 I had reached my kind of my limit. And it was time for me to break fear of fear. I was afraid of fear. That's why the company is called The Fearless Man, because I'm always facing more fear. What can I do to step to the next level? How can I step into more tension all the time? How can I keep moving in that direction? Because that's what grows the masculine. Now, I had a teacher. Who knows who David Nagel? Anybody know? I like to credit anybody if I can. David Nagel is a business mentor. He was a business mentor of mine. And he said something that was really important to me once. And it really kind of affected me huge. And he said that he called it the curse of the middle class. And he was talking about what the middle class values of everything else. And I kind of already mentioned it. Can anybody guess what that is? Security. Stability. The middle class always says, what do they say? Get a good job. Get a good retirement. Don't rock the boat. But as a man, what do you want to do? You want to go out and pursue a dream, right? You want to go out and make something happen. I'm going to go start a business. I'm going to go, I don't know, climb a mountain. I don't know what it is. I'm going to become a race car driver, whatever it is. But whatever you want to do is going to involve stepping into fear, i.e. tension. It's going to involve stepping into tension. And can you see that that's always going to be stepping out of this comfort zone. That's always going to be risking something, not chasing security, but doing the opposite. But yet, if you're in the middle class, and I'm assuming most of you are, then your programming is don't rock the boat. And this is where men today are losing their sense of purpose, losing their sense of passion. You see, we crave tension. And we've lost the reality of that. We crave polarity, which is what tension creates. We crave it so much that we have to go get regular doses of it, especially if we don't have it in our lives. Like, for example, how many of you go to the movies and love movies that have a lot of tension? Action stars, things like this in it. Who goes to watch movies all the time? Reads books, things like this. What's happening in those movies? You're getting your dose of tension. You might watch a movie where, you know, that latest born movie where he kicks ass, right? And then you leave the movie wanting to learn martial arts, wanting to learn to kick ass. And that lasts for about a day. And then your life goes back to being numb again. Because you don't want to step into tension. You want everything to be easy. But if you learn to be uncomfortable, you're going to have a very easy life. If you're chasing an easy life, you're going to be very uncomfortable because we need that tension to feel alive. Now, nothing grows without tension. Nothing grows without tension. Think about it. Even a seed, if I put a seed in the ground and bury dirt on top of it, it has to break through the shell. It has to dig roots. It has to grow upwards. It has to grow into a tree, right? And that's done under tension. That's done under pressure. It has to fight its way through the dirt, sometimes through rock, sometimes through concrete, to become a tree, through seasons, through weather. But in that, that's what makes it what it is. And that's what grows it into a tree. Well, it's the same thing with humans. I mean, think about sex. Sex is tension, right? And then the resolution of tension. How about sperm? Who's read the book, Sperm Wars? Did you guys know that sperm actually battle? There's sperm that actually have different mechanisms for battling to be the one to inseminate the egg, I think, as that works. And it's pretty crazy stuff. And then it passed a bus through the wall of the egg and then a baby grows in nine months in a womb and is born through the birth canal. The first thing it experiences is a lot of tension. Learning to walk, learning to talk. And then there's this weird thing where we become an adult, we graduate from high school or college, and then we want to stay the same and stop growing. But the nature of life is growth. You can't stop growing or you start dying.