 How can you find your life's purpose? How can you find your life's purpose? I remember asking myself that and if I had a time machine right now and I could go back to my 12-year-old self This is what I would say to him. I'd say tie Remember the quickest way between two points is a straight line go directly Towards what you want with focus while the whole world is distracted and lost you go directly towards it You'll get there a lot quicker than most people. I'd also tell myself build on your strengths If you're an outgoing person Build around that if you're a shy person do things behind the scenes Steve Jobs was shy He built Apple behind the scenes Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook behind the scenes Too often we see other people's strengths We want those to be our strengths and we say I'm gonna do that. No, you can't build on weakness You can only build on strength Remember that you can't build on your weaknesses You can improve them a little bit so they're not so bad, but you can't build a life around them And then I would tell myself lastly I'd say Remember this you can get almost anything you want in life But it always takes a tad bit longer than you think in fact in my life I found it always takes me one year longer than I think Always one year if I think I can do it in one year takes me to and most people give up right before They say the temptation to give up is greatest right before you're about to succeed We live in a world where people are weak where they want instant gratification They say oh, I'm gonna get a six pack and they don't have the six pack two days later And you know what they give up well You're gonna sit at the bottom then you can be wondering what your life purpose is your whole life Because life's a little bit like a ladder what you want is up at the top of the ladder You're you start at the bottom. Everybody starts at the bottom. I Don't care if you were born rich or poor you start at the bottom and your own life And a lot people try to jump to the top when you try to jump up a ladder too quick You know what happens you slip and fall back to the bottom and it hurts and a lot of people never get back up Because that pain is too much. Just go step by step if you Always wanted to be an astronaut. Well Go down and visit Cape Canaveral in Florida go visit where they go You don't have to start as an astronaut but start immediately on the path To your curiosity about being an astronaut, you know, you want to start a business start a business today People say but what business should I start well any business? Because the goal is not that your first business is your best business the goal is that you get started You go one wrong of the ladder up one step up And you know what as you do that the vision opens up and you get new ideas new creativity new innovation You figure out what you should do if you know you want to get married and live happily ever after and have five kids Well, don't do so much casual dating like most people, you know, some people don't care But if you know you want that then like I said the quickest way between two points is a straight line Go directly towards what you want You know now even though the first person you date probably won't be the person you marry But get yourself in the practice of treating them as if They were the one you're gonna marry so that when the right one comes along You're ready when you start your first business treat it right so that you build the practice the mental skills The fortitude the strength that you know the ability So that when the right business come idea comes along you're already practiced Everybody wants a six pack at the beach But everybody just wants to start doing a few sit-ups the day before they go to the beach. No, I don't work that way It doesn't work that way to get what you want. You have to deserve what you want Remember that's what Charlie Munger the billionaire says to get what you want you have to deserve what you want The world's not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people and people say all time I know people that didn't do that and they got yeah, but their exception to the rule Don't build your life around that because that happens one in a million You don't want those odds. Those are lottery odds You don't want to make money by trying to buy lottery tickets. You want to do it the real way I'm gonna add in one bonus thing. I would tell myself And this is new I wouldn't have told myself this a year ago If I went back in time machine talk to my 12 year old self, you know I tell number one quickest way between two points is straight line go directly for what you want number two I would say that builder on strengths not weaknesses and don't be afraid of your weaknesses You can always find a business partner or a friend or a spouse that you marry that can cover over your weaknesses you build on strengths and Like I said number three, I'd say you can get anything what you want that you want But it always takes about a year or more longer than you think so stick to it, but I tell myself this last thing Pray for what you want pray for what you want and I don't care if you know I grew up with some of my family's pure atheist scientists some of them are very religious Christian and You know some Catholic when I say pray you take it however you want if your atheists don't get you know Hurt by me saying that if you're whatever faith. This isn't about a specific Ideology, this is about a concept what I call prayer is think about what you want every day Think about it. Ask for it every day Ask and you will receive seek and you will find knock and the door will be open to you remember Everybody's purpose is a little different. That's why people say well. What's the specific advice? I told you the specific advice you probably know deep down what you want go towards it Worst case scenario you got a backtrack later. It's better to take action have to backtrack than be stuck at the bottom forever You know, that's my specific about you know what you want. I never met you probably You know, I knew what I wanted. I wanted a life of freedom. I want a life of travel I like nature, so I want to be around farms, but I also like the excitement of the city So I want to be around a city. I liked, you know horses, but I also like fast cars So I had 12 horses and you know, you see Lamborghinis and Ferraris. That wasn't because I wanted to show off That was my dream That was my dream You see me out in the countryside. You see me in the city You know, I wanted to start businesses. I wanted to have financial freedom I went straight towards that luckily now. I haven't I've made a lot of mistakes along the way But every time I follow this formula it works out and every time I don't it doesn't Your life gonna be Successes and failures and you mark my word you go back in time the failures are the ones that you didn't follow this You didn't follow this now Just speak to this if you're real young and you're listening to this if you're a teenager You don't know how young you are so you better get on it right now. You don't know how young you are What if you die in two years? You're pretty young. You're pretty old right now You got two years left and if you're 50 years old and you're feeling discouraged We'll remember the advice about planting a tree. When's the best time to plant a tree 20 years ago or Today so if you're 50 and you feel like life left you behind well get started right now Better late than never better late than never don't think about time and age so much it gets people distracted when the whole world's distracted You be focused when the whole world's distracted you be focused and when you do that, you know what? one day You can come back and you're gonna look at your life And you're gonna go Yeah, I made a few mistakes. I Had a few wins a Few big flops a few big wins and a lot of in between but you know what I Think I lived out my life purpose and that my friend is all you can ask from this life That one day you look back and go I pulled it off not perfectly but not too bad