The School of Greatness - 881 Embrace the Future and Find Your Massively Transformative Purpose with Peter Diamandis

Episode Date: November 27, 2019

WE FEAR WHAT WE DON’T UNDERSTAND. The future doesn’t have to be scary. You don’t have to put your energy into building bunkers, hiding gold bars in the ground, and preparing for the end. The future can be full of possibility. There are so many exciting advancements happening in the fields of science, health, and space. But you have to change your mindset from fear to positivity. The world is magic. On today’s episode of The School of Greatness, I talk about the future of health and technology with a transformative leader and visionary: Peter Diamandis. Recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the executive founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world's leaders on exponentially growing technologies. Peter repeats his “Massively Transformative Purpose” to himself throughout his day to give him focus. His passion is the key to his success. So get ready to get excited about the technology of the future on Episode 881. Some Questions I Ask: Isn’t every generation going to be the best time in the world moving forward? (11:00) Have you ever doubted yourself? (33:00) Did anything shift in you when your boys were born? (41:00) Does the future make us dumber? (48:00) Is there anything missing in your life? (1:02:00) In This Episode You Will Learn: About your MTP, or “Massively Transformative Purpose” (17:00) About Peter’s goals for longevity (23:30) The four keys to longevity (26:00) Three questions you can ask to help you find your passion (31:00) Why you should consider banking a placenta (54:00) The single most important skill everyone needs (1:11:00) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/881 and follow at www.instagram.com/lewishowes

This is episode number 881 with New York Times best-selling author Peter Diamandis. Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howes, a former pro-athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur. And each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin. Eleanor Roosevelt said,

the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. And J. William Fulbright said, we must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. Ooh wee, I am excited about this interview. Man, we dive into all sorts of crazy ideas about the future, about what is possible for you in this ever-evolving, expanding, growing, technological, advancing world.

And I am just, the whole time I'm blown away and excited about what's possible. What once seemed impossible for your life and for your dreams and for your purpose is more possible now than ever. and for your purpose is more possible now than ever. And if you don't know who Peter is, he is a leader, a game changer in the world. He's a New York Times bestselling author and the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He's also the executive founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level

Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world's leaders on exponentially growing technologies. Peter has started over 20 companies in the areas of longevity, space, venture capital, and education. He is co-founder of Bold Capital Partners and co-founder and vice chairman of Cellularity Inc., a cellular therapeutics company. And recently, he was named by Fortune as one of the world's 50 greatest leaders. He's got a new book. It's going to blow you away. It's called The Future is Faster Than You Think, and you can pre-order it right now. It comes out January 28, 2020. In this episode, we talk about finding your MTP or massively transformative purpose and establishing the moonshot ideas of your life. This could transform your life, just this one

section in the interview alone. We talk about the four keys to longevity that will extend your lifespan if you commit to them. These are huge. The three powerful questions you can ask yourself to help find your passion. So if you're asking, what is my passion? What am I supposed to be doing? What's the next step for me? This is that section. How our future is changing extremely rapidly and how we can be empowered by it instead of scared of it, and why your mindset matters over everything else and how we should protect it and care for it at all odds. Get ready to have your mind blown. Peter is just changing the world with his research, with his companies, with his ideas, and with his book. Again, make sure to share this out with your friends, lewishouse.com

slash 881. While you're listening, text someone who you think might be interested in this right now. And without further ado, let's dive into this interview and powerful life-changing episode with the one and only Peter Diamandis. Welcome back. And one of the School of Greatness podcast, we've got one of the biggest leaders in the world, Peter Diamandis. Good to see you, man. I'm happy that you're here. Pleasure. We've, I've crossed paths with you for years and been in the same circles and know a lot

of the same people. So I'm glad that we finally got you on here. And a lot of people have asked, when am I going to interview you? So I'm glad we finally had a time to- Here I am. Make it happen, to talk about the future is faster than you think. And I love that you just mentioned about your mission, that we fear what we don't know. And there's such a big industry in safety of the future, right? Of bomb shelters and creating all these,

I don't know, materials and resources for when bad things might happen. Yeah, we're living in a world that is fear-driven to a large extent, right? And there's a reason for this. As we were evolving millions of years ago, there were so many things that could kill us. And our brains evolved a part of the brain called the amygdala that looks and listens for all the dangers in your world. And this was evolutionarily beneficial centuries and millennia ago when we were under constant threat. And when you hear something negative, it puts you on red alert and you pay immediate attention, right? So you see like a rustle in the leaves and you think a tiger rather than the wind. You see a crack on the

ground, you think snake rather than a stick. You have to think the worst case scenario to save your life. It would save your life before. Now, what happens is our news media bombards us with negative news all the time. I laughingly call CNN the crisis news network or the constantly negative news network. I don't have a good version for Fox. But we're living in a world where, listen, there are media companies whose mission it is to deliver your eyeballs to their advertisers. And if we pay 10 times more attention to negative news than positive news, that's what we're feeding. So when I coach 360 CEOs every year at my abundance event right here in Beverly Hills and 5,000 entrepreneurs. And I'm saying, listen, at the end of the day, run the experiment.

Pick up the newspaper tomorrow and count the number of positive stories to negative stories. It's like 10 to 1 negative to positive. One out of them. Yeah. And it's not true. I'm not saying this is fake news. What I'm saying is that there's so much amazingly positive news, you just don't hear about it because good news networks don't succeed. And so we're bombarded by this negative news and it changes our mindset and it puts us in a state

of fear. And fear is not a good place from which to live your life or make the world a better place. Can you be creative from a place of fear and terror? You're restrictive. You're scarcity-minded. You're not creative and expansive. And you're looking to protect what you have versus create something new. And so a lot of my work at the XPRIZE, in Abundance 360, at Singularity University, in my books, are around helping

people see the world a different way. We're living arguably during one of the most extraordinary times in human history. Today, an individual is more powerful than presidents were a few decades back, more than the kings and the queens. We have access to more knowledge, energy, capital, in the Queens. We have access to more knowledge, energy, capital, computational power. People don't honestly know how powerful they are to make their dreams come true, to transform the world, to find a problem and solve a problem, right? So I'm with the entrepreneurs that I support. I say, listen, stop complaining and start solving. Go find a solution. Go find a solution because the world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities. That's true. Right?

And I teach this throughout my programs. Want to become a billionaire? Help a billion people. Right? This beautiful convergence that we're so powerful and we can solve these problems. Not everything, but I think a good number of them. Yeah. Now, isn't every generation or decade going to be the best time in the world moving forward like

50 years from now we're going to say this is the greatest time in history because we have this technology right right so that's what my first book my first collaboration with steven kotler dear friend for for both of us was about i wrote a book called abundance the future is is better than you think right and it shows us that for all of human history, the world has been getting better. If you measure the world by access to food, water, shelter, healthcare, education, knowledge, information, entertainment, all of these factors, of course there are issues around the environment,

there are issues around all kinds of things, but we forget how much life was about survival, fundamental survival. In the holiday season, we think about gratitude and thanksgiving and all of them. Giving and giving. There wasn't that. No, it was like I was, a millennia ago, it's like, can I live till tomorrow? Isn't that crazy? Right?

