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Coming up next on Passion Strike.
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Over the next 10 years, we are undergoing the largest wealth transfer in modern history.
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Accenture reports that there will be over 70 trillion dollars that are moving hands from the boomer generation to millennials and Gen Z. And millennials and Gen Z have a much different set of values than the boomer generation.
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They care more about
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sustainability, regeneration, mental health, emotional health, spiritual health, physical health.
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This affords the greatest opportunity to generate abundance as well.
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So for those who are feeling that life does look hopeless and at moments it may, but really that is the universe really calling us forward and saying it s really time to wake up.
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discover your purpose, raise your consciousness, and shine your light bright because the opportunity to generate abundance now is like never before.
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Welcome to Passion Struck.
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Hi, I m your host, John R. Miles, and on the show, we decipher the secrets, tips, and guidance of the world s most inspiring people and turn their wisdom into practical advice for you and those around you.
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Our mission is to help you unlock the power of intentionality so that you can become the best version of yourself.
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If you re new to the show, I offer advice and answer listener questions on Fridays.
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We have long form interviews the rest of the week with guests ranging from astronauts to authors, CEOs, creators, innovators, scientists, military leaders, visionaries, and athletes.
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Now, let s go out there and become passion struck.
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Hello, everyone.
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Welcome back to Episode 382 of Passion Struck.
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Consistently ranked by Apple as the number one alternative health podcast.
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And thank you to all of you who come back weekly to listen and learn how to live better, be better, and impact the world.
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I am so excited to announce that my new book, Passion Struck, is now available for pre-order, and you can find it at Amazon or on the Passion Struck website.
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And throughout the months of December and January, I will be using my solo episodes to discuss different aspects of the book leading up to its launch.
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And in January, we will feature some surprise guests who I talk about in the book.
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If you re new to the show, thank you so much for being here.
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Or you simply want to introduce this to a friend or a family member, and we love it when you do that.
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We have episode starter packs now, which are collections of our fans  favorite episodes that we organize in convenient playlists that give any new listener a great way to get acclimated to everything we do here on the show.
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Either go to spotify or passionstruck.com slash starter packs to get started.
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In case you missed it, earlier in the week, I interviewed retired astronaut Dr. Mike Massimino.
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From growing up as a working class kid with a dream as vast as the cosmos, to strapping himself into a NASA space shuttle and orbiting our beautiful planet, Mike has experienced a journey that is nothing short of extraordinary.
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In our interview, we discuss his new book, Moonshot.
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which is not just a memoir, it s a roadmap for success, packed with wit, wisdom, and the unique perspective of a man who s seen our world from a vantage point few ever will.
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I also wanted to say thank you for your ratings and reviews, and if you loved today s episode or that one with Mike Massimino, we would appreciate you giving it a five-star review and sharing it with your friends and families.
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I know we and our guests love to see comments from our listeners.
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Today, I am thrilled to be joined by a truly inspirational guest, my friend Forty Ball.
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a founder of the Conscious Thought Revolution and author of the best-selling book, The New Millionaire s Playbook, Seven Keys to Unlock Freedom, Purpose, and Abundance.
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In this episode, we re diving deep into the shift from thoughtlessness to thoughtfulness and how this crucial transformation can help you reclaim your abundant future.
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Imagine a world where your primary measure of success isn t the size of your bank account, but the impact you have on the lives of others.
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Where health is seen as the true wealth, and financial abundance flows effortlessly as you step into your purpose.
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With Gordy s guidance, we are exploring the concept of playing the most magnificent game of life, where every day is an opportunity to revel in the glorious experience of being alive on this planet at this unique moment in human history.
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We ll discuss how embracing this mindset can lead to harmonious relationships, a profound sense of peace, and the ability to move mountains with little or no effort.
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Horty Ball is not just a thought leader, he s also the co-founder of the impactful venture capital firm Conscious Thought Revolution.
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Today, he s here to invite you on a journey of self-discovery and transformation.
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Where the possibilities are endless and you have the power to manifest your reality on your terms.
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Gordy will share with us the seven keys to unlocking your innate power.
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From discovering your purpose and measuring your well-being to becoming a wealthy spiritual warrior and expanding your consciousness.
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So get ready for an enlightening conversation that promises to guide and inspire you on your path to a future where you are in control of your destiny.
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Let s welcome Gordy Ball to the show.
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Thank you for choosing PassionStruck and choosing me to be your host and guide on your journey to creating an intentional life.
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Now, let that journey begin.
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I am so excited today.
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I have just an incredible interview for you, and I wanted to introduce my friend Gordy Ball to PassionStruck.
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Welcome, Gordy.
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Thanks, brother.
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It s good to be here.
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It is so great for you to be here, especially coming all the way from Vancouver and just being so lucky to have you in Tampa.
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What an amazing opportunity.
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Yeah, it s really good to sit beside you.
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I think now that we have these opportunities to share space, it s just such a more rich experience than the Zoom stuff, right?
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It s nice to be with you.
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Yeah, I always love to do these, and I know the listeners and viewers on YouTube love them as well.
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Well, today, and I m going to show a copy because I have it here, we re going to be discussing your brand new book, which is The New Millionaire s Playbook.
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And congratulations, this hit Wall Street Journal bestseller, as I understand it.
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Yep, that s right.
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It hit Wall Street Journal bestseller, which was really crazy and amazing to see.
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And yeah, it s been quite a journey.
