1 00:00:01,330 --> 00:00:03,650 You had an extra job or two 2 00:00:05,038 --> 00:00:07,048 but you're here 3 00:00:07,308 --> 00:00:09,868 for a lot of you. Even though you made it up the hill, 4 00:00:09,868 --> 00:00:13,218 You carry the baggage of rejection with you 5 00:00:13,423 --> 00:00:15,123 but you're here. 6 00:00:17,173 --> 00:00:19,503 So many people are waiting 7 00:00:19,503 --> 00:00:21,833 you're waitting for things to be perfect. 8 00:00:22,153 --> 00:00:25,669 You're waiting for everyone to get themselves together. 9 00:00:27,074 --> 00:00:29,604 Imagine you read one hour a day 10 00:00:30,191 --> 00:00:31,691 about history 11 00:00:32,095 --> 00:00:37,536 How much you will learn after 365 hours in one year? 12 00:00:38,011 --> 00:00:42,011 Think about if you study about the history of musicians of composers. 13 00:00:42,384 --> 00:00:44,554 How much you would know? 14 00:00:44,554 --> 00:00:45,848 You went to Indiana University? 15 00:00:45,848 --> 00:00:49,908 Right, now you got a lot of people that say forget about school. 16 00:00:50,147 --> 00:00:51,237 They're idiots. 17 00:00:51,237 --> 00:00:52,947 So you think they're idiots? They're idiots 18 00:00:53,545 --> 00:00:56,250 I bet most of your people who've sat in this chair. 19 00:00:56,250 --> 00:00:58,470 It's not about what college they went to 20 00:00:58,470 --> 00:01:02,662 It's about their own initiative, their own drive, their own ambitions, their own curiosity. 21 00:01:04,322 --> 00:01:07,345 Purpose is an essential element of you. 22 00:01:07,345 --> 00:01:11,454 It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history. 23 00:01:11,454 --> 00:01:14,424 You're waiting for someone to give you the opportunity 24 00:01:14,424 --> 00:01:16,832 You're waiting for everything to line up 25 00:01:16,832 --> 00:01:20,412 You're waiting for all the situations to come together perfectly 26 00:01:20,412 --> 00:01:22,572 and I'm telling you, you cannot wait. 27 00:01:22,572 --> 00:01:24,772 You gotta start working right now. 28 00:01:24,941 --> 00:01:27,211 Whatever you choose for a career path 29 00:01:27,211 --> 00:01:32,019 remember the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you 30 00:01:32,019 --> 00:01:33,549 for your purpose. 31 00:01:33,968 --> 00:01:36,058 YOUR LIFE MATTERS. 32 00:01:36,058 --> 00:01:38,018 YOUR VOICE MATTERS. 33 00:01:38,018 --> 00:01:40,078 YOUR NAME MATTERS. 34 00:01:41,335 --> 00:01:44,550 Sometimes you need to feel the pain and sting of defeat 35 00:01:44,550 --> 00:01:49,500 to activate the real passion and purpose that God predestined 36 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:50,960 inside of you. 37 00:01:53,705 --> 00:01:56,495 Imagine you read one hour a day 38 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:58,880 about history. 39 00:02:03,296 --> 00:02:09,916 How much you will learn after 365 hours in one year? 40 00:02:10,262 --> 00:02:13,962 Think about if you study about the history of musicians of composers, 41 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:16,870 how much you would know ? 42 00:02:19,262 --> 00:02:22,022 Imagine if you would work on the business 43 00:02:22,022 --> 00:02:25,779 on some business that you want to develop every day for an hour. 44 00:02:26,592 --> 00:02:30,592 Imagine how further along you will go and get? 45 00:02:32,149 --> 00:02:34,129 So drive me nuts because we have 46 00:02:34,129 --> 00:02:36,599 when people say we don't have the time. 47 00:02:36,599 --> 00:02:38,874 We have 24 hours a day. 48 00:02:39,676 --> 00:02:41,656 We sleep 6 hours a day. 49 00:02:42,592 --> 00:02:46,062 So that gives you still 18 hours. 50 00:02:46,062 --> 00:02:47,853 There's someone shaking their head out here in front 51 00:02:47,853 --> 00:02:48,896 they say probably 52 00:02:48,896 --> 00:02:51,826 I don't sleep 6 hours I sleep 8 hours, right? 