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remember the AMA format is much more
concise so I'm going to be answering the
questions one to two minutes no more we
have a lot and I'm hoping you guys are
going to submit a lot more again I'll be
prioritizing comments in the live feed
all right our first question is from
Aiden o how do you stay focused in this
world full of distractions I often find
myself procrastinating and watching
YouTube videos forever alright so this
really does come down to habits and
routines this is one of those things I
cannot stress enough if you haven't
built in mechanisms to deal with your
lesser nature you're forever gonna fall
prey to them some of it is identity some
of it is I'm the kind of person who
makes use of my time some of it is I'm
the kind of person that has goals and I
do that which moves me towards my goals
but then some of it is reinforcing that
belief with very strict rules what I'll
call Bright lines so some of my bright
lines are I go to bed at 9 pm period
second bright line I only have 10
minutes to get out of bed so I wake up
when I wake up I don't use an alarm but
once I realize I'm awake then I only
have 10 minutes to get out of bed as
long as I've had at least five hours so
look at the clock see what time it is I
have 10 minutes boom I'm up and I
emotionally Ward myself when I meet the
deadline and I emotionally punish myself
if I miss it and when I miss it by the
way it's usually by seconds it's not
like ever I'm just like [ __ ] it and I
stay in bed for 20 minutes that would
not be a bright line so but hard and
fast 10 minutes emotionally reward
yourself or emotionally punish yourself
whether you do it or not and then just
having a compelling future it is so
critical that you have a compelling
future that there's actually something
that you're excited about and this makes
me think of Weekend Warriors for most
people no one has to tell you what to do
on the weekend you're very excited to do
it you get out of bed with some
enthusiasm there's something that you
want to do that day even if it's play
video games read watch a movie hang out
with your significant other whatever it
is there is something that you're
excited about and there is a way and I
won't answer it in this question but
there is a way to put at the center of
your life and all the things you're
doing to work and to build something to
put that thing that you enjoy at the
center of that so that you're generating
income off of something that you love
doing that is very very possible all
right next question is from Jeff
is my guess at how you say his last name
how do you develop cultivate the beauty
and rage concept all right so what is
the actual process of Fanning the Flames
of anything it starts with Focus so if
you know that you want to build Beauty
and rage in something and you know that
you want to spend 80 percent of your
time in Beauty and so what is beauty
Beauty are the things that are wonderful
they not only put you in a good mood and
help you and hopefully put others in a
good mood and help them and and really
do something positive and empowering
um there are also the things that are
built on excitement it's you're looking
forward to it you're moving towards it
you're not running away from anything
the rage on the other hand is
the darkness also known as it is the
thing that makes you angry it's the
people that hate you it's wanting to
prove somebody wrong it's coming from
essentially a negative place it's coming
from I won't let these people see me
fail right that is
at times when done in the right balance
a very powerful motivator and so to
overlook that as a mistake but how you
cultivate them is once you've identified
something that let's say is on the
beauty side that you really fan the
flames and you really
lean into why you're grateful for that
what it is about that that's wonderful
how you think you're going to help
people that reinforcing in yourself I am
the kind of person that wants to help
people that goes out of my way to do
nice things for other people that I'm
going to build a business that has
something at the center of it that is
World positive that isn't something
that's taking away from people you
literally say those things you say them
to other people you rally people around
those Notions you talk about them you
let yourself get excited and then this
is the hard part you reward yourself for
being the kind of person that gets
excited about something so positive okay
it's a self-reinforcing loop that just
starts with saying I think this is a
good thing I think it's a beautiful
thing it's something that I'm excited
about it's something I want to move
towards and make happen and it's good
it's good for me it's good for other
people it's positive it's uplifting and
I feel good about the fact and you
literally by saying it you're
reinforcing that notion in your head I
feel good about it on the dark side when
somebody slights me when I realize that
they actively want for my downfall all
they maybe do me the justice of just
telling me to my face that they think
that I'm gonna fail that I'll hold on to
that and I will at strategic moments
never to exceed 20 of my time I will
focus on that now we'll focus on the
fact that that person thinks I'm gonna
fail I will focus on the fact that I
absolutely [ __ ] refuse to let that
happen and I will stare at it nakedly
and I will think about how it would feel
to fail
what that would be like to know that
that person believes I'm gonna fail and
then I did
and in that reaction to that I'll start
moving forward with ferocity and it is
actually letting yourself feel angry and
if you need to Furrow your brow tighten
your muscles stand up strike a bold
posture really put yourself in an
aggressive dominant position when you're
in the 20 so that you feel the power
because the only point of Dipping into
the rage is to have the anger that's
needed to withstand suffering and to
attack it and to go after it and to make
it your enemy and that's why if you
didn't hear in all of those words how
dangerous it would be to spend more than
20 percent of your time there then you
run the risk of letting that overtake
