How To Get RICH And Die with ZERO REGRETS! (The Multi-Millionaire Secrets NO ONE Shares!) | Bill Perkins

32:44right? So you do not waste your life working for no reward. Right. So in your twenties, you may not have a ton of excess money. So you're not, you, you might need to save a little bit in your twenties, but also experience life and have adventures, but not be broke and in survival mode constantly. Right. It's like, there's a, there's different things you're able to do, right? Like you're, you're able to go, let's go hiking with my friends. Let's go biking. There's a lot of, a lot of free things, a lot of free things, a lot of raging, a lot of, you know, super saver tickets back of the bus house parties g-pop at the concert those are some of the greatest times of my life backpacking exactly camping yeah exactly but you're also saving away for security right the the one experience we all want and you know people push back is like the experience is survival we want to be able to survive like if you're out of the game okay then there's no fulfillment right so we want to be able to survive and we need to calculate our survival number like we got to pay rent we got feeder cells we got to do these things right and we're saving for some sort of calamity where I'm unemployed for a couple weeks.

33:45But a lot of times, we're saving for, I want to go on this trip. I want to buy this house. I like this car. I want to get the girl the ring. You know what I mean? I want to take my parents on a trip or dinner, whatever it is. I like to attach the money to activities. So they're not just working for some abstract chucking cheese token that we never cash in right you've been to chuck and cheese so so so and and so it's like okay um great idea you know so i i first like to think about like okay when we're saving for retirement we're talking about things it's like what's your survival number right because we're working for survival and then everything else is choices everything else is about the brand adventure yep right and it's like okay what adventures go where in our life what timeline where do they go right and what adventures will i really be doing in my 60s 70s 80s 90s right now they're the jackal lanes or like i'm sure you remember jackal yeah yeah the juicer the juicer no no there used to be guy when i was growing up an old guy the health guy the health guy the no the jack juicer the yeah he would have like he would be like seven years old yeah yeah i'm sure he was raging in clubs and spending money on fire as older but like most of us you know will be more have more uh more relaxed life later in life sedentary lives right more relaxed lives that that aren't really high in consumption and the data shows this like if you look at the data even adjusting for health care costs because what about health care even adjusting for health care costs seniors spend less money as they age in aggregate now why is that i i have uh i get asked this question a lot and i i'm gonna speculate they can't they can't they're sitting around all day they can't spend the money they can't they can't travel they can't they don't have they don't have the energy they don't have the attitude or the ability right both right right it's pinion again I don't want to go flying.

35:48My mom was that way. We had to basically kidnap her to go to Scotland for her 80th birthday. She loved it. It was great, but it was a kidnapping. It takes a whole year to build up the energy. Let's go. She's like, I'm going to play. I got to sit. It's cramped. I don't like it. I don't feel whatever. I mean, she had the best time in Scotland. Right, right. Right. But they just don't. You get comfortable with your life. Yeah. I tell a story in the book. I was like, you know, maybe an insensitive gift or a not very thoughtful gift. Remember, I'm young and I'm on autopilot. I'd made some money and I was a broker and I was like, oh, my grandmother's birthday.

36:22I would want money. She's been giving me money since I was a kid, like a dollar for each age, right? I was like, I gave her, I was like, here you go. Here's 10 grand. You know, I gave her 10 grand for her birthday and she bought me a sweater and that was it. Oh, my daughter, a teen, well, later on, but that was it. Like, I thought she was going to call up her friends. We're going to Vegas. We're going to whatever, like with some adventure. like and i was just like i'm an idiot i was a complete idiot like i just realized like oh wow like the money was almost useless to her right you know it was it was useful as a tool to like give other me a sweater that i probably didn't need yeah you didn't need about to move to texas right it's not sweater weather right um what is the most meaningful thing that people who are or more seasoned in life want that money can't give them?

37:16Wow. Well, I would say that money, you can't give it to them. It can be a tool to enhance the experience. I think what they want is senior people want these relationships, time with their kids, family, loved ones, these adventures. You know, I used to say to people, you rarely see people go to movies alone. We love shared experience. We're wired to connect, right? And so, you know, people have different tribes, different friends, different et cetera, but they love taking their whole family on an adventure. Now, it could just be a picnic, right? And a small one. Like at all levels, you can do that.

