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0:00What is luminism? Luminism. Luminism is
0:03the realization
0:05that you have the power to shape your
0:07own reality by learning how to
0:09consistently transform your thoughts
0:12into matter. Now, that's a big thought,
0:14so we can break it down. Yeah, yeah,
0:15yeah. And the you know, the the main
0:18sort of
0:19uh machine or mechanism to do so is what
0:22we call the transformation equation,
0:24right?
0:24Right. Yeah, the the the way to learn
0:26how to consistently turn thought into
0:28matter is to there's three steps to it.
0:31The first step is to get crystal clear
0:33on the vision of what you intend to
0:35materialize.
0:36So, that's thinking. That's a thinking
0:38process.
0:39Uh the second piece is to develop your
0:41plan to materialize that vision.
0:44And the third piece is to take action on
0:46your plan until your vision is
0:48materialized. There's a lot more to it
0:50than that, but those are the basic three
0:51steps. So, the the second two components
0:55of that equation, I guess you could say,
0:58is what sets this apart from the modern
1:00manifestation movement, the law of
1:02attraction, all of these things, cuz
1:03they're they're From from what I've
1:05gathered at least, it's um
1:07if I imagine this this boat that I
1:09really want and I put a picture of a
1:11boat on my wall, it's going to show up
1:13in the water if I just believe hard
1:15enough. Yeah. Well, you know, the modern
1:17manifestation movement and the law of
1:19attraction, they're positive,
1:21well-meaning philosophies, and they can
1:23be efficacious, and they've definitely
1:25got the first step right, which is um
1:28get crystal clear on the vision of what
1:30you intend to either accomplish or to
1:32bring into your life.
1:33Mhm. Uh
1:35and if you think single-mindedly about
1:38something for long enough, it's going to
1:40absolutely have an effect in in physical
1:42reality.
1:43Yeah.
1:44Luminism just puts that power in your
1:46hands by adding the two steps, create
1:49your plan
1:50to achieve that vision, and then take
1:52incessant, consistent action on your
1:56plan until that vision is materialized.
1:58Now,
1:59the plan has to be a dynamic plan that
2:02it that accepts feedback.
2:03Yeah. You don't got to pay attention to
2:05what's working and what's not working so
2:06that you can adjust your plan
2:09uh
2:10according to the real world results that
2:12you're creating.
2:13Every everyone has a plan until they get
2:14punched in the face. Ex- Exactly.
2:16Uh Moltke, who is one of the greatest
2:18generals of all time, said, "No plan
2:20survives first contact with the enemy."
2:23So, it's not a weakness in your plan
2:25that it didn't work the first time.
2:27That's literally the nature of planning.
2:29Planning is, "This is my hypothesis
2:31about what's going to work, then I try
2:33it, and I find out what what worked and
2:36what didn't work, and then I adjust my
2:38plan accordingly.
2:39You do more of the stuff that worked and
2:40less of the stuff that didn't.
2:41Exactly. And then if you take consistent
2:42action, and that's what it's got to be,
2:44it's got to be daily, habitual,
2:46persistent, consistent, you pound on it,
2:48you pound it. You wake up every single
2:50day completely committed to
2:52materializing that vision, you your your
2:55plan has is dynamic, it's got
2:57flexibility built into it, so you're
2:58taking constant feedback, and if you
3:01just consistently persist
3:04to take action on your plan to
3:06materialize your vision,
3:08you are eventually going to materialize
3:10that vision.
3:11Yeah, I mean, it seems
3:13it's simple, but it's not easy type type
3:16of type of deal.
3:18Justin, here's the thing. It's so easy,
3:20and you're so good at it that you
3:22completely take for granted the fact
3:24that you have this power, which is
3:26almost godlike.
3:27Mhm. You literally have the power to
3:29think a thought, and all it is is an
3:32energetic intention in your head, and
3:34before the end of that day, you can
3:36materialize that thought in 3D physical
3:39reality. You can bring it into the 3D
3:42physical world. So, that's the create
3:44That's the god spark. That's the creator
3:47in all of us. Let me give you a super
3:48simple example, baking an apple pie.
3:51Easy easy example.
3:53It starts with an energetic intention.
3:55Hmm, what do I want to cook for dessert
3:57this evening? I want to cook an apple
3:59pie. That's what I want to cook. So, now
4:01you have an idea, a thought. All your
4:04apple pie is at that point is a thought.
4:06It literally does not exist in 3D
4:08physical reality.
4:10So, you get crystal clear on your
4:11vision, then you go you you develop your
4:14plan. You go about assembling the
4:17ingredients that you'll need to create
4:18the apple pie. You got your flour, you
4:20got your apple, you got whatever goes
4:21into an apple pie. You go collect those
4:23various Now, you're taking action on
4:25your plan. You're collecting those
4:27various ingredients and bring them
4:29bringing them together,
4:30and then the final piece of action that
4:32you take is you transform
4:35those varied individual ingredients
4:39until it becomes an apple pie, which did
4:42not exist in the 3D physical universe
4:45this morning, but now it does. It
4:48started out off as a thought in your
4:49head, and now you made it exist in 3D
4:51physical reality.