you because thinking like that being in
that aggressive stance is a major
turnoff to people it's corrosive
internally over the long run all right
so the next question comes from Mario I
am an entrepreneur in the design and
marketing business this year I decided
to stop working based on the agency
model and promote myself this will also
give me more time to focus on a startup
project so I registered my websites and
started promoting my personal brand to
help this I created a series of videos
podcasts where I interview other
creatives around the world I talk to
Marvel illustrators old school animators
artists designers Etc I'm currently in
Brazil finishing the last video so I can
start promoting them I know I have the
skills and the experience I'm curious
about how should I transition from a
brand to my own name should I focus on a
specific Niche or Market everything I
can do how did you manage to create such
a strong personal brand in parallel to
your business we all do a lot of things
but I don't want to create a weak brand
that has no Focus for example when you
see someone promoting himself as an
entrepreneur or a health Advocate
photographer and writer sometimes it's
just too much okay so I totally agree
with you I think I haven't read Ryan
holiday's book perennial seller but
someone highlighted part of it and put
it on Instagram it's another reason why
I love Instagram
if you're following the right people you
can really get good stuff and in the
quote that they posted on their
Instagram is a highlighted section of
the book and it said the thing that most
makes people fail to create something
that will last is that they try to do
multiple disparate things at the same
time so if you look at everything that
we're doing at impact Theory all of it
adds up to the exact same thing our
mission is to pull people out of the
Matrix and so everything that we do has
got to feed into that ethos so whether
that is this content where I'm just
laying it out there's no real narrative
to it it is just the direct ideology or
whether it's a show looking at pop
culture and the things you can learn
from pop culture coming soon or it's
impact Theory the interview show or just
the traditional narrative content where
it is straight up you're going to watch
a movie a TV show you're reading a comic
book
all of that stuff all has to exist to
pull people out of the Matrix it all has
to be empowering content it all has to
give you the same
emotion for the brand so it doesn't have
to sell the same exact product but you
need to immediately understand how all
of those products are connected so yes
being an entrepreneur and health
Advocate no problem there I will tell
you right now that those are two areas
that you're going to see me talk about
but both of them are truly necessary for
getting people out of the Matrix so
there is an inextricable link between
the mind and the body you have to
understand them both to cognitively
optimize you have to optimize your
health in order to actually get your
mind in the state where you truly can
break free of all your limiting beliefs
so
that whether people see that as the same
or not once you watch enough content
you'll get why that's a necessary piece
of it so it being necessary is where it
becomes interesting so for instance if
you want to talk about being an
entrepreneur and a health Advocate your
photography better center around those
two worlds because if it's just random
photography then that's where it gets
much less interesting because now it's
it's just there's no unifying theme for
the audience okay next question is from
Felipe
I wrote a long while ago and told you I
was a scientist who writes fiction on
the side I have since quit my job as a
scientist because I realized I was not
100 passionate about it and I didn't
want to do that for the rest of my life
plus I was not having a lifestyle I
enjoyed now I have to figure out what I
want to do next since I am not in a
position where I can live off of my
writing I have savings that will allow
me to pursue the other interests for
about a year okay so what's my advice
what's the best strategy
if you have a year and you know exactly
what you're trying to accomplish then
what I would try to do is figure out
what is the fastest thing that you can
sell because basically you've got a year
to begin generating Revenue that's
actually a really long time so you have
to get a realistic picture of what can
you say what is the Delta right so your
writing makes you X and leaves you y
amount of time how much
can you monetize that remaining amount
of time and what is the gap between what
you're earning as a writer and what you
need to live on so that's really the
only Gap that you have to cover then I
would try to leverage the infrastructure
that is already there to help you get
jobs as a writer so without knowing
exactly what you want your writing to be
let's pretend for a second that it's
something that other people value as
well so if you want to write all the
time a great way to supplement that
would be say
creative copy or something like that to
find an ad agency that's writing really
interesting copy maybe narrative focused
using the or leveraging the technology
of something like upwork where you can
work from wherever on whatever hours you
want you're still writing but you're
able to monetize that now I'll tell you
right now you can definitely make a
full-time living as a freelance writer
so it just comes down to when you say
you can't make a living off your writing
how you're defining the writing what
writing you'd be willing to take for
work and how familiar you are with
freelancing and making that work and if
you have a science background Jesus you
could be a science writer which they can
charge an arm and a leg so even if you
only made part of your day doing the
science writing and the other part you
tried to spend maybe writing for an ad
agency or something like that that let
you dive more deeply into the creative
you ought to very rapidly be able to
build out a portfolio of clients
assuming you can actually write well and
that is the hard thing to face but I'll
just be really arrogant for a second it
