 But then when we actually had to pay a fee for this I thought no way in how is this going to happen and Interestingly enough we did there were three of them and remember that young punk. I told you about earlier He came up with this great idea. It sounds wonderful. You know what what I'm gonna do I'm gonna do this, but we're gonna do it in even a better facility. We're gonna run a hotel room We're gonna have a conference and instead of relying on the people that are in this in our community We're actually gonna open this up to actually have people flying in because I know there are more people outside of Orlando Our area where we lived that wants this information would like to be part of it and could join us rather than relying on the small Geographical location of a catchment pull of what we had available. I had other things going on in my life I wasn't thinking that clearly. I also wasn't that committed to it I had my own things to do but what resonated me was you're out of your fucking mind. Are you shitting me? You're gonna spend how much money of your personal savings to be able to put this sort of show on and it with the Expectation our people are actually gonna deliver. He didn't know what he was doing. He didn't know how he was gonna do it These are gonna be two key things Everyone looks at I Missed the most important thing involved here. You have a 17 year old teaching a 30-plus year old professional Something about life and getting something done He had purpose And when you know your purpose You'll figure out what and how and what and how is less important than your purpose your why of what you are doing He had that I didn't in 2007 He puts on his first dog and pony show the first 21 convention and it was a success. It was an obvious success We're here today. I was amazed. He continued at the next year and we're like rock on He get he does it again this time in 2010 now most people try to travel the world I know I would have liked to travel more than I have Okay, and that's just me buying an airline ticket and go in someplace. I want to see what does he do? He decides to take this road show overseas. He goes to Europe and puts on two conferences in countries He's never been in has limited connections, but he does something else. He just doesn't have a purpose He utilizes global connections It's gonna be something I'll talking about in a bit, but he leverages those connections Okay, the what and how he figures that out and I can imagine the fear that's going through him I know what I faced when I faced any of number of my projects But we've talked at length on some of these others and he shared that but he took those fears and he ignored them He paid attention But he figured out a what and how to actually respond to his fears and he figured it out Not only did he figure it out. He actually acted on it. I'm amazed thoroughly Perplexed just done and you then you have to sit back and thoroughly recognize the individual and his achievements They were profound Anthony being Anthony. He was already kind of known being stubborn bullheaded. He just sort of made room for him because you weren't gonna resist it I've talked about that. I think in the documentary 2012 he takes it global Not just overseas global Three separate continents one year 17 freaking time zones Who the hell does that? Who does that that still boggles my mind that he was able to achieve that He has a purpose and the purpose wasn't just putting on the conventions or or the presentations or The million-plus hours of video content. He's uploaded for free on YouTube His purpose is self-education His purpose is to develop a culture of men to help support him to better himself and better each and every one of us in a process That is stunning That is something our cultures collectively have let go of and we've lost and here you have a very young man achieving that Not old men not old men that are afraid And I'm here to sit down and stand in front of you and tell you I would have been terrified by it And I would not have done what he's done Take that Lesson today into your hearts. You are in a special place Capitalize on it find your purpose Look then to solve the what and the how as we go forward I want to recognize that the 21 convention has done a number of things and the next six points are gonna kind of Keynote on some of these elements that the 21 conventions does either explicitly or inexplicitly and the first and primary one And something Anthony's leveraged very successfully is we've won the history's lottery ticket There is no better time to live than right freakin now We have access to information research Dialogue communities other people globally at our fingertips the internet is an amazing Device and tool to learn to harvest information to share to put information out and to get feedback and responses The Gutenberg press was one of the most famous human inventions around It is a device made for printing that had the all the power of a tweet and It launched a human revolution in thought in ideas. It changed nations It changed societies and it changed our world view What we have before us is vastly more powerful and You're leveraging All right You need to be able to have a direction in your life You need to know which way you're going and you need to pursue that That's gonna be part of the connect connection You have to have a degree of knowledge Self-awareness and be willing to share that and then you need to actually leverage your global global connections right now I don't think half of you know each other It would be a shame if you lost out on that opportunity not to make the connection especially in this economic era of Service industries. All right. It's not enough just to get an education You have to then have practical experience to compound that that's going to take time the other element which education systems pretty To do a pretty poor job at is developing transferable skills Okay, the last thing that they absolutely don't do is actually make a global network of connections If you're going to be successful in a global environment, you're going to need to be able to leverage the education experience and Then you're going to have to leverage the ability to make the connections to make something function Anthony did all those things when he went international and went global The other element is education is a terribly personal responsibility Our education systems are horrible and if there's no greater testament to it then and then after 12 years of an American education You're not worth anything more than minimum wage As a matter of fact, we have to have a minimum wage to force employers to pay you that little The reality is if your education was better than it was and it was as good as they say it is your employers would be competing to Outbid you for you. They're not they're not going to Employers have no problem throwing money at resources. They value the average high school graduate Isn't worth any more than what they get with minimum wage and there's a reason for it