4:53Congratulations, you've just harnessed
4:55the law of cause and effect to turn your
4:58energetic thought into physical 3D
5:00matter. We all do this every single day.
5:03The problem is we use the power on
5:07mundane, unimportant things
5:09unconsciously.
5:11Very, very seldom do we use it on the
5:13most important things in life. It's so
5:16ubiquitous and common that we don't even
5:18realize that we have this power.
5:20But when you really understand what it
5:23is, and when you learn to harness and
5:25wield it and focus it on the big things
5:28in life, you it literally allows you to
5:30shape your reality.
5:31Yeah. And and wake up in a world of your
5:34own making every day. Your your life is
5:36an apple pie, and you need to go about
5:38consciously baking it.
5:39Well, the first thing you got to do is
5:40visualize exactly what you want it to
5:42look like.
5:42Yeah.
5:43And then you've got to assemble the
5:44ingredients and start putting to them
5:46together. You you you work on it every
5:48single day, and eventually your vision
5:51and your reality become one. So, so you
5:53just said sort of living in a world of
5:56your own making, you you shape your own
5:59reality. I I feel like there there
6:02should be a a definition to this, cuz
6:04people watching this may be like, "Well,
6:05I can't I can't change the president. I
6:08can't change where, you know, Germany is
6:11on the map. I can't change these things
6:12about my reality, so I can't change my
6:14reality at all." But there is an actual
6:16definition to not changing your reality
6:18per se, but shaping it, right? Yes. Um
6:22the first thing you've got to understand
6:23is that human beings inhabit two
6:27completely separate worlds
6:28simultaneously.
6:30The internal mental world of thought,
6:33which you're in that world half your
6:34freaking life. You're in in your head.
6:37And the external physical world of of
6:40the 3D physical reality. So, your
6:42internal world is all you. There's
6:44nobody in there but you. You're the only
6:46one that inhabits that world. And in
6:47that world, you have absolutely
6:50unlimited power. You can visualize
6:52anything you want with no limitations
6:54whatsoever. That world is yours.
6:57The physical world is a world we all
6:59share.
7:00You have a lot of control over your
7:01physical reality, but you don't have
7:03control over events in the Middle East
7:05or earthquakes or volcanoes.
7:07But you you have control over all the
7:10things that really make a difference in
7:12your life. You've got control of the way
7:14you treat people. You've got the
7:16control of the way you deal with
7:18setbacks. You've got control of the
7:20content you consume. You've got control
7:22over so many things that that are the
7:24things that really end up shaping your
7:26life.
7:27And the trick to luminism
7:30is getting crystal clear on the person
7:32that you want to become and the life you
7:34want to live. Really thinking down what
7:37that looks like, what that ideal life
7:39looks like.
7:41Then creating a plan to achieve that.
7:44Your plan will consist of the goals you
7:46choose to pursue
7:47that will make that life possible,
7:49and the daily habits you need to perform
7:52that will ensure the progressive
7:54realization of those goals.
7:56And then you got to take action on it
7:57every single day, and if you do that
7:59persistently enough,
8:00you end up with a life like mine, where
8:02you end up you wake up every single day
8:05in a world that you made. I wake up
8:07every day in an environment that I
8:09created myself. Every plant, every tree,
8:13every building that I live in was
8:16consciously created by me. I wake up in
8:18a body that that was shaped according to
8:20my standards and values. I wake up in a
8:22world where all of my relationships have
8:24been shaped according to the things that
8:26matter most to me.
8:28Everything about my life, everything
8:30that would is within my reach has the
8:32fingerprints of my energetic intention
8:35on it, because I've been doing this for
8:36so long. And that is absolutely
8:39available to anyone who is willing to go
8:43through these three steps to shape their
8:45own reality. So, the
8:47there's Imagine that there's two
8:49different people. One is, I guess I
8:51guess I could say, letting life happen
8:54to them, and the other one is happening
8:56to life, I guess is is the way to put
8:58that, or having life come through them
9:00or or something like this. One of them
9:02is just like, "Oh, well, whatever
9:03happens happens. I'm kind of I'm I'm not
9:06happy where I am, but I'm not sad
9:08either. There's not enough pain to
9:09change, or there and there's not enough
9:10things to to strive for."
9:12Mhm. And the other one is, "I know
9:14exactly what I want. I know exactly how
9:16I'm going to get it.
9:16Mhm. Well, not exactly, but I have a
9:18best guess at how I'm going to get it,
9:19and I'm going to take action
9:20consistently until I get there." That's
9:23That's an important piece of that,
9:24right?
9:24It is. And And how I put that is is the
9:27difference between living your life from
9:29the inside out, which is "In here, I'm
9:32going to get clear on my intention. I'm
9:34going to look inside, and using my
9:36insight, I'm going to be the one who
9:39decides the person I'm going to turn
9:40into, the character traits I'm going to
9:42develop within myself,
9:44the life that I want to shape around me.
