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From Stuck to Unstoppable: Your Glow‑Up Era (S5) S4:E1 · Inspirations for Your Life

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It is John C.
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So by now, you know this is the
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inspiration for your life.
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And I think you guys are really going
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This is Series 5, Show 4, Episode 1.
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And I am so glad to be here.
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I'm your host.
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I'm John Seymour, a serial entrepreneur.
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And again, welcome back to Inspirations for Your
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Life, the Daily Motivational Show, where growth is
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Being your host, I'm happy to be here.
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As I said, a serial entrepreneur.
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I'm also an engineer, a marketing specialist, video
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producer, podcast host, coach, graduate student, and yes,
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guys, a passionate lifelong learner.
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to really be with all of you.
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This show exists to remind you of who
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you are when the noise quiets down.
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Today, we begin a new chapter titled From
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Stuck to Unstoppable, Your Glow-Up Era.
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This episode, you're not an accident, guys.
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It's a reminder to everyone, regardless of your
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age, that nothing about you, your ambition, your
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resilience, your curiosity, happened by mistake.
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It didn't.
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You were built for more than survival.
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I know a lot of us talk about
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two things in life.
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One is calling survive and thrive, but few
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people thrive in life.
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I think it's because they get comfortable being
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complacent and just being the way they are.
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So when you're too comfortable, you never grow.
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So I always said comfort lies just outside.
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The success, I should say, lies just outside
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the comfort zone.
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So you were built to rise.
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Yes.
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Number one, guys, our first point, you were
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not born, guys, to pay bills and be
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exhausted every day.
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I know that happens.
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It's a part of life.
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But you weren't born for that.
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You were born to be abundant.
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You were born to just be able to
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pay things to help people and to enjoy
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this high quality of life.
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You see, life, ladies and gentlemen, is meant
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to be lived with purpose, not constant depletion.
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But I think that's what a lot of
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us are taught.
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Maybe it's our parents' upbringing.
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Maybe they had challenges.
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And maybe they didn't handle things the most,
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let's say, pristine way.
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No one's perfect.
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But I'm here to tell you that life
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has so much you can get out.
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So let's start embracing it.
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Number two, guys, someone out there is praying
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for the courage you already have right now.
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What you see as normal is inspiring to
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others.
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And it's great.
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I know when I do my talks and
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I get people in the audience, and some
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people come to me privately, everyone says, hey,
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John, you really inspired me to take a
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step.
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I mean, I'm not going to speak like
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you do, but you've inspired me to at
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least get up in front of my class
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or maybe at least get up in front
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of my office and tell them what's on
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my mind.
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I'm happy to be able to do that.
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Number three, guys, your personality is not random.
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It is your built-in strategy.
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You're not too much.
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You're just in rooms that dream too small.
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That's the truth, guys.
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Number five, you keep shrinking to fit spaces
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you outgrew years ago.
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Let's stop doing that.
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Number six, you are not a side character
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in your own life.
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I know sometimes we feel like this because
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whatever is going on, we miss life.
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We miss these things, and we miss the
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fact that life is meant to be lived
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and about thriving.
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It's not about hiding.
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There's a lot of people like, oh, I
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can't get what I want, and I'm just
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going to hide.
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No, don't do that.
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And when you do that, it actually lessens
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you as a person.
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At least that's how you feel.
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You're not a lesser person, but it makes
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you feel lesser because you feel like this
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isn't meant for you, right?
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Maybe you've gone somewhere, and maybe they had
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seats, and you wanted to sit there.
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And the sign said, you know, these are
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reserved.
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And maybe some, let's say, pompous person says,
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you know, these are reserved for, you know,
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VIPs.
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So what are you?
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Well, maybe you're not a VIP at that
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show, but you absolutely are a very important
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person in your life.
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And, you know, maybe you're going to sit
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in those chairs another day, or you're going
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to sit in chairs even better than those
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chairs.
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Number seven, guys, you are allowed to want
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a bigger life without guilt.
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Yes, I said that.
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Number eight, you were not designed to live
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on autopilot.
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Now, certain things are good to be on
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autopilot, like, you know, knowing you have to
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do your exercises and things like that.
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That's good, but your entire life should not
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be on autopilot.
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Maybe 10%, maybe you've got things that remind
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you to do certain tasks, but your whole
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life should not be on autopilot.
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As I said, maybe you go home a
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certain way.
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Take a different way.
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Instead of taking a right, take a left,
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and take a scenic tour.
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You never know what you'll embark on.
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I think a lot of people in our
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world, they get used to doing the same
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thing over and over again.
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You know what happens?
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Again, they get complacent, and they feel that
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there's nothing new for them.
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There's nothing for them really to do.
