 Now, what does it take for a human being to actually achieve that kind of life, to live a great life, to live, you know, a life, a fulfillment, to live a flourishing life, to live a, at the end of the day, what is it all about? If you live a good life, why are you living a good life? What's the purpose? What should be the purpose of every life? Is it the billion dollars and a hot wife and whatever the, you know, the nice car? Is that the purpose? No. What's that? Even if those are values, what is that for? What are we trying to attain? Happiness. It's all about happiness. We want to live life in order to be happy. Happiness is the ultimate goal. So the question is for us, for human beings, what is going to lead to that? We know what a plant needs, right? A plant needs water and it needs sunlight. We know what a cheetah needs, right, or a lion. We know how lions, what lions need. What do we need? Before we get to the billion dollars and before we get to the wife, what do we need? And what is, what is unique to us in terms of values? What is the most important value that we need? And for this, what I want you to do is look at your neighbor, look around the room, and what you'll see is a pathetic, weak animal. We are not equipped, we are not equipped physically to survive in this world. Each one of you, I know you work out and everything, it's not impressive. You go up against a sabertooth tiger, you're finished. You try to run down a bison and bite into it. Ever tried that? No fangs, no claws, no speed, not really. I mean, even bolts, I mean, he's fast, but a cheetah wipes them out like that, right? There's nothing there. We're just not equipped physically to survive. We're not. Yet we thrive. We don't just survive, we thrive as a human race, human species. We thrive. I mean, where is the sabertooth tiger? We killed them all. We did. Human beings, how do we do that? We're so weak and pathetic. Big sticks. Big sticks, but how did that, where did we get sharp sticks from? They're what? Somebody said, they're mine. Yeah, so it's all about what's up here. We don't have a gene, you know, birds have a gene that tells them how to build a nest. They just know automatically how to build a nest. We don't have that gene. We started out living in caves. Not a good idea. Tigers like caves, bears like caves, they're bigger, stronger than us. We had to figure out how to build homes and how to build them strong so the wolf wouldn't blow them down, right? It takes thought. None of us. I drop you into the Amazon jungle. You don't have the instinct to figure out how to survive. You don't. If you just rely on instinct, you're dead very, very quickly. You have to sit down and think and figure it out. When Robinson Caruso is on an island by himself, he doesn't know what to do until he thinks about it and he looks around and uses his mind. Everything we have, everything you can point at in this room, literally everything you can point in this room is a product of somebody's thinking. Somebody's figuring out what do we call that characteristic of human beings, that ability to think, that ability to observe nature out there, integrate it, understand it, do stuff with it, figure stuff out. What do we call that? This is how we self-actualize. Creativity is an aspect of this. Starts with an R. Rationality. Rationality. It's actually reason. And kind of, again, until he woke up with Eric's talk, it's not an accident that the Enlightenment, what's the other name for the Enlightenment? The age of reason. Not an accident. Not an accident that all of the, have you ever seen a chart? I don't have a whiteboard here. Have you ever seen a chart of per capita wealth, the history of per capita wealth? That is, dollars that the average wealth the human beings have had throughout history. Have you ever seen a chart of that? So it starts, he starts, I don't, I can do it in the air. So it starts at some point, let's say 10,000 years ago, and per capita wealth, that is the wealth on average that a person has, is basically flat and flat and flat until a certain point, and then it goes like that, just skywalkers. And what's that inflection point, anybody know what that date is, that starts going up? Now the beginning of the industrial revolution, I like to use 1776. It's an arbitrary date, it's anywhere in that period. I like 1776 for two reasons, two important things happened in 1776. The founding of this country, which creates the political, lays down the political principles necessary for that spike in wealth creation. And one other thing happens in 1776, it's just cool that both these things happen. The first of Nations is published by Adam Smith, the first real book of economics, right, a defense of capitalism. But that's an arbitrary date, somewhere in the 18th century this happens. And it happens because it's the first century that explicitly recognizes reason as man's tool for dealing with the world. And it recognizes the importance of reason in making human life better. And once that happens, what do you get at the same time? You get a scientific revolution and you get an industrial revolution.