9:46I'm going to direct that. And when I
9:49engage with the world, when I engage
9:51with my technology, when I engage with
9:54with everything that's in my life, I
9:57will be directing from the inside out.
9:59Yeah. versus the other person that you
10:01described is living life from the
10:03outside in. I'm really not sure who I am
10:06or what I'm all about. I've got no clear
10:08direction in my life. I've got no clear
10:09purpose. So, I wake up every day and I
10:12react to situations. I react to people.
10:15I react to events. I don't proactively
10:18take action in the direction of my
10:20vision. Rather, I react to life. I'm
10:24living my life from the outside in. And
10:27there's a real problem with that in the
10:2821st century, which is if you don't have
10:33a clear vision for where you want to
10:35take your life, you're going to
10:37absolutely be swept up by somebody who
10:39is clear about where they want to take
10:41you.
10:41Absolutely.
10:42You're not going to be able to withstand
10:43the algorithms. You're There are plenty
10:45of people and plenty of organizations
10:47and institutions that are going to be
10:48perfectly happy to step up and fill your
10:51vision gap for you and take you where
10:53they want to take you.
10:54100% I I I talk about this all the time
10:56on this show.
10:57Almost everyone Well, I shouldn't say
11:00almost everyone, but almost everyone in
11:02the US at least or in the Western world
11:04has a magical box in their phone where
11:07all of information is is available to
11:10them. All of information, everything.
11:12The true, the untrue, the things in the
11:14middle. I can open up my my magical box
11:16or my phone and be happy, sad,
11:18depressed, excited, sad, any any emotion
11:22that I want at the literal
11:25click of a button.
11:25Right. Right? And if I if I don't have a
11:27a clear vision, you you taught me that
11:30every time uh uh you pick up the phone,
11:33you know exactly what you're going to do
11:34with it. Cuz if you don't, you're like
11:35you said, you're going to get swept away
11:37by these by these algorithms, right?
11:38Absolutely, yeah. So, that's the basic
11:42choice that each of us has to make in
11:43the 21st century is how to use that
11:45device. And that's a matter of life and
11:47death. It's literally a matter of life
11:49and death now.
11:49100%.
11:50That device can take you to heaven on
11:52earth.
11:52It can teach you anything you want to
11:54know. You have access to all the world's
11:56knowledge in your pocket at the speed of
11:57light. You can learn everything Marcus
11:59Aurelius or Aristotle ever said. You can
12:01take Harvard business courses for free.
12:03You can learn how to make your inner
12:05world more peaceful. You can literally
12:08learn any positive thing that you can
12:10imagine with that device. Or that exact
12:13same device can take you to the seven
12:15levels of hell. And and it's like your
12:17own personal neutron bomb killing all
12:19the life inside you and leaving an empty
12:21shell. It can drag you into every form
12:23of addiction. It can make you completely
12:25numb to life.
12:26Mhm. It can disorient you. It can
12:29desensitize you. It can ruin your your
12:32body and ruin your mind. It all depends
12:35on how you use it. And this comes back
12:38to living your life from the inside out
12:40or the outside in. When I go to pick up
12:43my device, it's because I've got
12:44something for it to do to move my life
12:48forward. It's the best possible servant,
12:51but it's the worst possible master.
12:53Yeah. It'll take you anywhere you want
12:54to go, but it won't replace you as the
12:56driver. You're the one that has to
12:58decide how you're going to use that
12:59device. And in the 21st century, it's a
13:02matter of life and death.
13:03Absolutely. And the um
13:06I guess you could say the sort of
13:07realization that you are at the center
13:10of of your life. You are the primary
13:12decision-maker. Everything in your life
13:15has been a result of your actions,
13:16beliefs, and plan or lack of a plan.
13:20We
13:22the the the power, the Luminism
13:24Manifesto
13:25defines that sort of feeling or
13:27realization as lumination, right?
13:29Right. That's right.
13:29What does that feel like and how does
13:31one become illuminated?
13:33Oh my god, I will never forget, Justin,
13:36when that happened to me. I was 21 years
13:38old. I was your age, exactly.
13:40And I was reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn
13:42Rand. And I was at the Blandford Nature
13:45Center in Michigan. I was working off my
13:48100 hours of community labor that I got
13:50uh assigned to me in court for having I
13:53don't remember how many freaking
13:55tickets.
13:56So, I was doing my I was doing my time
13:59doing my time on a pig farm, literally.
14:02And stealing away to read this
14:04mind-boggling book every chance I got.
14:08Every minute I could possibly read it
14:10because my mind was on fire. Um
14:13And I I I I remember the moment that I
14:17realized holy
14:20My life is mine. I own it. I'm I'm the
14:24responsible party. I'm the
14:25decision-maker at the center of this
14:27freaking universe. I am the one in
14:29control. I'm the one who Nobody had ever
14:31told me that before in my entire life.