Can I find food? My son or daughter are sick. What's going on? Can I get the right medicine man to help me figure this out? What's going on? Can I get the right medicine man to help me figure this out? Now we're worried about, oh, man, it's like I've got to cut the grass, or I don't have enough time to see my soap opera. The stuff that we're worried about today, we finally have the chance to take a break,

a vacation from survival, and now we can think at a much higher level of, how do I want to contribute? How do I make the world a better place and that's an amazing place to be Now was there ever a time in history that was actually better? That they had abundance mindset I don't know I'm thinking of like the the Egyptians and the pyramids like we've never figured out how they did those things It was over a period of time that was like, man, it was glorious time? I think we will romanticize the past, but from almost all of human history, the way I describe human history, it was the king and the queen on the hilltop or the pharaoh,

whatever you want, and the rest of 99.99% of people in absolute squalor working to try and make the king and the queen somewhat wealthy. But even if you think about it, the life of that king or queen 500 years ago doesn't compare to the poorest people here in LA, right? Who still have a cell phone, still have air conditioning, still have access to an Uber, have access to all of these things and a bathroom. I mean, the things that we take for granted now, that would be miraculous, just decades ago or hundreds of years ago. So people think about, my God, we have an increasing wealth gap. We do, we do. But on a different way to think about it, again, for all of human history, it was the have and the have-nots, right?

Lots of have-nots. A lot, 99.999%, and the few haves at the top of the hilltop in the castle, so to speak. And where we're moving to now is a world of a few haves and all these have-nots to the work that I'm focused on is creating a world of haves. And yes, there will be super haves. But if we can create a world where every man, woman, and child has access to their basic needs, food, water, shelter, health care, education, all of these things, because we're dematerializing, demonetizing, and democratizing these things, right? And I'll come back to that. multi multi billionaires living forever on Mars, but is you know, I'd rather have that world Where we uplift where every mother knows that her kid has access to all the health They need all the education they need the water the food the energy and they they can create, you know

They're living not a world of luxury but a world of possibility. Yeah Yeah What is it that you think that limits us from thinking bigger? I feel like you're one of the leaders who thinks so much bigger than people's wildest dreams. Why are people limited in the way they think about what's possible for them? That's a great question. And I think it's, it is fundamentally a person's mindset. They don't give themselves, they don't allow themselves to think at that scale. What holds us back from allowing, even fantasizing for a moment of a big dream? And I think it's really ultimately giving yourself that permission and allowing and

getting the tools you need and getting examples in your life of other people who have. It's safer not to dream big because to dream big is very risky. It's risky because people, A, will think you're crazy or B, will hold you to your moonshots and then criticize you when you fail. And I think, but we can now, we're living in a very different age where your ability to have a vision of something significant and big, and this is what my second book, Bold, was about, how to go big, create wealth, and impact the world, was saying, listen, we're living in a time right now where you can have a big idea and you can test and iterate,

test and iterate, test and iterate very rapidly until you find the right product market fit. And things can scale. We're going from I've got an idea to I run a billion-dollar company fashion any time in human history. There are more unicorns than ever before because there's more capital than ever before. And entrepreneurs can come up with an idea and test it quickly and fail it quickly or iterate different versions of it quickly. And that's an amazing time. And so it's never been better to be an entrepreneur. And I talk about this in all the work I do when I'm working with people. I say, first and foremost, it's critically important for you

to get clarity on your, what I call your massively transformative purpose. What are you on this planet to do? Doing anything big and bold is hard work. It's all hard work, right? We have this, we get this incredible fantasy of what it was like to be Jeff Bezos or be Elon Musk or be Zuckerberg, all these guys. And the fact of the matter is we think it's easy. We think it's like start at idea and go straight to a billion dollars valuation. But it's not. There are incredibly difficult times along the road, right? There is this period of launch your idea and then on the doorstep of death over and over and over again and not giving up. I joke that a lot of my most successful ventures are overnight successes after 11 years of hard work.

Yeah. Right? I know Elon well. And looking at what he did with Tesla and with SpaceX is extraordinary. But it was hard. It's still hard. It's still hard. And it was on, he tells the stories of being on the brink of bankruptcy and the brink of running out of capital. And it was his sheer fortitude, right? The team at Airbnb, they iterated their idea hundreds of times to get something that works.

But it's possible now as an entrepreneur where before you would, failure was a death knell. Today, it's experience. Yeah. It's almost like you have to fail multiple times in order to have the credibility, the experience to grow. Explain what a moonshot is for those who maybe don't know what it is. Define it. How many moonshots have you declared and said,

I'm doing this? Yeah. How many of them actually happened or close to happening and how many failed? Yeah. So, fair question.

So, I mentioned massively transformative purpose. Let me touch on that. What is your... Yeah. So, an MTP is something I work with all of my entrepreneurs and CEOs around, get clarity around what's your purpose in life.

You could have an MTP for yourself, for your family, for your company. And it needs to be something that you have an emotional connection with that lights you up, it gets you excited. It can come from a place of absolute love. Like, I so want this to exist. I so am excited about creating this.

It can come from a place of sheer pain. It can come from a place like, this should not exist on the planet. I refuse to, I'm going to solve this problem. But it has to have a kind of emotional energy. You and I both know Tony, Tony Robbins, and emotion is a fundamental driver for human greatness.

Yeah. And so getting that MTP, right? So I've had three over my life, one meta. And they can evolve. They can evolve. They can change over time. You can have one for a year, for five years, and find something else you connect with. Early on, it was making the earth a multi-planetary species, the humanity a multi-planetary species.

How do I open up space? Because I grew up on Apollo and Star Trek. Apollo showed us what was possible. Star Trek showed us where the world was going. That lit me alive. That drove me. That is really... I've started a dozen space companies over the years really to make those happen. My next one was solving the world's grand challenges, and that gave birth to the XPRIZE

and Singularity University. How do we positively impact the lives of a billion people? Because that's now possible. As an entrepreneur, I don't care where you live. You're connected to the global economy by the web, massive capabilities, access to capital on crowdfunding and venture funding and all of this. You can, an individual has the potential, if they desire, to impact the lives of a billion people on the planet. That's the first time ever that we live in that world.