53 00:02:52,206 --> 00:02:54,845 Well just sleep faster. 54 00:02:58,999 --> 00:03:01,229 So we have 18 hours a day. 55 00:03:01,229 --> 00:03:05,229 The average person works around 8 to 10 hours. 56 00:03:05,883 --> 00:03:08,993 So let's assume it's 10 hours so if you have 8 hours left 57 00:03:09,008 --> 00:03:11,608 then you travel around an hour a day 58 00:03:11,772 --> 00:03:13,432 maybe 2 hours a day. 59 00:03:13,739 --> 00:03:16,799 So now you have still 6 hours left. 60 00:03:16,799 --> 00:03:19,449 So what do you do with your 6 hours? 61 00:03:19,612 --> 00:03:21,622 What do you do with your 6 hours? 62 00:03:21,622 --> 00:03:23,191 Maybe eat a little bit 63 00:03:23,191 --> 00:03:25,411 maybe shmooze a little bit 64 00:03:25,411 --> 00:03:28,928 talk a little bit to people and all that stuff. 65 00:03:28,928 --> 00:03:32,248 But you can see how much time there is available 66 00:03:32,248 --> 00:03:35,237 If you organize your day. 67 00:03:35,371 --> 00:03:37,641 So you've got to work hard. 68 00:03:42,334 --> 00:03:45,654 I mean let me tell you something when I went to America 69 00:03:45,667 --> 00:03:47,547 I went to college. 70 00:03:48,842 --> 00:03:51,872 I went and worked out 5 hours a day 71 00:03:52,759 --> 00:03:55,829 and I was working in construction 72 00:03:56,718 --> 00:04:00,468 because in those days in bodybuilding there was no money. 73 00:04:00,468 --> 00:04:03,858 I didn't have the money for food supplements ar anything 74 00:04:03,858 --> 00:04:05,458 So I had to go to work. 75 00:04:05,490 --> 00:04:08,220 So I worked in construction. I went to college 76 00:04:08,220 --> 00:04:10,738 I worked out in the gym and at night 77 00:04:10,738 --> 00:04:14,848 from 8 o'clock at night to 12 midnight I went to acting class 78 00:04:15,398 --> 00:04:16,698 4 times a week. 79 00:04:17,569 --> 00:04:19,519 So I did all that. 80 00:04:19,733 --> 00:04:23,733 There was not one single minute that I wasted 81 00:04:23,826 --> 00:04:27,156 and this is why I'm standing here today. 82 00:04:38,932 --> 00:04:42,132 Now is the time to start building your marrige 83 00:04:42,132 --> 00:04:45,892 Now is the time to start teaching and investing in your kids. 84 00:04:45,892 --> 00:04:49,032 Now is the time to start piecing your money together 85 00:04:49,032 --> 00:04:50,962 and getting yourself out if debt 86 00:04:50,962 --> 00:04:54,336 Now is the time to start pursuing something greater. 87 00:04:54,336 --> 00:04:58,396 Now is the time to start to building the vision that God put in your heart. 88 00:04:58,396 --> 00:05:00,956 Now is the time to start saving up for the home. 89 00:05:00,956 --> 00:05:04,816 Now is the time to start making those investments in yourself. 90 00:05:04,816 --> 00:05:06,126 You cannot wait. 91 00:05:06,126 --> 00:05:07,584 Don't wait another day, 92 00:05:07,584 --> 00:05:10,314 don't wait another minute, don't wait another moment 93 00:05:10,314 --> 00:05:13,584 NOW IS YOUR TIME. 94 00:05:13,584 --> 00:05:17,584 How long are you going to complain about what you don't have? 95 00:05:17,813 --> 00:05:21,813 How long are you going to complain about who didn't do it and 96 00:05:21,813 --> 00:05:25,813 who didn't take care of you and who didn't call you and who don't like you 97 00:05:25,813 --> 00:05:29,663 and what they said and what they think? 98 00:05:29,663 --> 00:05:35,113 Who cares what they think? Who cares what they said ? 99 00:05:35,113 --> 00:05:37,273 This is not about them 100 00:05:37,273 --> 00:05:38,613 This is about ME. 101 00:05:38,613 --> 00:05:41,514 This is about what God wants to do in me. 102 00:05:41,514 --> 00:05:44,824 This is about the legacy that he wants me to build. 