 Don't get that looped under your foot, you'll get dragged. We've been plowing this field right here, show them Sam. And now, lunch break, not just for humans, but for the horses. And one of the things I was talking about earlier in the barn, you know, what's changed in the world, a lot of things. Happiness has gone down for many people. I saw a survey talking about happiness, 80% of people hate their job. I think one of the things that's happened is people, it's easy to lose your sense of purpose. There's a good book you should read called The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz. And he talks about, they're ready to go, boy, I'm pulling me right up. It talks about how when you have too many choices, you can't make any of them. So what happens is, you just are less happy. You're just like continually overanalyzing everything. I see that with people trying to become entrepreneurs, they hate their job, but they don't want to quit because they're like, what do I quit? Do I do this business, this business, this business? And so 100 years ago, when everybody lived, show them the farm all the way around here, whoa, you pretty much did what your parents did. And we look back at that and we think that's bad. And in some ways, I'm sure that made people unhappy. But it's kind of like one step forward, two steps backwards. We got a lot of choice now in the modern world. We live in big cities where you're continually, you're continually free fertilizer. It's a good thing about horses versus tractors. Tractors pollute, horses fertilize. By the way, I cut my pants, got caught on one of the horse pieces of equipment. Be careful out here. But what I was going to say is that, so when people get more choice, you go to a city. Any night of the day, there's 50 things to do. There's 50 jobs to choose, there's 50 people to date, there's 50 people to make friends with. People basically go crazy. That's the long and short of it. You should read that book, like I said, Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz. Lots of free fertilizer. I'm probably going to put blueberries, blackberries on this hill. This is a south-facing hill, maybe apple trees, some late-blooming ones. You've got to put the late-blooming ones on the south face. So one of the things that I do now to get over this paradox of choice is I come and I got this ranch and I just get away from the city. I get into a routine, simple things. People ask what life's purpose is, and it depends who you ask. A lot of people will say legacy is one common answer, but legacy fades. All flesh is grass, the saying is, the flowers fade. Do you remember who your great-great-great-great-grandfather is? No. And even if you look at your DNA, it gets split in half. So your great-great-great-great-grandchildren are hardly related to you. You might be more related to your neighbor than you are to your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchild. So legacy is an okay answer. It's an obvious answer that makes sense, family, things like that. Other people say, you know, maximizing what you have, that's a decent answer. Other people say leaving the earth better than you found it, all these things. I think that the answer sometimes is simpler than that. Like I said, the Native Americans lived here before all the settlers came. They used to just say, you know, what is man without the beast? What are humans without animals? And I think being connected to the land, animals, nature, the natural cycles, winter, spring, summer, fall, this is your purpose, you know? And that's hard to say because 90% of people live in big cities, but the world could change. The demographics should change. If people are asking me what would make them happier, I'm not saying this is an easy answer. For society, I'm just saying this is one answer that I've tested it on a lot of people from the city. If you have high anxiety, which is 30 to 40% of planet earth, you're overstimulated. You know? You got to get to where, like, when I'm here on the ranch, I'm not overstimulated. It's simple. Melt the cow in the morning, feed the horses, put hay, put straw down, plow, plant, you know, you get strong, you don't have to work on a farm, your hands get dirty, and you don't really think, like, what the purpose of life is. That book by Eckhart Tolle called The Power of Now, it's interesting. I never loved that book because people use the power of now to mean, they're really, people have taken it to mean, like, meditation and stuff like that. Which is fine. I'm not anti-meditation, but you can't meditate unless you're the Dalai Lama 10 hours a day. So it's not really a solution. I think what the power of now means is just not thinking about the future, not thinking about the past. Kind of like these horses. These horses are not thinking very far ahead. And horses are pretty happy, at least these ones are. Doc, Duke, you happy? Jerry, Jake, they're learning their names, actually, no. But they're just in the moment. So