 What I do want to talk about today is the importance of the people around you in your life. I didn't know it sounds cliche. Oh yeah, I'm here, of course, to support and have people, in all honesty, it's probably the most important thing in your life to have the right support group around you. And I'll tell you a story. Obviously, you guys know me, my past, I've had an interesting, colorful past. Many, many different hats I've worn in my life. I've had really, you know what, if I had to summarize, I've had fun experiences. Yeah, they've been fucked up, but they've been fun and I've learned a lot from them. And one experience in general, a long, long time ago, I was young. I'm 35 right now. I think this happened when I was 18, 19, so fairly young. And I got stabbed in my arm right here, right bicep, I still have a scar right here. And it was at some house party and basically, we got into a crazy fucking fight. Beer bottles are flying everywhere, batons are out there, baseball bats, that gang called this gang. That was a melee, man, it was a fucking movie. If you take a script from a movie or random groups of guys get together, it's like, you know, in a movie like News Anchor or Will Ferrell, where all those people show up on the street, the different gangs. They kick you out exactly like that. Random motherfuckers appearing from left, right in the center and everybody fighting. Anyways, I got stabbed in my arm, I guess through the adrenaline, I didn't really notice and thank God it wasn't like a massive fucking knife, it was like, probably like seven, eight inch knife, something like that. So, you know, it required just a little bit of stitches, nothing special. I didn't notice my friend, you know, came down and I was already fucking in the moment fighting and I carried a baton back then, I was like, I don't know, anyways, fucking insanity. But the one thing, you know, looking back in hindsight, I look at all the things in my life, you know, ever, I've been to, fuck, beyond, I can't even think about me street fights. Like my knuckles are still broken, I had two broken knuckles and hurt bricks. But I smashed in the head numerous times, all the fuck, man, I shoot, I'll make videos for each of my crazy stories eventually. But that's not what I want to talk about, what I want to talk about, looking back in hindsight, and this applies to me now, this applies to me going to the future, looking back in hindsight, the commonality I had among all my interesting colorful adventures is I was never the one that really fucking instigated anything. For the most part, we had idiot friends of ours that started instigating, and then obviously since we're together, we have to go back up their asses. And that recurring theme always came up, always came up. That particular night when I got stabbed, it wasn't me that started the fight, fuck no, all I knew was like, oh shit, shit, hit the fan, one of my boys is getting attacked or whatever, and like, obviously man, I'm in there, man, plus drugs involved too, so that changes your fucking judgment. And that's the thing, man, the reason why I bring up this story is yeah, it happened a long time ago, it may not be applicable to you, obviously we all have different paths that we come from, but it is applicable to how you care yourself today, very, very applicable because you can have the best, you can have the best intentions in your life, you know, you want to have a successful business, you want to get a better shape, better relationship with your partner, but the reality is with the group of people around you, if that group of people isn't the right group of people who promote you, who look out for your best interests, I don't care what willpower you have, I don't care what fucking courses you take, I don't care how hard you work, you are the product of your environment, you are the motherfucking product of your environment, and I've always said this, man, the fastest way to whatever you want to achieve is being the dumbest person in the room, not being the smartest, my goal is in life, I should say, my number one focus in life always with me is if I start something new, whatever it is, I want to be the stupidest person in the room, I don't want to be the smartest, if I'm the smartest what I have to learn, nothing, I've got nothing to gain, I want to be the dumbest ape in that room, and I want to learn from people, and this is important for whatever you want to do, so I always tell people you've got to really audit your circle of people around you, and I'm not telling you just cut them off cold turkey, maybe that's the best thing you should do, I don't know, it's up to you to figure it out, I'm not here to tell you what to do in your life, I'm just here to tell you my personal experiences, but you got to really audit your life, man, and sometimes it's hard, sometimes you realize oh shit, the parents that I have aren't really looking out for my best interests, does that mean you tell your parents to fuck off? No, but that means tell your parents, hey, I put down my foot, you know, this is what the fuck I'm doing, adios amigo, or you realize that your partner isn't the best person for you, or you realize hey shit, my friends, they're not really that great, they're weekend drinkers, they're not really in the entrepreneurial mindset, they're not really thinking outside the box, fuck the last time they ever picked up a book, you know what I mean, and so that's the thing man, like people really forget is like the most important things for success, and people draw this to luck, I don't draw this to luck, I draw this to the environment, obviously I would say luck has a small role to play, but if you actually look at luck, luck is where you are in your environment, you know, for example, why Silicon Valley has the most, I would say, well we'll put in quotes for this conversation, most successful startups, proximity, people call it luck, it's not really luck, it's proximity, if I'm in, if I'm in the Valley, I'm in the proximity of all these entrepreneurs, I'm in the proximity of thousands of VCs, and so this boiling pod, this cross pollination