Because we have scale now with our resources, with our reach, with distribution, everything, yeah. So one can set that goal. So that's a goal of yours as well? So my second MTP, and I sort of maintained the first and built on the second, was using technology to impact the world's grand challenges. And that gave birth to the XPRIZE, where we've launched about $200 million in prizes.

Another $200 million are in development for solving some of the world's biggest grand challenges. And when a team competes for an XPRIZE, they actually have to do it. They have to build it and demonstrate it. And then they get the money from the prize, but they keep the IP. And their goal is to develop and build this business. Expand it, yeah. And then Singularity University, which I co-founded with Ray Kurzweil, is really around helping entrepreneurs get access to exponential technologies.

Computation, sensors, AI, robotics, 3D printing, synthetic biology, augmented virtual reality, blockchain, quantum computing. blockchain, quantum computing, all of these technologies are openly available if you want to use them, can apply them. But these are all technologies that allow us to make our impact scale to a millionfold, a billionfold. And my latest area, MTP, has been around extending the healthy human lifespan. So longevity, longevity, longevity of a healthy longevity. MTP has been around extending the healthy human lifespan. Longevity. Longevity. Longevity of a healthy longevity.

Not just like suffering but living forever. It's how do you, and so I said a very simple first moonshot within that area. So I think about an MTP as the canvas you want to paint on. Like this is the area I want to have an impact on. And a moonshot is a very specific goal on that canvas. So in the near term, I'm focused on how do I add 30... So, for example, you want to impact a billion lives in a positive way is the overall...

Could be the overall canvas, your MTP, right? But then the moonshot is longevity. So a moonshot is very specific. It's like numbers. It's like within 10 years, I want to do this thing to these many people and make this impact. So in the longevity space, I'm focused on how do I add 30 healthy years so that we have the aesthetics, we look good, the cognition, we're thinking clearly. And the mobility, we're moving clear. We have strength in our movement at 100 that you had like at 60. So how do you make 100 years old and you're 60?

I spent a lot of time as an entrepreneur investing in that area, building companies in that area. Tony Robbins and I are writing our next book called Life Force on that topic. They'll come out in 2021. Because it's possible. The breakthroughs that are coming out right now that are in phase one, phase two, phase three clinical trials are extraordinary. And I think we're really going to create a bump up in healthy- Lifespan. Lifespan. So it's about healthspan, right? How do you remain healthy and vibrant? No one wants to live in a wheelchair, you know, with Depends.

What do you think that we could get to with the technology and resources we have right now? What can someone who's alive right now get to? Yeah, I think that what's coming. Yeah, I think this decade, right, 2020 through 2030, that we're going to see a minimum of a 10-year addition to our lifespan. I think we can probably get 20, and I'm shooting for 30. But here's what's so important for people to realize, that we're living in a period of rapid exponential growth, where all of these technologies are doubling in power every 18 to 24 months. What we're seeing in AI combined with quantum computing, combined with CRISPR

and gene therapy and genome sequencing and all of these things I think are going to enable us to understand aging as a disease not as an inevitability. Really? So we've all had a

disease our entire life. Here's a question. When I was- So we've all had a disease our entire life. Well, so here's a question. When I was in medical school, I was doing a joint MD-PhD program. I ended up, after the medical degree, I stopped the PhD and just got a master's because I was like, no one's going to call me doctor, doctor. And I remember watching this TV show on long-lived sea life, that on Earth, certain species of sharks and whales and turtles can live two, three, four, five, six, 700 years. No way.

Really? Yeah. The question, the Greenland shark has a 500-year lifespan. What? How do they even track that? They have by looking at sharks that have harpoons still in them that were from, you can carbon date back 400 years back. Holy cow. Stuff like that, yeah. That's crazy. It is crazy. But at the end, why can they and why can't we? And I remember thinking, it's either a hardware

problem or a software problem. And we're beginning to understand that. There's an amazing book by a friend, Dr. David Sinclair at Harvard, who runs the Longevity Institute there. The book just came out called Lifespan. I commend it to everybody. And he talks about the information aging theory, information theory of aging. And he believes, and he's brilliant, that we're entering a time where not only can we slow aging or stop aging, that the technology potentially exists to reverse aging. Wow. Completely. To live hundreds of years.

Forever. So here's my mission. My mission, and that for all of us, should be to live as long a healthy life as we can. And as we do that, we will intercept more and more treatments and technology. The world is not standing still, right? So it's still, I mean, honestly, when people say, well, what should I do? My answers are still sleep. You need healthy, you need seven, at least, you know, I target eight hours of sleep. As much as I've gotten to the point where

I respect sleep more than ever. There's an amazing another book called Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, beautiful book, and the importance of sleep. You know, human nature or nature would have evolved sleep away if it was possible, right? If a human species could live on less sleep, be more productive, believe me, it's necessary. So sleep, eating right, and for me, that's a vegan diet. How long have you been vegan for? About three years, thereabouts. And I think the evidence is damn strong. And listen, it's not religious for me.

I'll have some scrambled eggs or a piece of fish once in a while. The third is exercise, for sure. And then the fourth is mindset. If you're excited about being alive, then you're going to live a life of purpose and meaning and contribution. And build healthy relationships and have community, which is pretty important. So all these things, on top of those, those are what you need to do today. On top of those, there are a multitude

of amazing pharmaceutical biotech technologies. Stem cells. Yes, stem cells, pathway manipulation, senolytic medicines, a whole slew of things that are in different stages of clinical trials right now. Are you trying some of these yourself? Some. But at the end, I think these are going to come online

over the next three to five to ten years. So like I tell my friends, it's critically important for you to stay healthy, right? Don't die from something stupid over the next ten years. You can intercept these capabilities. And it'll probably start off extremely expensive, and then it'll be affordable for the masters. Like every technology is, right? The first cell phones cost a million bucks and worked really shitty.

And then now they're 40 bucks and they work amazing and everybody on the planet's got one. Yeah. And that's the normal process of technology. And so my MTPs have been opening up the space frontier, you know, possibly impacting a billion people, aka solving the world's grand challenges, and now extending the healthy human lifespan. And those become sort of what I think about, what I'm passionate about, and where I start my companies, make my investments, and where I write about. And a lot of those are in my next

book, The Future is Faster Than You Think, because that's what I pay attention to. I spend my world and my life tracking the amazing tech developments and what do those mean across every industry? What do those mean for us as parents, as entrepreneurs, as humans? How does one start to, because a lot of people will come to me and say, how do I discover my passion? How do I know what my mission is? And what's the process? You said there's something from a pain or something from a love. So is there a creative process for people to do

