Latest / The Vincere Project / Episode 12. Beach Event Recap
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- Vincent: All right. We're back. The Vincier project in the middle of June. We made it. made it. We made it. I got my journal entries everywhere from ⁓ the beach event and I'm trying to keep them organized. So I'm gonna do my best to synthesize that stuff, right? Initially, when I kind of sketched some notes this past weekend, like, hey, I wanna talk about this, I wanna talk about that, talk about this, talk about that, talk about this, and come up with that laundry list of all these good topics that I think are are relevant and I think they're important and I think people need to know. kind of what the experience was or is, right? 'Cause it's all relative back to the Vincere Project and it's an H hour training events thing or it's an observation from counseling or things that we're doing in some form of variation of our businesses. And you know, the beach event went off in ⁓ on June And, you know, and Mary did a great job. And I think it was a huge deal for Mary, right? Like and trusting that somebody else ⁓ is going to able to take lead and deliver the content and the messaging and be consistent with what we do. And let's say Brock did You and and all the participants that that showed up and and came and got what they needed, right? It's the barrier to entry is as low as that as low as we can make it, right? And I think when we we did the first few, we were like, Hey, how much of a beat down does this thing need to be for people to find it valuable? And and it's really, really not that. And probably the second or third maybe it was Secure the Beach, the third secure the beach, the second one, I know it doesn't matter. Mary and I went back to our notes after immediately and we're like, Hey, like the right dose of this thing for some groups is gonna need to be three thousand deadlifts or whatever it is, right? And then for some other people it's going to be walking on the beach at a steady state and then ⁓ dealing with the trivia. And and so this one I I think was great. they used open ended questions for the trivia and then you had this thick textbook to go reference to get the data information out of and they kind of guide some of that and I thought that was pretty pretty brilliant, right? Because I wouldn't have used open-ended. I think it leaves it a little too subjective. But the questions are organized in a way that kinda helps sort through the information to to find the answers. And I think that was really, really good. And and I think that's what people like about that stuff. There's no other event that does that necessarily, right? Yeah, one's a two-see I guess, right? But but does stuff like that. It's like that just fits for like ⁓ hey I'm thinking about getting back into to some fitness stuff. Let me just go start walking Hey, I want to be around some new people. And then like I've shared, I'm open and honest about it. It's just a great way for Brooke and I to assess and evaluate. Hey, does this person have the requisite patience and empathy and skills to to organize people, share information, and express empathy? Especially when there's sand in people's shoes. Right? When people have sand in their shoes, man, they change their personality. I find. Anyway. So Brock was great. Right. So today's episode's gonna be on the shorter side, right? Ten, fifteen minutes and quick check-in and because I everybody's time that listens to this, my friends and family especially, and my mom definitely listens to it. So that matters a lot. You know, and I wanna I want to practice using your time the way that you you use my time, right? Is it's just f content, information, something to think about. We're not. We're right in the trash. So yeah, the beach event, I was kinda starting to ramble on that a little bit, but you know, the one thing I noted that's really important. I have two notes here about that. I kind of synthesized my forty minutes of podcasting down to ten minutes and said these are the two most important things and having two different books. One is more of a leadership side book and kind of the world, and the other one's my s personal ⁓ journal, right? And so you know, during the beach event, Brock is shaping out, hey, we're gonna do this part, we're gonna do it this way, let's do a little warm-up, start moving. But for his content, what he did is really good. He, you know, he he narrowed down the principles from from the H-Hour principles he thought were important. and you know, he he took represent yourself authentically. Interpret that as you may, but I think that's exactly what it means. and then do the hard work, right? And I think that helps people kind of just accept there's like a paradigm in the room ⁓ if on the beach that day, if you're showing up. It's like, yeah, we're just gonna do the hard work. And I think that's ⁓ That's a a remarkable thing and it's a hard thing to do. But he started talking about the idea of tithes, right? And ⁓ giving away 10% of of your resources. And the the note he made in that about like giving out effort and giving up effort and you know, who are you giving your 10% for or what and who? it's helped people kind of guide the journaling practice and make meaning and purpose, but capture some notes and thoughts about the morning. Beautiful sunrise, probably the best one we've ever had in all of the since we've been doing this thing since 2020, right? Like it was the best one. ⁓ which I thought was remarkable because we had two before that I was like, I'd never seen the earth that color, and like it happened again June sixth of all times, and right as sunrise was coming up too, which I thought