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I started working on this during the pandemic.
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and went inward and really after spending the last 10-15 years diving deep into understanding how the world works and what does the future look like.
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I wanted to take all my learnings and share them with the world and with the big sort of underlying thesis being we need to redefine wealth and what a millionaire actually is.
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Well, Gauri, I told you before we started that I have my own book coming out, and interestingly enough, we both dedicated our books to our kids, and I just wanted to read yours because I loved it.
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You say, this book is dedicated to my three sons, Jackson, Jovi, and Julian, and what I loved is, may your spirits soar high and your lives be filled with joy and magic.
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And I was hoping you could discuss why that saying has so much impact for you.
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Well, I think we re in this moment in history where we re undergoing a spiritual awakening.
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And what I mean by that is that our souls are coming online more and more.
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Our human condition is ready to burst open beyond the veil of what we think is real.
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And I talk about the matrix.
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And so for my own boys, the reason why I said, may your spirits soar high
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is for them to connect to their souls and really shine the bright light.
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Because most of us from childhood were conditioned to not be connected to our soul.
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We start developing an ego early on and we re building these layers and walls upon walls that keep our soul not truly shining bright.
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And so for me, why that was important to have that saying was as a reminder both to my boys and my kids, but also to myself is to continue doing the work to
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connect to my soul and let it shine bright.
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So that s the importance of it.
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No, I love it.
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And I thought it was so interesting how you started out the book because you were talking about that today
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We are faced in these unprecedented times, yet you say that it is the exact moment that people can change their life and create a meaningful one.
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But for people who are out there right now who might be feeling, looking at what s happening, hopeless or lost, et cetera, why is now the best time for them to really focus and create the life that they ve always wanted?
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That s a really good question.
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Well, so here s the backdrop.
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Over the next 10 years, we are undergoing the largest wealth transfer in modern history.
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Accenture reports that there will be over $70 trillion that are moving hands from the boomer generation to millennials and Gen Z. And millennials and Gen Z have a much different set of values than the boomer generation.
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They care more about
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sustainability, regeneration, mental health, emotional health, spiritual health, physical health.
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And so this affords the greatest opportunity to generate abundance as well.
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So for those who are feeling that life does look hopeless, and at moments it may, but really that is the universe really calling us forward and saying it s really time to wake up.
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discover your purpose, raise your consciousness, and shine your light bright because the opportunity to generate abundance now is like never before.
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And generating abundance now is different than what it was 50 years ago where it was an extractive capitalist model where it s I just need to make profit at the cost of the people on the planet.
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That s not the new game.
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The new millionaire s game is
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How do I positively impact millions of lives?
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And with exponential technology, and even we were just joking about social media, social media has its negatives.
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which I talk a lot about because it s mining our attention but it s also extremely positive because You have access to speak to millions of people and if you speak from your heart and you speak from your soul you have the ability To touch move and inspire them like you do and you have with passion strike So this is why it s such a great opportunity and and for those who are hopeless I think this is a moment to
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go inward, connect to your soul, and come back, and it s like the superhero ripping their jacket open, right?
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Well, I love that analogy, and I was hoping, because there are two fundamental concepts that we re going to be going through today, and one is the old millionaire playbook, and then we re going to be going into your book, the new millionaire playbook.
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Can you discuss why, for the Baby Boomers and my generation as well, this old millionaire playbook, where we put so much emphasis
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on success being tied to wealth came about and how so many people have fallen into that belief that s going to bring them happiness, which you and I have both discovered the hard way, is the exact opposite of what it s going to do.
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Yeah, well, I think it all comes down to the state of consciousness that each generation is living, breathing, and acting through.
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And so the previous generation, the conditioning, even the way the school system was designed, was to create this, almost like this indoctrination of being in a rat race, and you have to climb this corporate ladder or business ladder, and you have to achieve profit, and when you achieve profit and success, then you ll be happy.
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I ve seen more billionaires unhappy, unhealthy than I have people who are living paycheck to paycheck.
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And so this clearly shows that the more money you have doesn t necessarily mean that it equates to more happiness.
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Now, I m not saying don t strive for abundance.
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I think abundance is important, and I think it affords you opportunities.
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But if that s your sole purpose and that s your sole focus, then it detracts from a deeper meaning and the depth of your actual experience of coming
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into this world as a human.
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And the old millionaire game I always talk about is you chase money at the cost of other people s benefit.
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You re trying to extract value.
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It comes at the cost of the planet.
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You re extracting from the value.
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You re extracting value from the planet.
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But from the new millionaire, it s somebody who actually focuses on discovering their unique purpose.
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and measuring their own mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being so that they can become the best versions of themselves, raise their consciousness, and then when they express their purpose from their soul, then abundance is generated.
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And I make this analogy that you don t chase, money actually chases you, because that s what s happening.
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That s the moment in time that we are at in history where the universe is asking us to live from a place of depth and meaning and purpose,
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And so the frequencies of that attract abundance.
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Well, I love that explanation.
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And I wanted to take it actually a step back because you described something in the book called climbing your mountain.
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And this is something that myself have done.
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I had this belief that
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When I became a practice leader in a big four consulting firm, that was the epitome.
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And then I wasn t happy.
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Then I became the CIO for a Fortune 50 company, and I thought that was the pinnacle.
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And then I still wasn t happy, so I set my goal on becoming a CEO.
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And so then I hit becoming a CEO, and I had accomplished all these goals that I had set out for myself.