that? Whether they've had it once and now they lost their mission, they're looking for something new. So I've got a community called my Abundance Digital Community. It's a community of entrepreneurs that I coach every day, every week. I work with them on finding their MTP. And some of the tricks is to say, listen, what did you want to do when you were a kid before the world, your teachers, your parents told you you couldn't do? Because you can make a career out of anything. And what do you bring this childlike amazement to the world, right? So you're like on fire, you're a kid. I love this, right? It's like, I love my life. I truly do in so many different dimensions because I'm playing all the time, right? So that's the first thing I'll chat

with my entrepreneurs around. The second thing is if I were to give you a billion dollars and said, listen, I want you to make the world a better place. You've got a billion dollars to spend. You can't spend it on yourself. Think frivolous. Make the world a better place. What would you do with it? And you can educate. You can help different groups around the world. You can make people healthier. You can stop poaching. whatever it is, what areas light you up? And third, who do you want to be a hero to? Who do you want to be a hero to? Who do you want to make proud of you? Is it entrepreneurs, is it young women,

is it old people, is it your heritage, what is that? And so these are questions that one can ask to get some reflection. And then I'm saying, okay, within those questions, find something. Find something that is an experiment. Write down a massively transformative purpose, right? So my overall MTP that I will say to myself every day in the shower, every morning, or two or three times a day, right? I will say, listen, I see, hear, feel, and know

that the purpose of my life is to inspire and guide the transformation of humanity on and off the earth, right? So I am about inspiring people. I like that. And guiding people. We're going to create a transformation of the human race where we are in the midst of this massive transformation as exponential technologies are accelerating. And we're going to be creating this transformation on and off the earth.

And my mission is inspiring and guiding entrepreneurs to make the world a better place. I think entrepreneurs, leaders are all about finding and solving problems. And the more entrepreneurs finding problems, solving problems, the more problems get solved, the world gets better. So find an MTP statement that you can write down, memorize, inspire and guide the transformation of humanity on and off the earth. The off the earth plays to the nine-year-old kid in me, right? Because that's- Your dream. That's my dream. And so inspiring and guiding is what I love to do on the stage, in the world, wherever

it might be. And then try out your MTP, share it with your husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, kids, whatever it is, to the people that you're most embarrassed to share it with and see how it feels in your heart, right? You have to be able to say it proudly, consistently without, without reservation. And because it then becomes guiding you as to where you go, what you do or don't do. It's, it's a, it becomes a clear, bright line about this is inside of it. This is not. Have you ever doubted yourself?

Of course. And when do you have those moments of doubt? So the bigger you go, the greater your moonshots, the more the doubt mounts. And at the end, you have to accept that failure is an option. Otherwise, you're stuck in incrementalism, right? I teach this and I say, listen, the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea, right? So if you're trying to create something and it's not a crazy idea for most everybody else, it's not going to be a breakthrough. It'll be an expected small incremental improvement. Like, people say, yeah, sure, of course.

You know, you can increase your sales by 10% or 20%. I think you can work harder. You can do the right thing. But if I said, listen, I'm going to 10x, I'm going to increase by 1,000%, or I'm going to create something. It's like that's a crazy notion. And in order for you to really drive a breakthrough, you have to be willing to step over the line into crazy and not know how you're going to get there. How do we figure out the knowing? So I think ultimately you have to get to a point of, is it impossible?

Meaning, am I disobeying the laws of physics here, right? Right. Is there some evidence to show that this is possible? It doesn't have to be direct evidence, but someone else in a different area has done something of the same scale. Or there's some analogy, right? There's something to say that this is possible. something of the same scale or there's some analogy, right? There's something to say that this is possible. I don't know how to get there.

I'm not 100% sure I can, but the fact that these things have done something similar gives me the belief that I can. There's a fundamental belief and now I just have to figure it out. Right? So in bold, I told the stories for Richard Branson and Larry Page and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and look at sort of billionaire thinking at scale. And it's from a fundamental perspective, each of them have their own leap of faith, right? And it's kind of crazy. And yet you create the future, right? I have a whole set of Peter's laws, and one of them is the best way to predict the future is create it yourself, right? And we create the future all the time, but it's hard.

It's really hard. It's frigging hard. Everyone's against you, except for maybe a few people, right? It's like the chances of success are potentially low. It has to be something you're sufficiently willing to pursue. The energy has to be there. A few of my ventures like Zero Gravity Corporation, which we used parabolic flights to fly Stephen Hawking and so many people and the XPRIZE Foundation. I mean,

they were decadal long problems and the companies crashed and burned dozens of times. There were hundreds of no's. Wow. But it's like my energy, it's like 3 o'clock in the morning looking literally myself in the mirror and saying, I refuse to give up. Wow. And that kind of energy is what it takes to keep going. How do you not doubt yourself for the next big moonshot then? If you see something fail and everyone says no, how do you continue to say, I believe in this idea? I believe in myself. This is possible. says no how do you continue to say i believe in this idea yeah i believe in myself this is you

know possible it has to be ultimately fundamentally has to come from your heart and your soul it has to be something that it's worth risking yourself on yeah right and by the way ultimately it's also we don't start way up here you know it's you don't go from A to Z. It's like your first 10X can be from A to B, and then B to C, and C to D. And the more successes you have, this is the life of an entrepreneur, right? When I teach entrepreneurs about raising capital or starting companies and so forth, it is call your shot of something you're going to do. Have people watch you. Make that happen. And then they'll invest in you to

take your next shot and your next shot and your next shot. So I write about this in bold where I created a space university. I created a university when I was about 28 years old, which is now a beautiful multi-hundred million dollar university in Strasbourg, France. It teaches all the top space leaders around the planet. And it was a, you know, my first step was I held a conference to study the idea of it. Found my co-founders. The next step was we held a summer program. We barred the campus of MIT. The next step was we repeated that. And finally, we held an international global competition for a campus in Strasbourg, France, won that competition. Anyway, it was just-

So it was a process over a decade or- Yeah. And that's okay, especially as our lives get longer. We've got more time. And sometimes the impossible are going to take longer than a few years to reaching this big moonshot. It's going to take potentially decades, maybe not as long, but it's going to take time, right? And if you love what you're doing, if this is truly your massively transformative purpose, you will learn and you will grow.

And even if you fail, you will have an amazing time. And you've loved it. You've loved it. You've loved the experience, the people you got to meet, the things you got to learn. Yeah. Huh. So when you face doubt,

what do you say to yourself to help you get back on track, to be confident and poised? I think I go back to the fundamentals of why this is important to me. I connect with the emotional energy. It's like, I'm so lucky to be working on this, right? This is the kid inside me. This is possible. There is someone out there in the world who will capitalize this or who will provide that technology.

And I think ultimately, if I can't survive that doubt, then maybe this is not the right thing for me to be doing. If the energy isn't there then I need to reevaluate if this is the thing for me. Right, your vision. You said you have two boys, right? Eight-year-old boys? They're fraternal twins, yes.

