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You know you can pretty much do anything you want, you just need a reason, just
need a purpose. So, let me give you an example. If I ran into a huge building,
okay, let's say an auditorium, and there's thousands of people there,
and I just saw there was a fire outside, okay? I saw a raging fire outside of this
place and I was like, "Fire! Fire! Everyone get out! Fire! Fire!" And I was
screaming, "Fire", and they all ran out of the building, right,
how would I feel? I would be like, "Wow! I really just helped a lot of people." I
wouldn't be afraid to go run in and scream, "Fire." Right?
Why? Because I had a purpose. And if they didn't run out of the building,
those flames would eventually get in there and you know, a lot of people could lose
their lives. So, I had a purpose. I could get in there and yell,
"Fire! Fire! Fire!" Now, what if there wasn't a fire? Okay. Can I come in and
talk to thousands of people without any fear? And the difference, only in your
mind, is that you've given yourself permission because you believe you
have a purpose. You believe you have something important to say.
So, when I sit up here on this camera, it's not because I think I'm the best
speaker or I'm the most interesting person in the world, or anything like
that, you know, it's just really a camera I just set up right now and it's pretty
late at night, and I just decided to say some things because I have a purpose,
right? Because I have my purpose. And the reason you should listen to me,
is because I have a purpose. I am running in saying, "Fire! Fire!
Fire!" but it's my purpose. And when you align yourself with an actual
purpose to do something, your brain allows you to get rid of all those fears.
So, instead of spending like, you know, 20 years determining like,
"Okay, the best public-speaking skills, and I'm going to go in there and I'm going
to not worry about what they're thinking about me and I'm going to build up all
this confidence." Just give yourself a purpose. I mean, if you have a purpose,
you can do anything you want because your body and your spirit and your soul,
they align with that. And all of those lower-level things,
all those fears and everything like that, they will just dissipate away.
As soon as you shine through with that purpose, whatever that is for you,
you know whatever is important to you, that is the way to jump up like a trillion
levels without doing all that self-development work like, "Oh,
the confidence. The confidence. Blah blah blah." You can pretty much just
discard so much of that stuff, if you have the purpose.