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And as you rightly point out, my soul was numb.
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I was the emptiest I think I had ever been, because I was putting that one pedestal of achievement over my health, over my mental well-being, over my emotional well-being, over my spiritual well-being, and most importantly, over my relationships.
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And this is something that I think you resonate with as well, and I was hoping you might be able
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unpack your story a bit.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I come from a world with immigrant parents.
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My parents moved from India to Canada with $20 to their name.
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And so there was a lot of struggle growing up to make ends meet, and my parents worked their butts off.
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I was able to see that there was a struggle in the home.
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And so as a child, the meaning I made from watching The Strife was that
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I need to make a lot of money.
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If I make a lot of money, I ll be able to not only solve the problems at home, but I ll be able to solve all the problems out there.
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And so as a child of the internet, I figured out how to make money relatively quickly.
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I got successful.
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I had a few businesses in high school.
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I always got good at hacking the system and figuring out how to do more with less.
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I got really good with that.
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And I finished my four-year degree in three years while I had four different businesses.
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And then after graduating from university, I built the equivalent of what s a high-frequency trading platform, but not in stocks, in online advertising.
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So I figured out this layer that sits in between sort of the internet advertising and the internet.
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and the ability to drive traffic.
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And doing that, I started generating six figures a day.
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And I remember having a record six-figure day.
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I even bought the domain name ctr.com, because if you know anything about online advertising, CTR stands for click-through rate, which is a key success metric.
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And so by traditional means, I was crushing it.
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I should have been elated, but I was depressed.
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I was in a deep, dark depression.
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There was times I couldn t get out of bed.
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And I was just like, what the F is the point of all of this?
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Like, why am I actually here?
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I thought if I made all this money that it would solve all the problems.
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But it was actually, I discovered I was having more problems.
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And I was what I refer to as I was spiritually bankrupt.
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I had no purpose.
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I didn t know why I was here.
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And I started
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sort of seeing different events in the sort of global macroeconomic world shape out, whether it was 9-11 or 2008 financial crash right before the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper, and then even just what we had a couple years ago with the pandemic, like these events would make me really start asking questions of how does the world actually work?
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What is money?
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What is politics?
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How does government and big corporate behemoths work together?
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What are the incentive structures?
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Are they actually designed for the betterment of humanity?
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And as I started discovering, you know, behind the veil, to me, it became clear that the game is rigged.
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And the game is rigged where a select few are benefiting at the cost of everybody else on the planet.
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And that, to me, was a moment where I was like,
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there s got to be a different way to play this game.
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This can t be the game that we chose to come in as a human to play.
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And that s why I wrote The New Millionaire s Playbook, because I think we are at a time where more, especially with where the advancement of artificial intelligence is coming, we re not too far off before we have our AI overlords telling us what to do.
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And so it s so incumbent on us to bake in wisdom and spirituality and consciousness
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into the technology that we re developing because as we re developing this godlike superpowers with this technology, we re also putting our own unconsciousness into it.
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And so that s gonna show up in the technology that we re gonna be interfacing day to day.
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It already is.
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Just look at all the social media algorithms that are constantly mining our attention to generate more profit.
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Yeah, it s really scary.
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I recently did an article and in it I was citing some studies by McKenzie and others.
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But McKenzie put out this study that by 2030, 30 percent of U.S.
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jobs are going to be overtaken by A.I.
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or robotics or something else.
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And I can t remember
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who the other study was from but it was even worse they were saying it s going to be between three hundred and five hundred million jobs three hundred and five hundred million jobs globally by twenty thirty and it is just telling me that
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The one thing that a human being is, we are the ultimate learning machine.
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And we are going to have to adapt quicker than we ever had before.
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And my kids are a little bit older than yours.
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My son is 25.
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My daughter is a sophomore in college.
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But the thing I always tell them, because they re both struggling with as much as
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changing out there, what do we study?
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Where do we put the focus?
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And I always tell them that fundamental things such as creativity, emotional intelligence, being your own creator are some of the most essential things you can be because if you re at the whims of someone owning your career, you re setting yourselves up for failure instead of putting yourself in a place where you can dictate what you want to do
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and to do what excites you, which is exactly what you talk about in the book.
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But I was hoping we could take a step back because
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One of the things you are passionate about, and you ve alluded to it a little bit, is The Matrix.
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And I ve loved that film series since it came out, but the more you look at that, and the more that you look at what s happening right now, there are a ton of parallels to it.
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Yeah.
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As well as the analogy of which pill are you going to take.
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Can you talk about
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Just to make this clear for the listener or viewer, what this matrix is that we find ourselves in now and what s going to happen to you if you don t realize what s going on and you don t start awakening yourself.
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Yeah, that s a really good question.
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It s interesting because one of the big questions that I ve been asking for the last decade is, what is the nature of reality?
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Like, how does reality actually get rendered?
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Even though we re sitting here, this feels real, but how does it actually happen?
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Where does it come from?
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What are the mechanisms by which our reality is formed?
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to which I realized the big piece of it is actually our thoughts, which is why I founded Conscious Thought Revolution.
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Our thoughts are like the Lego blocks which create the reality which is in front of us.
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And so when I talk about the Matrix, I m referring to this simulated reality that is orchestrated by an unconscious global power network
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whose incentives are to consolidate as much power as possible.
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And so some of the tools that are being used, I refer to one as the distraction dilemma.
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And again, that s social media.