37:54But you can make it more fun and people talking about it and having et cetera. So I think, you know, money doesn't give them that. It's their personal connections, but you can make them better. Yes. Right? You can make them more fulfilling. You can make it easier for some of your family members. like, oh, I live so far away, I can't afford to go. Oh, it's okay. I'll fly you. Right, right, right. Or I'll pay for the bus ticket. Yes. Or I'll drive and come pick you up, right? These are the things I think that money can't particularly give them, but can enhance the experience, right? When you, you know, you were talking about this kind of generational fear of our grandparents from the Great Depression to our parents to, you know, all these different fears that that were passed down generationally or conditions around money, right?

38:39Beliefs around money. Save it for a rainy day, retire with money, all these different things. Which seemed to be, make sense back then, right? When maybe it wasn't as abundant or they were in scarcity, right? Or in survival mode. So maybe that made sense for a period of time for them, but it seems like there's more money available now than ever before. There's more printed physically available than ever before. That's for sure. And there's more ways to make money than ever before. There's more side hustles, side gigs, creative endeavors that people can do to make money. What was the actual moment where you broke the generational conditioning around scarcity and unlocked it into abundance for you, where it converted into money entering your hands and your bank account?

39:27I think it's weird because I was a screen clerk. I think I was making like$16 ,000 a year, you know, and then driving a limo at night to make ends meet. And my roommate at the time was a waiter. And he was making like$77 ,000 a year. And I was thinking, I can always wait tables. But I wasn't in it for the$16 ,000, right? I was in it for a career path to really make a bunch of money. And so that's a kind of weird thing. And I was just kind of like, if I lose my ego, which I had no ego back then. I was driving a limo at night. I was like, if I lose my ego, I can always get a job. I can always get a job.

40:04I'm not going to be completely busted, right? I might be poor and I've been broke before and I'm okay with that. And I've had great times, right? Like, you know, I'm good friends. We goof off, do whatever. But it gave me kind of this freedom. Like there's this safety net of like, I will be able to find something, right? I remember one of the FCMs, I worked for this guy named Mark, and he was like, I used to be a garbage driver. If they shut this place down, I can always drive a garbage truck. You know what I mean? So, you know, if I lose my ego about, like, I'm too proud to do this job, right, then I can always go work.

40:47You know what? There's way more jobs and way more opportunities. and I don't have the fear of like moving to another place to get the job or going to another place etc you know it's painful for a lot of people um people have the fear of going into a new environment um and moving and which I think limits them to uh only local opportunities but for me I was like I'll go anywhere for the opportunity I'll go to Siberia you know you know I was one of those dumb young and vicious people that were like I put me on the moon I will trade right and so like when i got the chance i was in new york city i left didn't know anybody had a mattress and an empty room and you know i'll be there you know sir yes sir let's go right and so and if that didn't work out so what right so that adventure that i want i want the scars like i want like a life with no mistakes to me is a uninteresting life an unfulfilling life actually yeah like you haven't touched your limits you you don't know what your limits are because you never fail yeah everything's always working out and you fail it's like well you never touched your limits you never really sent this thing until you run so hard where you throw up and you're about to pass out which you know i did in college when they used to make you run you know you don't know your limits right like you don't know when you're struggling with the weights right like physically but like also emotionally like until you've said i love you first and you've gone through the break and you've done everything you can for the relationship like you just don't know like this is as much as i can give in a relationship yeah right this is as much as i can do this is as far as i can go figuring out this business i need to bring in help or partners whatever you know like all those things and so um wanting a fulfilling ride is the goal right literally the money the money is only a tool to get the fulfillment now i have fancy fulfillment things right and they do it but and i am learning how to use that tool to drive my fulfillment but i'm also learning hey from other professionals and other verticals in the health like how do i optimize my health there's time management books how do i optimize my time and then even in the wet bucket there's like how do i get the better deal to get the same experience and the same fulfillment points when i go to greece now don't do that hotel get the airbnb it'll be nicer and you actually have more fulfillment it'll be cheaper and you have more money for the trip into japan right so i'm just saying like at the macro level you know this is how these things interact and this is how you should be thinking about the arc of your life but then you can go into each vertical and sub-optimize.

43:24Yes, absolutely. And so... But what was that psychological moment for you where you realized, oh, I'm actually good at making money. Oh, wow. And not like, okay, I'm making 16 grand a year and I'm working a nice, you know, driving a limo. But actually I'm breaking through the generational conditioning that I live in scarcity to now I live in abundance or have the potential to live in abundance. How did you learn that you were worthy and deserving of more money how did you learn that you were capable of generating wealth oh wow i don't know if i learned it or i just believed it and it became really so i always tell people like i think one of my advantages was that i was delusional and so they were like what do you I can do it.

