 Behind me here is a poster with a bunch of words on it, and it represents the most important things. I've learned in my life And at the beginning I learned the opposite of all this stuff I didn't learn to be honorable and tell the truth. I learned to lie Because if you can lie and get away with it, you can make more money And you can get things that you don't deserve lie cheat and steal if you can get away with it it's okay and Believe the lies. Don't look don't look for honesty or truth in the world You just believe the lies when the teacher tells you something you believe it when the TV tells you something you believe it when an adult Any figure of authority they tell you something you don't question you just believe it Don't try to see what's really going on and don't use the strength in your body. Don't be strong Resist the urge to do things to get up and run around and do know you sit there Cross your fingers at your desk be quiet and sit there for eight hours No, you learn to sit there or we'll give you pills You sit there and become weaker and weaker and then you're a good boy Don't have the courage to speak up against any of this stuff No, no, you do as you're told you shut up like a coward and sit there Don't speak the truth. You just sit there and be a coward Don't have any courage and If you ever see anyone not doing what they're told you express hatred toward them You express anger and hate where you're weird. What's wrong with you? Why are you doing that? Why are you exercising all you care about is your is your looks? What kind of superficial? Loser are you or you're doing something different than other people. That's weird. You must be a nerd Express hatred toward people don't don't show them love Express hatred and don't ever use your imagination to figure anything out. No, you do what you're told you follow the instructions When a problem comes up in life, don't don't look inside your own mind and think and use your imagination to figure out What to do because you might come up with an answer That's different than what other people are doing and then you're gonna be weird and people will hate you No, don't have the courage to do what you think you just follow the instructions you do as you're told And your life your life is not yours Your life is nine to five That's what you do and then on the weekend you get drunk And the only bit of your life that you get is those moments Maybe before you go to bed When you're when you're by yourself And no one's paying attention and he's like wow My life's kind of boring and saying no, no Don't you dare think about taking control of your own life you do as you're told And humility forget it Don't be humble about anything the whole time you need full arrogance and you need to tell people I've got to figure out. I know what I'm doing. I've got a good job And I've got this and that and I know what I should be doing and I know what everyone else should be doing too Everyone should be doing the same thing as me because I'm full of arrogance And that's how you become a good person So that's what I learned growing up And none of that jived with me I hated the whole thing so a couple decades ago I was like I got I got to figure out some some way to straighten this out in my head Because I'm constantly battling with everything I've learned growing up growing up to this point So I came up with the adventure builders club, which isn't really a club. It's it's a philosophy There's no there's no membership card or clubhouse your participation in the club defines your membership You're doing the stuff. You're in the club. You're not doing the stuff. You're not in the club And it's all about adventure and building a life And the important parts honor Tell the truth speak the truth And when you say you're going to do something you follow through with it That's all about telling the truth and you can't tell the truth If you can't see the truth look at the world honestly Don't don't pay attention to all the descriptions people are telling you about the world push no put all that aside Put aside all the biases and whatever one's telling you about the world move all that out of the way and see what's actually there See the world for what it is That's honesty Strength man, don't resist your urge to use your body Even if it's been if it's been crushed out of you for for decades If you're sitting there at home watching tv Thinking man the gutters need to be cleaned out the lawn needs to be mowed don't pick up your phone No, pick up the remote and turn off the tv and get your butt out there and you mow the lawn and you clean out your gutters And by the end of it, you're gonna feel much better than if you went It just sat in front of the tv for two hours while someone else did it And have the courage to do those things Don't worry about your neighbors coming over and laughing at you for cleaning out your gutters Don't don't worry about telling the truth and people people saying oh, you're being weird No, you're not allowed to say that freedom of speech is not important No freedom of speech is so important and if you don't have the courage to use it That's how you use lose it. You've got to have the courage You got to have the courage to stand up for yourself and say what you really think and say what you mean And do the things that you think are right even if it's embarrassing or uncomfortable And when people come at you with hatred You come back at them with love So if you're out out there on your front lawn doing some exercise Having the courage to do some exercise because you know That it's going to make you feel better and stronger. He's just going to make everything better And your neighbor comes out and says You look weird. You look funny. You look stupid. Why are you doing that? All you care about is your your looks what kind of superficial loser are you they come at you with that hatred Come back at them with love Hey, man I know it looks a little weird. It's a little unusual. It's not what we've been doing But I tell you it feels really good when you don't why don't you come over and join me Let's do some jumping jacks and some push-ups Let's embarrass ourselves a little and then feel great for the rest of the day because we've got our blood pumping and everything And most of the time they're gonna just And go away, but maybe maybe after you planted that seed A few months later, they might come out and look at you and be like wow that guy's getting jacked Hey, man, you know that exercise thing You know, can I can I can I You want to come in? Yeah, come on man. Let's do it. Bam love You're not going to get through to everyone, but you're going to get through to some people An imagination use your imagination to figure out how to solve problems Don't just rely on what everyone else is doing Don't just call someone or or pay something every time something's wrong Use your own imagination figure stuff out because the more you use your imagination the better it gets And the better solutions you can find with things And maybe people are going to look at you and say boy, that's weird and unusual But maybe then you'll get to go up to them and say hey look I made this thing because I I thought I could do a better job than what you can buy in the store What no you all you you should only buy things at the store. Don't use your imagination Ah, but check it out. Look what mine does that no one else's does. Did you do it does this? Because I used my imagination and figured something out cool, right? Oh my gosh, that is cool Man, this guy's got the coolest thing ever because he uses imagination To solve a problem instead of just doing what everyone else was doing and following following the instructions And last not last but next life take control of your own life figure out what you've got to do To get control of your own life and that might mean you have to play the game for a while To save enough money to get ahead of the bills to get yourself enough freedom freedom enough breathing room To start having some control over your life because if you don't have any control over your love over your own life It doesn't matter how much money you're making or how much Respect or fame or any of this crap you have you don't have any control over your own life. You got nothing and humility Remain humble the whole time Don't get arrogant even if you're doing a good job of all this stuff And you do it and you're looking at other people and they're not doing it and you think wow i'm doing better Always know That you have a long way to go No matter how far you've come you've still got a long way to go and don't be afraid To try things where you're going to fail where you're going to stumble and fall And when you stumble and fall Don't jump up and say well, that wasn't my fault. It's their fault and their fault and it finds some Arrogant way of figuring out how it wasn't your fault. No you you humbly accept that. Yes, I've fallen Because I lack something And figure out what it is and figure out how to improve it Maybe you need more strength. Maybe you need more courage. Maybe you need more love. Maybe you need whatever it is Figure out what you're missing And accept that you don't have it And then that gives you the chance to try to improve it and that's how you grow And without humility you can't grow because if you already think you're the best there's nowhere to go from there But if you know you have room for improvement, that's how you get better And if you can do all this stuff your mind Your body and your spirit begin to thrive they begin to thrive in a way That you could not explain to someone who's not doing it It would be like trying to explain what the world looks like to someone who's never opened their eyes Like they're all these colors and I could not explain to you what it's like to have a a thriving mind, body and spirit. You have to do it And man when you do it the world is at just a different place It like opens it up to it's just a different place. It's worth doing And when you can do all that you realize that life Life isn't just something that happens to you life is an adventure And a good life is something you build And when you start building a good life, welcome to the club