just gives me more better odds of achieving what I want to achieve, same thing if I want to become a better MMA fighter, if I'm in a gym and no one's really doing MMA fighting, how am I gonna get there, right, or if I can go to, if I go to a red star in Montreal, we all get fucking better, if I join any like a legitimate full-time MMA gym, yeah I'm gonna get fucking better, and this is what you need to do, you really need to start auditing your circle of people around you, and to figure out and determine is this inner circle the best for you, is this environment the best for you, the whole idea of free will in my mind is an illusion, I think there's a spectrum, obviously there's a spectrum of things that you could to a certain degree control, but the reality is, the reality is your environment controls everything, where you live matters, who your partner is matters, how your parents raised you matters, all these things like what's your background, what's your culture, these things add up, these are variables to determine roughly in a spectrum of what type of free will and quotations you have, determines how you behave, but the great news about this is you can alter all this, you can control your environment a lot I would say, like for the most part you can control your environment, it doesn't mean you can control your environment 100%, but hey man there's a lot of things you can do to control your environment, you can control where you live in your city at least, and if you have to move you can fucking move man, you can control who your partner is, and I always say oh well you know I don't want to quit my partner, listen, at the end of the day if you have a toxic fucking relationship, you leave your partner, that's it, fucking in the story, kids are no kids, I'm gonna fuck, look after yourself number one, how can you be a good partner or good father or good wife or good whatever to your children if you're fucking miserable you can't whatsoever, but end of story, period, exclamation mark, and so there's many many things you can do, you're friends, you look around what kind of friends you have like I mentioned I think weekend warriors, what are they doing, do they have any ambitions, what do they care about, you know, and if you realize oh shit man my friends are, they're the same boat as me, they're not really pushing themselves, they're not really motivated, they're not really thriving to be something as opposed to the status quo, they're just here as is, they're happy, well of course you're not gonna succeed with these types of people, it doesn't mean they're bad, that's what I'm saying, I'm just saying they're not the best for you for what you want to achieve, and if you're watching my channel I'm assuming you don't want to be the status quo, who the fuck wants to be the status quo, you know, always like the word normal and average, I hate these words, why can't you just be normal, normal, do you see society, who the fuck wants to be normal, Jesus Christ, normal, normal, normal is death, mediocrity is death man, we human beings you gotta think about where we come from, I don't care if you're black, pink, Chinese, purple, or brown, we all come from the same spot, or should say we all come from the same type of background, which is hunter and gatherers, we lived a do or die lifestyle man, we went out there and who the fuck knew what we encountered out in the wild in the elements, crazy creatures, little tiny spiders if they bite you, you die right away, we were literally living on that silver lining that fine thread as the as the Buddha say of life and death, but this is the experience of life as Joseph Campbell talks about, this is living, Rousseau said it the best, the last time that we were free when we were hunters and gatherers, we didn't have governments, we didn't have any types of society, we didn't have any regimes, literally we lived off the land, we had a small tribe and the law was the land, we just had extended family, truly if you look at the decline of the freedom and I'm talking about true human freedom is agriculture, in his book Homo sapiens, Harari, he talks about this, agriculture both from a nutritional aspect, obviously how can you compete, gain meat and wild caught fruits and vegetables and meat is hundred times healthier than anything grown, but as soon as agriculture started happening, then we started creating society around agriculture, then we started inflicting violence because we have to control our land and protect our land and then we started creating our society and the governments etc, but going back to the living experience and going back to mediocrity, who wants to be mediocre, each of us in our genetics has the potential of wanting to experience life, Joseph Campbell also had a saying when Bill and Bill Myers in every he talks about do you have faith, he's like I don't need to have faith, I have experience, I have experience of living, I have experience of breathing, I have experience of love, I have experience of pain, this is what people when they say what's the meaning of life, what they really actually mean is how can I experience life more because what most people try to do, what most people end up doing is I wake up and I'm 50, I have a kid or two, I've had the same job for 20 years, I've had the same routine and this is why I'm depressed, the natural state of man is to experience brand new experiences on a day-to-day basis, that is the natural state of man, I don't want to mean my man, I mean human beings, I just use it for the conversation, that's the natural state to wake up, to go hunt, to enjoy, to break bed, to wake up again, to see new interactions, new experiences, new dangers, living on the edge, that's the true experience and then we were nomadic, we were travelers, it's true, we're souls right, it's true, that was the last time we were free but going back to my story and going back to the point of this video is really start auditing your environment and that's the number one thing that you can do to achieve whatever you want to achieve guys, I will see you tomorrow, have a great weekend, peace out.