44:19And that drove my decisions. Now that didn't mean I was going to be successful. I could have easily believed I was done it and just never have done it. Right. Tried a hundred times and failed and broken. Yeah. But the fact that I had that delusion and that belief that I can do it, that you could throw me in a desert and I'd have a fighting chance. I'd figure it out. I drink my own pee. I do whatever. You know what I mean? Like, I'm just whatever it takes, whatever it takes. I'm just going to do it. Like I had this delusion that I could do it. And because of that, the drink of the pee got him. Sometimes you got to drink your pee if you're in the desert and you're dying to thirst, you know?

44:57Rehydrate. But, you know, eat the bugs, right? That delusion sent me to the course to try and to learn. And so when I was learning, it wasn't like I couldn't learn this or I couldn't learn options trading or whatever. It was like, I can do this. I can do this because I had this delusion. and so i think i think the belief is powerful it's very very how'd you get that belief most people don't believe in themselves enough to believe they're deserving and worthy of money of wealth of abundance how did you get to believe you are deserving okay so i had a very topsy-turvy relationship with my dad he came from a different generation hard-boiled right he was pre-civil rights you know dreams were squashed it was openly squashed and legally squashed right like in this and he and in i was born post-civil rights okay and so um one of the things and i don't want to turn this into a whole racial story but one of the advantages of growing up in Jersey City being black is that people in that period, people talk about you.

46:12You're accused of this. Why are you people like this? You know, you're inferior. You can't do this or whatever. And so what you develop, okay, the good side of that is you know what people think. You've been trained. You know what's true about you and your people and your relatives or whatever we're not bad people we're not criminals i'm not whatever not this i'm not inferior i'm not whatever you just learned to brush that all off right and my dad was a badass and he was like you can you know you can do whatever you we look with all the uh uh uh adversity we have to deal with and we overcome right and so that not giving a what people think and only listening to your dreams is a superpower forged in adversity right and so and so like i just you just so you know a lot of people walk around like i don't care what do you think or whatever and they're thinking this about whatever i'm just like i don't get i don't get and like like i don't care that's their problem right like and and everybody cares a little bit right yeah to the extent that people's thoughts will interfere with my priorities i care more right But in general, on the not giving a scale, I'm on the further scale because I grew up in a period where, you know, I was born in 69.

47:30Right. There's, you know, racial attitudes going on. We're just coming out of the 60s. Right. You know, being having that and then just having to deal with that prepares you, you know, for this period. Right. Like, I'm not afraid to look like a fool. You guys thought I was a fool. You know, you thought I was full at birth on skin color. You thought I was inferior at birth on skin color. You thought this about me on skin color. So you just don't give a shit. Right? And so my dad and the trainings of being a minority in a city during that time period prepared me for like, who cares? I'm already a fool.

48:10Might as well try. But some people who maybe have grown up in a lot of the similar adversities or worse or a little bit less adversities, they might take that adversity and say, well, I don't have the skills. I'm never going to be able to do this. And they stay stuck in that. They don't say, because of this adversity, I don't care. And I'm going to go for it. They say, because of this adversity, this is who I am. I think the victim story is marketed to people. And if you don't take that victim story, I think they would have the same experience as me. Really? um but i you know i don't i don't want to go too deep in it but i would just say that um it wasn't conscious right you just felt it you know you just you just had a pride right you're the underdog pride and and it came and i guess some people they might have you know i was lucky i had a a father and a mother right who you know two college educated parents my dad via scholarship and my mom later on in life.

49:13And so if anybody was designed to succeed, it was me. But there were, you know, when I was led on my own and it's time for me to do it on my own or, you know, who moves from New York City to Texas to go, you know, like the things, the decisions I made were kind of this like, it can be done. You know, when I had not that much experience, but I knew I can recruit people to build in to do this solar development project in the Nevada desert, right? And then sold it to Capital Dynamics, right? And me, my friends and myself, a good chunk of change and also putting solar on the grid. Like, it's just this belief that you can figure it out and you can do it.

49:57And so I guess that there are some people who get dealt the clouds of inferiority and it stunts them. Yes. And I would hope that somebody somewhere along the line flips it for them, you know, flips it for them and said, this is a badge of honor, man. Like you got nothing to lose, right? Right, right. You got nothing to lose. You got no whatever. Nobody expects anything from you. So when you. No pressure. No pressure. No pressure. This could be your greatest gift. This could be your greatest gift. And so for me, I think, you know, my greatest gift was like not giving and my willingness to look like a fool.