would be very easy for me to make north
of a hundred thousand dollars maybe
significantly more than that just as a
copywriter
so and that's just using upwork by the
way I could do that from Bali Bora Bora
Tahiti like wherever so understanding
the tools and the technology that's
already out there that's got the
infrastructure for something like this
where you have a year and you need to
build up that client base while you
leverage your savings all right so
that's my advice
um we're getting some questions coming
in amazing amazing so here we go
question from Brian Jacobson how much do
you think your internal dialogue has to
do with your anxiety depression in the
beginning I think that it played a huge
role and that's how the neurons began to
fire together and wire together
um you just but it's a little more
Insidious than just the dialogue because
my dialogue was possible but I would
paint scenarios of something going wrong
I would imagine like and a lot of times
it was just what-if scenarios like I was
thinking through like to protect myself
so you know what if you go out there and
you don't remember what you were going
to say like how would you deal with that
and how would you deal with it if like
the audience started booing well now
what I'm thinking about out is the
audience's booing and the I've forgotten
what I'm going to say and so all of the
things that I'm thinking through are
negative scenarios my brain begins to
think about them and then some part of
your brain goes Jesus I never even
thought of that and so that gets into a
pretty dicey Arena so you need to make
sure that the things that you're
obsessing about are things going
positive that you're actually putting in
all the work thinking about that today
that anytime I'm going to do something
like this I don't need the questions
ahead of time I don't need to prepare
and the reason is my entire life is the
preparation for these things so there's
not going to be any last minute cramming
that I could do that would make even
like a tiny bit of difference between
what I already know and have spent the
last you know 20 30 years accumulating
that knowledge making the unique
connections talking to people about it
really establishing it is something that
I I understand is an actual world view
so when you
obsess about something and don't prepare
for the negative stuff you're not
setting yourself up for failure that
either happened or didn't happen based
on your preparation going into whatever
you're going to do so thinking about all
the ways things could go wrong thinking
about all the potential problems and
ways you would deal with them just
focuses you on the problem and you get
what you focus on so if you focus on
forgetting you're going to forget if you
focus on things going badly your things
are going to go badly you've got to be
able to feel yourself confidence all
right next question is from Thomas
Enriquez and he says can I come work for
you if I get Jay-Z in contact with you
yes depends on how you define work
that's the only catch
um but man if you let me Define that
then absolutely but that would be
amazing and so if you're serious we
should definitely talk all right next
question comes from Mike Bryant what
happens when technological unemployment
affects 90 of humanity if we let that
happen and we haven't put in place
things like basic Universal income we're
[ __ ] and there's just no long and
short of that we have to find a way to
create a thriving middle class even if
that's with universal basic income so I
am not an expert on this so I will leave
it at that but that is a problem that
absolutely without question must be
solved hopefully by people who know a
lot more about it than I do next
question is from KJ norlander did Noah
Galloway change your perspective on
having kids at all in the future no
um and I'm so hope that chase will slack
me a follow-up to that as to what they
thought would do that so the thing to
remember about me and kids is I'm well
aware that they are transformative
emotionally that they are magical little
creatures who change your perspective on
everything who when you are on your
deathbed you will think thank God I have
these children I would be so profoundly
alone right now if I didn't have them
and the heartache and loss that one
would
feel at merely imagining not having
children should if they did have
children at that point I bet is very
very profound and I bet once you have
kids and the chemical change that takes
place you look at people that don't have
kids and you think if you would just
listen if you would just understand how
beautiful and transformative and
Powerful it is you would do it
immediately
and to that I say
that is neurochemical change and if you
study the levels of happiness of people
who have children almost universally
they are lower all the way until the
child leaves and they don't return to
normal until after the child leaves so
from a purely objective statistical
fact perspective about momentary
happiness children ruin it it is as far
as I can tell the only impossible job
like doing it right wow is a crap shoot
it is it is truly one of the most noble
things any human being can do and I am
so grateful obviously that people do it
and that it's a beautiful experience and
that from the inside of it even though
your happiness levels go down the sort
of deep fulfillment goes up I'm very
glad that people experience that I get
that in other ways in my life building
things is what sets me on fire
but I'm I'm told that we have some
follow-up uh wouldn't it be interesting
to see what kind of role model you would
be for a child
um a it would be B I was a role model
for a child and spent eight years as
essentially a big brother I call it a
big brother but it wasn't officially
part of that program but I worked with
him for eight years and it was magical
and transformative and has continued to
echo through my life so when I say I get
it I get what it's like to have a child
look to you like
um your salvation that you're offering
them a better life than they have
anywhere else I can't tell you how many
times Rashaan asked to come live with me
and
um yeah so I get it and and I'm saying
