Mufasa] Everything you see
exists together in a delicate balance.
As king, you need to understand that balance
and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant
to the leaping antelope.
- But dad, don't we eat the antelope?
- Yes Simba, but let me explain.
When we die, our bodies become the grass,
and the antelope eat the grass.
And so, we are all connected in the great circle of life.
- The first lesson is the circle of life.
That if you remember from The Lion King,
that Mufasa, the father, was telling Simba
that death is part of life, its the circle of life,
its all part of it, it's normal.
And Simba at first was like
"I'm not so sure, like what do you mean like dad?" Right.
It's always very difficult, when my dad passed away
I was depressed for a number of months because
I just couldn't accept the reality that he's gone, right.
And I remember in The Lion King the scene where
the monkey leading Simba to,
say "let me show you where your dad is."
And then leading Simba, by this time Simba is all grown up,
to the river, to the lake.
And you see the water, Simba looks at himself,
reflects in the water, and then say
"hey, your dad lives in you."
I mean, I lost it when I saw that scene.
I mean I was like (crying), I lost it.
Jen was just keep giving me tissues and stuff like that.
I miss my dad, definitely I miss my dad.
But knowing that, in the movie, he's part of the sky
he looks at us, and he lives within me as well.
Like I see him in me of course, it's my dad.
That'll be the first lesson, the circle of life.
- Simba, let me tell you something that my father told me.
Look at the stars, the great kings of the past
look down on us from those stars.
- Really?
- Yes; so whenever you feel alone, just remember
that those kings will always be there to guide you
and so will I.
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- Well ya know, it wasn't exactly like they was alone Scar.
- Yeah, what are we supposed to do? Kill Mufasa?
- Precisely.
- And lesson number two is,
some people are just evil for no reason whatsoever.
The thing about the character, the uncle, Scar,
kill his brother, right.
Really, a lot of bad things.
Sometimes maybe you have people in your life
that they do bad things to you and you feel like
"how come they treat me like that,
how come they are so evil, how come they're bad,
what did I do to them?"
Maybe you didn't do anything to them.
There are people out there that are just bad people, right.
And you have to accept that that's part of life,
is how you deal with it, how you fight back,
and how you avoid some of these people as well.
Sometimes don't take it personally,
it's not about you, just some people they just bad,
they're just idiots, they're just evil people.
So that's another lesson that I've learned.
- Long live the king.
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- Look kid, bad things happen
and you can't do anything about it, right?
- Right.
- Wrong, when the world turns its back on you,
you turn your back on the world.
- Well, that's not what I was taught.
- Then maybe you need a new lesson.
Repeat after me, (clears throat), Hakuna Matata.
- What?
- Hakuna Matata, it means no worries.
- Lesson number three, and that is Hakuna Matata.
Don't worry, everything's going to be okay.
There was a scene when Simba was exiled by the uncle Scar
to just go, right, and he left.
- What am I gonna do?
- Run away Simba; run, run away and never return.
- And he walk across the desert, almost died,
and then went into, found this paradise right,
and met some new friends.
Myself, I could relate so much to that because
I was in Hong Kong, in the jungle,
and then I emigrated to Vancouver, Canada.
To a place, a foreign place
that I didn't know anyone, I had no friends.
And seems to be great country, but it's very strange,
because you feel very foreign, you feel like an outsider.
And you try to fit in, and that's where Simba grew up
and that's where I grew up in here in Vancouver, Canada.
Learning a new way of living, right,
learning a new way of life.
At first I actually had a lot of resentment towards my dad
for why did he make me move, why do we need to emigrate?
Why do I need to come to country that I have no friends,
and I don't speak a language, I don't understand culture.
And it's only late on in life that
I learned to appreciate what is done because
I was getting to so much trouble in Hong Kong
that he knew if I continued on that path
I would end up in a very bad place.
So he made a decision to move me to here.
At first, I didn't like it here, didn't want to be here,
but when you kind of have the philosophy of Hakuna Matata,
that everything's going to be okay,
and everything turned out to be not more than okay,
it turned out to be great.
I wouldn't be able to do what I do today.
I wouldn't accomplish what I've accomplished today
if I was still back in Hong Kong, I don't believe I would.
It's because I am in here, I am in North America
that I am able to do what I do today, right.
Be able to build a very successful business,
to be able to impact tens of millions of people every month.
Sharing my story, sharing my message,
and that's lesson number three.
- Yeah, it's our motto.
- What's a motto?
