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23:14The same cycles over and over again. So I'll give you an example. Let's take a simple example. Let's say you were born in 1910, and you'll see why I'm bringing this up about the kids. In 1910, if you were born then and you start to come of age, think about this. 1910 to 1920, 21, 22, 23, guess what? We win World War I. There's this great celebration, all this new technology radio and television. Oh my God, airplanes and cars. And that generation that was growing up in that environment, they were known as flappers. They were like millennials and zes. They weren't respected by older generations.

23:49They seemed irresponsible. They seemed unbelievably weak and they were. They were incredibly weak. And everybody made fun of them, and they didn't give it down. What was interesting was, when that 1910 person turns 19, it's what year? Calcutters are available. 1929. So, right when you're going to get your car and go party and all those things, what do they get their face on? the biggest depression in the history. And guess what? People are jumping out of buildings. If you're in the Midwest, you got the bus bull. People are standing aligned for bread. That's what they entered at the state of life.

24:28They thought they were going to celebrate. They were growing up in a protected environment and they entered a winter. And by the way, it wasn't over because after 10 years, they make it to 29 years old. It's 1939. Well guess what their reward is for making it through 10 years of depression. War War II. Now none of us in this room are old enough to remember it, but those who are alive will tell you we weren't gonna win that war. It didn't look like we're winning. Stock market crashed. Hitler was glitz -creaking, taking down countries in days and weeks. London was being bombed. It looked like the end of the world.

25:02Not the shit we have now that we make up the end of the world. So we can somehow, I know, virtue signal that we're on top of things. It was really a scary time. But this generation of flappers, these weak -ass kids,

25:20They got unbelievably strong and they won the war and they came back to heroes and they're still known in American culture as the greatest or the great generation, aren't they? Why? Because they went through the prime of life and winter. Now, some people, if you went through as a child and they protected, some people do it through that 22 to 42, some 42, some the older stage of life. But we're in winter right now. By the way, here's the good news. By the way, what happened after the war? What finishes winter? What always follows? Spraying. What follows the horrible day of the horrible night? The beautiful day.

25:52So what happens? There is this spring time. We veterans get jobs. We open up the community. Everything changes. There is an optimism from 1945, roughly 46, till about 1963, about 18 years, until John F. Kennedy gets killed. Then we go through a really intense summer of internal conflict. Martin Luther King is killed. Robert Kennedy is killed. Older young people are telling older people screw you. You know, I don't think you're a hero. You're not fair to women or black or white. And we have an internal revolution. You can see this again and again in history. There's a great book by the same guy through a generation called the fourth turning.

26:28I'd highly recommend it to all of you if you want to understand what's really happening right now. If you want to recognize the pattern, it'll show you. You'll be reading a passage and then you'll realize It was written in the 1800s and the 1600s. These cycles are consistent. So we're in winter right now. By the way, what happened? You had the spring time, then you had the summer? Think about the 60s and 70s. Were they different than the late 40s and 50s? Completely. Different mindset. If you ask students in college at that time, they did this, they've done this question for 60 years now. So in the 60s and 70s, they said, what do you need most in your mind of a great quality of life?

27:05pragmatic knowledge to make a great income or a philosophy of life that makes you happy 60s and 70s which when do you think 82 % said? Philosophy of life 60s and 70s. There wasn't the money You clearly weren't there. You're still drug from that time. You don't know what's going on But it what happened were the 80s and 90s early 2000s any like the 60s and 70s completely different mood total shift and by the way But the ex -generation, of those who ex -generation, the baby boomers were out doing their mission, having time, making love, protesting the war. They had their view of life. They didn't take much good care of their kids.

27:46They weren't paying attention. Their kids became pragmatic. They learned to raise themselves. They learned to turn on the TV. They created an ex -generation. They were raised differently. The ex -generation that were undertaken care of became the people that turned around and changed how we raised babies today and adults today. They're the ones that created baby on board. Think about it. The movies about children in the 60s and 70s were exorcists and Rosemary's baby. And in the 80s, it was three men and a baby baby on board. And babies are everything. Helicopter parents calling the teacher and saying, my student deserves a better score than that.

