 How many of us get caught in analysis paralysis and then the opportunity passes us by? Right everybody everybody. That's a function of getting stuck in your left brain and looking at all the different possibilities Instead of just making a move even if that moves a mistake now. You have a feedback and you move off that Right, so we're getting into the right brain. So all of this We get to our reason to I've experienced I experienced this constantly not constantly But I experience it in direct proportion With the amount of Training that I'm doing in this particular manner which I've laid out for you because I go through periods Well, I'll just do my jujitsu and I'll just work my striking It's not the same because although there is spontaneity in it. It's not flowing and the pressure isn't there It's not from from scenario to scenario. So the focus is different, right? You might be isolated and using more body focus rather than your focus out there But you get in the zone what I call the flow state More often right and everybody in this room I would suggest it's been in the zone in something, right? You're like man. I was in the zone. It could be a video game. It could be Picking chicks up. It could be at work at a business presentation But you're in the zone and there's a certain phenomena of certain certain because it's gonna be different depending on your context Right being in the zone in a business meeting is different than being in the zone in the street fight Right, but being in the zone. There's a good book called flow. It's on flow psychology It's been around for years, but that's a good book to pick up and there's a certain characteristics in this and what we find Is that we've already talked about it? But you're uniquely in the present moment the past in the future of no consequence You are at one with what is you're at one with the activity right surfers say this all the time They're at one there and there's they're in the Zen right they're in the zone They've got Zen they're at one with the waves and everything and that's because you're in the present moment Your focus is on the activity and you're involved with the activity and I have a saying I have a saying that how you do anything Is how you do everything how you tie your shoe is how you? Fight right if you're abstract enough to think it how you express yourself as you tie your shoe is Similar in some way to how you actually fight is similar to how you go get groceries, right? Because you are constantly expressing who and what you are about at all times you cannot not communicate right you can sit there Not say anything, but you're still communicating and expressing yourself, and if you're abstract enough to kind of see what? You know what the correlations is then you by changing one area of your life you change the others Right and and what we find is that we find ourselves in the zone more often you're in the present moment You're responding like an echo. I had this experience in the club once I was just picking chicks up left and right, and I said the exact right thing that they needed to her Here at every time every turn doesn't happen all the time right? I'm married now, but I was in the zone I was flowing but it's that ability to recognize what they need what what the situation needs and give it To it right you're responding like an echo, but this is the biggest thing This is the biggest thing there is no fear for some reason We live in a fearful society. I don't particularly think I'm a fearful guy Sometimes I don't like to fly and I don't like heights, but I believe and I never noticed I don't walk around afraid too often there are some people that walk and carry more fear But I believe we have a fear programming society. There's a lot of fear That's artificially programmed into us, and you don't even notice it, but you do notice it when it goes away Because you're all of a sudden you're taking Accepting challenges and I don't mean fights, but you're accepting challenges and taking care of problems because the fear is no long You don't fear the consequences. It's not there and you can feel it It feels like a drug like you feel you could jump off a building. You're not going to do that, but You're not afraid of it Dude, there is no fear and that is the biggest thing and this is where we get to reason three This is kind of strange After time We're training right we're training we have a pretty good reason for training we want to survive We don't want to be a victim of violence and so we structure our training that way and through the training It changes us and you find yourself in the zone more often in more areas of your life After a while my contention is that those changes get locked into your identity Right, and now all of a sudden this is the third reason It's like somebody switches you on you've reached a new level of the game, right I Called the actualization of your intent or you could all call it the actualization of being a man Because it does awaken certain primal instincts within you, right But your actualization of your intent now you're walking through the world more in the present moment You're more in line with what is right because you're used to responding your your focus is different and your what you find is The first thing you'll notice in my experience. I noticed this You start influencing people in events simply with your intent, right? This isn't persuasion, but you're influencing people in events just by showing up Right, and it's almost as if you show up the door opens right as you get to the door And sometimes there's a hot chick there and she baked you a pie and you get other goodies with it But it's it you you influence people in events simply by showing up, right? It's a kind of a weird thing and I'll kind of explain why I think that happens I mentioned before but you cannot not communicate and people the way we're designed are subconsciously picking up everything around us and we're assimilating a Tremendous amount of information so you are aware of everything that the person next to you is about Not consciously, but we are constantly broadcasting everything We are about who we are what we've done all that and you're picking it up on some level and when you start making these changes What happens when you're when you're switched on by the fact that you're you're spontaneous you're responding you start solving more problems Right in other words you're at the business meeting your your managers like you know He's always got something that you need somebody to take care of and you just pass on it because you don't want to want the extra work Right, and that's really a fear-based response because you're fearing missing out on something else Well, suddenly you just start that when that fear is gone you just start solving problems Which creates more opportunities in your life, right? so you just automatically saw and when you solve people's problems and and they unconsciously pick up on it they start looking to you to solve problems and the more problems you solve for more people There seems to be a mechanism at work that you get more opportunity and good things that happen for you, right? That's and that's the truth, but you solve problems and by default You become a leader Right, it's it's once again. It's not something where you're like I'm gonna lead you guys Or you're just you know But because by