Did anything shift in you? Because I don't have many kids. We've got an amazing relationship but I don't have any kids yet. Did anything shift in you, because I don't have any kids. We've got an amazing relationship, but I don't have any kids yet. Did anything shift in you in your thinking process of, I need to think bigger when your two boys were

born, or I need to be a little more cautious. I need to play a little bit, maybe the moonshot can be like a I don't know, atmosphere shot. I had the so I had the boys later in my life uh so I had gotten some of the the sort of the fundamentals

um I mean listen I respect the money you're safe you have yeah I built a little bit of yeah credibility and had some capital and so forth. Not as much as anybody necessarily wants. But at the end of the day, it really hasn't changed my life that much other than my priorities. So I prioritize spending time with them a lot more. And I can do that given where I am in life right now, where I'm calling the shots in my companies and when I start my day and end my day is up to me and not somebody else. But, and so I love seeing the world through their eyes

and I think about the world through their eyes. Right, so they're eight years old and I just spent the last year and a half working on this book the future is faster than you think looking at the next decade and the next 50 years but focusing the next decade in the fields of educate reinventing education transportation entertainment health care finance food real estate energy all of fields, and they're going to live a very different life. And I don't think people realize how fast the world is changing. We humans don't like change. We like to wake up in the morning and know that the world is the same as it was the night before.

But the world is changing faster. In fact, I've got an entire chapter in the book called The Acceleration of the Acceleration. Wow. That the rate at which technology is accelerating is itself accelerating. We're heading towards the world where things are going to change at a blinding speed. When did the iPhone game come out? 12 years ago. 12 years ago. 2007. 2007. Look what we've place. 12 years ago. 12 years ago. Right. 2007. 2007. And look what we've done in 12 years. Yeah, and it's incredible

where the tech has gone. So some of the stuff that's going to be happening in that same time frame looking forward, I write a lot about AI, hopefully in a way that people can understand, appreciate, easy to really

apply to their lives. But Ray Kurzweil's prediction is that within a decade, by 2029, we're going to have human-level AI. So what happens when everything in our world is smart? Everything in the world is smart. The kids' toys, the kitchen, you're talking, we have a version of Alexa and Google Home and Apple HomePod and all of these things, which are the earliest days. But very soon, the world's going to become automatic and magical where you walk in and the world is adapting itself to you. They're having conversations with you. Yeah. Asking you questions.

We're all going to have a version of Jarvis. Remember Jarvis from Iron Man? It's crazy. And so where you're going to give permission to your AI to listen to your conversations, read your emails, look at your blood chemistries, all of those things, because when you do that, your AI is presenting you

all the information just in time. Like, when's the last time we met? What's your birth date? All of that. And then it's like if you walk in and your AI is judging you as a little bit depressed, it may change the music and the lighting, and they bring up a television show that is, you know,

the comedy from your latest, you know, your favorite Adam Sandler movies, whatever it is. And ultimately it's about making, your world is going to adapt to you versus you adapting to your world. Your AI is doing all your shopping for you. Nothing's ever out. Everything's automated.

And it impacts all kinds of industries. So if AI is doing a shopping for you, buying things that it knows you need, or it was watching where you looked and you spent a few extra moments focusing on someone's shoes and it knows you liked it because it can tell your blood your blood rate your heart rate went up and you had sort of your your fixated an extra tenth of a second on that and then it you go all of a sudden a pair of shoes show up you go oh that's so nice thank you for those shoes but all of a sudden there's no no longer advertising. Advertising is about influencing you. Right. Right?

Advertising is not going to influence your AI. Wow. So a lot of change is coming across the world. And so my kids probably will never drive. Wow. Right? They're going to be living in a world where autonomous cars are de facto for them. They're going to hop in the car and take me to Billy's house,

and it takes you off. And that car is safer than any human driver. And we're living in a world in which energy is ubiquitous and basically abundant, available water, food, energy. This is the way it's going. We forget how fast the world has changed. The fact that today, you can know anything you want. Hey, Siri. Hey, Siri, exactly. Tell me this. You can talk to anybody. You can download and watch a movie running through the airport.

We forget how amazing the world is. It's magical today. It's magic. Yeah, and it's just getting more and more. I just, I moved a year and a half ago. I remember moving my old one house to another house. I opened the desk drawer and I had like six old iPhones and Google Pixel phones in my drawer. And I'm like, what am I going to do with these? Am I going to donate them or whatever?

Each one of those would have been a CIA or KGB secret they would have killed for 20 years ago. Now we think nothing of them. Disposed, trash, goodwill, whatever. Exactly. Does the future make us dumber or smarter with the acceleration of acceleration of technology?

If everything is done for us, do we even have to think? It's a good question, and I think the answer is we're empowered to think at newer levels, at higher levels. Bigger problem solving. Bigger problem solving, following our dreams. Most people on the planet are in a job because that's how they feed their family. That's how they get insurance.

It wasn't their dream. They didn't grow up wanting to dig ditches or stock boxes or clean bathrooms, whatever the case might be. It was what was available for them to get food on the table or get insurance. And imagine a world in which everyone can educate to whatever level they want, where we separate working for income from working for pleasure, desire, contribution. I also think one of the things I talk about extensively in the book is a world in which we're going to head to a point where you can know anything you want,

any time you want, anywhere you want. Let me double-click on this. So by 2020, by the end of next year, we're going to have 20 billion connected devices, right? My Apple Watch, my Aura Ring, I've got little embedded RFID chip over here, my phone, all these things are connected. And we're also going to head to a world of a trillion sensors, right? So there's sensors everywhere. In this room alone, we've got probably 100 sensors,

if not a couple hundred sensors within a few meters of us right here. Wow. But it goes a step further. We're heading towards a world by 2030 of 100 trillion sensors where everything is being measured all the time. Everything is being seen. A single autonomous car going down the road has got, you know, is taking in gigabits of data, right? Thousands of sensors on it.

And seeing everything. That's one autonomous car. You know, thousands of autonomous cars are seeing everything. Our forward-looking augmented reality glasses that we're going to be wearing, drones and satellites. So we're heading towards a world where you can ask a crazy question like, hey, what's the average color of a man's blouse on Madison Avenue today? And know that answer in a moment. And then you can go on to say,

was there any kind of an advertising campaign that correlates with that particular dress or blouse or suit, whatever it is? And so we're heading towards a future in which it's more important to ask great questions than what you know. And so when I drop my kids off at school, I say to them, and they will roll their eyes at me now because of this, but they'll say, ask great questions today. What questions did you ask? And I talk to CEOs and entrepreneurs, and I say, listen, it's the questions you ask, not what you know.