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Okay?
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You know, that's the truth, guys.
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And it's not here to scare you.
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It's here to hopefully wake you up and
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say, you know what?
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You were meant for bigger and greater things.
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Yes, you were.
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But the fact that you haven't come to
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that realization yet is really the only thing
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that's holding you back.
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So it's like this filter, right?
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If we had a filter, which we do,
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we could put on the camera to prism
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things so we could see things kind of
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like in prisms, so we can kind of
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see people in just different kind of angles.
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It's kind of fun.
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If you ever see how prisms work, it
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kind of will, you know, get you to,
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you know, maybe be in a ray.
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And it even has a rainbow effect to
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it.
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But if we never change the prism or
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we never change the lens in our life,
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and we're still looking at it in, I
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don't know, black and white, if we never
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change the lens and turned on color, how
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can we get excited about our life?
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We can't.
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We need to do the perception in our
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life.
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And perceptions are not limited to just what
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you feel today.
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Perceptions can grow tomorrow.
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Number nine, guys, you're not behind.
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You're on your own timeline.
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I've had to tell myself that sometimes too,
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because, you know, sometimes you see someone say,
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oh, gee, look where they are.
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That's okay.
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We all have our own timeline.
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And everything that we're meant to have will
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be delivered in our life.
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Are you ready for number 10?
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I know you are.
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If your dreams, ladies and gentlemen, scare you,
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guess what?
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That's a sign you're growing.
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Number 11, your overthinking is unused creativity.
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Looking for direction is important.
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Knowing the way is good, but maybe you
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can learn a different way to go, a
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different way to traverse in the universe.
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I think that's a very cool thing.
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Number 12, guys, the world benefits when you
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stop pretending.
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That's right, guys.
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I said when you stop pretending.
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When you stop pretending to get permission from
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yourself.
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Because you don't need permission from yourself.
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It's you.
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Number 14, you're not lost.
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You're under construction.
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Have you ever gone to a website?
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I know many of you have.
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I know the very first time I worked
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on our website many, many years ago.
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And the very first time.
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And I remember it was just one page.
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It was just all CGI.
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And I remember when I was first getting
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it up, I put this page up that
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says under construction.
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And so your life might be under construction
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right now.
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That's okay.
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It's building something even better than you probably
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imagined.
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In fact, what you want is probably just
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one-tenth of what could happen to you.
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Are you ready for number 15?
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I know we get stuck.
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I know when we get stuck, we feel
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that we're never going to be able to
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move through.
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Maybe you're stuck in a snowstorm.
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If you don't have four-wheel drive and
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you're trying to get out, and all of
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a sudden, the tire just spins.
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Or maybe you're outside.
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And maybe you're doing something.
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And because suddenly you lost a screw or
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a screw didn't come in the box, you're
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stuck and you can't finish the project.
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So you have to figure out, what do
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you do?
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So I'm here to take you from stuck
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to unstuck.
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It's not an overnight process.
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It's a gradual process that slowly starts to
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percolate.
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Very similar to the way coffee does.
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I remember the very first time my grandparents
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told me they always have to have their
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coffee in the morning.
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And I said, well, that's pretty cool that
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they have to have their coffee in the
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morning.
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And my grandfather on my dad's side would
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have his coffee in the morning.
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He never would drink any coffee at all,
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but only at breakfast time.
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And my grandmother would make the coffee in
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a coffee pot because they would never be
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caught, you know what, using instant coffee maker
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or using instant coffee.
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Never.
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Number 15, your future self is already proud
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of you.
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Why are you putting yourself down?
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Why are you dissing yourself?
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You're so important, guys.
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Number 16, you're not complicated.
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You're layered.
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So I want to think about this in
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a very interesting way.
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Layered.
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When somebody first learns graphic design, maybe some
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of you are graphic designers, maybe some of
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you aren't, graphic design can be very tedious.
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Because you've got all these different pieces, and
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they all got to come out a different
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way.
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But you can't seem to move them until
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you realize one thing.
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In graphics, things are on layers.
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And so once you learn what layer is
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which and how to traverse and move through
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and how to move things up a layer
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or down a layer, well, life seems a
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lot easier.
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It does.
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Number 17, please stop asking people who settled
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if your dreams are too big.
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You know, people that haven't gotten anything, people
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that have given up because they haven't reached
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their dream is them.
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That's not you.
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You're here.
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You want to get motivated.
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You want the food to be able to
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help you and the, not only the spiritual,
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but also the mental food, the mental diet
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to take you from stuck to unstoppable.
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I'm going to recall back to a story
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I've said before about a dog.
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So this dog was over a friend of
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mine's house many years ago.
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And the dog actually did something pretty cool.