103 00:05:44,824 --> 00:05:47,644 This is about the impact he wants me to make. 104 00:05:47,644 --> 00:05:51,098 Why am I going to put my legacy to the side to 105 00:05:51,098 --> 00:05:53,196 in order to appease a person 106 00:05:53,196 --> 00:05:54,396 who don't know 107 00:05:54,396 --> 00:05:55,709 who I really am. 108 00:06:01,131 --> 00:06:03,123 You gotta get to a place 109 00:06:03,123 --> 00:06:05,293 where you recognize 110 00:06:05,293 --> 00:06:08,413 that I'm not just here passing time 111 00:06:08,413 --> 00:06:12,413 I'm not just here just having fun 112 00:06:12,413 --> 00:06:15,433 but I'm here to build legacy. 113 00:06:15,433 --> 00:06:17,753 I'm here to make things happen. 114 00:06:17,753 --> 00:06:20,113 I'm here to change the world. 115 00:06:20,114 --> 00:06:22,784 NOW IS YOUR TIME. 116 00:06:35,850 --> 00:06:41,915 My experience is with people that we're probably running at about 51% of our compacity 117 00:06:41,915 --> 00:06:44,355 something I mean you can think about this yourselves 118 00:06:44,355 --> 00:06:48,208 I often ask undergraduates: How many hours a day you waste? 119 00:06:48,208 --> 00:06:50,525 or How many hours a week you waste? 120 00:06:50,525 --> 00:06:53,745 The classic answer something like 4 to 6 hours a day 121 00:06:53,745 --> 00:06:57,660 You know, inefficient studying, watching things on Youtube 122 00:06:57,660 --> 00:06:59,340 that not only do you want to watch 123 00:06:59,340 --> 00:07:01,740 that you don't even care about that make you feel horrible 124 00:07:01,740 --> 00:07:03,440 about watching after you're done. 125 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,690 That probably 4 hours right there. 126 00:07:05,690 --> 00:07:09,030 You know, you think well that's 20-25 hours a week 127 00:07:09,030 --> 00:07:12,430 It's 100 hours a month that's two and a half full work week. 128 00:07:12,430 --> 00:07:15,271 It's half a year of the workweeks per year. 129 00:07:15,271 --> 00:07:19,271 And if your time is worth 20 dollars an hour which is a radical underestimate 130 00:07:19,271 --> 00:07:21,131 it's probably more like 50 131 00:07:21,131 --> 00:07:23,671 if you think about it in term of deferred wages 132 00:07:23,671 --> 00:07:25,851 If you're wasting 20 hours a week, 133 00:07:25,851 --> 00:07:28,321 your wasting 50,000 dollars a year 134 00:07:28,321 --> 00:07:30,291 and you are doing that right now 135 00:07:30,291 --> 00:07:33,271 and it's because you're young wasting 50,000 dollars a year 136 00:07:33,271 --> 00:07:36,051 is a way bigger catastrophe than it would be for me to waste it 137 00:07:36,051 --> 00:07:38,311 because I'm not going to last nearly as long. 138 00:07:38,311 --> 00:07:41,121 And so if your life isn't everything it could be you could ask yourself 139 00:07:41,121 --> 00:07:44,771 what would happen if you just stopped wasting the opportunity 140 00:07:44,771 --> 00:07:46,431 that are in front of you. 141 00:07:46,431 --> 00:07:49,164 You be who knows how much more efficient? 142 00:07:49,164 --> 00:07:52,704 10 times more efficient, 20 times more efficient 143 00:07:52,704 --> 00:07:54,600 that's the Pareto distribution. 144 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,488 You have no idea how efficient 145 00:07:56,488 --> 00:07:57,681 efficient people get. 146 00:07:57,681 --> 00:08:00,184 It's completely it's off the charts. 147 00:08:04,020 --> 00:08:06,560 The best thing you can do is teach to write 148 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,040 because there's no difference between that and thinking. 149 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,120 And one of these things that just blow me away about universities 150 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:16,560 is that no one ever tells students why they should write something. 