28:22A better grade than that. I couldn't even imagine that shit in my generation. But that's what they've done. So that generation answer your question, ma 'am. while I know you're fearful, I'm not fearful. They are going to, we're halfway through winter if you study history, no one knows exactly. We've probably got another eight years of this. That does not mean every day is a bad day. It just means there'll be more negativity reported than positivity. The mood is shifted. People exaggerate the problem instead of the solution. So you have to be your own person instead of letting society lead you and you're not gonna have those challenges.

28:54But during this time period, this is a beautiful time because winter makes people stronger. Here's the history of the world in four sentences. Give it to you really easy. Good times, great weak people. You've got a whole generation of people that have had everything if they're thinking that they haven't paid for, they haven't had to do anything for it. There are seven million American men from 18 to 38 years old that live at home still. And are not looking for a job. They get Uber Eats and they play video games. Seven million. That's only possible in a culture that has had such abundance and no real war that they've had to be a part of.

29:30So good times, great weak people, weak people, great bad times. Bad times, great strong people, strong people, great, great times. That's where we're headed. That's where these children are gonna have to answer your question. Everybody at his Peter, a quick break from the episode. You know, I'm a firm believer that science and technology and how entrepreneurs can change the world is the only real news out there worth consuming. I don't watch the Crisis News Network, I call CNN or Fox, and hear every devastating piece of news on the planet. I spend my time training my neural net the way I see the world by looking at the incredible breakthroughs in science and technology.

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30:50Now back to the episode. I want to go to just a couple of questions. You got it. The launch time is now 738. You can tell what I care about here. Shut me up. I want to go to Zoom to bail in if we're in Zoom. bail in, where are you on the planet? And what is your question for Tony? Hi there. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. But I can't see you. Awesome. Yeah, name is Boundum from Montreal, Canada. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Tony, you're a huge inspiration to me. and this one is sort of directed to you. So you talk a lot about changing your identity and change your life, which I am all on board for.

31:29But how do you navigate rewriting yourself when or changing your identity or establishing a new moonshot when so much of what you've done in life might say otherwise? As I'm sure a lot of other people at this conference especially have been inspired by a lot of the ideas we've heard here and wanna go apply those later on in life. And so how do you, what sort of strategies or tools might you recommend for us to kind of carry those ideas on and do something that might be outside of our wheelhouses? If you only had like a five -day program where people could go to. Well, I don't think I want to clarify your question if I may.

32:07You say it's not, give me an example that's specific if you don't mind so I can address it specifically instead of generally. You're saying you want to do a moonshot that's inconsistent with your past? Is that what I heard? I'm not turning that. Yeah, well, I mean, like so much of what I've done has really been, I'm an aerospace engineer by trade and so much of what I've done in life has been based my career on furthering space propulsion. I'm really passionate about that. But I've been thinking a lot about, you know, maybe the impact I could have with other technologies like AI, quantum technology, especially.

32:39And I'm wondering if, you know, like, if I should do that and, you know, are those, are like and because I'm equally passionate about technology in general and well like what I've been thinking a lot about what are what is the greatest impact I could possibly have bail and do you remember do you remember what ima said was the single most important attribute for the a i partners and programmers he was bringing on satellite imagery i think he was talking about well was the number one thing that he was looking for passion this is a brand new field that is just started. And if your passion is to go and do that, you can pick it up and learn it and catch up very quickly.

33:24But can I give you some coaching? Is that okay? Yeah, absolutely. That's what I'm here for. You're not you're in a state of uncertainty, so I wouldn't do anything out of this state. You'll there's no way you'll follow through. You need to go gather more experience. You you that is specific and go for it. Because right now you're asking a generalized question and you're asking it from place of uncertainty. It's like, this is what I know. I don't really know this. So this is exactly what I talked about earlier. In a state of uncertainty, you don't know the how. You don't even know the what yet. So the answer to your question is no one can answer that question until you get around something that you were truly passionate about.