it from a place of actually
understanding it so I and I fully
recognize that understanding
intellectually is different than feeling
it emotionally and he wasn't actually my
child and so I'm well aware of that and
I was very young but nonetheless I had
enough of a taste to be able to
understand that I desperately
desperately want kids
the only thing I want more than kids
is to not have kids so it isn't me going
oh man having kids sounds like it sucks
having kids sounds like it would be
amazing but it also doesn't suit what
I'm trying to do with my life and so
therefore not having kids edges it out
and then also emotionally I exist in a
place where my life is literally my
dream I have constructed it Brick by
Brick to be exactly what I wanted to be
on a daily basis so I don't have that
that sense of like man I could really
fill this void with something and I have
dogs
um okay enough on that next question
comes from Jeremy Thompson have have a
great idea but barely make it paycheck
to paycheck how do I start to plan and
bridge the gap towards execution is
there a way to access funding and would
you recommend it for a first-time
entrepreneur
um
I would say that I absolutely have no
reservations if you can raise money
raise money absolutely you will learn a
ton in that but only raise money if you
plan to sell the company and you're very
very happy listening to somebody else
who knows a lot more about what they're
doing so if you think of it as I've got
this idea for a product and I
essentially want to go to business
school raise money and raise money from
a firm that wants to be actively
involved and you should then want them
to be actively involved and then work
very closely with them to learn about
how to do a business so the next one
that you could have more control but do
not raise money if you want to be
autonomous you want control it will be a
nightmare and also their model is
between three and seven years they
expect you to sell sell or IPO I guess
technically you could do that
but you're going to like the odds of you
losing control are almost 100 so if you
can go into it looking at it like
business school I think it's great
otherwise do the side hustle thing build
it on the side just clock a lot of
ridiculous hours go without a lot of
sleep build this thing up learn along
the way but you can retain control that
way and if your product is real and
people are excited about it in this day
and age of social media and the ability
to build communities you really can get
it off the ground far enough to start to
get people's attention you'd have a lot
more leverage when you go to raise money
if you decide to go down that path
alternatively you could grow a little
more slowly over time and do it all
yourself so that there's no one right
answer but there's also no excuses right
so making it paycheck to paycheck is you
know so many people live there and at
some point you just have to be so fed up
with that that you don't accept it
anymore and that you make radical change
in your life whatever that looks like
all right next question is from
medardus Jew hey Tom uh do you think the
dark side is the only way to conquer
doubts and fears thanks no I do not
think that so the dark side has a very
specific application it's it is a tiny
minority of your time so 80 of all your
problems 80 of every encounter that you
have eighty percent of the time you have
to look inward all of it eighty percent
of the time you should be coming up with
the beautiful things the things you're
moving towards the things you're
grateful for the awesome stuff in your
life all the great things you know will
come out of this if you can just get
your company across the Finish Line help
your children
um volunteer your time be a politician
like whatever your thing is it doesn't
have to be an entrepreneur
eighty percent of all of those problems
will be solved with the Beautiful Things
the rage comes in I find for me the rage
is about those times where I am I'm just
spent I don't have any more and I
maybe I've failed and I'm just
embarrassed and I'm tired and I don't
want to keep going or I'm scared and
it's like [ __ ] am I actually going to be
able to pull this off at those moments
when the beautiful things are in the
throes of failing me that's when I think
about the people who want me to fail
and that for me I'm just I don't
tolerate that I don't accept that I'm
going to give them what they want I
don't accept that that would feel like
so much [ __ ] so because I'm absolutely
unwilling to tolerate that in myself
that kicks me in the ass and gets me
going again but I know better than to
spend a lot of time there but I leverage
that that is Nature's gift it is how
you're able to endure more suffering
anger anger allows you to endure more
suffering they've done studies on this
this isn't me just saying like in a
woo-woo way literally anger allows you
to endure more suffering so when the
only answers suffer more keep going
that's when I leverage anger only after
I've tried all the beautiful things and
they continue to fail me
anger will make you take action just
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today's episode okay
um next question comes from Siddharth
Kapoor I'm good at communicating and
arguing law can be a good career option
for me but I am late for it which other
careers can be good for me
I'm late for it I'm assuming that means
you think you're too old and I would say
that's a bad reason not to do something
so I would say the reason you should
either do or not do it is whether you
think that you will fall in love with it
whether it will really be a deep passion
for you whether it will make you come
alive and whether or not it's the thing
that you would love doing every day even
if you were failing if that's law then
get into it I will say that lawyers have
the highest rate of depression and may I
may be wrong about this but may also
have the highest rate of suicide that
part I could be making up the depression
thing I'm sure about
um because being a lawyer you have to be
negative you have to look at all the
things that could go wrong and like I
was saying before when you obsessively
