I know you stated in the last lecture that the importance for setting aims in
life and to kind of have goals to work towards right so my question was where
do you how do you do that if you don't know where you want to go because that's
kind of where I got stuck on your your future off offering program because okay
that's that's a good question that's a really good question so there's this
notion in the Old Testament that morality is following a sequence of
prohibitions there's a bunch of bad things you shouldn't do and then
basically you're good enough and and and I think there's wisdom in that I think
that's kind of where children start right you I mean I love children and all
that but they're they're they're crazy little creatures and they need to be you
know civilized and well partly what you do is you you lay prohibitions on them
and mostly what you're trying to do is lay prohibitions on them for the
behaviors that if they manifested would make their life miserable so this is why
this thing that I've said the people has become this crazy internet meme but
that's to clean up your room and which which is a lot better and more useful
than people think it's a lot harder to but the the thing the first thing you do
I think and I learned this in part from Solzhenitsyn when he was trying to iron
out his soul when he was in the gulag because he was trying to figure out how
he got there how he contributed to how he got there
you know not Stellan and Hitler even though they were kind of the blade you
know but he wasn't much he could do about that
I think what you have to do and this is part of humility is you have to look
around you within your sphere of influence like the direct sphere of
influence and fix the things that announce themselves as in need of repair
and those are often small things you know and they can be like your room put
it in order because the thing is it isn't exactly so important that your
room is in order although it is what's important is that you learn how to
distinguish between chaos and order and to be able to act in a manner that
produces order and I think you can you can do something as simple as just sit
on your bed and think okay there's probably like five things I could do
today so that tomorrow morning is slightly better than this morning was at least or
at least I'm not falling behind and those who usually be it's like having to
eat a toad in the morning right it's like it's not gonna be something you
want to do there'll be things you're trying to avoid they are snakes
essentially but if you ask yourself like you're asking someone which i think is a
form of prayer if you ask yourself instead of telling yourself you know
what is it that I could do to set things more right today that I would actually
do it's usually some small thing because you're not that discipline you know then
you can go do it and then you be put the world together a little more
when you do that and that spreads out but you also put your you also construct
yourself into something that's better able to call order forth from chaos and
that makes you just incrementally stronger and then the next day you can
maybe take on a slightly larger task and like you get the benefit of compound
interest if you do that it's a tremendously powerful technique and they
think if you do that at some point instead of just having to fix things up
that are not good you'll start to get a glimmer of the positive things that you
could do you know the positive things that you could do that would actually
constitute a vision and now that's what I would recommend most people have a
belief about what their real potential isn't matter what you tell them and then
effects how much action they take and of course that affects the result and then
ironically that result reinforces their belief and their belief that's it so
I'll give an example let's say a person has unlimited potential we all agree but
they take little action little results why because they have to start with a
problem with their belief they don't believe it's really gonna happen for me
maybe for Frank Kearns cuz it got the cool hair and stuff or maybe it's for
you because you're so driven but it's not me maybe Tony Robbins cuz he's a
freak got these big teeth whatever their thought process is right they got this
thing right but what happens is if you believe that there's very little
potential how much action you gonna take and when you take little potential with
a little action what kind of results you get lousy little results when you have
little results due to your belief you go see I told you
this was a waste of time soldier this wouldn't work and then what happens you
tap even less potentially take even less actually even the worst results and your
belief gets even weaker and this sucker feeds on itself until you are in a
downward spiral poisonous it's poisonous and it's self-fulfilling
now what if something could happen that could come along and fill you with a
sense of absolute certainty not like I believe but mean well you know and you
guys this case mine as well we knew because we had to because we
burned the boats there was no other option we had to find a way we had we
weren't gonna live that way we all did it in different ways and for different
reasons but in essence that was it if you get yourself in a state of certainty
that this is gonna work I'm gonna find the way and if this is work I will make
the way then you tap a lot more potential and when you're certain your
potential you take massive action when you take massive action you really
believe in something you get great results when you get great results your