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It s like constantly we re being bombarded by news, which is always polarizing.
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It s always forcing.
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a division.
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It s like divide and conquer is one of the greatest tools that the Matrix uses.
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Whether it s pro-vaccine, anti-vaccine, pro-democratic, pro-republic, pro-life, even now pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, it s always you re forced to take a position.
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But when you connect with your soul, it s more about having compassion for all of it.
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for everything, all of our brothers and sisters, everybody that s suffering in the world.
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But just because all of a sudden it s in the news, people are like activated and like, well, now I have to be compassionate.
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Now I have to be passionate about this topic.
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But this has been going on for
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hundreds of years before today and it s going to continue going on just because it s in the news cycle doesn t mean that your amygdala has to get hijacked and you all of a sudden become this puppet of this divisive, no, I m on this side, I m on this side.
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You re losing the game to the matrix.
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And so when
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I refer to this in the book.
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Steve Jobs coined the term the reality distortion field.
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So our reality distortion field is like the movie theater through which our reality is projected.
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And so for most of us from childhood, what s projected onto our screen is from the matrix.
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It s external input that s constantly putting what s on the screen for us.
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And if we don t discern it, we believe that as actual reality.
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But when we become totally empowered and we actually connect to our soul and we have a conscious thought revolution, we begin to realize that, just as you said, you are the creator.
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You can architect what s on the reality distortion field and how your reality gets rendered.
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You don t have to subscribe to what the matrix is putting into your own consciousness.
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And so I think that s the moment we re at right now.
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We have the opportunity to realize that no, this is not the reality I wish to accept.
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So when you begin to connect to deeper aspects of yourself and you start doing some of the work around your own ego, you start seeing the
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your own unconsciousness, and you realize you have all of these aspects of yourself that are not healed and not integrated, well all those parts that aren t healed and integrated of yourself, they re also co-projecting with the Matrix, because that is the Matrix.
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The Matrix itself, so it s like a Christopher Nolan or a M. Night Shyamalan movie, I m doing a spoiler alert in the book, at the beginning I talk about the Matrix as this external force that s projecting this reality,
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What ends up happening at the end is you realize that you are that because we are the universe.
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Each one of us are the universe experiencing itself and expanding itself through each of us.
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And so when we see the bad guys out there, really that s just our unconsciousness that s projected.
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And so if we want to change the world out there, it starts with the world in here.
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And so that s the real trick is really going in.
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And it s one of the most challenging things to do, to excavate all the aspects of yourself that you don t even know are there.
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All your blind spots, all your traumas, all your wounds from childhood.
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And when you bring them out and you actually heal them and you integrate them, well, as you re doing that for yourself, you re doing it for the collective.
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And so that s why in Chapter 3, I talk about measuring your MEPS, your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being.
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Because now that we have wearable technology and biometric feedback, we re able to start using data to quantify our overall well-being.
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And when we can, what we measure improves.
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And so if we measure these four areas, we begin to improve and we begin to transcend this notion of this matrix that s projecting our reality for us.
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I was telling you before we came on that our two books have a lot of commonalities woven between them, and one of them is you go through seven principles and yours I go through 12, but my 12th and
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kind of summary one is that we need to be conscious engagers.
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And I go through similar to what you have done, is I talk about how we are living so much in our subconscious.
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And what all this technology, if we allow it to do, is it s creating a whole bunch of individuals that are not looking out for the collective good, we re looking out for our collective selves.
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And what ends up happening is we live in the state of being the ball in a pinball game, where we are just bouncing off of everything.
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We re distracted.
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It s amazing.
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I had Professor Gloria Mark on the podcast, and she has this book, Attention Span.
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And she says that the average person is actually disrupted every 45 seconds.
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And that when we get disrupted like that, it can take up to 20 minutes to get back to what we re thinking about.
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And you think about all those distractions, and then to your point, if you use the power of focus, use this power of tuning in and training your mind, and you consciously start engaging with the world and with your inner purpose and drive,
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unleashes, as you said, this incredible force multiplier that I don t think people realize is within themselves.
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You start out the book by saying that the first step before you get even to the maps is to explore finding that purpose, that meaning.
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How does a person go about doing that?
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Because I think right now we re living in this world where so many people don t feel like they matter.
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It s like
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anti-mattering.
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How do they find that intrinsic purpose, that motivation that s going to drive them to do what they need to do to become this new millionaire?
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So I walk people through a five-step process in the book that helps them get clear on their purpose.
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And like you are saying, I think now is such an important time.
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After the pandemic, it s like the collective room got oxygenated to ask these questions of,
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What am I really here for?
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What is my purpose?
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And so one of the things that was really powerful for me, and I talk about this, is just even understanding our own neurology and understanding that each one of our minds is extremely unique.
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And for example, with me, when I was a kid and when I was younger,
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I always hated things that require organizing or if I have to put together spreadsheets.
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And anything that was of that nature, it just didn t feel good.
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I didn t enjoy it.
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And when I was younger, I felt like there must be something wrong.
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Should I just figure it out?
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But when I got my brain mapped through this process, I realized that my brain is designed to be extremely conceptual.
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I can think in the abstract really well and connect invisible dots.
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And so when I learned that about myself and I realized that, it actually made me fall in love with my own brain as such where I now I knew that s where my superpowers are.
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So people that have, it s a highly conceptual brain like mine.
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So there s four areas.
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There s conceptual, relational, analytical, and structural.