was symbolic of so many things on so many different levels. But he you know, giving ten percent is consistent ties and it's a value set thing. And I agree, Mary and I, through the businesses we have, we give ten percent every month, right? As a practice, and I can remember when it was like, Man, we made fifty bucks this month, and it's we're gonna have to give ten percent of that. ⁓ It would be funny because it was what we were doing. not funny anymore because the sums of money or I do believe help, right? And and wherever they go and what they go do with it, I don't I don't know, right? And ⁓ we do it because it's the right thing to do. But the note that he offered that was so powerful, and he kind of captured this and brought to the jump of this as capturing this. It's like, hey, giving your your first and your best 10%. So if it was crops Money, if it was resources, time, attention, labor. You're giving your first and and your best. I can't say that I've ever applied that logic. It just became like I got into the habit where it like, I don't know, like look at the spreadsheet, let's say ten percent of that, right? That's what's going out the door, right? Like we have to do that. There's a moral obligation to continue doing that. yet I can't say I've always given ⁓ the first the best ten percent every time. It's got me thinking and I mean, I just want to thank Brock for was just great, man. It's got me really pondering. I like, man, like I know the math is mathing, and action, the energy, the effort, the things that we're doing, trying to give our our ten percent. And then you're going around, and that's why he's been brought onto the team, is just taking the team to another level. He's like, Yes, I agree. Let's give ten percent from his lens. Let's give our first and our our best ten percent. Because that's what we'd owe to our our neighbors and our spouses and our children, our parents. our ancestors and our descendants, right? If you live long enough and you're you're fortunate enough and blessed enough to reproduce and have children, you're you're giving it for your descendants too. Right? And your ancestors, the folks looking down in heaven if you believe in that. Or up from hell. Depending on which which side of the aisle they fell on. It doesn't mean people can't cheer for you from hell. Like like a hundred percent. you could have been raised by Satan's little himself or herself. That's typically a her in my opinion. But it doesn't matter, right? But Satan had love for you, right? And like cared for you in that storyline or narrative, and from hell they're they're they're they're cheering for you to do well, right? hopefully not to join in them though. That's that's part of it too. But are we given our our first and best ten percent sporadizing? I think that's powerful. ⁓ something leveled me up a little bit and I've been thinking about it, and I'm gonna chew on a little. Yeah, it was good. So he didn't completely fail. ⁓ I'm proud of him for that. He got like a seventy one, which is consistent. Seventy one out of a hundred, right? That's consistent with what he does in graduate school. So I don't I there was no magic light switch when he got on the beach, like he was gonna turn it on, all of a sudden become an A student. Yeah, that's not that's just not how it works. So but that means there's a long runway and a and a l a way to get better, right? So next year it's a seventy two percent. Right. If he does it right long enough for the next thirty years, then and maybe someday we'll we'll co sign it and All dude, you got a hundred, man. Like for real, you're done, right? Like There's nothing more to give. So awesome. So awesome. But there's the other side. The event starts going, right? And then they set you on this journey. And ⁓ man, had a little bit of a fever going in the morning. And I was getting huffy and puffy. And my wife's like, ⁓ maybe you shouldn't do this one. And I think if the group was ⁓ all or like 90% people I had done one with before or coach one, I might have passed because I think that's just the right thing to do. It would have been prudent. But I'm stupid. So I I went and I did it and I I paid for it and got crushed. And yeah, it was bad. At one point I'm sitting next to Brooke and she's like, Man, you don't look too good. you probably got a fever. Like nobody else is sweating, and I'm like just soaked and and I'm a sweater. I definitely sweat like a lot. But yeah, like it was it was profuse. Perfuse, profuse, profuse, profuse. And so, know, that that but sorry. So so the event starts going and we're going and get broken off, and then we get broken down into teams and the trivia starts and we're doing all the events and we're lifting and carrying sandbags and walking and we're talking and we're figuring things out and we give roles to everyone in the team. Uncle Jack did like thirteen hundred burpees. Dude's sixty four years old did thirteen hundred burpees, man. Like so I've been around people out like he's twenty years ahead on the on the racetrack than I am. And I'm like, man, like this dude And in the time I've known him, for the five, six years I've known the guy, he went from fifty-nine to now and he like he he's fitter now than he was at fifty nine. Like two full grown adult children, you know, like going through life successful. The dude is fitter now at sixty-four years old. Like w like, come on. Like come on. What more evidence do you need? The stuff the the works, the things that we're doing. We're not selling anybody on it, right? And I'm just proud of this guy's man. ⁓ proud of him. Anyway. So I'm in and I'm reading and I'm going through and I I don't see this quote it come up from one of the guys that were