34:04And what I would do is I would start to put myself in these environments with people with nature and find something that grabbed me. Then when the thing grabs you, now you turn that something very measurable and specific. And I noticed you guys used 10 years as your goals. Most of mine are 10 year goals too. And then I try to beat them. But I measure it each year. Martin Rothblatt was a mutual friend of ours, both of ours. He's a genius who's had so many breakthroughs in medicine and stabilizing their themselves. Serious. A film and so forth. Her whole thing is, okay, I chunk it down into one year modules of that.

34:34But you're missing right now. You don't know the what and why yet. You just know there's an industry that's possible and it's different than what you're doing. So I admire you that you're willing this because most people won't step into the uncertain. So I want to know I respect you for that You're like I'm not really sure and so you're wanting certainty You can't have certainty to find what it is So go get your ass in the environment with enough people and let something hit you And then you won't need anybody's coaching him you can certainly get refinement of your coaching But you'll go this is it and then you can say who else would join you on that journey?

35:04Who else shares your vision in that area and then set your specifics and then go crush it? But I think right now you're trying to make the decision before you have enough experience of what's going to make you excited. I think your passion about technology is a whole, but that kind of generalization will get you there. It's the specificity you'll get you there. So be kind to yourself and get yourself while you're doing what you're doing. Go put yourself in these environments. You've got a network here of people and you'll figure something and we'll grab you. And then you'll do it. And the only other question I'd say too is it's wonderful to ask the question, what can I do?

35:35We'll have the most impact. But I think you also have to ask yourself, what do I want? to do. You know, because a lot of times there are things you do with impact and you'll run out of gas because it's just not fulfilling enough. You've got to find out what's fulfilling. The projects I've picked are fulfilling. When I see a child whose life has been saved, you know, because we've got fresh water or I see somebody who's got food and never had it before or a child that's got saved, who is some slavery and we've got them out. Those are measurable pieces that have like, keep me going. And you know, I don't have to wait till I get the goal someday, I'm getting feedback all the time.

36:06And also, I get into feedback in my own mind, which is I'm not going to meet 99 % of people I've ever helped, they'll never thank me, they don't need to. I know. And that gives me drive at a different level. I'm not doing it for accolades. I'm doing it because it's right. And that will give you more power than any accolades that some people look for or any economics. And then if you do this right, you'll make great economics as well. But my number one piece is get to a place where you want something so bad. You can find that certainty. You're not there yet. That doesn't mean you couldn't get there quickly though.

36:34Is that helpful?

36:39We're going to take three quick questions. Okay, we're going to go to Goole. We're going to go to Charlie. We're going to see on and I'm going to ask question in before we break for the party tonight. Goole go ahead. We have done future schools in the past 10 years work with schools globally, China, and US, Israel, Finland, Canada, and we have a solution for schools, for future schools. My question for you is would you still like to work with K -12 students? Yes. And how? Well, I want to know what your system is. I love the idea that many of you supported here, which is reversing it, that I know the Connistutes done, which is where basically when they're in school, they're getting help, and they're being worked on, but they go home, and they take in the class.

37:35I also love that because, quite frankly, you kind of hire the best teachers in the world because they're going to watch it, you know, not to be in class. You don't have to have all, not all teachers are equal. I'm not a big believer by the way in equity, just personally. I think equity sounds good that the way we're executing equity is making everybody equal. Not everybody has equal skill or equal drive or equal caring or equal hard work. And I don't think that's what the goal should be. I think equal opportunity is there. And so for, I'd want to know what the system is, right? And it's that happen.

38:02I want to know what the system is, and if it's something usable, then I'd look and say, where can I help you scale that? And then how can I play any role that would be supportive? Wonderful. Thank you. We'll talk more. I'd love to hear more. Thank you very much. Thank you. Charlie. Thank you. Before Joe's question, I was going to ask if you could add a presidential moon shot to the list, but I'm not going to ask that now. I was going to ask, unless you want to answer it of course, but I was going to ask, we've been learning a lot about longevity and a clearly mindset is a massive thing in helping people, but the people in this room necessarily, but the people outside this room have a long javert mindset.