151 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,050 So it's why you have to do an assignment ? 152 00:08:23,050 --> 00:08:25,290 Why you are writing? Why you need a grade? 153 00:08:25,290 --> 00:08:28,740 It's no you need to learn to think 154 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,090 because thinking makes you act effectively in the world. 155 00:08:32,090 --> 00:08:34,570 thinking make you win the battle you undertakes and 156 00:08:34,570 --> 00:08:36,420 those could be battles for good things. 157 00:08:36,420 --> 00:08:38,200 If you can think and speak and write 158 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,990 you are absolutely deadly nothing can get in your way. 159 00:08:43,489 --> 00:08:45,649 So that's why you learn to write it's like 160 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,819 Well, I can't believe that people aren't just told that 161 00:08:49,819 --> 00:08:51,229 it's it's it's like 162 00:08:52,333 --> 00:08:56,333 it's the most powerful weapon you can possibly provide someone with 163 00:08:56,619 --> 00:08:59,919 and I mean I know lots of people who've been staggering successful 164 00:08:59,919 --> 00:09:01,446 and watched them throughout of my life 165 00:09:01,446 --> 00:09:04,193 I mean those people you don't want to have an argument with them 166 00:09:04,193 --> 00:09:08,193 they'll just slash you in the pieces and they're not in a malevolent way 167 00:09:08,193 --> 00:09:10,273 it's like if you are going to make your point and 168 00:09:10,273 --> 00:09:13,952 they're going to make their point you better have your point organized 169 00:09:13,952 --> 00:09:18,892 because otherwise, you're going to look like and be an absolute idiot 170 00:09:18,892 --> 00:09:23,052 You're not going to get anywhere and if you can formulate your argument coherently 171 00:09:23,052 --> 00:09:26,492 and make a presentation if you can speak to people 172 00:09:26,492 --> 00:09:28,742 if you can lay out a proposal 173 00:09:28,742 --> 00:09:31,649 God, people give you money, they give you opportunities 174 00:09:31,831 --> 00:09:34,741 you have influence. 175 00:09:35,355 --> 00:09:38,115 Make it schedule and stick to it. 176 00:09:38,115 --> 00:09:40,435 So what the rule with the schedule? 177 00:09:40,435 --> 00:09:42,385 It's not at the blood prison. 178 00:09:42,385 --> 00:09:44,545 That's the first thing that people do wrong they say 179 00:09:44,545 --> 00:09:46,875 Well I don't like to have followed a schedule 180 00:09:46,875 --> 00:09:49,195 It's like well what kind of shedule are you setting up? 181 00:09:49,195 --> 00:09:52,705 Well I have to do this then I have to do this then I have to do this 182 00:09:52,705 --> 00:09:54,335 You know and then I just go play video games 183 00:09:54,335 --> 00:09:56,797 because who wants to do all these things I have to do. 184 00:09:56,797 --> 00:09:57,787 It's like wrong 185 00:09:57,787 --> 00:10:01,787 Set the schedule up so that you have the day you want. 186 00:10:02,224 --> 00:10:03,304 That's a trick. 187 00:10:03,304 --> 00:10:05,037 It's like ok I've got tomorrow 188 00:10:05,037 --> 00:10:09,057 If I was going to set it up it was the best possible day I could have. 189 00:10:09,927 --> 00:10:11,422 Practically speaking 190 00:10:11,422 --> 00:10:13,047 What would it look like? 191 00:10:13,293 --> 00:10:16,493 When you schedule that and obviously there's a bit of responsibility 192 00:10:16,493 --> 00:10:17,803 that's going to go along with that 193 00:10:17,803 --> 00:10:19,488 because you have any sense 194 00:10:19,488 --> 00:10:22,028 one of these things that you're going to insist upon is that 195 00:10:22,028 --> 00:10:25,382 at the end of these days you're not in worse shape than you were 196 00:10:25,382 --> 00:10:28,912 that than at the beginning of the day right because that's a stupid day. 197 00:10:29,020 --> 00:10:31,150 If you have a bunch of those in a row you just dig 198 00:10:31,150 --> 00:10:34,080 you know you dig yourself a hole and then bury yourself in 199 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,830 it's like, sorry that's just not a good strategy it's a bad strategy. 