I think it's less about meditation, it's more about doing activities. It can be a garden if you live in a city. It can be taking care of animals, dogs are good, but you should have more than one species. I see people just get so into their dog, what they end up actually doing is called anthropomorphizing. They turn their dog into a human. You see people, they put like a L.A. Lakers jersey on their dog. They put socks and shoes. The dog hates it. It's almost, I guess people don't have kids anymore, so now they have dogs. But that's, a dog doesn't want to be a human. And dogs are happiest when they're out roaming, eating meat, scavenging, all that stuff. And so I think you need to have different animals, and you have different living things around you. And the more you have, the happier you are, unless they're mosquitoes or blood-sucking flies. I had to smack one on him with sucking his blood while I was working. Different animals, not all things are lovely. But yeah, that's a simple answer to what the purpose of life is in many ways. People want more complex answers, because they're overthinking everything. We'll walk and talk. Come on, boy. Talk, dude. Horses can pretty much sleep standing up, so they want to go back to that barn. We're going into a different barn, snap, come on. Horses are hard-headed, like people. So try to find something that you enjoy, that simple. Try to find something that's a routine that you have to do every day. Getting in a rhythm is good. A lot of people have to do it the best, daily routine, kind of like our ranch life. You have some chores you do in the morning. Those are kind of repetitive things, but you don't have too much repetitive. Then you get burned out. Then you have some new progress, and you want to be doing things that you're not always thinking about other stuff. If you're always thinking about other stuff, the future, the past, it's not relaxing enough. You need to have a relatively relaxing life. I've been testing my blood once every month or two for almost five years. No, sorry, three years. And it's crazy, cortisol levels of humans. People have them in the 20s, in the 30s, if you want them, you know, 10. I've got, sometimes when I come to a ranch, when I test my blood, they drop to like nine or eight. Now you don't want it too low, but cortisol is basically a fight-or-flight stress hormone. And there's a good book, Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt. He talks about doing studies on people as a scientist at NYU. And he says, if you test people's blood, who live in a big city, near like loud honking, noises, cars, all that, blood cortisol levels go up, even if you're meditating. Even if you think you're zen life, it's not as zen as you think. Come on. Come on, boys. These are four males. I have female horses, but they're at my other place. So I'll open that gate right here. There's a green one. Let's see if they'll fit in there. Boom. Got to rid of this. Show them what the cattle guard is. This was here before I was here. I'm going to get rid of it. It's very annoying. Okay. I don't know if they can get in there. Let's us try. If we go... This will be something to try. We've got to go get two through. Don't cut yourself. Step. Come on. Gee, gee, gee. There you go. Look at that. All right. Can you close that? Step. These gates were not put in quite with these size horses in mind. They were put with little riding horses in mind. These are big boys. They're about... those two over there about 2,100 pounds probably. These eat about 50,000 calories a day each. So they don't go on the Weight Watcher's diet. I don't think you can get a... Can you get a Weight Watcher's diet, Sam? 50,000 calories? No. Oh, that's good. Let's see if we can make it through this little ring. So, find a simple purpose in life, I guess is what I'm trying to say. Don't overcomplicate it. Whoa. Friends, family, be healthy. Keep things simple. Don't get too many weird variables in your life going. If you get a hose, we're going to run a hose out to that field. You know, that K-I-S-S, keep it simple, stupid? I have to tell myself that a lot. The simpler your life is, actually, believe it or not, the more money you make, too. When I get a business idea and it's too complicated, it never works out. When I just have simple business ideas, like I'm launching a new food brand where we ship you a box of meat, you know, pasture, rotationally grazed grass fed beef and chicken and all that stuff, it's just a simple idea. And those ideas are much more, I mean, any business idea can fail, but it's a lot less likely fail. Is it open all the way? So, make you more money, make you happier, make more time for better people. Like Sigma Freud said, you can't love everybody the same because if you love everybody the same, then you take away time from good people. You got to have simple life so you have time to remember the good people, the people that are your closest friends. They should spend more time with attention, too.