38:39Can you give us any advice as to how we can help people help themselves to have a better longevity mindset and take their health more seriously? I think, I'm sorry, I'm just simplistic, but I think it has to start with your example. No one's going to listen to you talk about something you don't live it. So one of the reasons I think I was able to influence a lot of people in this area is because the level of demand that make my body and the level I'm able to deliver energetically is more than most people would expect. So it's like, what is he doing? So they're willing to listen. And I also see, I don't pretend to have all the answers.

39:09I'm always looking for more answers and better answers. So I think your own model is the most important thing. If you're talking about it and you're not living it, your influence is going to be limited. I think the second thing then is to make sure you find things they're cutting edge that can help people because when you find something like, you know, one that gives my life, you have all these huge long mission statements. Now it's really simple. How can I help? Every day in my life, I get a phone call and at this stage of my life, I get somebody every week or two that's got cancer or somebody who's got at a stroke or heart attack or Alzheimer's.

39:42And fortunately, I can steer them in the right directions because I've done my homework. And, you know, please pick up life force if you haven't done it because it's the best out of the 150 of the best doctors out there We're not taking any money from it. We don't even know the money from it But I think you all find tools in there that a lot of people don't even know exist that can solve problems And if you don't know it ignorance is not bliss ignorance is pain ignorance is poverty ignorance is yeah You know, so we really want to make that happen right say arm yourself live by example arm yourself And then I think it's like point out the people that people are inspired by like you know The bronze spends a million dollars a year on his body.

40:18You know, not everyone's gonna do that, but you start seeing his disciplines, the loud at this level to still perform at this stage of life, it's pretty impressive. Right, Tom Brady, you know, same thing. And all these people, you know, Jack Nicklaus, when we were together in three or four years ago at the Vatican, he was there, and I got a chance to visit with him, and he didn't endorse him ever in a book and so forth because like, he was not able to walk or play tennis or golf, and they were gonna fuse his back, which by the way, 57 % of the time it does absolutely no good and then you become immobilized.

40:49That's the stats. But people get their free, it's insane. But anyway, he did STEM cells and I placed tennis and golf again and he's 80, what, 83 years old and so forth. So showing role models is the other way I try to do it. Be a role model, show role models and be incredibly informed. So when people need it, you can help them and they'll tell other people, oh my god, you know, I went in there and you know, I thought it was going to die and here I am. I'm healthy and I made through the situation. I think those might be three things to consider. Thank you. Thank you so much. Tian, thank you very much.

41:22What do you got for us? First of all, Peter, you've got to give a shout out to those shoes because they're awesome. Thank you. These are like cane aches. Special shoes. Thank you for everything that you're doing, especially with food insecurity. Now, when you were thinking about tackling food insecurity, you got to also think about how do you tackle food waste? Yes. So I was wondering if you've considered using space technology, which is freeze -drying food. And the reason why I say that is because when you freeze -dried food, you take the waste out and you take the water out and you ship the nutrients, which reduces the costs of everything.

42:00San was on the SpaceX first private mission to orbit. Wow. Yeah, two years ago I became the first black female to pilot a space. That's awesome. You're welcome. I also lived in a moon, a Mars simulation for four months for NASA to investigate some strategies for long duration space flight. And that's when I got introduced to freeze -dried technology where you can have freeze -dried fruits and meats, vegetables, you take the water, and ice cream. And ice cream. Although ice cream's not as good. But what it does is, you know, freeze dried food becomes self -stable for up to a decade, and then it's there for when you need it.

42:43So I was just wondering if you were addressing in your food insecurity, the food waste issue and how we can maybe introduce space technology to help that. I love that idea. Feeding America, there's a group of young people that have created a computerized program that can track food better than anybody's done before. They're believing they can save about a billion meals just by that process alone. So I'm working with them, but I think the freeze drive is brilliant. I don't have any reference for it. I'd love to have share with you and talk to some of the people we know about in that area. I would love to talk to you further on this because I think it's a game changer.

43:15Okay, I'd love that. Thank you so much. I will say one other thing, though, too. Please give her a hand.

43:29Thank you. or clean food as they're described it. You know, most of you know, it's built in a bio reactor. I was just with Shake -Tenoy, and you know, I mean, I just tell you this last week, and there was a gentleman there, they have a firm that's doing that type of work with foods. But they're also doing a similar thing. They're making fertilizer that supposedly has no release of gases, but also they can send the bacteria to grow it. So we don't have all the shipping problems that we're having right now in costs. To a place with a bio reactor's local, and then they make the fertilizer there and not have the greenhouse gases.