So why didn't Avis and Hertz ask the questions that would have led to Uber or Lyft? Why didn't Intercontinental and Hyatt and Hilton say, how do we double the number of rooms we have without spending any dollars on CapEx? Right? So learning to ask crazy questions creates incredible opportunities. So for my eight-year-olds, I think we're going back to that root of the question. I think about the amazing world they're living into, that all of these things are changing, that less important what they learn, but they learn how to learn, that they learn to be empathic individuals, that they learn how to tell great stories, that

they learn how to connect with their emotions, that they learn how to ask great questions. It's not how you find the least common denominator here's a question for you this might be weird but this might be weird but if you're able to semi-predict the future of longevity yeah and there are potential parents listening who are wanted to have kids yeah and you said you know what if you just waited an extra this many years, your kid would actually live 50 years longer or something longer. If you actually waited for them to actually be

born, they would have a greater chance of living 30 years longer or 10 years longer. Is this the conversation with your girlfriend? No, I'm just curious. You said ask different questions. So I'll give you that. So five years i'll give you i'll give you that so right now i think kids born today potentially have an indefinite lifespan today gotcha yeah i don't think i mean we're seeing incredible forward progress wow anybody who is pregnant or plans to be pregnant in the near term i have one piece of advice, which is you should bank your child's placenta.

So- Don't give it away to the hospital and let them sell it to some stem cell guy in Panama. So in all seriousness, so I banked my kid's placenta. And full disclosure, one of my companies, I co-founded a company called Cellularity, and it has a division called Life Bank USA, and it is in the business of banking placentas. Now, up until now, what has happened is we have done people have known about cord blood, where you save the blood from the umbilical cord. And that is useful from the perspective of knock on wood or any other tradition you want your child should have a lymphoma hematological cancer of some type that cord blood contains the original stem cells from your

Bone marrow and what you can do is you can radiate the child wipe out their bone marrow and then give back Their stem cells to repopulate their bone marrow and then give back their stem cells to repopulate their bone marrow and get rid of the cancer. Wow. And so this is viable. And people bank cord blood for the first 18 years of the kids. And it saved thousands of kids' lives. Wow.

But there's another step before that. I think of the placenta as the 3D printer that manufactures the baby, right? The placenta is the organ that supplies all the cells to create all of the tissues and organs that make your baby. And that placenta is got the original, it's the boot disc. It's recreated essentially. The placental cells are going to give you the ability later in life to regrow a heart, liver, lung, kidney. Wow. It's a 3D printer for your body.

And so for the time being right now, saving a child's placenta, there may be other companies, but LifeBankUSA.com is one. At the end, for me, it's like a moral and ethical obligation. If you can afford it, you should. How much does it cost us to bank a plac center for a year? It's in the order of $1,000 to $1,000 to do the initial banking, and then it's like $100 or $200 a year. I have a friend whose wife is being induced tonight at 2 a.m. Can he do that? You have the pricing here. My friend is literally having, he texted

me right before he walked and said, placental tissue,'s two twenty two hundred dollars for a one-time payment So a couple grand for it's got a couple of grand Adding personal tissue. So that's for a one-time one-time payment if he wanted a multiple time pain How does someone have it if they have a baby tonight? Is it possible to? Gift him this or? Oh shit, I have no idea. Is it too late? I don't know, but they can go to.

I can tell them to save the percent. Lifebankusa.com is the website. Anyway, my point simply being, and I don't want to be selling this on the show. I just feel like there are, we're heading towards a magical world, right, in longevity for ourselves, for our children. And I think one of the things that's amazing for women

is there's been this extraordinary pressure on women to choose between career and family because I have to, you know, have a baby by age 35, right? And then, of course, there's this mythology because in Hollywood where you can have a baby till 45 and it's bullshit. You start having difficulties after age 35. But there are technologies now for banking unfertilized eggs, easily banking fertilized eggs. There's also technology for using stem cells to repopulate the ovary for additional eggs that's being worked on. And I think it's a blessing for women because this is truly the century forward for women taking leadership roles. Men have screwed

up. But to empower them to build a career, create their desires, and have a family without having to sacrifice health. Do you feel like in the future when these trillions of censors are there providing us information, giving us the answers to how many people are driving on Santa Monica Boulevard right now, to how men are wearing certain colors, anything we want at any any moment how many people are in the building right now all these different things To the point where we're safe. We have resources will that still in my mind There are already people today who are super lazy When they have a baseline so when they have an abundance of everything available, will that make people more hungry or less desire?

It's like when you have a rich parent who's got kids. It's like how do you get the hunger inside of them? I've seen both, and I think we all know kids of successful parents who are spoiled and lazy and kids who are incredibly hungry. spoiled and lazy and kids who are incredibly hungry. I'm not sure that, I think that when we are heading towards a world where we can make almost anything happen in a world in which we have access to all of the capital and technology we need, it's really connecting with a purpose in life that is the most important thing. Because if you've got a meaningful purpose, if you're excited about life, then ultimately- You'll be hungry.

You'll be hungry. What we can do is much, much greater. The ability to think about and talk about the shit that we talk about today, living on Mars, extending the healthy human lifespan. It's crazy. Crazy. I love that you ask your kid, your boys to ask great questions every day. I love that you ask your kid, your boys to ask great questions every day. What's one or two questions that we could all ask ourselves or ask someone else every single day that will help us improve our life? So, I mean, for me, it's when I go to sleep at night, I think about what are the three things I'm most grateful for today. And they're never about some business deal. And they're never about some business deal. It's always about the moment I spent with my kids or the way I had a chance to touch somebody's life.

Or when someone said, Peter, listen, I love your work. I read this or I'm part of your organization here, whatever it is. And it's like, wow, I let that rarely but sometimes can let that touch me. So it's the end of the day. That in the morning um it's what are the three most important things i should do today right that if i do these things today uh it will be a great day so it's you know those are for me uh things that i do and ultimately there's one fundamental question and i i do this with all the CEOs I work with, do you know what your massively transformative purpose is? Do you know why you're on this planet? Do you know the purpose of what

your mission is today? It can have just materialized yesterday. It can be from your childhood, whatever it is. But do you know that? Are you connected to that? And if you're not, then I would posit it's one of the most important things you can do. To get clarity on that. To get clarity. To get crystal clarity of what it is that drives you, right? So for me, it's what I work with my entrepreneurs around. And even, it's amazing, I have this Singularity University. I hear amazing things

from guys who go there all the time. Yeah, incredible things, right? And half of the class, we run graduate programs, we run executive programs. Abundance 360 is the highest tier part of that. And I'll ask, do you know,

ask in the posit, how many people here are crystal clear about what their MTP is in life? Less than half the arms will go up. These are the leaders of the world. Yeah. They're working on... They're running on a treadmill.