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And most people are split between two or three of them.
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They re called a bimodal or a trimodal brain.
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And for me, I was 95% conceptual.
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and I m referred to as what s a unimodal, and it s 5% of the population has a brain that s unimodal.
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And on one hand, I was like, oh, am I an alien or something?
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But when I understood what that meant, it was like, oh, I m really good at seeing a big picture, a big vision.
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I m good at inspiring people.
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I m good at helping people discover what they re passionate about.
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And so that s the first step, is understanding your unique brain, falling in love with it, and then getting rid of all the limiting stories about what you re not good at.
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If you re not good at it, you re not gonna, like there s no need to keep putting energy towards it.
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You ll build a team or you ll surround yourself with people that complete you.
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It s like just a sports team, right?
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We were talking about earlier.
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That s one of them.
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And then another practice, I talk about this concept called ikigai, which is a Japanese concept that is your reason for being.
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And so there s a whole Venn diagram that I have where you can talk about what you re curious about, what you re passionate about, what you can do to earn money.
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And you go through that exercise, you get clear about it as well.
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And then the thing that has been one of the biggest game changers is reconnecting back to our curiosity.
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What are you actually curious about?
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When you sit with that and you ask yourself what you re curious about, it bypasses the programming that s already there.
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Because when you re programmed, there s no curiosity.
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You re just running on code that s been programmed since you were born.
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And so when you tap into, what am I actually curious about?
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Even in this moment, what am I curious about?
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So if I just sit and feel that, I m curious about how you re feeling right now.
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I m curious about what the viewers, how they re feeling.
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I m curious about, are we going to be a planetary, multi-planetary species?
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Is that going to happen?
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When I notice my energy, as I m getting curious, like I m perking up because I m connecting to a part of myself that is in the question.
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And when we re in the question, we re getting clearer or we re able to connect more to our purpose because that s what s going to lead us there.
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And the other thing I ll just share with you is this idea that I think is really powerful to keep in mind.
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According to a Stanford research, we have about 40,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day.
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And so over the course of 17 days-ish, you ve invested or you ve had a million thoughts.
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So this is the other thing I ask, I ask people and I work with a lot of founders and I say, where did you just invest your last million thoughts?
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And what s the ROI on those thoughts?
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And where are you gonna invest your next million thoughts?
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And so if you re having 40 to 60,000 of them per day, most of them are programmed and you re just getting programmed.
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So the whole objective is let s not let the program continue running us and let s transcend it.
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And it s interesting being a podcaster, one of the things that s a blessing for me is I get to read amazing books and I m constantly reading a whole bunch of them at the same time.
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So currently I was reading your book, I was reading Limitless by Jim Kwik because I got him coming up for an interview in a couple of weeks.
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And I ve been reading Gabby Bernstein s book too.
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And the interesting parallel between all of them is that they were Hay House.
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But besides that, it was real interesting to read your book
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along with those other two because, again, different concepts are resonating in each one of them.
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When I was rereading Limitless, I was just going through the seven lies that he has in there that we tell ourselves.
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And you ve just covered a couple of them.
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And I think one of the biggest ones is that we have this mindset that we re fixed by our genetics, that we re fixed by our learning ability, that we re fixed.
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Like I have the same issue you do.
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I remember going into my MBA and I knew
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that I had to get deeper into spreadsheets and stuff like that, but I cannot stand those things.
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I m like you, I can see the big picture, I can see how it all comes together, but you want me to sit there all day and look at a whole bunch of spreadsheets?
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I m gonna pull my hair out.
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But what I am reminded of reading Jim s book is he was the kid with the broken brain, and we can train ourselves in any discipline we want
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if we open our minds to it.
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And I think that is something that s so important for people to realize.
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It s so good.
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It s funny.
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I was just keynoting with Jim in Toronto last week, and I had my 11-year-old son Jackson with me.
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And Jackson went and asked him, and he said, hey, Jim, what s one thing I could do to improve my brain?
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And the advice that Jim gave was,
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Just so perfect.
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He said, ask yourself multiple times per day, is this good for my brain or is this bad for my brain?
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And it was so fun seeing my son with this epiphany.
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Wow, that s really good advice.
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And I was thinking, I need to take that advice too.
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Well, we don t think about how much it matters because just think about the gut-brain access.
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And I recently interviewed Dr. Gabrielle Lyon and I ve got Casey Means coming on.
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And I never realized before I started doing this how much our mitochondria health plays into our overall brain health and our aptitude.
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But I m sure you feel it, as I do.
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I can tell immediately if I fast every day, and I can tell that first meal of the day.
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If I m putting junk in, I immediately feel like I m in a food coma.
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And if I m eating healthy, almost greens, protein, stuff like that, I am supercharged the rest of the afternoon.
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And he s absolutely right.
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It is such an important thing to think about.
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And another thing that you brought up that I think is so important for people to realize is that with those thousands and thousands of thoughts that turn into millions of thoughts, one of the fundamental things I believe is we have to be consciously steadfast in our choices because it is those what I call micro choices that we make.
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When you ve got all those thoughts going on, you can take yourself in a million different directions.
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But if you become consciously aware of more of those micro choices you make, they re going to start building you to take actions that will lead to habits that will lead to taking you away from the matrix that you re talking about to this new millionaire world that people need to start subscribing to.
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Because honestly, we need many more people who are here trying to serve
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the world.
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Yeah.
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What do you think about that power of micro choice?