43:58So I'm looking at every option I could so I'd love to get your car. Because also freeze -dried technologies really cheap and can be put everywhere. That's great. I'm happy for that. Great for you, Pat. Give her hand. So Tony, tomorrow is our commitment day, our member Moonshot day. We have Ray in the morning. We're going to do some Q &A with him. Talk about his views. He's still holding to 2029. as human level AI in 2033 for high bandwidth BCI. And then members are getting on stage here to share their moonshots. Part of my goal of having you here now was to inspire everybody here to what can be done.

44:42At the end of the day, going stretching yourself beyond what feels comfortable in your moonshot. You want to give some advice on how or where they should push. I think it's different for all of you, right? We're all individuals. I can't give you something universal, just principles, and I think I try to do that in the beginning here for you. I think the most important thing is if it doesn't stretch you, it's not going to excite you. It's not going to excite you. You're not going to stay with it. It needs to be something that feels like legacy for you. Like any one of the moonshots I've had, I've had the privilege of working with hundreds of millions of people over the years and helping people improve their lives, that to me would be enough of a legacy.

45:24Then like, okay, if I could feed a billion people, that's a pretty good legacy. Okay, a hundred billion meals. That's a better legacy. And it's just like, if it's something that, if you did nothing else in your life, that's the only thing you did, you'd hang your hat on and say, that was a life well lived outside, obviously your family and your children. To me, that's the type of moonshot you'd want, because that's what's going to keep you up, get you up early, keep you up late, that's going to give you the drive to attract the kind of people to do it because you're not going to do it by yourself.

45:50Anybody does that. That's nuts. You have to attract the right people. I mean how smart you are, we're all better together. But so it's got to be a vision that's just not just good for you. It's got to be a vision large enough that others grab a hold of it and run. And I think that's been the same. Yeah, and when you're on stage tomorrow, it's what do you need? Who wants to partner with you? Right? The value and the energy of partnership and community here is one of the benefits you're going to get. But everybody here is here to make a difference in the world, uplifting AI, and make a dent in the universe.

46:20So I'm hoping that you'll have either found each other ready, or tomorrow, will facilitate that. That's awesome. Yeah. Maya, I can't let you not ask your question. But we do need to go, so make it short, please. OK. Oh, darn. Mike, too, please. OK. Hi. I'll try to make it as short as I can. It's a two -part question. and the first, it's not as bad as I'm for all this. So the first part of my question is, so I run a VC in Nigeria we invest across Africa. We also have a nonprofit that trains about 100 ,000 a year in technical skills. So I'm we and we are not new to the concepts of poverty, slavery, these sorts of things, but my focus is on democratizing access to technical skills, which lead to entrepreneurship, which lead to equity and ownership and wealth creation.

47:13And so if we can make it easier for people to be entrepreneurs and get in the technical space, then they can transform generation. So have you thought about transforming disenfranchised community through equity and ownership? And my second question is, so one of my limited partners says this thing, it's awful but kind of true, is he says he hasn't met a successful founder who was loved by both their parents. And what I mean by that is, is we have all gone through, all right, there seems to be what I've noticed. And it sounded like you said, four fathers, like how you grew up, there's this, and I, you know, everything I've built has been from the ground up.

47:53I came from, you know, modest beginnings. There's this, in this arc of an entrepreneur's development, I'm almost done. It starts with running away from the thing that caused you harm in your childhood or upbringing, and then it being a fear -based motivation and that transition to love and abundance. And I'd love to hear about your journey from your running to that pursuing love and abundance. Let me see if I can type that every day down. The answer to the second part first, my mother was most influential person in my life. She was a beautiful human being. I'd never even said anything about what she did until after she passed away.

48:34And I didn't even do it then. But one day I was with this group of kids from New York because they were all from American and Hispanic families where there was only a mother and no father. And they were feeling like they couldn't handle anything. So I was trying to tell them that you're basically your biography is not your destiny. It's not equal to your future unless you live there. But I realized I'm not a tall white guy who's doing well, so they're not going to listen. So I told him the whole story when I really went through and left all the details and they're all crying their eyes out at the end.

