 Ty Cunderoga. He's a modern man, a modern. Oh, juicy. Turn me head and call. What he said was, thank you for supporting us on Patreon. Sometimes the patronage gets me quite tipsy. Oh, well, P.K., for those of you who are in the know. What did you do with your hands? I didn't do anything with my hands. I did something with my eyeball. For those of you in the know, like the bridge. No! I was like, what? No, I said, for those of you in the know, wink, wink, wink. Okay. What P.K. means. How have you got that? I have no idea. I told you, I'm tipsy. Um, but today, what are we doing? I have no idea. I just show up. You're the only one doing it. Me too. Uh, oh, we're doing a speech. Hey, we've reacted to one video, not of his, about him a long time ago. And it's, uh, I want to read his name. Oh, yes. Do you remember? APJ, Abdul Kalam. Yes, and this is the inspirational lesson for lifetime. How to manage failure and success. So we did, I believe 50 things you didn't know about this guy. Yes. And he's like this big beloved scientist, I believe. Yeah. Um, maybe he's not, I don't know. Uh, yeah, I was, I was, I don't, I can't confirm the scientist aspect of what you said. I can't remember. I can't remember. We had said in regard to. I can't remember, but it's supposed to be a pretty good speech. We haven't done speech in a while, so I was like, No, when was the last speech? It's been months. I mean, it might have been the stupid speech. Be stupid, but uh. Was it? Uh, I think it was. I remember the reparations speech. That was before that. Yeah, that was way before that. Not right. Different guy. Right. Here we go. Ah! He taught me, no book taught me, but that one person, that institution rebel, that taught me is such a difficult lesson. Right. So I thought of hearing with you how to manage success. Most importantly, the failure. I repeat a number of times that one incident. That incident for me is a university education. He's beloved. I'm not ready anywhere. I have, uh, so far I have gone around the orbit 71 times around the sun. I have not gone through any education, such a beautiful education. I got in 1779, 1980 period. I thought of sharing with you on this occasion. It is like this. 1979, August 17th. We were ready for launch of a satellite launch vehicle with 44 subsystem and thousands of thousands of components. It was built in Vikram Sarabhai's base center. And at that time, was the chairman, atomic energy space commission. And he's also space center. And he gave me the task in 1973 to build a satellite launch vehicle. Put a satellite in the orbit 1973. He gave me this task in 79. We were ready. Thousands of engineers, 10 thousands of workers and staff. They all worked together. Then we moved the satellite launch vehicle from Vikram Sarabhai's base center to the now Satish Dhawan's base center at Siddhari Kota. So the launch vehicle was, was the launch pad. And that day, 17th August, 1979. And I am the mission director, project director, and we're all the control center and computer takes over of T minus eight minutes. Computer take over because very difficult for me as a mission director to chip hundreds of parameters. So it has to be checked computer. We hand over the whole launch of the rocket system to the computer. So when T minus eight minutes came, I handed over to the computer for the launch on 17 August, 1979. And thousands of people are waiting for the launch mission centers and they are working throughout the country and some down-range stations exactly at T minus eight minutes, computer took over. And then at T minus four minutes, computer put a hold. It says, don't launch. So we're all because at that time, the whole rocket system alive and every is a close system, propellant system, electronic system, all are on ready to launch. Computers don't launch at T minus four minutes that immediately a computer printout comes out. There's some problem in the second stage control system, this leakage, so you don't launch. There are a number of experts, six or seven experts, my expert 10 years, 30 years experience people. I turn to them and they are their computers to find out what happened and they tell me within a minute, they say, there's a problem in the second stage control system and we cannot launch, computer says, but we believe as experts, the igniter that is oxidizer, sufficiently more there, even though there's a leakage in system, you can launch. They asked me to launch. That is, I can say the computer to shut up the computer. I can manually launch the rocket system. I took that, I discussed my experts. I believed in them. I agreed with them. I'm responsible for it. I immediately put the rocket in the manual mode. So rocket took off 100 seconds, beautiful launch and the rocket first stage did its job. It's a four-stage rocket system. Then the second stage took off within a minute, within a second it got into spin. That means it should be steady. It's a controlled rocket system by guidance system. But it was going to spin. I knew I lost the rocket system within few seconds. Instead of putting the satellite in the orbit, the whole system went to Bay of Bengal. So it was a failure. And how do you handle a failure? It's very important for entrepreneurs. Life is not so simple. You say, we have to handle the failures with stout heart. My chairman, that is the professor Satish Dhawan, exactly at 6.30, I was very tired of continuously working. He come to my room, you join me for a press conference. On that day, press conference, the morning there's a press conference. Hundreds of press reporters, media people have assembled. Just professor Dhawan told me, Satish Dhawan told me, I am going to handle the press conference. You are going to come with me. He took me there. And there was a press, international press. How can you put 20 crores in Bay of Bengal? And I asked. And like that, so many years after all, people will ask questions, people's money. So like that, number of questions were there. And professor Satish Dhawan said, yes, it's the very first time we have launched. We have gained a lot of system. And definitely we will succeed