focus on all the things that could go
wrong you're just living in negative
land so maybe weigh that and I wouldn't
worry about
um
whether or not you're too late for that
so the last part what other careers
could be good for you being persuasive
and communicating well works everywhere
so there literally isn't uh an arena
where even if you're a solo writer being
able to write persuasive arguments is
still monetizable so I would say that
that's Universal applies everywhere all
right next question from Aaron Elias
what is your take on energy upgrades and
waves sweeping the Earth what is your
take on ascension I have no idea I've
never heard those words put together in
that fashion before I fear I'm going to
fail you entirely I have absolutely
nothing but ignorance on this topic
forgive me all right next up Carolina
Wilk Tom what do you think about Dr John
D Martini's teachings
two in a row totally ignorant I have no
idea who Dr John D Martini is forgive me
uh next question Jessica terrazia how do
you find your audience once you have a
passion I want to speak but I can't help
everyone at once I was told I need to
find my audience did you do this and did
you find Value in this all right let's
deconstruct this a bit so
in the world of social media the easiest
way to begin to build your audience and
so there's a difference between social
media and speaking with speaking you
need to put together a reel that shows
how you can speak you need to pick a
topic that you're very good at that have
speaking opportunities and then start
small start with local groups get up and
speak make sure you're recording
yourself so that you get this reel of
people make sure you post it on your own
channel so people can see it and that
you're showing up for certain keywords
so when people are searching for that
they're going to see you partner up with
other people especially and this is easy
if you're in the world of motivation if
you're in the world of motivation then
there are all kinds of accounts that are
desperately looking for content and if
you're able to speak very powerfully
that you could start sending them your
content getting a partnership going with
them so that you're able to get them
pushing you out maybe they have a small
audience to start but let's say if they
only have a thousand people that's a
thousand people that otherwise wouldn't
have seen you so building those
relationships going on being valuable to
their Community just building this up
Brick by Brick getting more and more
people exposed to your ideas create a
high value add social accounts whether
that's Twitter whether that's Instagram
Facebook all of it do Facebook lives
maybe only a few people show up in the
beginning but if you're adding value to
their life they're going to tell
somebody about it so this all comes down
to how good are your talks how much
value do they really add to people and
if it adds a lot of value then you'll
find that people just keep coming back
and and if you're not growing here's the
hard reality
if you're not growing you're not adding
enough value so one of the most powerful
things that I learned from Reading
Disney's biography was that every time
the company wasn't where he wanted it to
be he refocused on making the product
better the product better the product
better it's not about making the
marketing better marketing better
marketing better it's about really
really focusing on the product and in
this case the speech is your product so
making sure that you get your product
great and somebody that's done a really
good job of talking about that process
is Lewis Howes so I would go hit him up
I would check out what he's done what he
did his whole thing with going to
Toastmasters and starting out like he
was reading off sheet of papers hands
were trembling he couldn't even look up
from the piece of paper and then you
know however many months or year later
he's getting paid to speak so putting in
the Reps getting better practicing and
then also in a group like that you're
meeting other speakers who may be
getting gigs and they may be asked to do
a gig that they don't want to do but
then they think of you and so they pass
it on to you I've gotten a lot of my
speaking work that way it's just word of
mouth so
get out there get after it uh next
question comes from cage hits
cage hits really cage hits
that's amazing that's so amazing I'm
tempted to think it's a screen name but
cage it says you say you are building
this community uh for later down the
road to build the studio what skills
would you recommend we cultivate now in
order to provide you with value down the
road
questions like these make me want to
like cuddle the camera or the microphone
or something like you can't imagine what
it means to me and everyone else here
when you ask a question like that dude
anybody that says social media
is like destroying the fabric of society
they've built the wrong Community can we
just agree on that
thank you just first of all for asking
that question that's so amazing
um I will say this
pursue your truest and best life
whatever makes you come alive whether it
can be useful to us or not like don't
worry about that we're gonna be here we
are going to remain providing content
for free uh so
don't think you have to help us to be an
amazing contributor to this community
just asking that question is [ __ ]
amazing and I'm so grateful for it the
skill set that we will need the ones
that we're really focused on now we need
writers and artists that's a really
really big deal for us so writers and
artists we're building out contests
where hopefully partnering up with
I guess I won't say until it's real
we're partnering up with a very large
company that is just amazing at
attracting writing Talent very excited
about that I really really hope we close
that
um but yeah we're starting right now on
comics and so we need writers for Comics
we need artists for Comics ultimately
we'll also be putting together so the
whole notion of impact house is meant to
get creatives here whether screenwriters
whether traditional authors whether
comic book writers and artists bringing
people together to meet each other to