default that you're a problem-solver people will put you on that pedestal, right? And don't the best leaders solve problems high-powered CEOs they walk into a place They have no fear and they turn companies around right there the go-to guy and through this train I've experienced it. It's a direct correlation with training in a specific way because you're training your focus You're now carrying yourself differently people unconsciously notice that and they just treat you that way And so you're influencing people simply by showing up It's a weird thing and it is if you stop training you can go back and it doesn't happen as often But you're a leader and this is the weirdest thing And I debated about bringing it up But I don't care What I find is that when you're switched on you have this thing called synchronicities happening more often And I'm gonna share a story about that But synchronicities I believe are a function of of you functioning at a higher level, right? And they've done studies basically all a synchronicity is if you were to calculate the probability of an event that event Happening in that particular way. There's no way it could happen It just it's like events outside of yourself have coincided and and there is no physical way You know you think of somebody you haven't thought about in ten years and they call you at that instant Everybody's had that in some some form But synchronicities go a little bit beyond that and I'll explain what I believe happens But I had a I was in Vegas with a friend of mine and she was in real estate This was years ago and I had an idea for a company called that I was going to market to elones It was a valuation online company And I was going to market specifically to elones and so on our way back from the hotel We're on the side street. We're driving back to LA I told her and pitched her my idea because I wanted her feedback, right? She was also in real estate So we had a ten minute long conversation about this company and as we're pulling on to the freeway This car was already on the freeway and it pulls in front of us and it's vanity license plate from California the one and only person who owns this license plate said elone on it, right? And we both and I share this because I have a witness and we both went that's you know That's beyond coincidental that is that's pretty crazy, but I have a theory about that There was a study in Cornell and what they found is they found that a certain percentage of people perceive In the future I'll be at a couple seconds, right? They've done they've done a replicable study that that people have Have duplicated and what they found is they got different control groups And I believe they did nine tests to eight of the nine showed that They flashed them different images and some of the images were erotic and emotionally laden, right? And they were random randomly generated and they tested people's physiology there their physiological responses and what they found is That a large number more than what should have been expected Started to respond before the erotic images two to three seconds before even the computer selected those images Right, so what if as a side effect of me training for some reason my mind perceived a little bit further in the future Saw a flash of elone which which prompted me to have that whole conversation Ending with the thing that triggered it in the first place, right? So I'm not saying there isn't a logical explanation to this, but I do believe that through the training it changes you Physiologically and you may or may not experience this but I have and many many times and I believe that that's that's part of the mechanism But I want to I want to end with a story actually Which I believe is is is perfect for the actualization of being a man And it's a good example because I do believe in our recent past that men were different just by the fact of how society was Right, my grandfather is a farmer, so he was used to getting his hands We didn't have all the distractions life wasn't as hectic, right? We didn't have all those distractions But my grandfather he grew up in Nazi Germany. He died before I was born I never met him and when he was a kid during World War one He was playing in a tavern and he wasn't supposed to be there at night And some soldiers brought some of the locals down into the basement where he was playing so he had to hide and as he was hiding Right in front of them They proceeded to to torture these guys and cut their tongues out right as a as a sign for them not to for the town Not to talk so imagine being a kid a few feet away from this Horrific thing and on top of that having to be quiet so that you're you're you're you're gonna get discovered and probably get your tongue cut Out right I can't imagine that Well years later in World War two my grandfather was older He he recognized what was happening when Hitler was coming to power. So he grabbed my grandmother. He grabbed Some family friends and some other family members. They fled to Mexico, right and while he was in Mexico He he started a farm there some He employed a bunch of the locals to work the land right and one day the bandidos came into his farm Right and they started beating up his workers and extorting money from them So the story goes there was about a dozen of them and he he went out he grabbed a hoe It wasn't my grandmother, but he grabbed a whole right She was she was pleading with him not to do this but he said no I have to go out there It's my duty. These are my many went out there and whatever was transpired, right? He made such an impression on them. I dare say with his intent Right to put himself in harms away He went out there and not only backed them all down. They returned the money and they never came back Right, I thought man. What an amazing person if that's not enough a testament to the character of being a man, right? shortly after that he He and his workers were carrying like they had a cart, but they were carrying on their back And it had wheels and they had I don't know if it was fertilized or what? But it was probably between 600 and 1,000 pounds took six men to move this well while they were moving it the wheels broke Right, so my grandfather held up the this 600 to 1,000 pounds by himself and so everybody could get out safely breaking his back in the process and I was like You know, holy shit. I would have just dropped it ran, but you know, I it's in this day I'm upset that I never got to meet the man, but I'm like wow. What an amazing human being and But something about those stories always bothered when it comes to violence Intense situations and even transitioning into business and being the better expression of yourself It's the first to greet black belt under William Van dery. He also has trained with Paul Vunak Certified JKD instructor the list goes on and on mr. Ed Akin All right, all right, so this is my second time at the 21 convention Where is my system? Where is my? What I'm relying on where is it limited and you start filling in the holes with those things those other systems that work Right, but we need a philosophy and this is where this is really important What the correlations is then you've went by changing one area of your life you change the others Right and and what we find is that we find ourselves in the zone more often. You're in the present moment You're responding like an echo