Heya playas, I wanna talk to you guys about people I consider an inspiration on my life.
I can probably go on for days talking about people like Thomas Jefferson or Master Yoda
but I've decided to narrow it down to 5 key people that I feel right now, in this moment
in time truly influence my life.
These are my 5 heroes.
This is The Josh Speaks.
You're watching The Josh Speaks.
As you sit there on your Macbook watching this video, Steve Jobs is the man who gave
you that laptop.
No, not directly gave it to you.
He's the man who pioneered the entire brand of Apple.
Small clap for Steve Wozniak too.
The average person now is looking at Steve Jobs as some type of technology god.
And that makes sense, as long as you know his history.
You see the thing I admired most about Steve Jobs is the fact that he was always on top
of what he wanted, that's how he had his first kid.
The man with little to no experience cold called IBM and said hey, give me a job.
And as the years passed, Steve Jobs understood the concept of building a brand.
He knew that creating something that consumers could truly feel made them unique was the
way of the future.
I don't even need to go into detail on all the things Steve Jobs has accomplished.
Just look at all the industries he's touched.
Music, computer, animations.
The man was ruthless, the man was smart, the man was cut throat, the man was the man.
The next hero on my list has truly done it all.
From music to movies to television, Will Smith has conquered everything.
Now I loved the Fresh Prince growing up.
I always felt Will's character was so real, like it was him.
You know?
And since he was so damn good at what he did they gave him creative control over his own
character because they knew he would carry it to be a star.
And that's exactly what he did.
He followed up with awesome music, he showed the world that he didn't need to curse or
talk about sex and drugs and hookers and all these other things to make good quality music.
Not only that, Will Smith carried his amazing talent into movies and knocked it out of the
box seats.
The man proved that no matter what you put him in, he would show his star capabilities.
And that's what I truly admired about him because no matter what the situation called
for he always gave his best performance.
Do you smell what The Rock is cooking?
This man inspires my life every single day on Twitter.
Now I like the millions (and millions) of kids growing up loved The Rock.
He was the people's champ.
And after wrestling he found himself doing Disney movies which a lot of people didn't
respect him for.
His reasoning was that he wanted to take a different approach and do comedy.
I can respect that, I can respect that.
But not The Rock is an ass kicking motivational machine.
If you want to see what I'm talking about, follow The Rock on Twitter.
This man posts pictures and quotes and everything you need to get you pumped up to work your
ass off in the gym.
I'm sorry Stallone, move over Schwarzenegger, because The Rock is the true ass kicking machine.
And that's why I respect the hell out of this guy, because he does what he wants, he takes
what he wants and he doesn't answer to nobody.
A lot of the theories and inspirational stories that I've told people can kind of be rooted
back to Anthony Robbins.
I've heard a few stories that say the man is kind of an asshole in real life but that
shouldn't detract from the message he's trying to get across.
When I was first studying the art of motivational learning to motivate myself, I learned a lot
from Anthony Robbins' 1980's audio cassette tapes.
The man spoke about tapping into your innate people, something people have trouble with.
And what made this seminar so great is that he always followed through with a success
story.
Who knew that once Kenny Rogers retired that he would still have the energy to travel around
from store to store promoting his chicken because he believed it was that damn good.
Or that through using neuro-linguistic programming you could make a woman who has never orgasmed
in her life orgasm in front of a crowd of thousands of people.
Gangsta.
I consider Anthony Robbins a hero because he has that power to bring people together
through motivation and words of encouragement.
The last guy on my list has a bald and odd shaped head, wears platform shoes to make
himself look taller, and has probably slept with more women than you could ever dream
of.
I'm talking about Neil Strauss.
Yes, I read The Game and I understand that he was once considered the world's best Pick-Up
Artist.
But the main reason why I consider Neil Strauss to be one of my heroes is because anything
he wanted to learn he found masters in every field and picked apart knowledge from all
their ranks to create his own system.
If you have read The Game, you'll see that he stopped at no lengths.
He found masters of seduction, of fashion, of breathing exercises.
In Neil's book Emergency he did the exact same thing with survival skills.
He learned how to wield a knife, how to shoot a gun, and how to use dirt to make clean water.
The man traveled as far as he needed to to gain the purest and truest knowledge he could
to educate himself.
I think if you're willing to spend a week alone in the desert living off of whatever
you could find, that's balls man.
And there you have it the top 5 people I would consider heroes in my life.
Because through their stories, I'm motivated to make my own.
As always guys, love and peace.
I mean there are a few people that came close, they just didn't make the cut.
Xanatos from Gargoyles, he was a bad ass.
Sylar from Heroes, Peter you have the hunger.
Doctor Cox from Scrubs, nobody got in his way.
And even Jay Sherman from The Critic.
(Boo!)
What, you don't agree?