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I love it.
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That s all we ve got is choice in any given moment in the now is a choice.
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And so that s one of the practices I have is any time that I m feeling a little off kilter, I ll check in with myself.
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And the first question I ask is, am I in the presence of self love?
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And if I notice that I m not, I ll make the choice.
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I choose to love.
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Because what s happening for us when we re not in our best soul self is because there s a part of ourselves we re not loving.
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There s a part of ourself that we re not accepting or integrating.
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And then it shows up in sideways ways, passive aggressive, or we ll be moody, or whatever it shows up.
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And then the external relationships will feel it.
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But before we can love externally, we have to love all the aspects of ourself.
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Micro-choice, every single second is an opportunity for a micro-choice.
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And I think that is the most powerful thing we have.
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The thoughts that we re having, most of them are not, we re not choosing them.
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They re in the programming.
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So to your point, it s each one is a micro-choice of, am I going to let this one, am I going to go with this one, or should I choose this one?
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And so that s where we have the power.
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And we can choose the thoughts that are more empowering, that are more aligned with our passion.
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And so when we connect our thoughts to our passion and purpose,
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Those are the ones that I like riding.
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Yeah, but you re right.
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It comes down to are you going to choose to stay up late?
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Are you going to choose to get to bed at a relative time period?
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Are you going to choose to make that a recurring pattern where your body gets used to it and you are more alert and alive and ready to take on the world?
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Or are you going to be lackadaisical about it?
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It s all these things that
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we don t put enough thought to that end up evolving into where we take our lives.
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I always love how Robin Sharma says that our lives either become this tidal wave of success and money and reaching our ambitions or they become this waterfall of despair.
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and it all comes down to the choices that you re making, so I think that s so important.
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Have you ever heard of a concept called SISU?
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It s S-I-S-U, and I only bring it up because I ve actually recorded a solo episode about it this week.
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I ran across this concept a while back, but it is actually a Finnish term that cannot be translated into any other language.
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But it s their whole DNA, and it goes back centuries.
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If you think about what happened in World War II when the Russians invaded Finland and they were able to suppress them, it was their inner sissu.
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So this is a combination of unrelentless courage, maxed with grit and resilience,
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but it s like on steroids.
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It s something that if you use the word resilience, if you use the word courage, if you use the word grit, it doesn t do it justice.
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But it s interesting because they, right now, are regarded as possibly having the best education system on earth, and it s all rooted in SISU.
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They make their whole education system around this.
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It makes me think about our education system, which really came about
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to force more people into the working class, if I have it, the correct understanding.
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And theirs is to try to get people into the wilderness, into taking action,
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to having an action-oriented mindset where you feel like you can overcome anything.
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And I think we are becoming more and more soft instead of incorporating SISU into our life.
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And it s something, especially the resilience piece that you cover in the book as well.
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Yeah, it s so funny, the whole notion of we re becoming soft.
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I ve been feeling that a lot too.
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It s like this whole culture that we re currently living in, it s like you have to be careful with what words you use because you re going to offend somebody.
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When did we become so soft?
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And it s interesting, and I think the education system has had a lot to do with that as well.
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because it is taking away the sisu, the real power and strength and courage and grit that we come with.
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And it s like everybody is, I m noticing it s, yeah, there s this, it s almost like this harvesting of life energy and leaving people with this like emptiness.
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And I talk about this in the book as well, like the education system.
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And it was started in the early 1900s by John D. Rockefeller, who founded the General Education Fund, and then gave it to Congress.
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And since then, even he is famously quoted as saying, I don t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.
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And so they set up a system to just produce factory workers, and it hasn t changed.
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it s the same system that we re living in and so I love the concept of SISU that that feels yeah that feels really good and I admire your SISU.
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Well thank you and I have to tell you for me growing up in that system it was difficult I mean I came up from a family where I had a Marine Corps father I went to parochial schools raised in a very conservative family and then I go right from that to joining the military going to the Naval Academy
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and then serving in the military.
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And as you re saying, it s the very construct, both of them, where they re trying to brainwash you into being what they want you to be.
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And it s something that you write about in the book, where I m going with this, and it s something that I also talk about in my book.
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I phrase it this way, that
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I think so many people today are wearing a mask.
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Think about a mask that you would wear from Phantom of the Opera.
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Yet we are using that to disguise, in the way that we go about our lives, who we actually are.
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And I think that this is one of the biggest issues that people are facing, is we are so consumed with trying to be what society tells us to be, what we think we need to do, which is leading to perfectionism and toxic culture or toxic achievement culture in a lot of the kids today, that this mask, if you don t take it off and realize
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your authentic self underneath it, you are never going to break through to be the new millionaire that you re talking about.
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And I was hoping you could explore that analogy a little bit more.
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Yeah, I love it.
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Well, when you first said wearing masks, I thought you were talking about the COVID masks, which is a whole other conversation we can go down another day.
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I have found that it s not just one mask.
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We re wearing multiple masks.
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Even when you take off one mask, there s still layers.
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It s like when I was talking about earlier, we build all these walls in front of our soul.
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And each one of those is like a different protection mechanism.
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And one of these things that it s like this looking glass mirror analogy.
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It s I am who I think you think I am.
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I am who I think you think I am.
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So that s the, yeah, it s crazy.
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That s the level of programming.
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So we re always trying to show up with this mask with calibrating, who do I think you think I am and how do I fit that?