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You know what that was?
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The dog actually opened the door and I
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said, geez, what a smart dog.
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And my friend Joe's like, well, you wouldn't
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think he was such a smart dog if
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you were here a week or two ago.
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I said, why?
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The dog was clawing at the door for
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hours.
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The dog was learning.
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Yeah.
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So sometimes when we do something and it
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looks like it's a mess or it looks
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like we don't know what we're doing, we're
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learning.
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And there's no crime in learning, guys, because
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when we learn, we become smarter.
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We become wiser.
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We become more creative.
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We get unstuck.
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Number 18, guys.
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Before I go on to number 18, I
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want to tell you something interesting.
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So even AI uses that same logic.
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AI learns by its mistakes and gets better.
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Number 18, you were built for progress, not
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perfection.
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Number 19, there is a stronger version of
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you waiting to show up, to bust out
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of an egg.
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Maybe you're just scared of it.
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A lot of times when we're scared, it's
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actually confused with an emotion called excitement.
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And because we're not used to it, we
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think we're scared, but really we're just excited.
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And it throws us off guard.
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Number 20, guys.
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Your story has chapters.
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It does.
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Just like the book I'm reading, guys.
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My story has chapters.
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My book has chapters.
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You haven't even imagined yet.
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So if every day you have the power
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to write your story, to change your story,
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that's powerful.
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That's priceless.
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But some people don't choose to write their
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story because, well, they haven't had much luck
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at it.
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But if you're like that dog who just
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kept persisting and going on and keeping on,
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or like maybe the train.
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Do you remember the story I told you
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guys a long time ago?
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It was the train.
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I think I can.
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I think I can.
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Do you remember that story?
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I think I shared it with you guys
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before.
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So it refers to the classic children's story,
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The Little Engine That Could.
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Where a small blue engine chugs up a
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mountain repeating the mantra, I think I can.
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I think I can.
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I think I can.
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To overcome a difficult task, teaching lessons in
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perseverance and optimism.
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The phrase signifies believing in yourself to achieve
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something challenging, often changing to I thought I
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could after succeeding.
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So if you're on that, let's say, edge
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between wondering if you can or can't, think
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about Henry Ford and what he said.
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If you believe you can't, you're right.
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But he also said something else.
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If you believe you can, you are also
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right.
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So change I think I can right after
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to I thought I could.
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Right?
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That's powerful, guys.
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I thought I could.
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When all the circumstances outside of you, you
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can physically see, hear, touch, taste, point to
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I can't, change your perception, change your direction,
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and focus on the positivity of I can.
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Because the more you focus on I can,
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the more that that noise, because that's all
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it is, that noise will just kind of
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quiet itself down.
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You'll be able to get true clarity and
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move forward and become unstuck.
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Number 21, guys, you're here to break patterns.
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You're not here to blend in.
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I know many times when I was in
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school, I was always told, you know, John,
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you need to blend in.
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And it was because they were stifling our
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voice.
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I didn't let that go very long.
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Because I knew that I was not here
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to blend in.
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I was here to make a difference.
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To use my unique skills and gifts to
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become something amazing.
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Number 22, guys, if you feel different, use
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that to your advantage.
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Don't let people block you because they say,
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oh, you're different.
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You're, you know, not in the same boat.
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You know, sometimes not being in the same
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boat is actually the predicament that can get
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us to become, let me say, amazing.
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I'm going to tell you amazing.
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I'm going to tell you amazing right now.
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That's really powerful.
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Really powerful.
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Number 23, you're not stuck.
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You're just on pause, waiting to make a
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decision or like I'd say a decision point.
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Sometimes when we have to make the decision,
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we feel like we're stuck.
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Because we don't want to move this way
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or move that way.
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We're on the top of the fence.
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And we don't know whether the grass is
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greener on the left or the right.
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So we're afraid to decide.
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So we're indecisive.
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And thus, you know what else happens?
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We procrastinate.
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And procrastination equals us becoming more stuck.
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You don't need to master everything and be
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a moving train overnight.
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But you need to get rid of different
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obstacles that are in your way.
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Because when you do, the rest of you
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gets the belief and the courage.
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You can do even more.
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Number 24, your energy is expansive.
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Protect it.
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Protect your energy.
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Protect who's around you.
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Don't let your energy just drain out.
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Your energy is priceless, guys.
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Number 25, you're allowed to outgrow old versions
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of yourself.
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Absolutely you are.
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Maybe something you're doing today doesn't match what
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was going on yesterday.
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Maybe.
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Or maybe it does.
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Or maybe there's a subtle tweak that you
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need to make.
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When we hear about, you know, different animals
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that outgrow their skin, like turtles, for example,
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right?