14:33And I have the power to take this
14:36anywhere I want to take it. That book
14:38was was the thing that broke me through.
14:39There's a lot of different ways to
14:41achieve the state of illumination. And
14:43that's one of the things that that we
14:45worked hard when when writing The Power,
14:47we worked hard to make sure that that
14:49document led to the experience of
14:53lumination, which is the result of two
14:56fundamental realizations. The first is
14:58what we were just talking about. My life
15:00is mine. I own it. I'm the responsible
15:03party. I'm the decision-maker at the
15:05center of my own existence. And the
15:07second is and I can shape this thing any
15:10way I want. I and I alone hold the power
15:13to shape my reality. And I'm going to do
15:16that. And and that's what happened to me
15:17when I was 21 and I've been living like
15:19that ever since. Once it's it it seems
15:22to be one of those things where it's
15:24like um once once you see it, you can't
15:26unsee it. Once you feel it, you can't
15:27unfeel it. You can't really
15:30give that back.
15:32and irreversible shift
15:34Yep. that changes the way you view
15:36reality and the way you interact with
15:38reality. Absolutely. And there's um
15:41it it is for
15:43for me at least, when I when I first
15:45read the um
15:47the power, the Luminism Manifesto, it
15:49seemed like instead of
15:52living life by default, you now have the
15:56opportunity and you have always had the
15:57opportunity, but this document says you
15:59have the opportunity to live life by
16:02design as opposed to just, you know,
16:04waltzing through and right? Letting life
16:06happen to you.
16:07That is 100% right. And and what this
16:09document does, I think for the first
16:11time in history, is this document offers
16:14a rigorously structured process that you
16:17just literally have to walk through step
16:18by step. And at the end of that process,
16:21you'll have a crystal-clear vision for
16:22your life. You'll have a detailed
16:24dynamic plan for its accomplishment. And
16:27you'll have a you you'll have a a list
16:29of things that you have to do daily that
16:31if you just simply check off every
16:33single thing on that list every day, you
16:36will end up in that life you've
16:37designed. The vision and the reality
16:39will become one.
16:41Luminism is a clearly defined process to
16:44make that happen. And that's why it's so
16:47valuable, such a breakthrough. So, an
16:49interesting an interesting idea that's
16:52in that's inside of the
16:53the power is um you are already living
16:57in a world that you've created, whether
16:59it's consciously or unconsciously.
17:01All of your beliefs, all of your
17:03actions, all of your planning or lack of
17:05planning has added up to where you are
17:07right now in in the present. How can
17:10someone go about beginning to shape
17:12their own reality in the image of their
17:14values and their vision without any of
17:16the grief or shame or bad feelings that
17:21come with ooh, I put myself here. All
17:24all of these things. Like the the
17:25radical self-responsibility that gets
17:28thrown at you when you when you read
17:29this document.
17:30Yeah, well, here's the thing. It's a
17:31bitter pill to swallow sometimes to
17:33realize that you have created all the
17:35situations in your life. That can be
17:37tough. But you got to stick with that
17:40thought because it because it becomes
17:42the most empowering thought you can
17:43possibly have. It's the most important
17:45thing you can ever realize as a human
17:47being on this planet is that oh, I'm the
17:50one that shaped my reality so far. That
17:52power is really in my hands. How about I
17:54start doing that consciously from this
17:56point forward?
17:57So, what you said is how do you start to
18:01move toward shaping your reality in the
18:04image of your values?
18:05Yep. You have to get clear on what you
18:07value. That's the first step. A value is
18:10that which one acts to gain or keep. So,
18:14values are the things that we want, the
18:17things we desire, the relationships that
18:20we esteem most, the attributes that we
18:22we we're looking for in in
18:24relationships. Values are all the things
18:26that we're willing to act to get and to
18:28hold close in our lives. And the first
18:31thing you've got to do is really take
18:33inventory of your life and decide what
18:35is it that you value. And that's a
18:37that's a subjective experience because
18:39value presupposes value to whom? Mhm. We
18:42all value different things. We all have
18:44different wants and needs and desires.
18:46And the road to the fulfillment of those
18:47desires is going to be different for
18:48every single one of us. So, the first
18:50step is to get crystal clear on what you
18:53want in your life. And most people
18:56haven't done that. It It takes a lot of
18:58courage just doing that takes a lot of
19:00courage. Well, yeah, cuz people I I I
19:03shouldn't say people, but some people,
19:05maybe a majority of them have
19:07uh what can be defined as limiting
19:09beliefs, right? I I want a million
19:10dollars or I say I do, but I believe in
19:13my core money is the root of all evil. I
19:15want a beautiful relationship with my
19:17wife, but I believe that all women
19:19cheat. I want You know, I want to have a
19:21great level of health and fitness, but I
19:23believe that my genetics are the number
19:24one uh sort of definitive factor of of
19:28how I look and how I
19:29family's unhealthy and overweight, so
19:31that's probably my destiny.