200 00:10:37,830 --> 00:10:42,440 so maybe 20% of your day has to be responsibility and obligational 201 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,203 or maybe it's more than that depending on how far behind you are 202 00:10:45,203 --> 00:10:47,573 but even that you can you can ask yourself 203 00:10:47,573 --> 00:10:51,548 Well OK, I've got these responsibilities. I've scheduled the things 204 00:10:51,548 --> 00:10:55,113 in what's the right ratio of responsibility to reward. 205 00:10:55,113 --> 00:10:58,343 And you can ask yourself that just like you'd negotiate with someone 206 00:10:58,343 --> 00:11:00,973 who is working for you it's like ok you got work tomorrow. 207 00:11:00,973 --> 00:11:03,793 OK, So I want you to work tomorrow and you might say 208 00:11:03,793 --> 00:11:07,233 OK Well what are you going to do for me that makes it likely that 209 00:11:07,233 --> 00:11:10,379 I'll work for you well you can ask yourself that you know. 210 00:11:10,379 --> 00:11:13,409 So maybe you do an hour responsibility 211 00:11:13,409 --> 00:11:15,489 and then you play a video game for 15 minutes 212 00:11:15,489 --> 00:11:18,029 I don't know whatever turns your crank man but 213 00:11:18,029 --> 00:11:22,379 you know you have to negotiate with yourself and not tyrannize yourself 214 00:11:22,379 --> 00:11:25,506 like you're negotiating with someone that you care for 215 00:11:25,506 --> 00:11:28,069 that you would like to be productive and have a good life 216 00:11:28,069 --> 00:11:30,462 and and that's how you make the schedule it's like 217 00:11:30,462 --> 00:11:31,843 and then you look at the day and you think 218 00:11:31,843 --> 00:11:33,953 well if I had that day that'd be good. 219 00:11:33,953 --> 00:11:36,783 Great. You know, you you're useless and horrible 220 00:11:36,783 --> 00:11:39,593 so you'll probably only hit it with about 70% accuracy 221 00:11:39,593 --> 00:11:42,093 but that beats the hell out of the zero. 222 00:11:42,411 --> 00:11:47,370 Right and If you hit even with 50% accuracy another rule is well aim 223 00:11:47,370 --> 00:11:51,540 for 51%the next week or 50 and a half 50% for God's seek 224 00:11:51,540 --> 00:11:54,870 because you're you're going to hit that the position 225 00:11:54,870 --> 00:11:58,662 where things start to loop back positively and spiral you upward. 226 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,720 On my tombstone, I want the epitaph 227 00:12:05,078 --> 00:12:06,828 be ashamed to die 228 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,790 until you have scored some victory for humanity. 229 00:12:11,459 --> 00:12:15,459 Many people, look for meaning in life. 230 00:12:15,566 --> 00:12:18,146 As though it's going to be under the rock. 231 00:12:18,146 --> 00:12:19,696 Or behind a tree. 232 00:12:19,696 --> 00:12:21,486 Oh there's my meaning! 233 00:12:21,996 --> 00:12:24,256 You have more power than that. 234 00:12:24,641 --> 00:12:28,641 You have the power to create meaning in your life. 235 00:12:29,531 --> 00:12:32,581 Rather than passively look for it 236 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,980 Meaning to me is Do I know more about the world today 237 00:12:35,980 --> 00:12:37,800 than I did yesterday? 