Achieve Your Biggest Dreams With This Trick | EP 872

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

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0:41I became driven by my desire to go to space. I'm eight, nine years old, and Apollo catches my excitement, and I'm like going to be a doctor with my family happy, but I'm really going to become an astronaut and make myself happy. And I get to college, and I'm at MIT as an undergrad, and I'm beginning to realize that becoming a government astronaut isn't necessarily the way I'm going to do this. And for some reason, I became enamored with creating a national and then an international space organization. And I start this on the MIT campus. At MIT, I find there's no space organization, no student space group.

1:22And I'm like, huh, interesting. I'll start one. And I found myself, in starting that organization, getting all the skills I've used in life. To enroll people, you need to enroll people to get up in stage and present your ideas and be able to organize people and to raise money. And it's like, it was like, you know, do I remember anything from my aerospace engineering or molecular biology courses on my team? No, but I remember the stuff I did in the evenings, right? So it's like, you know, school is about all the places that you challenge yourself and put yourself. And so SEDS was an incredible educational experience.

2:01People love supporting people who are both passionate, right? Finding that purpose and passion. And you know when someone's lit on fire. And it's like, I want to help you because I like your spirit, right? That's that kind of mindset. The other part of enrollment is the data. Is showing people the reality of like, here's the information. This is why this is possible. This is what happens if this is true. So it really is the heart and the mind, right? You need to get them cognitively so they understand it and they understand whether it's getting them to put money from their investment hat or their philanthropic hat and their heart because, you know, people want to make the world a better place.

2:46I believe in the positive nature of a human. One of the lessons I learned when I was running SEDS, I was trying to get a place called Draper Labs to donate money to publish my newsletters and mail them to all the SEDS chapters. And I'd go in there and I'm like meeting with the head of Draper Labs. And at the end, it's like, like, we're a nonprofit. We can't donate money and so forth. And I was really bummed because I'd really set this expectation I was going to succeed. And I'm walking out the door and I stopped myself and I said, is there any chance you could do the printing for us and the mailing for us?

3:23And he goes, absolutely. And so it was realizing that any meeting you go into, you should walk away with something, even if it is a clear critique of your idea or advice as to who might want to do this or a request for an introduction. There is not taking no for an answer when dealing with a bureaucracy. Like one of my companies I started years ago is a company called Zero-G. We do weightless parabolic flights, right? I wanted to go on NASA's airplane. They wouldn't let me. So I said, screw it. I'll start my own. And I went to the FAA and said, I want to take the airplane and seats out, put padding in, put 30 people in the back, take the airplane, go up at 50 degrees and do this parabolic arc.

4:12and they were like, you want to do what? You're insane. There's no way that you can do this. And I remember thinking to myself, I'm not going to let these guys stop me. And I said, you're either going to retire or die before I give up. Wow. It took me 11 years. To convince them. To get the FAA to approve it. Had to go all the way to the top to get that approval. And we did. If it isn't your purpose, you're going to give up on it. I've started companies just to make money. It's like, that's empty. No, not my purpose. I need to, this is what I'm doing. This is what I'm focused on. I think a person who's turned on to their passion and purpose is going to make the world a better place.

4:51I just think that's happier, healthier, taking more shots on goal, going after more moonshots. And I think that's a way of making the world better.

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6:12Thank you.