bounce ideas to get things going we'll
present people with ideas that we're
trying to get into production so if
somebody is gradual or not graduating
gravitating towards that and they want
to latch on to one of those projects and
and go into our development cycle then
that's also something so I guess watch
will be making announcements around that
you can also ping us at connect one of
the contracts that I'm working on now is
our submission thing so you guys can
submit it know exactly what your rights
are who retains what all that good stuff
uh so but anyway to the first part I'll
just reinforce that live the life that
makes you feel most alive and if that
aligns with us that's really really
amazing but you can still be a really
vibrant contributor to this community
without that
um okay next question Davis sarret how
besides speaking for free a lot do you
build a career and
and a following as a speaker how do you
self-publish your book effectively
all right those are two very different
questions
um one I'll let me just go through them
all right so how do you build a career
and a following as a speaker so you
you're sort of discounting the one thing
that I would say is the right answer and
that is speak for free a lot and the
reason that you're going to be doing
that is just like interning you're going
to be getting your name out there you're
going to deliver value there's no
barrier to entry to bringing you on
other than they need to vet to make sure
that you can actually do it but if you
can do it you're getting what you want
it's not the money the money's not what
you're after the money or sorry the the
short term money is not what you're
after the long-term money only comes if
you're able to build a reputation and
really improve as a speaker get out
there and absolutely crush it right so
don't lose out on the opportunity to
make a hundred thousand dollars a speech
later because you want five thousand
dollars of speech now okay way better to
say you know what I am going to do this
one for free you know what my normal fee
is ten thousand dollars a speech but
actually I'm I'm gonna waive this one
and I'm gonna do it for for free you can
even do that so that you're letting it
be known that like that's your normal
fee but your job if you're trying to
build a following especially you've got
to get out and do it it's literally
shaking hands kissing babies it's
letting people know you're there to be
of service to them and that you're not
just trying to be a rock star if you
Swagger out on the stage do your thing
drop the mic and then peace the [ __ ] out
like you're not gonna build a following
so in the beginning like dude let me
tell you when like I'm going tonight if
you're in the LA area 7 P.M downtown L.A
Boom Town baby look it up meet and greet
and despite the fact that I have a 9 pm
bedtime I will stay there and answer
every question that people have period
period why because I want you guys to
know that I'm serving you and I want to
do that because ultimately I'm going to
need your help I'm going to need your
support as we're building the studio and
there are going to be things that
hopefully I can create that are valuable
enough to you
um that you would rather have that thing
than the money but the only way that
you're going to feel that is if you
recognize what this company really
stands for who I really am as a person
um that's that's my silver bullet and so
we've built what I think is one of the
most rapidly growing
organic audiences and take organic
lightly we do a lot of cool marketing
[ __ ] some of which we throw money at but
it's all real people it's not like bot
farms in India or anything so we've got
to be one of the fastest growing and the
reason for that is this company every
human being that touches any aspect of
this company is just dripping a desire
to help so as long as people feel that
and you're willing to go the extra mile
I think you can really build something
special all right next question
and I did fail you on the the
self-publishing thing but um I went a
little long on the first part and I
don't have I've never self-published the
book before so I'd just be um giving you
sort of best practices of marketing
anyway uh question from David Daly if
humans are truly malleable and capable
of achieving anything why must we put in
thousands of hours to master a skill why
can't humans Master skills much more
rapidly than this all right this is
actually a fascinating part of
um
Evolution and the trade-offs that we
have done so if you look at other
animals take ants for instance there's a
certain type of ant to forget their name
but they can build as a unit complex
structures they can pick things up they
can hang from things they create shapes
they turn into Towers it's insanity and
all of that is pre-programmed nobody
teaches them anything from the drop the
moment they come out they're ready to go
they can build these structures it's all
just instincts it's all built in now
when you build stuff in what you're
trading off is flexibility so the reason
that it takes so much time and energy is
because we have said you know what don't
pre-build much in but instead be a
canvas that can respond aggressively to
its environment that you can go in
virtually any direction that you need to
go in and that flexibility giving us the
opportunity to thrive in Crazy
environments to specialize in something
over time to change our specialization
to to adapt to changes dramatic changes
in the climate that we otherwise would
fall prey to that's why we've survived
long enough to become the apex predator
things that wiped out other people
didn't wipe us out because we could
adapt so it's a trade-off for maybe
complexity of skill set from day one and
flexibility of skill set over the long
run so that is why all right next up
from Cameron RN any new books you would
add to your 25 must release I I uh is
grit on there yet
we need to add grit so I'll just tell
you grit 100
um some of the other books are more sort
of fetishy for me like homodeus rocked
my world but I wouldn't put it on the 25
the 25 aren't just the best books I've
read They're the most foundational to
building an empowering mindset and so