50:35yeah like i'm just winging life like everybody else really like i'm winging it right and so uh and i'm trying to figure things out and i'm i i wrote this book for me and then i figured if i if i can you know save my own life like not waste my own life uh and maybe it will be useful to other people yes right but occasionally i'm i get somehow stuck on autopilot yeah and i need to go back in book or my wife needs to remind me like hey hey hey you know let's think this through let's let's let's get off autopilot let's get off let's get off autopilot you know you're doing these things you're playing speed chess on life like how is this the most fulfilling thing for you to be doing in your life right now it's not i'm deleting okay you know things like that right there's there's more things that are deeper than that but i think that early experience and my dad gave me the confidence uh seeing him do it in much harder circumstances right much deeper clouds of inferiority uh much more hard knock like to look at that and then other people in life like i'm like you know i go places and i get inspired by people who make it you know a lot of people you know they oh well they had this help or they look for the thing that was the one piece of help but they still overcame a lot i'm like wow i'm pretty lazy like if that person could do it and look at all the advantages i have you know born in the united states of america growing economy growing population um jobs technology i just was born in such a great era like i'm like i can ride this wave i could surf this wave i can do it yeah i'm gonna surf this wave of life and and navigate it the way i want to go you know and so i just had this delusional belief and it happened to work out That's amazing.

52:25You've been around a ton of wealthy individuals. Yeah. Billionaires, mega billionaires. And you've also been around a lot of broke people who are in a ton of debt or people who've lost all their money. You've seen the both sides of the spectrum. From your perspective at this stage, what would you say are the three keys to really making more money and also being fulfilled with the money you have? Wow. Okay. So three keys to making more money. I would have to say that on the earning part, there's a lot of people who speak better to making more money, but I will speak just more in terms of psychology and belief is this belief that you can and you're entitled.

53:16and so when you think you can you read the book you read the business book you read the so-and-so you make the attempt etc i you know a lot of people will just sit in the stands don't not go up to bat yeah they won't take the chance not only will you take the swing you'll strike out you'll do it again and you do it again and you do it again i was just talking with somebody on twitter and like oh yeah and i break break up and i said isn't it great that you're bankrupt and now you can still go out and earn and take another swing lose the ego attachment let's get it get the f*** out there and let's rip it again yeah you know and so that's that's what it is in america right like there's so many people and failure stories and like steve jobs got fired then rehired you know like things like that right like like all these learnings that you get like wow you went to school there's an expensive school but you know let's go you got subject matter expertise what's the next thing what's the next dream on your plate yeah and so when you believe you can you start to take actions that actually develop your ability to do it yes and then and then so that that is one um the the the we've already been talking about it you have to you know this is saying like never tell your dreams to your parents that you want to do it because even though they love you they saw you as a teenager and you didn't take out the garbage right so they're always like oh you sure you really want to do that is this a safe job like you have such a good thing going on like you can just get a job at the post office or whatever like they are afraid for you right to go on your adventure they want to protect you and they also seen you in your clown years right not the new bad bald you right and so and then also you know as as much as your uh friends and and and and and maybe some of your peer group may love you or not a lot of people behave out of fear they don't want to look like an idiot they had a great idea they had a thing they want to do and they don't do it they tried it and it failed or they don't want to do it again they don't do it for you yeah so your success exposes their cowardice right again there your success exposes their cowardice right so when you go out and you fail they're like see I'm right not to go do that see what he did he went out and failed yeah I told him you shouldn't do that that was crazy why did he do that right so they feel comfortable in their safe life and their cowardice they didn't go live their dreams or take the risk or whatever.

55:45But if you go succeed, they're like, I'm a coward. Like I had a chance to do this. I could have done this. I could have been to work. I could have grinded for a year or two years or no reward living, eat ramen and been successful. Right? So I always say people like success, but they love a failure. Right? They love a failure because it reaffirms that they're doing the right thing and you're not cowards. And so be very, very careful about your mindset that you're getting from other people. Right? And success is not just doing the thing and making it. Success is living a fulfilled life. It is about the ride.

56:31You know? A lot of people like say, oh, it's easy for you to say. Listen, I've gone like busted twice. Like I've been fired. I've been whatever. And it's been, that has been great. That has been great. Losing your money, getting fired. Getting fired, getting humiliated. People talking behind your back. You know what I mean? Oh, he's a clown or he can't do this. Like it's part of it. It's like, I learned who my friends were and who weren't. I know who my supporters were and who weren't. I learned about myself. Like, do I care or do I not care? What things really upset me? What mistakes did I, what did I mistakes?