They're working faster and harder, but it's unclear towards what end. For what purpose? For what purpose? What purpose. And so I think once you get that, it will help you decide what you should and should not do. So, I mean, those are... It's going to be hard. It's not going to be easy.

Oh, no. But even if you fail along the way, you are learning. You are advancing in some way, right? You don't have to actually hit the Grand Slam home run, but if you move the conversation forward in your community, in your own mind, you're helping achieve that. Yeah.

Is there anything missing in your life? And what is that? Well, I think it's probably focus. We had this conversation. It's probably the notion that I'm on my 22nd company working. This is my third book. I've got number four and five coming out. And the experiment I haven't done is like stop and do one thing.

Don't ask me. If you were forced to eliminate everything but one thing for five years. Yeah, invite me back next year. You've got too many CEOs you're working with and companies you run. So you couldn't make a decision of what you would focus on. No, it is tough. It is hard for me.

I love what I do so much. And I love the art. For me, entrepreneurship is an art form. I love the creative energy. It's a challenge. You have so many opportunities. You get to work with the biggest leaders in the world. Everyone wants to partner with you on something.

How do you choose? So it goes back to... Does it support the mission? Yeah, it goes back to the MTP, and it goes back to an honest evaluation is, am I excited about it? Do I really honestly feel excited about it? Because I'm at a point in my life where I should only do those things that I'm excited about.

And I have an amazing team around me who help protect me in that regard. And they'll call bulls**t on me. They'll say no to these. Yeah, they'll say, listen, no. Focus. We've got this to do right now. Focus. It's like, we've got this to do right now. And I respect that because I'm on a treadmill of wanting to help people, wanting to say

yes, I can do that. I can take that red eye. I can go squeeze this in. And the other thing that's interesting is as a dad of two eight-year-olds, I trade everything against time with them. So it's like if I do this, is it trading against time with them? And so, that's really an interesting- You talk about the future, but do you ever think it's possible to go into the past and get time back?

No, of course not. I talk a lot about the idea of creating abundance. Let me take a moment and talk about this, because it's a fundamental precept of the future is faster than you think. So we are creating, we're going from a world of scarcity to a world of abundance. And people say, well, what does that mean? Well, you know, your cell phone is giving you access to an abundance of information. You can know any information you want, right? Never was the case before. Your cell phone is giving you an abundance of communication. You can talk to anybody on the planet instantly by just, you know, push up a single button. We're heading towards a world

where we have an abundance of energy, going from scarcity of energy to abundance of energy. So think about it. Hundreds of years ago, we used to go and kill whales on the ocean to get whale oil to light our nights, right? Then we ravaged mountainsides for coal. Then we started drilling kilometers under the ocean floor for oil. And, you know, the cost of coal is five to six cents per kilowatt hour. The cost of solar today, unsubsidized in South America,

is under two pennies. It's 1.75 cents. We're heading towards under a penny per kilowatt hour. So we're heading towards a world, you know, we have 6,000 times more energy, 6,000 times more energy that hits the surface of the Earth than we consume as a species in a year.

So there's plenty of energy. It's just not in usable form. We're not consuming it yet. We're not packaging it yet. And we are heading rapidly towards a world where we have all the energy we want from the sun, and that's putting aside

all the amazing tech work and fusion That's going on an algae and all these other things Yeah But we're also living in a world where the the sunniest countries or I say the poorest countries in the world are the sunniest countries in the world Right really and so I think about that. Well just because of the the heat of the equator and so forth I mean South South and Central America Africa Middle, Middle East, all of those countries are super sunny and they've got the lowest GDP economies, but they're going to be able to get all the

energy they need. All of it. And so in almost every single area, food, energy, water, healthcare, education, we're heading towards a world of abundance. And the reason that we're creating more and more abundance isn't just better politics, isn't we're lucky. It's the impact of these technologies, right? Technology takes whatever was scarce and makes it abundant over and over again. I mean, you want to throw out a topic and I'll show you a scarcity to abundance. Any topic? Yeah. You can pick any area that you think is scarce.

Well, first thing that came to mind was female leaders. Okay. But let's talk about... You're talking about like resource? So I think one of the things that we can think about is we can think about leaders, we can think about even genius on the planet. But now it's abundant.

Everyone's a genius. Well, but I think the point I want to make there is it used to matter where you were born, what family you were born into, what language you spoke. All those things limited your ability. The school you went to, yeah. As a woman,

as a human, right? If you were born into the wrong religion, the wrong culture, in the wrong village that wasn't near a school or a telephone, you didn't have the chance to become a bright light. And so we're now heading towards a world where in the next six years,

we're going to be connecting every single human on the planet at gigabit connection speed. So you could self-educate and become a connected leader, male, woman, whatever religion, whatever ethnic group, you could rise to the highest level of your ability in this connected ecosystem because technology gives you the platform to do that. And so these things, one of the examples people say is, well, diamonds are scarce. And that's BS.

Diamonds are not scarce. There's an amazing company up in the valley I speak about called the Diamond Foundry. It has a machine about the size of a refrigerator. In one end comes water, methane, electricity. Out the other end comes perfect diamonds. No way. Yeah, six, eight, 10-carat diamonds. Shut up.

20-carat diamonds. If you'd like imperfections, they can add that. No way. You can add that. So we're creating abundance, even time, right? So people say, well, time is scarce. Yes, time is scarce. Yes, time is scarce. But if you wanted to learn some information before, you'd have to go and get in your car, drive to the library, hope they have the book.

And then today- They're wasting multiplied time now. Today, it's called save time, right? I can save time in all the things I do. I'm a private pilot. I fly a couple of planes. Ultimately, I save time at LAX. So I'm buying back time.

And then we can add time in the back end through all the conversations on longevity we talked about. Right. It's amazing. If I could, let me tell people the book. My purpose in writing this book was to give people a positive view of the future. People fear what they don't understand.

Right. And in this book, we look at all the exponential technologies. We look at new business models. And we look at how the world's going to be changing over the next 20 years. We look at transportation, education, healthcare, entertainment, advertising, insurance, finance, technology, food, all of these areas. And with the purpose of saying, listen, this is what the business models have been. This is where the world is going. Massive opportunities, right?

We're going to create more wealth in the next 10 years than we have in the entire past century. So we're also going to transform every single industry. So rather than being fearful of where the world is going, my job here is to lay out to folks. The book's coming out at the end of January, January 28th. If folks are interested in the book, we have an incredible advanced campaign here. People go to futurefasterbook.com. We've got $800 worth of giveaways and benefits. So if you order a copy of the book, for example, you'll get a digital copy

of Abundance and Bold, my first two books in addition. And then there's a whole bunch of other things on top of that if you order more than one. What's the link again? bunch of other things on top of that if you order more than one. What's the link again? It's futurefasterbook.com. Ultimately, my goal is help people fear what they don't understand. People fear as things are changing faster and faster. I want folks to realize, don't be fearful. Feel empowered. Feel blessed to be alive. Feel the power you have to solve the problems you care about for your kids, for your family, for your species, whatever it might be. Get excited. Get excited. Yeah, it's an amazing time.