there are many many many amazing books
that I'm tempted to just keep making
that list longer and longer which is why
we did the knowledge Trail but right now
I would say with the exception of grit
which does need to be on the list I
don't have anything that I think is
foundational enough uh to add but I
think we've listed something roughly
like the last Chase last hundred books
I've read
something like that so take a look at
that moving excuse me moving forward
we're going to be posting my notes that
I take on the book uh bear with me I
take the notes for me so I don't write
them uh worried about whether they'll
make sense to you sorry uh it's very
selfish I know but we thought people
might enjoy seeing them anyway so we'll
be doing that moving forward
all right uh Corinne Davis how do you
differentiate between when it's time to
Pivot or dig in alright so this is the
grit or quit question which I find
really interesting and Eric Barker
covers this in his book barking up the
wrong tree and in that he talks about
whoop
w-o-o-p and whoop is the device you're
going to use to figure out whether you
like something enough to push on or
whether it's something that you should
quit so it goes like this the W is for
wish what is your wish what do you want
to make come true O is for obstacles so
what is the
um sorry oh the first o is an obstacle
it is
oh God is it objective I'm gonna say it
is somebody's gonna need to look this up
I'm failing myself right now
um objective like how do you actually
plan to get there what is the path to
that then the next one so basically
making your wish concrete so that's the
important uh part even if I'm not
getting the right word the second o is
um
obstacle wow so what is the obstacle
that you're gonna have to overcome in
order to get there and then the last the
p is you're looking this up by any
chance
plan all right so I think I need to look
these up I should have fast access to
this oh god let's see how fast we can
get there because I've just muddled this
one up I'm too terrified or horrified
with myself
um
so wish outcome obstacle plan all right
so wish the outcome so making it
specific and concrete so the wish I want
to be rich one day the outcome I want to
be rich by Building A nutrition company
okay obstacle what's going to stop me uh
there's 1600 protein bars on the market
so how we differentiate ourselves we're
going to have to become our own
manufacturers create something new and
Market it in a whole different way plan
okay how do we actually take over social
media what is a thousand screaming fans
look like and you just back into that
you've all heard me I assume at this
point heard how I backed into why we're
creating a studio and all that so I
won't do that it's also very long but
that's whoop all right so if when you do
your whoop you sit back and go man I'm
ready to go after this is amazing I'm so
glad I did it I now have my plan I know
exactly what I'm trying to do
that's something that you should pursue
you should grid it out and keep going
even if it's getting hard if when you
lay out the plan you're like dear God
that sounds exhausting I I'm not sure I
want to do that then that's something
that you should quit and move on to
something else all right
found that pretty fast Chase thank you
for your help
um next one Chris Berry do you think
glyphosate is behind a lot of the health
problems associated with the microbiome
being damaged all right so this is one
of those where I'm early enough in my
research that I know the word glyphosate
but I don't remember what it means so
I'm going to look it up really fast and
then I will tell you what I think is
behind glyphosate uh
oh the pesticide so this is that thing
yeah that everybody is
um super freaked out over I think it's
in Roundup
um and people just are not happy about
this [ __ ] uh I don't know I think that
environmental toxins is part of it and
there's this whole concept called pops
persistent
something pollutants and I don't
remember what the O stands for I'm
really I'm not doing well with my
acronyms today but persistent pollutants
the exposure that we get BPA is one that
people talk about a lot I think that
you're probably getting that's one of
the things that either disrupts your
endocrine system disrupts the microbiome
itself one thing that I'm I'm testing
like if you're really paying attention
my Snapple is now
see-through and the reason that I do
see-through Snapple now I'm cutting it
about two-thirds water and a third
Snapple is I want to see if I notice any
difference from
significantly reducing and maybe
ultimately completely cutting out all
artificial sweeteners from my diet I
don't want to see my for so long just
relied on the fact that I don't feel any
difference that that doesn't mean that
I'm not edging towards catastrophe every
day so I'm going to try it and give it a
real legitimate shot let's call it 60 to
90 days with right now I'll commit to
with highly minimized amounts of
artificial sweeteners
I won't go all the way because there's
some things in my diet that
God to be hard to get the level of fat
in my diet that I want in a pleasurable
manner without artificial sweeteners and
since I'm not convinced yet the
artificial sweeteners disrupt things as
much as they might so anyway
um glyphosate it's bad clearly we should
get it out as fast as we can any toxins
that cause any sort of disruption in the
body they all stack so I doubt the
glyphosate is like the end-all be-all
but I bet it ain't helping so yeah
that's uh that is the microbiome man
that [ __ ] is fascinating you want to
talk about something I I have to stop
myself from putting on the 25 list and
and I might one day just because the the
connection between your gut and your
brain is so powerful you just can't get
your mind where it needs to be all right
uh
Nathaniel Nathaniel
Rarity
man oh that's as close as I'm gonna get
all right when are you coming to
Indonesia uh I need to share a lot of
things I have no plans to come to
Indonesia yet I would love to have a
reason to go to Indonesia you can
certainly share here I know this can be
uh very
um nerve-wracking to share something