19:32Exactly. As opposed to a belief that it
19:35is my daily behaviors. It's my choices
19:37and actions that will determine my
19:38health and fitness, which is an
19:40empowering belief because that puts me
19:41in control versus it's my genetics, my
19:44family's unhealthy, I'm screwed. That's
19:46a disempowering belief because it I I
19:48don't have any any power over it. So,
19:50you make a very good point. It's super
19:52smart to get clear on what you believe
19:54about the most important areas of your
19:56life before you start charging in the
19:58direction of defining what you want
20:00because if you have a a contradiction
20:02between what you believe and what you
20:04want, I want a million dollars, but I
20:06believe that the love of money is the
20:08root of all evil,
20:09those beliefs will sabotage you at every
20:12turn. When when when things start to go
20:14well, you will you will do whatever it
20:17takes to get back into your
20:18psychological comfort zone. You'll start
20:20sabotaging yourself. You'll start making
20:22mistakes unconsciously because you most
20:25of the time behave consistently with
20:28your beliefs. Your beliefs really do
20:30tend to, not always, but tend to control
20:34your thoughts and your behaviors and and
20:37your choices. So,
20:39what you want is is an empowering
20:42aligned belief system,
20:44a crystal clear vision for every
20:48important area of your life,
20:50and then you simply have to create a
20:52plan to achieve that vision. That used
20:54to be the hard part, but we have AI now.
20:56Yeah. And that's the greatest planning
20:57system the world's ever ever known. That
21:01used to be the biggest hurdle to
21:02becoming a luminary, which is what we
21:04call the people that have really learned
21:06to shape their own reality. And our
21:08reality is a And our reality as well,
21:11exactly. By turning their thoughts into
21:13matter. I have a vision to put a man on
21:16the moon by the end of the '60s, John F.
21:18Kennedy, right? And and we all get to we
21:21we all get to participate in in those
21:24visions. Um yeah. So, we we got a little
21:28bit Ayn Randian there saying if you have
21:30contradictions, you need to check your
21:32your premises and things like this. Not
21:34a lot of people understand that um
21:36it's it's not well, I I believe these
21:39things, therefore I will always believe
21:40these things. That's not the way that
21:42No, beliefs don't work that way.
21:43Exactly.
21:43Exactly. It's a it's a
21:45the the way that our our buddy Peter
21:47Kobabe puts this is it's a
21:49you have a superhero buffet in front of
21:51you, right? There's Elon Musk, there's
21:53all these cool there's there's these
21:55amazing people,
21:56but you don't want to have Elon Musk's
21:58relationships because he's maybe not a
22:01good husband cuz he's got a bunch of you
22:02know
22:02He's great at rockets. Exactly. So, you
22:04go, "Okay, well, I like his business
22:06acumen." And then you look at, you know,
22:08someone else maybe I I don't know
22:11Tony Robbins or something like this. And
22:12you go, "Well, I want his his
22:13self-belief, but I don't want I don't
22:14want the rest of these things." You can
22:16sort of pick and choose from people that
22:18have already defined what what they
22:20believe the most empowering and almost
22:23most optimal beliefs for where you want
22:26to go. Right? Absolutely. Yeah. Well,
22:29here's what most people don't understand
22:30about beliefs.
22:31They come and go through life. You
22:33change them constantly as you learn and
22:36grow. As you go through life, you add
22:39new beliefs and you discard old beliefs.
22:42The fact is you choose your beliefs,
22:44whether you're conscious of it or not.
22:45You choose your beliefs.
22:48And and most people don't understand
22:49that. They they they think that the
22:51their beliefs are sort of fixed
22:52universal truths. They are neither of
22:55those two things. The more experience
22:58I've
22:59gained in this area of my life,
23:02the less I believe in belief itself.
23:05Sadhguru has a really interesting
23:07approach to this that I really love. He
23:09said, "I don't need belief. I don't need
23:11to believe anything. I either know
23:13through direct experience or I don't
23:15know. And I'm perfectly happy happy
23:17admitting that I don't know."
23:19The reason So, so let me just tell you
23:21the kind of beliefs that I've installed
23:23in my life. I've consciously chosen my
23:25beliefs across the 12 most important
23:27areas of my life,
23:28and I've chosen the beliefs that empower
23:30me the most. That's the only thing I use
23:32beliefs for. It's it's as a
23:34philosophical base so that I can get the
23:36I want out of life. That's that's
23:38how I use my beliefs.
23:39A foundation. So, my beliefs in health
23:41health and fitness. I believe that I'm
23:43going to be a strong muscular athlete
23:44for my entire life. I believed that
23:46since I was in my '20s. I'm in my '60s
23:48now. I still believe that. Right? Um my
23:51intellectual life. I believe that my
23:52mind is my greatest asset. If I take
23:54care of it, then I should be able to to
23:56to use it at a very very high level for
23:59a long long time. These are just
24:01examples. I have taken a look at all 12
24:03areas of my life. I've asked myself,
24:05"What would the most empowering possible
24:07beliefs I could hold in each of these
24:09areas that are the most aligned with the
24:11reality and that are going to give me
24:13the highest chance of creating an
24:14extraordinary life that works at a high
24:16level in every important way?"