49:05And I said, look where I am now. And I said, I want to tell you something. I have no anger towards my mother because when you mix drugs and alcohol, people aren't themselves. And I said, so if my mom had been the mother, I'd hope she'd be, I would not be the man I'm proud to be. Because I became a practical psychologist to protect my younger brother and younger sister. I learned to predict human behavior, had to change in all her states. So much of what I have today that's maybe more sophisticated, I learned at that stage. So I don't know that every great founder has had no love in his life from one of his parents.

49:34I don't want to make that generalization, but I would say it requires hunger to achieve. And it's the thing we're missing in our culture. Not everybody, but people that are hungry, but I mean, not hunger for food. I'm talking about hunger to be more, to do more, to give more, to share more, to create more. If you're just hungry for a little goal, you're gonna get the goal. It's easy to satisfy yourself, but if you're hungry to serve something much greater than yourself, whether it be your child or your family or your community or humanity, I don't mean virtual signaling bullshit. I mean, what you really do within yourself, but no one else knows.

50:03When that's happening, you feel fully alive. And so, yes, mine did start with anger. I'll show her. And then it moved to love and joy and service. And I think that's a common pattern. Some people get stuck. That's your first one. Your previous question. What was it again? You're leveraging equity and ownership to the side of the socialization meeting. So, yes. I believe, you know, I'm sure all of you are familiar with organizations that loan money locally and money stays with the community and so forth. but I've certainly made those. But my biggest thing is teaching innovation. So I'm good at creating a transformation because I do things in a, what should I say, and total immersion.

50:44If any of you went, how many went to college and learned a foreign language? And raise your hand, if you learned a foreign language college high school, drop your hand if you no longer speak it with a squat. Okay, most of you dropped your hand, some of you living cultures where you still use it. But most people don't, because you learn a little bit at a time. But if I dropped you in Italy and said, you know what, I'll pick you up in 90 days without a teacher I guarantee you 90 days later come back you're speaking because you're in the immersion breathing it seeing it feeling experience It's how we learn best so I believe that's the best way to teach and so I like to do that with entrepreneurship And I just saw a shift space somewhere out here, but ship from the Sun Foundation is a dear friend airship right there He is an organization that last year was a 600 ,000 people last year they competed yeah around the world 600 ,000 young people Commeting, bringing forth their kind of like shark tank description of their businesses.

51:32They gave me each about a thousand dollars everyone. They gave them sass software. They helped them. And then the winners get additional funding and so forth. So this year we're targeting a million people together. And I want to train those million people because now I can scale things like I never could before. So we can do that with your community as well. As long as you got access to the internet, we can make it happen. So see us or see Shiva up there. He can tell you more about it as well. We can make it happen. Give her hand. Thank you so much.

52:00Harshav, I want to give you the last question. You've been standing up waiting a long time. Let's keep it brief. Very short. Okay. So, in fact, I don't even have a question. I have a challenge for you, Tony, because you changed my life in 2007, where I got your book Awakened the Giant Within. And my challenge was I wanted to be an inventor. And within a year, I had a target of one patent. I got seven patents I should. Now I'm trying to give it back by skilling a billion people because that is what we need. It is in every skill store which we are building and to skill those people I need them motivated and further I'm throwing you this challenge where I want you to compete not against a stand -foot professor but against a holographic a avatar of yourself and have that avatar teach the control population and and you teach the population and will keep running it and it will beat you sometime, you will beat it sometime but till the end of your life, we need to keep running this so that even after you that can keep continuing it.

53:02So, does anybody understand what I'm just saying? Yes, so. I'm teasing, I'm teasing. What I will say to you is that's exactly the kind of thing we're doing. But because of COVID, I found a way to scale. So I can train like I did a million and a half people for six days. So if you want to find ways that we can help with certain skill sets or spreading that I'd be more than open to that Again, you can see me or you can see some of my friends here Thank you. Thank you so much. All right everybody. Let's give it up for Tony Robbins