Mayday, mayday, mayday!
Bravo 160 to heavy, emergency descent!
We have as humans
We have something that no animal has
And what it's called is
Imagination
And what imagination allows you to do
It allows you to see it
Before it actually happens
What I mean by that is
I need you to go 10 years into the future
20 years into the future
And I need you to see yourself
Actually becoming the person you want to be
You gotta live in the forward
Block the whole world out
Put some music on
Some classical music
Right, the piano if you need to
I don't know what you need to listen to
But I want you to take 30 minutes
Go in the closet, go in the basement
Go in the library, go into a room alone
And I want you to take 30 minutes
And I want you to live in the forward
See the problem is
I'm talking to some of you guys
The problem that you're having is
You're living in the future
And you're living in the present
And you keep talking about the mistakes
And you keep talking about the past
And you keep talking about your trials
And you keep talking about your situation
And I want you to know
That everybody that has ever been great
Everybody has had a obstacle to overcome
They had a barrier that they had to climb
There is no individual who's ever reached success
And he didn't have to go through
A obstacle or a barrier to get there
I need you to live in the future
I need you to go in your future every single day
I need you to go in your future
I need you to see what you're going to be
Listen to me
What you are to be, you are now becoming
So you gotta use your imagination
And your imagination has to take you beyond the pain
Your imagination has to take you beyond the trouble
Your imagination has to take you to the next level
We have to see ourselves there long before it happens
The second tool is
We've gotta embrace faith
I had to have faith
And believe that the thing that I see
10 years from now
20 years from now
That one day that thing is gonna be successful
When I was homeless at 16
I could have quit
When I was homeless
I could have given up
There were many a day that I thought about
Committing suicide
But I said to myself
"E., just keep imagining, keep thinking, keep seeing"
Keep seeing what you're not now
But what you're going to be
Sometimes it's gonna be hard
Sometimes you gonna look all around you
And nowhere do you see success
Nowhere do you see anything that
Remotely looks like success
But you gotta embrace
Number 2
You gotta embrace the faith
You gotta believe that
Although it's not happening right now
If you keep pressing
If you keep pushing, guess what?
One day is gonna be your day
That's right
I need you to say that with me
One day is gonna be your day
Embrace the faith
You gotta be able to see it and believe it
When there is no evidence around you
When you got pain in your life
When you are tired
When you feel like giving up
And you feel like quitting
When you look around you
And you don't see anything that
looks anything like success
You gotta embrace the faith
And believe that one day is gonna be my day
But one day can't be your day if you give up
If you quit
If you quit, no day will ever be your day
I want you to fail forward
That's right
I said it
Fail forward
I want you to get to a place in your life
That every mistake you make
Every setback you get
Right, every obstacle that you don't overcome
Every barrier you can't climb
I don't want you to give up
But I want you to fail forward
You gotta learn from your mistakes
That every mistake you make
You failed that class?
Get back up and try again!
You lose a job?
Get back up and try again!
You put all your money in an investment?
Get back and try again!
If you start a business and it don't work
Don't stop, don't quit!
Fail forward
Learn from each and every one of your mistakes
Don't quit
Don't give up
Listen to me
Don't quit
Don't give up
If it gets hard
You tie a knot around yourself
You double tie it if you have to
But you hold on
But I want you to know
You'll never reach your goal
You'll never reach your dreams
If you don't use your imagination
So when you failed that class
Don't drop it
When you failed that class
Don't just stop going
You're going to the end of that class
And you're going to the end of that class