24:19And then I've assembled those beliefs
24:21and it's like, "Okay, that's what I'm
24:22going to believe about about myself and
24:25my life." Yeah. And then that's been
24:27been my philosophical foundation. And
24:28then with that underneath me, I can
24:30start thinking deeply about what I want.
24:32What is my vision in each of these
24:34areas? Get crystal clear on that, and
24:37then develop my plan to achieve that
24:39vision, take action on that plan every
24:41day. But here is a big realization that
24:43I've had in the last couple years as
24:45I've been working with AI.
24:48I don't even know what's possible
24:49anymore, man.
24:51Like I don't even want to I don't even
24:54want to put any governor or let or like
24:56I might just decide that I want to age
24:58backwards.
24:59Like I don't know anymore what's what
25:02what's possible and what's not possible.
25:04We're entering an absolutely
25:06unprecedented time in human history. And
25:10so I'm really being careful about my
25:12beliefs right now. I don't want them to
25:13constrict me in any way, shape or form.
25:16Are are you familiar with um
25:18Brian Johnson? He's he's literally
25:20trying to age
25:21Brian Johnsons.
25:22He's he's got like 150 supplements that
25:25he takes in the morning and he's doing
25:26all these crazy tests.
25:27I yeah, that guy.
25:28He's he's got the Netflix documentary
25:29Don't Die, I think it's called or or
25:31something.
25:31Yeah, so so there you go. I mean, that
25:32guy's an extreme case, but that's my
25:34point.
25:35is possible is is the
25:37And AI what AI is going to do is is the
25:39first thing it's going to do is it's
25:41going to transform every industry. And
25:43then those industries are going to start
25:45combining their technology and take us
25:47to a place that we the world will be
25:49absolutely unrecognizable three or four
25:51years from now. Oh, 100%.
25:53So, I'm trying not to let my beliefs,
25:55which are unbelievably empowering, but
25:57we're living in an age right now where
25:59we're blowing the top off of everything.
26:01So, I'm just I'm double-checking them to
26:03make sure that they're not going to, you
26:04know, hold me back in this coming age.
26:07100% and
26:08adaptability is one of the greatest
26:10traits that we can acquire coming into
26:12this AI revolution.
26:13it's probably the most important single
26:15trait for us going into the future is
26:17our our ability to adapt to the changes
26:21that are happening so fast. Well, it's
26:24adaptability in in the sort of
26:26transformation equation could could be
26:28defined as feedback. You put feedback
26:31into your plan and you act on it as fast
26:33as possible.
26:34right. Yep. So, let's let's
26:36let's talk about the difference between
26:38the law of attraction and the law of
26:40cause and effect. Obviously, just from
26:41me saying that, people are watching this
26:43are going to be like, "Well, duh. The
26:45law of attraction is I put a picture of
26:46a boat on my wall and the boat shows
26:48up." That's not really how it works. And
26:50the law of attraction or the excuse me,
26:52the law of cause and effect is
26:54I put a picture of a boat on my wall and
26:56because there is a picture of a boat, I
26:57now get reminded I need to do the
26:59actions necessary to get that boat.
27:01Right. Right?
27:01That's exactly right.
27:02Yeah. Yeah, I I think that um cause and
27:04effect
27:06connects the feedback loop that
27:09the manifestation movement and the law
27:11of attraction leave open. Cause and
27:13effect is the the fundamental premise of
27:18luminism. Cause and effect is the is the
27:20principle that luminism is built on.
27:21Yep. And cause and effect is every cause
27:23has its effect, every effect has its
27:25cause. There's nothing in the universe
27:27that escapes that law. Yeah. There are
27:29many different planes of causation, but
27:32nothing anywhere in the universe escapes
27:34that law. And the law of cause and
27:37effect is not only widely overlooked in
27:40the self-development space, it's
27:42sometimes disparaged. Mhm. Um and it's
27:46often
27:47Well, let me just put it this way. The
27:49fundamental false claim at the base of a
27:52lot of broken promises and a lot of
27:54fly-by-night philosophies
27:56um in in the personal development world
28:00is the separation from cause and effect.
28:02The separation of a beautiful body from
28:05the cause of diet and exercise. The
28:08magic pill approach, right?
28:10Yeah. The separation of of um
28:13building wealth
28:14from the cause of creating value for
28:16other people.
28:17scheme.
28:17Yeah, the exactly. The separation of
28:20of um having a wonderful love
28:22relationship from the cause of
28:24developing lovable attributes within
28:26yourself. The idea of separating cause
28:29and effect is is harmful and it's
28:31dangerous, but the reason that it's can
28:33be so wildly popular is because it
28:36promises something really seductive.
28:38Success without effort.
28:39Yeah, it's something for nothing.
28:40Everyone loves that. Everyone wants
28:41that. An effect without a cause. And
28:44luminism is the opposite of that.