238 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,320 That enhances meaning for me. 239 00:12:40,899 --> 00:12:44,899 And if that accumulates and accrues daily in a month 240 00:12:44,899 --> 00:12:46,459 you know way more than you did 241 00:12:46,459 --> 00:12:47,899 than just that day later 242 00:12:47,899 --> 00:12:49,799 so that you continute to grow. 243 00:12:49,799 --> 00:12:52,799 My first question of me wasn't where do I find meaning. 244 00:12:52,799 --> 00:12:55,195 It was how do I create meaning and that started early. 245 00:12:55,195 --> 00:12:56,395 Early teens. 246 00:12:56,395 --> 00:12:58,805 You can draw a line in the sand between people 247 00:12:58,805 --> 00:13:00,865 who transgress 248 00:13:00,865 --> 00:13:03,035 but do not hold power over you. 249 00:13:03,035 --> 00:13:05,845 There's a famous quote from Martin Luther King 250 00:13:05,845 --> 00:13:09,355 "You can only be ridden if your back is bent". 251 00:13:09,937 --> 00:13:13,387 When I grew up it was very common to hear the phrase 252 00:13:13,955 --> 00:13:17,575 "Stick and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me" 253 00:13:17,575 --> 00:13:19,970 I haven't heard that phrase in a long time. 254 00:13:19,970 --> 00:13:23,007 I don't hear it resighted in the elementry schools. 255 00:13:23,290 --> 00:13:27,220 What I think has happened over the year is we came to learn 256 00:13:27,220 --> 00:13:29,930 as a civilization that words can be hurtful. 257 00:13:29,930 --> 00:13:33,290 That an advance in mental health. 258 00:13:33,290 --> 00:13:36,480 What I see on the flip of that coin however is 259 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:42,203 people are less able to deal with the very same people who around today 260 00:13:42,203 --> 00:13:43,683 who were around back then 261 00:13:43,683 --> 00:13:45,293 who are calling you names. 262 00:13:45,293 --> 00:13:47,264 I can say from the era in which I grew up 263 00:13:47,264 --> 00:13:49,094 I don't give a rat's ass what you say to me. 264 00:13:49,094 --> 00:13:51,454 unless you are between me and some goal 265 00:13:51,454 --> 00:13:54,104 then I'll have to navigate that someway. 266 00:13:54,104 --> 00:13:56,988 If there's a racist person or a sexist person, 267 00:13:56,988 --> 00:14:00,533 or a person with some kind of cultrual bias. 268 00:14:01,243 --> 00:14:03,730 I want to know that actually, 269 00:14:03,730 --> 00:14:06,189 I want you to say everything you want to say. 270 00:14:06,189 --> 00:14:09,349 Then I'll say OK that's who you are, that's how your thinking. 271 00:14:09,349 --> 00:14:12,679 So now what do I need to do because you're in my way. 272 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,039 Do I dig under you, go around you, leap over you? 273 00:14:16,039 --> 00:14:19,459 Or do I go this way and then come out the other side 274 00:14:19,459 --> 00:14:22,819 yeah, it's longer, it's more effort, it's more energy. 275 00:14:23,279 --> 00:14:26,319 But on some level, it's sort of the same s different day. 276 00:14:26,319 --> 00:14:28,859 I can't say you're being racist, you're being I that't not 277 00:14:28,859 --> 00:14:30,939 you got to navigate it. 278 00:14:30,939 --> 00:14:34,102 I think high school that's 279 00:14:34,102 --> 00:14:36,512 where you learn how to deal with difficult people. 280 00:14:36,512 --> 00:14:38,862 There are people who are nasty 281 00:14:38,862 --> 00:14:40,842 you're going to have to navigate them. 282 00:14:40,842 --> 00:14:44,292 There are people who you cannot interact with 283 00:14:44,292 --> 00:14:47,202 for whatever reason or another their going to be in the cubical next to you 284 00:14:47,202 --> 00:14:48,382 in your workplace. 285 00:14:48,382 --> 00:14:52,382 So, I think we undervalue the total social pot 286 00:14:52,382 --> 00:14:54,342 that 287 00:14:54,342 --> 00:14:57,772 people are tossed into in their high school experience. 