on D Day and it was one the British guys and the quote is ⁓ you know in the planning process they they're getting ready to go do and then hey there's a shaping operation and some catastrophes and we gotta figure out some other things and who's gonna who the the paratroopers jumping in and we're gonna take these beaches and whatever and the the British guy's statement in the planning process is hey do not argue the matter, the difficulties will argue for themselves. You know. And I I think that's so true for just life in general. And I feel like I feel like that was the the the like that was the backside of the level up of what Vince got out of the program for ⁓ what the event for doing it, right? Like like you have to be open to the idea you don't know everything, right? And so I I I look at it through that lens all the time. I mean, because here's the deal, we've we've invited people to these events that do different things around the world doing things. We invited somebody to our house one time to do the event and then we wanted to to donate to their foundation or organization through them and their capacity on behalf of them. And they declined because they they're the smartest people in the room and they know everything you know. And but the problem is when you run to somebody like me, is like I assume everybody knows something I don't know. Like just a human collector of information and I don't do anything with it. There's nothing to do with it. Just I feel like people have read things. I've experienced things, seen things, been places. I haven't been, and their interpretation and experience of those things is gonna be very different than mine. It's not it's not on judgment. But it's the people that on the other end are like, hey, well, why would I go around that? But like, what are they gonna teach me? Teach me. There's nothing wrong with me. And that's not the point. There's nothing wrong with anybody for that matter. Not that it all figured out. But like back to that quote, right? Do not argue the matter, the difficulties will argue for themselves and Then I made other notes, right? And then I started like, hey, who's written about this? And who else has used this and thought about this? I want to give credit to all the right people. And they're giving credit to like Winston Churchill for and all these other people. And maybe it was him, maybe it wasn't, I don't know. You know, but I I think what happens in that process is we don't want to get caught up in like debating or or listing all the barriers or obstacles. And then most of them are already i in our imagination. They're not even there, right? Like after we give consideration to the first two or three things that might happen. By time you get to the fifth one, you're in that weird space of like, how much cognition, perception, attention can you give to that in your execution phase? Like, I can assure you, right, going to space is beyond the scope of Vince's understanding. But I can assure you that there's a lot of bad stuff that can happen when you try to go to space. But I would bet ⁓ a sum of money that could hurt me, they've given consideration to the top three to five things that could possibly happen. Like, and that's where it stops. There's always going to be some unknowns in the process, in the practice. And you think about those complications, right, that are going to come up along the way, they will naturally reveal themselves as problems to be solved at that point in time. a decent mental model or some sort of premise or practice to sort through and organize that stuff is is I think what would helps us adapt to circumstance and situation. I think that's what with the training and event and the four hours on the beach reveals is like the problem sets are just going to evolve and look different as the morning goes on. Not everybody's going to lift the heavy sandbags, but not everybody's gonna get the trivia right. know, and then I I find that somewhere in that intersection of all of it, the score always balances out at the end through the individual portion and the team portion. Because the problems reveal themselves over time. And like that, who is going to adapt and figure it out on the fly matters a lot. For me, once I got to the team portion, my fitness, there was nothing left. There was like nothing left in the tank. the favorite the thing that favored me is like I'm a I'm really good at reading, right? So when they were giving us 10 to 15 pages to sort through to find these key things and put together some coherent response, I read really fast. So I'm able to peruse and scroll right through 10 pages in probably like a minute and a half. And then be like, hey, this is exactly what it is. And the beautiful thing for me, selfishly, is that ⁓ one of the people was Allie, who just came on to work with us. So she's a novice counselor, ⁓ novice social worker, novice counselor. She's new to this, right? And then ⁓ with another one was a student. So they're getting the application of like, hey, who's Dr. Vince outside of the classroom? And I'm and I'm operating and functioning exactly how I do in the classroom, right? Information management and time management all the time. So the time management part of it for me was a test, is that I couldn't function. I'm physically hurting in the way that. My burpees aren't very useful. I'm not able to do large sets of air squats. So it's like, all right, let me get 10. Let me get five. Let me get 10. Let me get five. Let me get 10. Just be a good teammate. Whereas under normal circumstances, maybe I'm doing twenties, thirties, some fifties, that's a fifties, that's a hundred, maybe. I don't know. Right? I'm working through those things, right? So