28:46Luminism doesn't promise success without
28:47effort. It promises that in order to
28:50achieve success, you need to have two
28:52different kinds of effort going on
28:54simultaneously.
28:56Effort in your internal world and then
28:58effort in the external world. And I
29:00think that that's
29:02that's a widely overlooked part of the
29:04law of attraction and the modern
29:06manifestation movement, the effort in
29:08the external world.
29:09Yeah. Which closes that loop.
29:11Exactly. Cuz even
29:13even even though it is well-meaning, the
29:15manifestation movement, law of
29:17attraction, all of these things, it is
29:19kind of offering something for nothing.
29:21All I have to do is believe hard enough
29:22and then it shows up, right?
29:24Right. Well, that's something. It's just
29:27it doesn't it doesn't close the loop.
29:28It's better than nothing. Yeah. Thinking
29:31positively and and being in contact with
29:34what you really want and and and
29:36allowing yourself to want it, giving
29:39yourself permission to desire that at a
29:43really really high level and meditating
29:45on it and and and wanting to attract it.
29:48That is definitely better than nothing.
29:50But if you really want to if you really
29:52want to go a step farther, you'll create
29:54a plan to get it and you'll take action
29:56on your plan until you've gotten it.
29:58That and that's what that's what
29:59Luminism teaches you how to do.
30:02Something interesting that I've I've
30:04thought about a lot with the whole magic
30:06pill, something for nothing, get get get
30:09rich get rich quick scheme is if A, if
30:13something was easy to accomplish,
30:16everybody would have it. B, if everybody
30:19has it, you no longer really want it
30:22much. And C, it's
30:25it's really you know the the whole thing
30:27is it is it the journey or the
30:28destination type of deal? It's like
30:30everyone is like oh it's the it's the
30:31journey always. That's kind of true cuz
30:35if you do go through trials and
30:36tribulations and all of these things, it
30:38feels so much more
30:40it satiates your need for that thing
30:43more so than even having it cuz you
30:45worked so hard to get to building your
30:47dream house, you've built your physique,
30:49you you have a beautiful love
30:50relationship, all these things. If if
30:53everybody had that and if it was so
30:54easy,
30:55maybe you wouldn't even want it. Um it's
30:58pretty nice. Yeah, well maybe maybe not
31:00maybe not dream house and and good
31:02physique and good love relationship.
31:03Whenever you're faced with a with a
31:05quandary like that, is it the journey or
31:08is it the destination? The answer is
31:10always the same. Yes.
31:12It is. It is literally always the same.
31:14It's both. It
31:15they're the Kabalion teaches all truths
31:18are but half truths and all paradoxes
31:20can be resolved. Truth is not a a
31:22pinpoint. It happens on a continuum. It
31:25depends on what angle you're looking at
31:27it from. It's wonderful to arrive at
31:29your destination. It's wonderful. It's
31:33absolutely wonderful and it's also
31:34wonderful to learn and experience the
31:37journey. Yeah. They're they're they're
31:38they're both great. When you arrive at
31:40that destination, what do you do? You
31:42create a new destination.
31:43Yeah, there's always a new mountain,
31:44right? Exactly.
31:45I I got an interesting perspective on
31:47the whole journey or or destination
31:49thing from my buddy Evan Carmichael.
31:51He he said well everybody always says
31:54it's the journey or some people say it's
31:55the destination and I was listening to
31:57an interview of this guy and he said
31:58it's neither, it's the company you keep
32:00along the way.
32:00Ah, that's nice. That's nice.
32:01Which is like I I agree with
32:03But of course you can't say it's
32:04neither. It's all it's all,
32:06right? It depends on what angle again.
32:08It depends on what angle you're you're
32:09looking at it from. So
32:12if if the people watching this are you
32:14know living in their basically their own
32:16creation, they've they've maybe not
32:18envisioned it consciously but they they
32:20are living in a world of their own
32:21making already, how going forward do
32:24they
32:25limit the things that they do not want
32:28and optimize for the things that they do
32:29want? Well, the first thing you've got
32:31to do is get crystal clear on what it is
32:33that you want. That you did that that's
32:35the important thing. You get crystal
32:37clear on what you want.
32:39Then you've got to figure out, okay, so
32:41here's I'm going to I'm going to give
32:43you the transformation equation in as
32:46short as I possibly can.
32:48You take a look at the 12 different
32:49categories of your life and
32:52it's good to get clear on your beliefs
32:53but I'm just going to go straight to the
32:55absolutely necessary active ingredients
32:57here. What precisely do you want in
33:00every important area of your life? What
33:02precisely do you want from your health
33:03and fitness? From your intellectual
33:05life? From your emotional life? From
33:07your love relationship? From your
33:08career? From your parenting? From your
33:10financial life? These these 12
33:12categories, what does the ideal you
33:15living your ideal life look like in that
33:17category? Define that as clearly as you
33:20possibly can. Okay?