288 00:14:57,772 --> 00:14:59,562 You want to ssau oh I could have learned more 289 00:14:59,562 --> 00:15:01,212 but I had to deal with all these people. 290 00:15:01,212 --> 00:15:04,092 Hey, having to deal with all these people is now in your portfolio. 291 00:15:04,092 --> 00:15:07,552 Your motivation for the guests that you have in this couch 292 00:15:07,552 --> 00:15:11,692 they, they had some vision statement and they have grit. 293 00:15:12,142 --> 00:15:15,362 Okay, they got knocked down, they stood back up they tried another way 294 00:15:15,362 --> 00:15:17,832 they got knocked down again. Then they were successfull 295 00:15:17,832 --> 00:15:23,412 either measured by wealth or influence or or just joy in their lives passions. 296 00:15:23,932 --> 00:15:27,814 For me, what I do for the public, 80 plus percent of it 297 00:15:27,814 --> 00:15:31,624 is driven by duty... 298 00:15:31,624 --> 00:15:33,754 not by ambition. 299 00:15:33,754 --> 00:15:35,084 That's how I view it. 300 00:15:35,084 --> 00:15:35,994 If that were the case. 301 00:15:35,994 --> 00:15:39,994 This is how I ended up hosting Cosmos in 2014, and Dream. 302 00:15:39,994 --> 00:15:42,127 The widow of Carl Sagan. 303 00:15:42,127 --> 00:15:44,259 hugely talented. 304 00:15:44,259 --> 00:15:47,889 She approached me and said would you consider hosting cosmos? 305 00:15:47,889 --> 00:15:51,949 I said I don't there's a dozen people maybe have a dozen others 306 00:15:51,949 --> 00:15:54,189 who would jump at this opportunity 307 00:15:54,189 --> 00:15:55,569 I don't need to do this 308 00:15:55,569 --> 00:15:58,109 I really don't then I though about it and I said 309 00:15:58,109 --> 00:16:00,089 Well I met Carl Sagan when I was 17. 310 00:16:00,089 --> 00:16:02,289 I was applying to colleges he was at Cornell. 311 00:16:02,289 --> 00:16:04,049 I had been excepted to Cornell 312 00:16:04,049 --> 00:16:06,179 but didn't know what college I wanted to go to. 313 00:16:06,179 --> 00:16:08,803 And the admissions office saw that I wasn't 314 00:16:08,803 --> 00:16:10,263 totally in the moment there. 315 00:16:10,263 --> 00:16:12,396 They had forwarded my application to him 316 00:16:12,396 --> 00:16:13,766 For his reaction. 317 00:16:13,766 --> 00:16:15,521 And he sent me a letter. 318 00:16:15,825 --> 00:16:18,885 And I get this letter and I open it it says I understand you like 319 00:16:18,885 --> 00:16:22,301 the same stuff I like do you want to come visit the campus 320 00:16:22,301 --> 00:16:24,501 to help you decide if you want to go to Cornell? 321 00:16:24,501 --> 00:16:28,601 He met me outside his building on a Saturda. 322 00:16:30,301 --> 00:16:31,456 He did something really cool 323 00:16:31,456 --> 00:16:32,876 he reached back grabbed a book off the shelf 324 00:16:32,876 --> 00:16:34,016 it was one of his book 325 00:16:34,016 --> 00:16:35,196 and he signed it to me 326 00:16:35,196 --> 00:16:38,316 Neil Tyson future astronomer signed Carl. 327 00:16:38,316 --> 00:16:40,436 Later in the day I'm to go back to New York 328 00:16:40,436 --> 00:16:43,976 It begins to snow as it does often in December in Ithaca. 329 00:16:43,976 --> 00:16:46,326 And he says, here's my home number 330 00:16:46,326 --> 00:16:49,476 if the bus can't get through from the snow, 331 00:16:49,476 --> 00:16:52,036 spend the night with my family and go back tomorrow. 332 00:16:52,036 --> 00:16:55,586 I'm thinking who am I why I'm nobody 333 00:16:56,232 --> 00:16:57,872 but I was somebody to hime. 334 00:16:57,872 --> 00:16:59,442 And I said to myself 335 00:16:59,442 --> 00:17:02,232 if I am ever as remotely famous as he is 336 00:17:02,232 --> 00:17:05,442 I will treat students the way he has treated me. 337 00:17:05,565 --> 00:17:09,565 Thanks for watching. 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