57:04Like, where did I get lazy? Where did I get off track on vision? you know um it's about that it was great and then you know here i am on this side of the coin but like still would have been great yeah you know i did i tried to do some huge project in central america went bust a vaporized 10 million dollars gone a lot gone like years time meetings whatever you know and and and it's gone i tried to do an importation project in california learned all about permitting in california the the interest groups etc gone the ride you know and and it wasn't it wasn't like now we have a bunch of money it was like that was a very thing it was all your money it was like oh we might have to come back on staff here you know and so i think it's like really be careful about how you speak to yourself and the people you keep around you and who you share your dreams with wow that's interesting and the third thing oh man third thing um just third thing consistency yeah take it seriously i hear a lot of people like they'll have an idea and they're about to go into the execution phase so ideas are like a dime a dozen right it it there's no market for ideas that i think paul graham says right you can't just go i'm gonna sell you this idea no you can sell the business you can sell the execution so like 90 something percent of it is the execution and they go in the execution phase and they don't take it seriously.

58:34You know, this is your dream, this is your life. You know, people take video games, simple things, you know, party things more seriously and then they'll take their dreams, right? And so if your dream is this business or this idea or like some way of making money, and it could just be like showing up for work on time, right? It doesn't have to be this like, I'm starting this entrepreneurial thing. It's just to be like, I want to be the best person being consistent and taking it seriously. Taking it very seriously. I think more money comes to you when you show the universe how consistent you are with what you care about.

59:11Use all your resources as if your life depends on it. And the funny thing is, these are the hours of your life. So your life does depend on it. This is your life. This is the time period. And some people don't take, I'll see guys come in with pitches or things. I'm like, did you do this? Did you use this resource? Did you do whatever? it's not like they couldn't have thought of it it's not like they couldn't have done it they just didn't because they didn't take it seriously enough you know so use all your resources at your disposal to drive your fulfillment if your fulfillment is this job and making money or this idea use all your resources at your disposal to make it happen and take it seriously and so i think a lot of people are or flip it with their own dreams i don't know why and i think it it comes down to the um i've done it before too i've done it in school it's one of those things where like you have this fear that you can't do well so you don't try your best you know what i mean like they like oh i'm afraid of failing so i'm just not gonna do my best and so when i when i failed but no i didn't i didn't really try that hard you know what i mean yeah i wasn't really trying to lift it you know like that much i wasn't really stretched out or whatever and so you're like you have this excuse that you didn't try hard so that's why you failed right and so it makes your ego feel good.

1:00:25And I've done that before. And I think other people do it too. I don't know if these are the three keys. I don't know what you could take out of that, but I think it's something that people can take home with and see if that applies to them. I love this. I'm so excited for people to read this. I've got a few final questions for you, but die with zero. It's a new approach to looking at your life and maximizing your wealth, your health, and your time. Getting all you can from your money and your life by Bill Perkins. Make sure you guys get a few copies of this. I think it's got over 3 ,000 five-star reviews on Amazon.

1:00:57So get a copy there, share it with your friends. I think there's going to be different insights in here that will give you a perspective on your money and your life that you haven't been thinking about. This is some of it we've covered, but there's a lot more in this book. So make sure to check it out. This is a question I ask everyone towards the end. It's called the three truths. Oh, wow. Just ask you three keys to making more money, but this is three truths. I'd like for you to go into your hypothetical future self as your last day on earth. And whether there's technological advances and you live to 200 or it's 100, it's your last day in this world.

1:01:32Your spacesuit goes into outer space for the rest of time. And you've gotten to experience your life exactly the way you want from this moment until then. you have a uh excess of memory dividends right the adventures the love right you wrote it to it till it all fell off right i wrote i wrote it well okay but for whatever reason on this last day you everything you've ever created has to go with you okay so this book this conversation any creation of content in the future no one has access to it wow but you get to leave behind three final lessons and this is your last day. From all the experiences you've had from the first memory to the last memory dividend, you get to share three final things in this all weekend.

