 In the next few weeks I'll be 33 and when I look back at my last 15 years I've done well with my life but I also think there are some things I really might never be able to do anymore or let me put it another way there are some things that get difficult the older you get and I'd like to share some of those things with you in this video if you're between the ages of 15 and 40 this channel was created especially for you so don't forget to subscribe now let me make something clear before I start this video this video was not made to discourage the people who are in their 50s or something like that while it's true that marathons are easier in your 20s some people still do it in their 60s and sometimes the spirit inside a dog is more important than the age of the dog so in essence we're making this video intending to get young people running right now because we believe that it's easier now even though it's still possible later haven't said that let's go ahead with this video failure, failure, massive failures about 11 years ago I was reading Anthony Robbins' Awaken the Giant within and at a point Tony said something like number one key to success in life is massive failures in other words to be successful you have to be willing to try several things and yes, when you try several things you'll have several failures when I was in my 20s I was the most careless soul in the world I cared about nothing and I could dare anything I tried more things than anyone I know and I failed more than anyone I was only 20-something and it didn't matter that much because I had no family and no responsibility today I probably would not try some of those things I did 7 years ago and that's why I want to tell you something very important if you're a teenager or in your 20s what I want to tell you is what you already know and that is here are your golden years now is the time your spirit is young and your body is strong now is the time you can fail a hundred times and still rise again now is the time you have the time to go through pains and difficulties without affecting anybody else unfortunately what most people do with their 20s is to have a lot of fun a lot of dates and a lot of parties a lot of social media consumption and a lot of everything else that's interesting see yourself as a marathon runner you don't want to postpone it till you're 60 another big misconception in our society is that some people seem to think they can avoid failures or pains no you can only postpone them the life will never be free of pains and as Jim Ronn said you cannot decide to experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regrets there's no way you can escape both if you make difficult decisions when you're young you'll have an easy life when you grow up if you make easy decisions when you're young you'll have a difficult life as you grow up and it's that simple now that you're young dare life try things and fail as much as you can because it's easier now than later experiments to discover who you are each time I talk about purpose and why people must discover their potentials I usually get the question how can I discover my purpose or know my potential and the simplest answer I've discovered is this experiment I see the process of discovering your potential as I see the process of discovering your favourite food think about this for a moment you only know your favourite meal because you have tasted many foods right think about it from another angle since the day you've been born you've been eating a single food would you ever know your favourite meal similar things happen with most people they have only done one or a few things with their lives so it's even difficult to know what gets them crazy if you really want to discover your potentials and strengths in life you'll need to experiment with many things and the problem about that is when you're 40-something you're not ready to mess around anymore that's why I advocate that you should experiment with as many things as you can while you're in your 20s do you feel like you have passion for music? register for a music class hang around others who seem to be interested in music do you think you'll love science or inventions? read some books and meet some scientists stay in the laboratory for a few weeks and see how that goes do you think you'll like being a public speaker? take a class and try to speak do you think you'll love entrepreneurship? start a little business meet with others who talk and read about entrepreneurship you get the point now that you're young, you can mess around and you should what usually happens is that like food, when you try many things you get to a point where you experience some heavenly sensation somehow you feel like you're out of this world doing certain things and that is it that's what you were born to do but you might not discover such things if you do not try many things then the best time to mess around trying different things is when you're young meaningful socialization as I write the script for this video I'm thinking about my wife and kid it's early in the morning and I have not spent time with them this morning I've not even seen them sometimes I wish to work till 8pm and when I remember that I have a kid I know that will be a wrong thing to do now in my 30s I have a company where there's always something to fix a family that always needs me and a library that contains many new books you get it life has become busier and there are only a few hours left for socialization this is unlikely when I was in my 20s especially in my early 20s there seem to be more hours in the day than now and don't get me wrong meaningful socialization is important and you should do it at any age but let's be honest you have more opportunities for it in your 20s than later in your life in fact you need more meaningful socialization in your 20s than later in life because there are many things you're yet to figure out as a young person when asked how he socializes Mark Cuban said and I quote I have kids so I don't do a lot of socialization this day he can afford to say that because he has already figured out many things about his life 40 years ago he needed quality people as friends and he had to make time to be with such people if there's anything we wish to achieve with this video it's to challenge and encourage young people to run now that they are young fail now and fail much because it won't hurt as much as it would later experiment now try several things so you can discover what makes you high because it's easier now than later have great friends and spend time with them now because you need them right now than later and if you're in your 40s or 50s though we both know that all these are more difficult we should also agree that the spirit inside a dog is more important than the age of a dog if you like this video watch other videos on our channel we love you