vulnerable you can also DM me that may
be a way to get something across a
little easier than me coming all the way
to Indonesia next question Avi ad you've
talked about depression and the
indisputable benefits of exercise
there's also research building on the
therapeutic use of psychedelics do you
have any experience with any so I'm
super intrigued by what's going on in
the areas of psychedelic research on
that and if you read Jamie wheel and
Stephen Cutler's book stealing fire they
go into that really intriguing and I'll
be watching very closely over the next
several years I've never experimented
with psychedelics because I am a chicken
there's no reason and other than that
I'm just afraid that something will
happen and I guess my identity for so
long has been that of the guy that
doesn't do drugs
um and yeah so I drink occasionally
alcohol and my wife is
um
gotten me to try weed I think three or
four times ah it's just not my bag man
so anyway it's funny though that I still
consider myself the guy that doesn't do
drugs even though I drink occasionally
and I have smoked weed a few times and
that Likens back to Dan ariely's whole
thing about people will
he says in the context of lying people
will lie
um right up to the point where it forces
them to change their identity and that's
where they stop and so I guess I do the
exact amount of drugs that I can do and
still feel like I'm a guy that doesn't
do drugs to be consistent with my
identity uh fascinating the way the
human mind works so I can't help you
with psychedelics but find it very very
intriguing
um and honestly it's one of those things
the more data that comes out like I
might have to try it if for no other
reason than to see if it has an impact
on my anxiety which would be utterly
fascinating all right
um akalan Ananda sivam wow I want to
hear that said well hi Tom I'm a music
composer studying composition and
writing music for advertisements and
soundtracks for short films how do you
recommend I build relationships with
agencies to receive more scoring work as
well as promote myself through Snap as
it's a closed platform let me know if
you can thanks all right dude being in
the game of creating music right now in
this day and age is unbelievable so
right now my friend there are hundreds
if not more motivational accounts
they're so desperate for music
and I'll count us in that so every week
we put out impact quotes we have to find
music somewhere somehow that we're not
going to get a copyright flag for using
if you write Amazing Music there are so
many people that would desperately want
to get a hold of that music write
something for them give them you don't
even have to give them exclusive rights
just let them use it if you let them use
it they will tag the life out of you so
you get a tag you start finding big
accounts and you can write really
powerful music remember this all comes
down
it's how good are you really so you
actually have to be good so I'm I'm
basing this all on the desperate hope
that you don't just think you're
talented that you're actually talented
but if you're actually talented my
friend in this day and age with social
media with YouTube
people are
desperate for music desperate so go
forth and prosper you should be pinging
them all every morning you should start
with hours of Outreach telling people
that you write music and that you want
to give them music they'll flip out
they will flip out
all right Chris good what's your
thoughts on the best ways to overcome
the apathy or lack of drive when it
comes to depression in order to get the
momentum you need to start making
progress again okay depends on where on
the depressive Spectrum you fall so I'm
going to say that you're all the way
over here like catastrophic can't get
out I've been in it for a year or more
like this is just bad news I don't want
to get out of bed nothing all right that
is a brain chemistry imbalance it is
also almost certainly tied to your gut
so the first thing I would do I'm not
bullshitting you the first thing I would
do is read the gut brain connection is
the name of the book that talks about
the two-way communication the
neurotransmitters that are signaled and
received the fact that I think it's 70
no it's 95 of the serotonin in your body
is stored in your gut
anybody else hearing that 95 it's not
all made there but 95 of the serotonin
one of the things that makes you feel
good elevates your mood in fact ssris
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
it basically stops your serotonin from
being re-metabolized so serotonin is the
name of the game when it comes to
depression 95 of it is stored in your
gut so if your gut is [ __ ] up you can
imagine that your serotonin levels are
in real danger so that is something that
you really have to just become an expert
in so doing the hard work unlike the the
chemistry of your problem I bet you
thought I was going to say start with
positive thoughts or some stuff which
you do want to do but those are they
have to be in addition I don't think
you're going to think your way out of
clinical depression so you're gonna have
to get way more hardcore about
identifying the chemical imbalance that
you have getting the neurotransmitters
right ideally without drug intervention
but if you need it use it 100 percent
that is way better than not doing
anything but anytime you're taking
taking an exogenous Source you should be
trying as rapidly as you can to get off
of it now let me tell you if I needed
drugs I would use drugs I'm just saying
it's not the greatest long-term strategy
so
um move away from it if you can
all right uh questions from Barry Hannah
you have had the chance to sit down with
some amazingly impactful individuals
both with impact Theory and inside Quest
how do you feel impact who do you feel
impacted you the most how has this
impacted your business and personal life
the most
what is up my friend Tom bilyu here and
I have a big question to ask you how
would you rate your level of personal
discipline on a scale of one to ten if
your answer is anything less than a ten
I've got something cool for you and let
me tell you right now discipline by its
very nature means compel