1:02:23Why don't you ask a softball? Make it easy for you. Were you giving me a softball here? Go ahead. So anyway. I call this the three truths. Okay, got you. What would be those three truths for you on the final day? Wow. No matter what the question, love is the answer. I, in, um,

1:02:47wow, you're just on the spot here with these three truths. I always do your best. And I learned that from, um, there's a book called the four agreements. It's my number one recommended book. Um, but always do your best and, and your best is different on different days. but if you do your best you know whenever I look back and somebody says what do you regret and a lot of people say no regrets I'm like anytime I have a regret it's always related to not doing my best so if I got angry and I yelled at somebody I didn't do my best I kind of you're not going to control myself if I if I got fired or whatever I didn't do my best I got to figure that out you know I could have showed up on time or whatever right you know relationships you know that once arrives like i really didn't do my best you know and so always do your best oh my gosh the last the the final last truth i'm gonna get i'm gonna get i'm gonna get technical here on this one it's gonna be a weird it's gonna come out of nowhere it's gonna come out of nowhere life is movement life is experience life is essentially processing information and the more movement and the more information in your process, the more life you will have.

1:04:12Thus, the more fulfillment you can potentially have. So get out there and move. That's beautiful, man. I love this. Again, Die With Zero. I want you guys to get a few copies of the book. You can go to diewithzerobook.com. You can go to Amazon, all the different bookstores. you're also on Twitter BP22 I believe is your Twitter if you want that my hot crazy takes I don't recommend it but if you want to interact with me you've got a lot of cool stuff on there on Twitter Instagram as well Bill Perkins although it sounds like your social media will be deleted at some point it's just me raging enjoying life exploring the world but if people have questions for you they can go there and connect with you over on social media and message you and definitely read the book first before you have other questions So get the book, read it, dive in and have a conversation with a friend of yours about this book.

1:05:07And just this isn't to make anyone wrong or make you wrong in your life, but to just question, am I doing things to maximize my memories, my fulfillment, my health, my time, my relationships? Am I doing the things that my future self will be proud of me doing right now? And just to ask yourself, and this will give you some of those perspectives. Yeah, the book is essentially a fulfillment maximizer. That's what I'm solving for. Here's these other variables. We can optimize for those, but we're really driving net fulfillment. It's net fulfillment over net worth. Yeah, I love that, man. I want to acknowledge you, Bill, before the final question for your journey and where you're at currently.

1:05:47Because I know you've lived a pretty wild life and you've been around a lot of wild individuals. and you have, it seems to me, gotten to a place where you've found a lot of peace, harmony, and fulfillment internally. And I think that's hard for people with a lot of money, even though I think a lot of people think people with a lot of money are fulfilled and find peace. Agree with you. But not all of them are. And you've been around a lot of billionaires who have more stress than when they didn't have money sometimes, right? Maybe some of them have figured it out, but not all of them. And I'm not saying you have it all figured out, but you're on a journey of peace and harmony which is beautiful to watch so i acknowledge you for being on that journey yeah i mean it's it's work i'm doing my best i'm always trying to work on myself right i have coaches i have influences i read books and i'm here to make mistakes you know and just realize that you know you have to forgive yourself you're human absolutely yes what's your contract by the way do you remember i'm a loving forgiving uh caring man yes you are i love it man oh man you filled out my contract.

1:06:51I don't know where. Do you remember? I know loving, forgiving, caring, man. That's good, that's good, man. That's amazing. For those at the underground who know what the contract is, fours to you guys. The final question for you. Okay. What's your definition of greatness? Wow. Oh, wow, wow. I've known. This is a... You ask the softballs, don't you? So, you know, I've looked at what you have in your book and it's like your special mission, right? And your time. And I would kind of agree with that. I think it's a... Greatness is a life lived in integrity with yourself, with your values, right? When I see something great, it's like, you know, they may not have much, whatever, but it was a life lived in integrity with their values and their pursuits and their dreams.

1:07:51And so if, if when I'm being great, I'm an integrity, all my, you know, my priority is in balance. I'm not skimming. I'm doing my best. I'm in integrity. When I'm out of integrity, I'm not so great. I'm just not so great. You know what I mean? I'm just not, I'm just that guy. I'm like, Oh, breakdown. I've had a breakdown. So, and so, you know, and we see that manifest that In different people, people, they're about forgiveness. I think about Nelson Mandela living in a prison for most of his life and coming out like, how's this guy so happy and forgiving? Somebody who believes in a cause and this is a cause I fight for.

1:08:30Women who didn't get recognition in earlier times, but believed in what they were doing and diligently lived through it. they believed in the cause or whatever they were working on, whether it be physics or women's rights or whatever, you know, a life and integrity. I hope today's episode inspired you on your journey towards greatness. Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a rundown of today's show with all the important links. And if you want weekly exclusive bonus episodes with me, as well as ad free listening experience, make sure to subscribe to our greatness plus channel on Apple podcast.

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