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And so that s like the primary mask.
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And I think when we put that one away and just say, hey, I m this, take this or leave it.
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And a question I hate the most that I get is who are you?
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Or what do you do?
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What do you do?
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Because you re right, you re immediately putting on that mask thinking what identity do I showcase to this person?
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And I thought Hilary Swank gave one of the best answers.
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I could tell someone I m an actress, a philanthropist, an educator, a producer, a director.
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She goes, at the heart of it is I m a storyteller.
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I m trying to make people feel emotion through the stories that I evoke, whether that s giving back to a charity or whether that s something like that.
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But so many of us, when we hear that question, we identify who we are with our title.
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And what we perceive success is, because we think, to your point, that s what the other person wants to hear.
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Exactly.
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Because if I would just say, my life is, my identity is, I m a father, people don t respond to that.
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Yeah, it s hilarious.
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There s an ancient Mayan greeting.
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It goes something like, in lakesh a la kin.
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And what that translates to is, I am another you.
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And I think if more of us embody that and remember that I m also just on a, even just on a quantum molecular substrate level, we re all the same.
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We re all star stuff.
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We re all stardust.
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And so when we remember that, and even, you know, in Indian, the namaste is like the light in me sees the light in you.
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I think some of these sacred ancient wisdom traditions and
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Lineages have a lot to teach us in that way so we can reconnect and just remember that even though we re a unique vantage point That we re occupying as the universe.
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We re still one We are like we look like we re that was the whole point of us coming to be tried this human thing, right?
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We re all infinite universal consciousness oneness and we re connected and then at some point in the ether We re like, oh, let s go and experience separateness now And so we see now we get to experience ourselves like this, but we forgot that we re still
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unified and we re still that s what universe is one song one song
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I love that so much.
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Gordy, there are a few more things that I want to get into, and one of them is, you talk about in the book how you realized, and you were actually in your 20s when this happened, when you had all this success, and you were thinking about this consciousness aspect of your life.
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You started to do this real soul-searching, and you went out, and you explored the world, and you were getting into mindfulness and all these things, and then you discovered
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this small subset of people who had broken through the matrix and had figured it out.
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What were some of the things that you found about them?
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Because I think one of them was they used purpose as their superpower.
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Yeah.
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But what was it that you found about this unique group and what had they found that so many other people hadn t that had led them on not only the successful path
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but a successful path where they felt so much meaning to what they were doing.
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I d say one of the biggest ones is when these people, and us, I feel like we re doing this as well, is when we realize that too much effort in the material world
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is not the way to play the game.
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And when we actually start playing the game of life from the immaterial world, the non-local world, the place where our soul resides or our consciousness resides, then you can shapeshift reality.
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And so that might sound crazy, but even people like biohackers, who are so prone to living longer and using longevity practices by bridging ancient wisdom technologies, even like breathwork.
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There s a lot of spiritual technologies that have been around for thousands of years that are now coming back online, breathwork being one of them.
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and converging them with modern day technology and exponential technology that give us biometric feedback and data.
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And so it s like people that are actually looking behind the veil of not only externally, but inside themselves.
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How do I operate?
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What is my mental, emotional, physical, spiritual well-being?
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And if I really want to design a life,
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What are the mechanisms by which I can design a life that I don t have to use this willful push and pull, which most of us think that s the only way.
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It s I have to move and pick up this table.
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And on some level you do.
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But in some ways, I don t.
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And so that s a big one, is people that I started connecting with who were able to shapeshift reality by using the power of their mind, by using the power of consciousness, by seeing themselves as energetic bodies, not just physical meat vessels, but seeing themselves as energy that are occupying a meat body or a vessel, right?
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And so if we re only seeing ourselves as the vessel, then that s all we can work with.
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That s the only tools we have.
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But if we see ourselves as actual, powerful, limitless energy that is using this as a tool,
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It s pretty crazy the stuff that can happen.
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And I get into some of this stuff in chapter seven, and I developed like a whole, one of the things I really started studying was the art and science of manifesting.
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How can you actually generate and engineer synchronicities?
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And so I remember, you probably remember the book The Secret that came out many years ago.
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And that was cool, but it was missing a lot too.
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It was a cool concept of the law of attraction, but it wasn t, and
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For me, because even though I can live in the conceptual ethereal world, I also have a heavy desire for intellectual stimulation.
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I need to understand at least some of the science and the art for it.
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And so when I started seeing how we are an electromagnetic frequency-emitting machine and everything is electric, you can start—and I think it was Nikola Tesla who said, the biggest shift we ll have in our species is when we start studying frequencies.
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And I think we re starting to tap into that now.
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More and more people are doing that.
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And one of the really interesting things I discovered is there was this battle in science between physics and biology over the last 100 plus years.
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And what happened is electricity got lost.
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The study of electricity got lost in that battle, and now it s starting to emerge again, and people are studying the potency of electricity in the body.
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And so you, as we talked about, the gut biome was a big thing over the last few years.
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I think the next thing that people are going to be really coming out with are ways to augment your electrum.
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Man, that s fascinating.
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Yeah.
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Well, before we came on, we were both talking about how we have friends in the SEAL community, the Navy SEAL community.
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And it s interesting because during my time that I got to serve in the SEALs was some of the most profound time, but not in ways that people would think.
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It was where I was first really introduced to yoga, where I was first really introduced into box breathing, into mind control.
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And I have a friend, Mark Devine.