the difficulties will will argue for themselves, right? And just it's where those things will come up later on in the process. Getting started is the hardest part. And You know, for the mere mortals and the folks that are on Earth, right? If you dare to wonder and start imagining like does a future world look like here, right? It's gonna require you to give your best first and best ten percent all the time. I think there's a degree of intensity that. Because somebody's gonna do the first therapy session in space. Somebody's gonna do the first podcast in space. Right? We've already had live streams in space. Somebody's gonna do the first of this in space, first of that in space. They are going to harvest power and redistribute it through outer space. That is what's about to happen here. that is the most remarkable thing ever. So if you're not long on America and you're not long on space, right? And in these exploratory travels and ⁓ building out this frontier and harnessing all this energy to make it better, then it's probably going to be a really difficult world to operate and function going forward. Yeah, there's a lot of hard work to do, but it's going to be less hard than maybe it's ever been. simultaneously more competitive than it's ever been. And it's fierce. And the haves and have nots will expand. The world would love nothing more than for somebody like Elon Musk and those folks to have their imagination beat out of them and not dream and think about things like that. So I think for us, you know, when we're watching this and learning about this and seeing what these folks are doing, beyond the complexities of what they do with the finance in terms of protecting how much they can steal and misappropriate and manipulate and things like that, there's some there's some there's There is something noble and honest about trying to do incredibly difficult things and putting a rocket to space. It's pretty cool. So if we're on Earth and we're thinking about this in a in a parallel process, what are we trying to do here? Why play it safe? Like for what? Why play it safe? If you're thinking about doing something or taking a journey or an adventure, meeting somebody new, creating a new identity for yourself, changing your body. We're all battling against the same thing. We're all battling against time. That's it. It's just a battle against time. It's it's all inevitable one way or the other, but we're all just battling against time. And I think that's that's what this last event demonstrated for everybody that was willing to participate in it, right? You're 10%, you know if you give your first and your best 10%. You're setting yourself up for more favorable outcomes. then for me, selfishly, I the key takeaway is do not argue the matter, the difficulties. Well, argue for themselves. ⁓ the obstacles and barriers are going to appear. You have to just get started, right? And so if that fundamental life changes what you're in the middle of creating, whether it's moving to a new location, starting a new relationship, man, figuring out the next phase of life, reach out to H-Hour, right? See if see if we can support you and serve you in that capacity. That is what we do. ⁓ and I would say personally, I'm I'm an example of that, man. You know? I definitely was homeless in this life, definitely strung at home. I definitely didn't want to live at times. Not proud of that. You know? I'm empathetic to that stuff. I want to give people long runways. I like to bet on people's best ideas. And I and I think that that aligns with ⁓ this past weekend. So my heart's full. It was really good. ⁓ got our first guest schedule. That's gonna be amazing here at the end of the month. we're right before July 4th, I think. We're gonna get Mary on. Two hundred and fifty years of Los Estados andidos, man, just punishing then we're talking about all the good things. That might be an extended one though. That might be a little bit longer. Might be like an hour. We're gonna talk. She doesn't want to do zombie apocalypse. She said, I'm not a clown. I'm not a child. I'm gonna talk about war. She's like, I wanna talk about that. I think people need to know that. And we'll talk about some of the funny experiences we had post service. ⁓ where we wanna go. Lean more on the funny ones of like the we've worked for with and around. ⁓ What it's been like navigating all that stuff. It's been super fun. but yeah. American Revolution, we're gonna celebrate all that stuff. Got a bunch of stuff coming up though to talk about in a few weeks before that. So, but yeah, she's gonna be the first guest. outer think about it. Space travel, it's happening. If you're lucky enough, you'll ⁓ hear see, and watch the documentary when they shoot Vince up there with some Reese's monkeys, me strapped in with them, right? Because they're gonna say, hey, it's like, hey, you can go for a million bucks and fly with Muskie and Bezos and all of them and go up. Right? Million bucks. you up. That's probably worth it. They're like, hey, 99% chance it's gonna be all safe, good to go. ⁓ if you're on the budget, they're gonna be like, hey, for 10 grand, we'll strap you with the monkeys. Got a 50 50 shot. I think I'm gonna do it. I know I'm I'm open to it, right? Because here's the thing you get up there, next thing you know, it's successful, and now it's you and your pet monkey in space ⁓ doing live stream, podcast, counseling, first counselor up there doing it. Yeah, I think it's all it's gonna take. Me, Reese's monkeys out of space. Alright, thanks. Beach event was great. Wish you were there next time. Maybe not. Maybe so. I'm gonna be there to the end. And I'm gonna do all of ⁓ As many as I can. Alright, enjoy the day. Bye.