I've got a few final questions for you. With all the opportunities and the technology and the acceleration and the acceleration happening, what's the one single most important skill we should all be developing? Is it learn the power of storytelling, learn how to dream bigger, learn Spanish? What's the skill that everyone did? I think it's hard for me to pick one ever on anything. I have a disease around that. I do think, again, understanding what drives you, understanding your passion.

Because when you understand your passion, it allows you to focus. If you know what you love, what your purpose is, you see the world differently. If I said there's a fire and you look around the room, you see a fire extinguisher. It has a very different meaning for you. So if you're clear about your passion when you are encountering people, having conversations and so forth, you can pull from them or learn from situations stuff that feeds your passion and you'll look for it. You'll self-educate. So that's one thing. Learning the skill of asking great questions is, I think, really important.

I think ultimately it's constant self-education. People forget that advanced education, people forget that advanced education, college and graduate school and so forth, isn't one and done. So 100 years ago, the average male would live into the late 30s. Really? 38, 39, 40. Yeah, that was average age for a man. And so you would go to school, you'd graduate at age 22, and whatever you learned had to last you 18 years. Wow. And things didn't move very quickly then. Women fared better, they lived longer, but ultimately you would have an 18-year run rate.

And today, a few years after you graduate, whatever you've learned is out of practice and it's accelerating. So we have to create a practice of constant self-education. And so whether it's listening to a podcast like this, or whether it's reading, or whether it's Google News alerts. So I've done something in my life which is I have turned off the news. I honestly- Toxic. It's toxic, right?

I mean, I don't need to hear more about impeachment proceedings. Politics. Or politics, all of this. At the end, if it's entertainment for you, that's one thing. But people will spend hours consuming the news. Living in fear, worrying, stressing. And it drives, your mindset is your most valuable asset. Your mindset matters more than anything else.

And so if you have a positive mindset about the world, people want to work with you, they want to be with you, you see opportunities. If you've got a scarcity negative mindset, it's debilitating. And so I don't want some editor of a newspaper or TV, radio show to tell me what they think is important. It's like, no, thank you. I will learn the things that are relevant to me. If there's something that is significant to myself, my family, my social network,

the news will come to me. It's not like I'm in danger of not knowing what's going on in the world, but I'll take that extra time and I'll learn. Right, right. Someone asked me this question last night and this was one of the last three questions I have. And I'm curious your response. He said,

if I've got an envelope that has the date that you're going to die, at one point you're going to have to be gone. Let's just hypothetically say. Even though you don't believe it, you'd extend it forever, but let's just say it's 500 years, it's five years, whatever. You could choose to open it and know the exact date and time. Yeah. Would you open it? No. And why not? Not at all. Because I want to live life driven by different elements and not driven by a fear of death.

I want to inspire you to say, okay, well, let me focus my energy and attention on with the time that I have left. I think so. I just feel ultimately that it's not something that I would want to do. Got it. Okay. Now, okay. So let's imagine that, let's imagine it is your life. Though there is, you know, I just put out a blog. I put out a blog every two blogs a week. I just put out a blog about Martine Rothblatt today, who's an amazing woman. She'll be speaking at my Abundance 360 CEO Summit this year. Opened the blog and it said, your daughter, and this is a true story for her, your daughter has just been told, you've just learned your daughter has five years to live because she's

a disease. What do you do? A, do you try and make those five years the most comfortable, loving, is the most comfortable, loving, or B, do you go heads down and cure the disease? Wow. Right? And so Martine did the curing approach, did the latter, and actually with no biology background, she was a lawyer in the telecom business, went and tracked, found a cure to her daughter's disease. No way. And ended up building a $4 billion pharmaceutical company towards that.

Did she cure her daughter? Yeah, she cured her daughter. Yeah, absolutely. And it's extraordinary. So this is, I mean, the mindset, if I was told, I'm going to tell you when you're likely to die and what you're likely to die from, and you have a chance of curing it, solving

it, then I'm all in. Then I'm like open the goddamn envelope and I'm going to pummel the situation into submission, right? Sure, sure. Because that's the world we're living in today where if you know a problem, you can ultimately solve it. That's it. Okay.

This is a question I ask everyone at the end called the three truths. So imagine this is your last day many, many years from now. It's the day, you're about to turn the lights off, you're 500 years old, right? Let's just imagine. Okay. And you have created every piece of content, you've achieved every moonshot, you've written every book you can imagine. You've said it all.

You've lived all your dreams. Your kids have, everything's good. But for whatever reason, you have to take all of your work with you. The content, your message, videos, books, it's all going to go with you to the next realm, wherever you're going. But you get to leave behind three things you know to be true. That this is the message to the world, that they only have these three lessons that you would share with the rest of us what would you what would be your three truths my three truths um they wouldn't have anything else to have access to your content it's only these three things that you know to be true um the world would have the pursuit of truth is one of the most fundamental important things that we are empowered to solve

any and all problems that we are not victims we are powerful i will say godlike with a small g and empowered to transform and and solve the world's biggest problems i think that uh love is the most powerful force in the universe. That's powerful. Yeah. I love that. I want to acknowledge you for a moment, Peter, for your ability to dream and think. The way you think, the way you dream, the way you execute on your dreams is inspiring to so many people around the world.

And you're transforming a billion lives every single day. So I acknowledge you for your gifts, your love, the light that you shine, and your ability to enroll the world and humanity in your vision is really inspiring. Make sure you guys get the book, The Future is Faster Than You Think. You can go to the link. Yeah, so it's futurefasterbook.com, and there's a whole bunch i mean my mission is get people get this get this vision out if you're interested in my work abundance.digital is my entrepreneurs digital community a360.com is my ceo community and ultimately my my goal is really how do i help people dream bigger uh go from success to significance, empower them to transform

the world? Because I do believe that people focused on problem solving make the world a better place, and we all can. We can stop complaining and we can start solving. That's it. Okay. Final question, what's your definition of greatness? Playing full out.

Playing full out and contributing in a way that leaves the world a better place. Peter, thanks, man. Appreciate you, man. A pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. The future is brighter than you think. And if you are excited about it and learn about the abundance of technology and the abundance of opportunities that you have at your fingertips right now, then you can really manage all the opportunity coming your way. Again, the MTP, Massively Transformative Purpose. Make sure you start establishing this right now. What is your MTP? Make sure to think about it, obsess about it, and make your decisions based on your MTP.

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It's time to go out there and do something great. Outro Music