brain goes see I told you I was a stud I told you this thing would work out now
even stronger you have more potential take greater that you get better results that's
how you went from 300 bucks in a week to twenty five hundred and five days to a
hundred thousand in a month to a million bucks in a day same thing with you and
we get momentum so when the rich get richer the poor get poorer now some
people go out they go well I'm gonna take a bunch of action all right I'm
gonna open this product we're gonna try it
they'll say to you I even did it but it's like the salesman who goes and
knocks on the door he knocks on 100 doors and says verbally his face says it
because he doesn't believe it's gonna work
so his voice his body the execution is so weak maybe if he talks 200 people
somebody's gonna buy out of pity you dont want his kids to starve right but
he's not gonna get the result so the core difference in people is how do you
produce certain day when the world isn't giving it to you you go on and try and
you try in your case you're a hundred thousand a debt nothing is working how
do you keep yourself going the way you did it the way I did it the way you're
doing it we may not done it consciously is we didn't change our potential that
was there and it wasn't even taking more action taking more action with beliefs
not gonna works not gonna change anything we got results in our head that
made us feel certain as if it had already happened how much in beauty
as a creative person a lot well I'm learning so much I mean I mean I'm
learning so much we're doing it um when I come up with a good idea I stick with
it that's the difference I I can come up with a lot of ideas but anyone can you
know when I come up with something oh you know what this is something that's
capable of me growing and I still will like this this is something that's big
enough and ambitious enough that in four years from now if I really want to
become a space engineer and build spaceships I could probably put those
spaceships and the movie or the book or something you know yeah that's kind of
how I think come up with projects that can last long time and grow and then as
I grow I'm still interested and yet I've created so I yeah but I plan for that I
plan for my evolving first of all I believe that most people there's really
only a few key areas where we have almost like a superpower okay um
aptitudes all right I guess we could call it a super aptitude and we're
looking for those super aptitudes all the time by trying out different lanes
all right so take myself I'm somebody who has attention deficit disorder and
what that means is that I can speak almost indefinitely it means that I also
have almost infinite creativity and that also comes from growing up with
depression when you're depressed that could oftentimes trigger this very very
intense creativity so between having depression an attention deficit disorder
and also in my case if you look at things like growing up unable to read
social cues you have an interesting recipe for how I build real social
dynamics okay so I basically found my super aptitudes because by not
understanding something so thoroughly I had to break it down so deeply to
understand it that's social dynamics which creates great content plus and
being depressed creates creativity and also having ADD allows me to talk
forever because I don't feel the passage of time in the way that a normal person
does I can't feel time passing so I could do this forever
okay so if you look at that that created a super attitude okay now how did I find
it I tried out many different things as long as I was trying out different
things I was happy so tried out one thing tried another thing tried the
other thing try to another thing try to we've established the fact that we love
to play everything you know that there's not us there's not a genre that were
that will shrink firm but at the same time I think we've just gotten very
confident as songwriters to the point where if we want it if we want to try
something we will you know we're not hesitant to try something even if it
sounds a little sweeter like you take a song like Saint Marie that's on the new
album and it's got a very cool California country vibe to it you know
10 years ago maybe we wouldn't have had the stones to be able to do that you
know and now we're like we're gonna do whatever we want you know so it's you
know it's it's a that you know the the strength of experience and yet still
having that refreshing love for music that encourages you to try new things
always success and failure you just have to know where to look for it and that
means that's a learning moment so you say Evie Vega is success in learning if
you know I don't know exactly you just have to look for it because then you use
that again and you make sure you don't make that mistake again or don't allow
that mistake to happen so your goal is to then just because it didn't work out
the way you wanted to take that knowledge take those learnings and
reapply it to a new you know a new direction and therefore you're gonna get
better no one's you know I think you've had I've had failure and it takes years
of building up that kind of thick skin around you but that's what it means to
be resilient you just get up and you keep going and you can and I can't tell
you there's been times when I just sat there though it's like oh the world is
gonna be over and then you know what you just look at it and you think about it
and you have to project yourself not today but to project yourself into the
future what could I do in the future if you keep looking ahead everybody fails
you're not the only one everybody does just get over it