- Nothing, what's the motto with you?
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- I'll tell ya Pumba, this stinks.
- Oh, sorry.
- Not you, them, him, her, hello.
- What's wrong with that?
- ♪I can see what's happening. ♪
- What?
- ♪And they don't have a clue. ♪
- Who?
- ♪They'll fall in love and here's the bottom line. ♪
♪Our trio's down to two. ♪
- Oh.
- ♪Ze sweet caress of twilight, there's magic everywhere. ♪
♪And with all this romantic atmosphere, ♪
♪ disasters in the air. ♪
(upbeat tribal music)
- ♪So many things to tell her, but how to make her see ♪
♪the truth about my past, impossible. ♪
♪She'd turn away from me. ♪
- ♪He's holding back, he's hiding. ♪
♪But what, I can't decide. ♪
♪Why won't he be the king I know he is, ♪
♪the king I see inside. ♪
- [Chorus] ♪Can you feel the love tonight, ♪
♪you needn't go too far. ♪
♪Stealing through the night's uncertainties. ♪
♪ Love is where they are. ♪
- Lesson number four and that is okay to
fall in love with your best friend.
That I'm very fortunate that my wife Jenny and I
that she is not just my wife, she is my business partner
in life, she's my soulmate, she's also my best friend.
She understands me more than anybody else.
So it's okay.
- Your parents will be thrilled,
what with you being betrothed and all?
- Be what?
- Betrothed, intended, affianced.
- Meaning?
- One day, you two are going to be married
- Yuck. - Ew.
- I can't marry her, she's my friend.
- Yeah, it'd be so weird.
- In the movie, you can see they're like
"oh we're best friends, ew,
like I don't want to be fall in love with my best friend."
Sometimes it's okay to fall in love with your best friend.
In fact, it may be a very good option.
It may be a very very good option because
the couple in the beginning, the romance period,
when the honeymoon period that's good,
but after that period of time, what is left is
you as a couple growing together, right.
That we're growing together, we're learning together.
That there will be some ups and downs.
There will be joy, there will be laughter,
there will be tears, there will be challenging times
going through life.
And when my dad passed away in Hong Kong
where my wife and I Jenny went back,
and she helped me with the funeral and things like that
and it was very very difficult and very grateful
that I have my wife in my life to be able to support me
and go through some of these challenging times
that we all face in life.
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- Look Simba, everything the light touches is our kingdom.
- Wow.
- A King's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun.
One day Simba, the sun will set on my time here
and will rise with you as the new king.
- And this will all be mine?
- Everything.
- Everything the light touches.
- And last lesson that I want to share with you
is that the scene where the king was saying
"everything you see, this jungle in front of you,
it's going to be yours, you're going to be the king."
And Simba was like "Oh, that's great.
Everything is mine? This is all mine?"
"This is all yours."
And Simba was saying "well I thought a king
could do whatever he wants?"
And the dad was saying "Well, sometimes there's more
to being a king than just getting your way all the time."
It's very interesting, sometimes, a lot of times,
I see people, they want to be in the leadership position,
but they don't want the responsibility.
That in order to be a ruler of many,
you need to be a servant to many people.
And you can't do that if you don't lead with your heart
and you don't put people first.
- But I thought a king can do whatever he wants?
- Well there's more to being king
than getting your way all the time.
- There's more?
- (laughs) Simba.
- Because people know, and people see through that.
In most of the time, in most cases,
the king actually doesn't get his way most of the time
because a king has to consider a lot of people.
That a lot of peoples happiness, their response,
their livelihood, versus "oh just do whatever I want
eat whatever I want" and you see in the movie
when Scar took control of the jungle and just eat and kill
and kill everybody and eat all the animals,
it turns in to this dark, evil place.
- We have only one choice, we must leave Pride Rock.
- We're not going anywhere.
- Then you have sentenced us to death.
- Then so be it.
- You can't do that.
- I am a king, I can do whatever I want.
And then it's only when Simba took over
then it's flourishing again, it's very much like that.
So those are the five lessons, and very much so.
And I know some people, they say the new Lion King,
they don't enjoy it as much,
this is a very personal movie for me
so I enjoyed it tremendously.
From the animation, when I first watch it,
to the new movie that I saw.
I think Disney just did a phenomenal job.
And I hope to see more and more of these movies.
If you haven't watched it,
I do recommend it you go watch it as well.
Maybe you'll learn something from it as well.
If you learned something,
comment below and let me know what have you learned.