I'll give the whole to support my technologies. I'll give the whole to support my scientists. We will succeed in a year's time, he said. Friends, did you observe what happened there? I am the mission director. I am the project director. I have failed the missions. With me, 5000 people have worked. But chairman, Indian Space Research Organization, he take the responsibility of failure. He completely switched my failure to his failure. Absolutely. Exactly after one year, that is 18th July, 1980, we go to the launch pad and the countdown starts. T minus 8 minutes, I hand over to the computer. Computer checks out. First stage, it initiates the rocket system. First stage gives the required velocity. Second stage gives the required velocity. Third stage gives the required velocity. And fourth stage required the escape velocity for the put the satellite in the orbit. I am seeing in front of me, what is the performance taking place. I took the mic, I put the mic. I announced all the stations. Here is your mission director. The satellite is in the orbit. And we congratulate you, I told them. No, that is not the important. That is one of the important things happened. But after 30 minutes, Vikram saw things, he stopped and called me. Go for press conference. You conduct the press conference, he said. Can you see the significance? Failure he took it. Success he gave me to my team. This is a great lesson. It is a great lesson. This is a great lesson of which no university taught me, no book taught me, but that one person, that institution, taught me such a big lesson. So I thought of him. That music was from a film. What was it from? Theory of everything. How do you know that? How do you know that? Wait a minute. No, no, no. That was not theory of everything. It was a beautiful mind. It was a beautiful mind. Russell Crowe was looking at all the things going around his head. It was a beautiful mind. If you haven't seen a beautiful mind, watch that film. It's my favorite film depicting, it's obviously a true story, but it depicts mental illness in one of the most profoundly beautiful ways I've ever seen. But back to that. Also, Paul Benney still is the show. Cool. I'd like to know your guys' thoughts on that and be honest about your, I know you will be, I'm going to need to preface it with that. What are your thoughts on that? Don't lie to us. We don't have a lot. Our usual. Did anything, did you agree with it? Did you disagree with it? I agreed with it. I thought it was a, I didn't know where he was going because I didn't know the story. It was not aware of, but it's a wonderful story. It was talking about leadership and you wish, if you have a boss or if you have who's ever over you at the time, that's what she said. Wow. Sorry, I just ruined it. But that's how you wish they would act when they would, even though if you fail miserably, they will take the responsibility for it because they're in charge. And then in the same scenario when you're success, you're on taking on that praise, they're giving it out. So it's a great speech in terms of showing leadership to what people, true leadership is. It's taking the failure when, even if it's not your fault, and then also giving out the praise when you could take it. And the lessons learned from failure, and it's, I've mentioned this before on the channel, I'm a big, big fan of Navy SEALs. And there's a couple of Navy SEALs who've written books. Jocko Wellink is one of them and another one is Commander Rourke Denver. And they're not just SEALs, they've run missions and they have run SEAL BUDS training. And have written books about the SEAL mindset and what it takes to be a Navy SEAL. And this one book, Jocko Wellink and a partner of his wrote together called Extreme Ownership. And it's about one of the lessons that's learned and why so many from the military understand true leadership. And Jocko Wellink has said our mistakes are paid for in blood. So you don't know what it means to make a mistake until you realize the mistake you made literally cost a friend's life. And you sleep with that that night and you recognize when you're out on the field and the other thing that's really important about that is that you can do everything right and still have everything go wrong. And can you live with that? Can you live with that reality and that life isn't fair? And the two lessons in his speech that really resonate with me are the first one in regard to the fact of true leadership and it's very lacking in world leaders today is the reality of whenever anything goes wrong, you take ownership of that. You own it. Even if you weren't the direct person responsible for it, you recognize there's things I could have and should have done that would have contributed to that. And where did I play a part? And then the second part is that when it goes well you give the credit to other people and you don't take it with an arrogant slap on the back. The other lesson that always reminds me of physical fitness is that you don't get gains without failures. One of the strengths of strength training is to push to failure. Reps and sets are great but it really doesn't mean anything unless you take the muscle to total failure. You literally cannot do anything anymore and you're still trying. It's only after you've reached failure that you're going to get gains. The goal is just a universal truth and that's what he's talking about is that you don't get gains until you push through failure and you have to not just get to the failure you have to push through the failure. So this is right at my app. That's a great point Micah. But yeah, I want to know more about this gentleman as we did one with him and you guys said he was this beloved. Like nobody in India is more beloved. We'll learn more about him. I know we've reacted to the 50 things we don't know about him and this is our first speech. If there's other speeches or videos or other ways we can get to know this guy more. And our books he's written? Yes, all of the above. Please let us know and we'll try to get Micah to talk less next time. Stop dominating things on the channel.