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When he went through BUDS, he was the honor man for his class, and he used his training in martial arts to break through and train the people that were in his boat crew to follow his same regimens about how he was using breath to control, how he was using his conscious mind to realize that trying times end.
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how he was teaching them how they could get through these struggles and that these were just temporary things around them.
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And at that point in time, he was the only person who ever had his whole boat crew graduate from BUDS because of the failure rates.
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But it s interesting because a friend you were telling me about
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is also really deep in this mindfulness.
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And when people think of elite warriors, I think they think of physical prowess and they think about a lot of these things, but they don t really think about how much time they put into really this mind-body connection and how important mindfulness becomes.
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Yeah, so that keynote that I had done with Jim Quick last week in Toronto, one of the first things that I shared is
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We are in the midst of the biggest war in history.
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And that s not the war in Ukraine, it s not the war in the Middle East, but it s a war on consciousness.
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And the battlefield is the depths of our own psyche.
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And
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For lack of better words, the weapon is mindfulness.
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It s love.
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And it s really cultivating the tools necessary, such as breath work, and mindfulness, and yoga, and meditation.
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Which, by the way, it s ironic.
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They re all free.
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All the best tools for this is free, and it s fully accessible to you.
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And so that s one of the other things I would say to people, is you don t need
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a lot of money to go find ways to do your inner work and have an internal revolution.
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Everything is available to you inside.
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And yeah, again, and that comes back to your point of micro-choices.
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Even when you re breathing right now, as you re listening to this or you re watching this, how are you breathing?
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How deep are you breathing even right now?
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Is it shallow?
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Is it just right up here?
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Or are you letting your full body take a breath?
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One of the biggest keys and hacks for longevity is just slow your breath down.
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That s it.
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Slow your breath down and it ll add extra years to your life.
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One of the favorite questions that I ask guests on this show is if you were an astronaut and you were selected to go on the mission to Mars and the powers that be allowed you to give an edict for this new planet, what would it be?
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But in your book, you phrase it a little bit different.
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You say we all need to find our own mission to Mars.
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Why is that?
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I call it life crafting.
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Why is that so important?
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Well, I also have a play on words in the book.
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I joke and I say, while billionaire entrepreneurs are building rockets to go to Mars, the Mars I want to invite you to is multiple automated revenue streams.
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So I talk about this being a key concept for the new millionaire s playbook.
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So I joke a little bit about what Mars is.
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But in terms of finding your own unique mission, I think that s part of when you discover your purpose, is why am I truly here?
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What is it that I m here to bring?
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How am I here to serve?
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What is the unique gift I have to bring to my community, my family, my people, and the planet at large?
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And so I think to your point of if I was an astronaut and I was looking down, which the overview effect, by the way, is like the best way to really see our place in the entire cosmos.
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But I would say it s really doing the deep internal work
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If I could wave a magic wand, I would macro-dose Earth with love, because love is the answer.
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As trite as that sounds, it truly is.
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That s all it is.
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Everything else is just a way to remind us to find our way back to it, is love.
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It s the highest frequency.
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If you look at all the different frequencies that exist, love is the highest frequency, and we re just finding our way back there.
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Well, I love that you brought that up because another Navy SEAL, one of my closest friends, Chris Cassidy, was an astronaut.
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And I remember one time he was telling me he s in the Coppola and he s looking down and it just happens to be when they re crossing over New York City.
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And he in that moment was really having this mindful
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moment where he was thinking there s probably someone down there in their car or in a cab and they re stuck in traffic and they re probably using four-letter words because they re in a hurry to get somewhere and he goes, I m looking down and I realize how meaningless that is in the big scheme of things and how what is so important as you re talking about is the love that we all have and this incredible planet that we all live on and how we are all part of this ecosystem.
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So one last question that I wanted to ask is, if you re a listener or viewer today and they re listening to this episode or they pick up your book, what are one or two key things that you want to leave the listener with?
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I d say you re far more powerful than you can imagine.
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You have the ability to create the reality that you truly wish to have and your thoughts are the most powerful currency you have.
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If you just begin to become aware of your thoughts and you start noticing and you were, think of having a Fitbit.
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of your thoughts.
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If you can measure the frequency or the value of your thoughts, just notice that.
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And you, as John says, you can choose your own thoughts, micro choices of your thoughts.
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Well, Gordy, thank you so much for coming on today.
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If a listener or viewer wants to learn more about you,
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where s the best place for them to go?
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Yeah, you can go to CTR.com, you can go to newmillionairesplaybook.com, get yourself a copy of the book.
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We ve loaded up a whole bunch of free resources for you as well to help you on your journey.
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And I wish you the best of luck and look forward to connecting with you soon.
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Well, man, it was such a great time to have you and it was such an honor that we could do this together.
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So thank you so much for coming on the show.
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My pleasure.
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Thanks for having me.
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Well, what an incredible interview that was with Gordie Ball.
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And I wanted to thank Gordie and Hay House for having them appear on today s show.
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Lucia has dedicated her life to unveiling the intricate dance between nutrition, genetics, and epigenetics.
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Her teachings and research have illuminated the profound impact of our daily choices on our genes and our overall wellbeing.
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individualizing epigenetics can be done right now and in a very easy way.
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So we first start from the universal principles.
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In general, we know that an epigenetically complete diet involves
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Animal foods and plant foods, we know how these foods nourish our epigenome.
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Then we need to personalize to people preferences and conditions.
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