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Their shells.
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Think about that for a moment.
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What happens after a turtle outgrows its shell?
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What happens?
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Does everybody know?
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What happens?
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So it's not like a hermit crab.
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It's a little different.
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Its shell grows with it.
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So it's fused to its spine and its
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ribs.
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So it's always the right size.
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But the outer layer called the scutes, the
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sheds, as the turtle grows to stay healthy,
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revealing larger new scutes underneath a process called
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scutes shedding.
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So what happens after a, let's say, a
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hermit crab?
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Because that's a little bit different.
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What happens after a hermit crab outgrows its
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shell?
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So when a hermit crab outgrows its shell,
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it must find a new one for protection,
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usually by shedding its old exoskeleton, molting, or
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by finding an empty shell, sometimes joining a
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vacancy chain where crabs line up to swap
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shells from smallest to largest to ensure everyone
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gets a better fit.
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Being without a shell makes them extremely vulnerable
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to dying out and predators hitting them.
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So they seek a new home quickly, often
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after molting by testing different shells for size
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and weight.
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Kind of like we try on different clothes
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for comfort and style and look.
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So again, hermit crabs grow by shedding their
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hard outer skin, their exoskeleton, a process called
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molting.
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And they need a larger shell to accommodate
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their new size.
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Shell scouting.
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Before or after a molt, a crab will
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leave its old shell to find a new
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bigger one.
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And then the vacancy chain of a crab
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finds a shell that's too big.
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It may wait nearby, leading to a chain
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reaction where other crabs test shells, moving in
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a line from a smallest to largest, ensuring
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each crab gets a better fitting home.
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The move to new shell is swift and
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planned because shell-less leaves them exposed and
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can cause problems and even cause them to
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die.
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Why they need new shells?
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Protection.
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Their abdomen is soft and fragile, requiring a
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shell for defense.
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Growth?
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They simply get too big for their current
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home and they have to move on.
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Comfort?
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They might find a shell that fits better.
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It's lighter.
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It offers more protection than what they had.
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So just like animals outgrow their shells, we
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can outgrow not so much our bodies, but
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we can outgrow our egos.
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We can outgrow our limitations.
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This reminds me of a great story of
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a, it was actually an elephant, a very
24:36
big elephant today.
24:38
But many years ago, it was a very
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little elephant.
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And the little elephant, baby elephant, was tied
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to a stake in the ground.
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And the elephant tried to get out from
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the stake and he couldn't.
24:54
He tried the first year, the second year,
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the third year, he couldn't get out from
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the stake.
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You know what happened after the third year?
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He never tried again.
25:04
The elephant got bigger and the elephant could
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have easily broken out of the stake.
25:08
But because of the mental programming the elephant
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got, by believing it couldn't break through, it
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never tried again.
25:17
I think that happens to us in life
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because we try something now and maybe we're
25:21
not successful.
25:22
That doesn't mean we can't go back and
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retry again.
25:26
It also doesn't mean we're giving up.
25:27
It means we're taking a pause.
25:30
Maybe we don't have the skills that we
25:32
need.
25:33
Maybe we don't have the strength that we
25:35
need or the knowledge that we need.
25:38
We can acquire any of those things.
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Number 26, guys.
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You didn't come this far to act small,
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okay?
25:50
Your life is not a glitch.
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It's on purpose.
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Yeah, it's on purpose.
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You didn't get here by accident, guys.
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Number 28, you're allowed to want more.
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Even if your past self can't relate to
26:08
it, you can have it.
26:11
Number 29, guys.
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The fact that you're still here means there's
26:16
still more for you.
26:17
Now, it might not come tomorrow.
26:19
It might not come this week.
26:20
It might not come next week, but it's
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going to come.
26:24
And the question is, will you be ready
26:27
for it?
26:28
Are you focusing on success?
26:30
Are you focusing on these opportunities?
26:31
Because if you don't and they come, you're
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never going to see them.
26:36
You'll be blind to them and you'll miss
26:38
the potential to grow and to succeed.
26:43
Number 30, guys.
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This is not your final form.
26:46
This is your loading screen, right?
26:49
Your loading screen.
26:51
The operating system has a boot process, okay?
26:57
And so, I call it something called post
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-power-on-self-test.
27:04
You're just going through your check process to
27:07
get ready to load something bigger.
27:09
Ladies and gentlemen, this has been inspirations to
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your life.
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And I show you guys here that you
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could be done settling and ready to rise.
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to keep watching day in and day out.
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you that you are not an accident.
27:32
You are not behind and you are not
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done.
27:36
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27:38
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The choice is up to you.
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Are you ready for greatness?
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Have yourself a good one, and I'll catch
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you real soon, everyone.