33:22Then what you do is you take those
33:24individual category visions and you add
33:27them all up into one compelling singular
33:30vision for your life. If I accomplished
33:32if if I was to hit my ideal in all of
33:35those categories, what does that look
33:36like all added up together? That's
33:38called your life vision. That is now
33:40your North Star. That is now your
33:42decision-making framework. Every
33:43decision you make from that point
33:45forward is held up to that North Star.
33:47Does this if I'm I'm trying to decide
33:50whether to go right or left, whether to
33:51do this or not. Does going left get me
33:54closer or does going right get me
33:55closer? It is literally your
33:57decision-making framework. If you don't
33:59know where you're going in your life,
34:01you can't possibly know which is the
34:03right path to take.
34:05It's the Cheshire Cat
34:07Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
34:09Cheshire Cat, can you tell me where I
34:11ought to go from here? said Alice. Well,
34:13that depends exactly on where you want
34:14to go, said the cat. Well, I don't much
34:17care, said Alice. Well, then it doesn't
34:19matter which way you go, said the cat.
34:20But I want to get somewhere, said Alice.
34:22Well, you're sure to do that if you walk
34:24long enough.
34:25That's the deal. That's what most that's
34:27the world that most people live in.
34:28They're just they're just walking. They
34:30have no destination in mind. They have
34:33no they have no sense of purpose, no
34:35sense of their own identity, no sense of
34:37where they want to end up in life. And
34:39if you don't know that, you can't know
34:41which is the right path to take. That's
34:43why it's so important to take the small
34:47amount of time that it takes to sit down
34:49and decide what do I want in the most
34:52important areas of my life? What does
34:54that up add up to?
34:56What does that look like all together?
34:57What is my life vision? And now I'm
34:59going to use that as my decision-making
35:01framework as my North Star. Every
35:04decision I make is going to be held up
35:06to that.
35:07And of course and we have a a rigorously
35:09structured process on how to get even
35:11even more granular. So what you do is
35:14once you get that life vision in place
35:16and you're crystal clear on it and
35:17you're devoted to it and you're
35:18committed to it,
35:20then you need to define the most
35:22important goals upon which that life
35:24vision rests. What are the five to six
35:27goals that if you accomplish those
35:28goals, you'd be living that life vision.
35:31Like do you have to hit a certain
35:31financial number in your career?
35:33Do you need to get out of a broken
35:35relationship or or or repair a
35:38relationship or find the love of your
35:40life?
35:41Do you need to do you need to finally
35:44figure out your career that that that
35:46creates financial abundance and is is
35:49fulfilling for you?
35:51Do you need to move to a location where
35:53you can build your dream? What are the
35:54five to six goals upon which that life
35:57vision rests where once you achieve
35:58those goals, you're living that vision.
36:00That's the next big piece of thinking
36:02you've got to do. Then once you've got
36:04those goals, that's magic because five
36:07to six goals can live on one page. And
36:09that page contains everything that you
36:12want everything you wish for in your
36:14life is on that one page. It's like a
36:15mini blueprint for your ideal future.
36:18Then the next step is to figure out what
36:21are the daily behaviors that I need to
36:23perform that will ensure the progressive
36:27accomplishment of those goals because if
36:29I can achieve those goals, I'll be
36:30living my vision.
36:32And you define the most important habits
36:35that you need to perform each day
36:37one of which will be touching your most
36:38important goals every single day and
36:40moving them forward. So there's a whole
36:42process for it that's outlined in in in
36:44the power the the Luminous Manifesto and
36:48anybody can participate in it now. It
36:50used to be very very difficult to make a
36:53plan to achieve a life vision. That was
36:55the that was the hurdle to entry. There
36:57were maybe
36:5810 to 20% of people had the intellectual
37:02aptitude, the ability to do the
37:04deductive reasoning, the reverse
37:06engineering, and the complex sort of
37:09calculations required to figure out
37:12precisely the plan to achieve their life
37:14vision. But now literally if you can
37:17figure out your detailed life vision,
37:21you can put it into AI and AI can give
37:23you a step-by-step roadmap on how to get
37:25there. And that's that makes the power
37:29accessible to everybody
37:31where it five years ago it wasn't. Now
37:33it is. There's no excuse anymore. We we
37:35have access to unlimited deductive
37:37reasoning in our pockets now. That's
37:39exactly right.
37:40So you say I want to I want to get here
37:41and I am here and then it goes whoop.
37:43Yeah. Here's what you got to do in order
37:44to get from here to here.
37:46AI can't do your vision for you. The
37:48only way you can get your vision is
37:49looking inside of you because that's
37:51that's internal, right? AI also can't do
37:54your push-ups for you. That's true.
37:55Can't can't take your action. Can't tuck
37:57your kids into bed at night. Can't can't
37:59take action for you. But what it can do
38:01is it can bridge your energetic
38:03intention, your desires, what you want
38:06with the action you need to take to get
38:09it by giving you that plan and that's
38:11always been the hard part. That's been
38:13the hurdle to becoming a luminary in
38:14history. Well, people are there's no
38:17issue on taking action. Everybody's busy
38:20all the time. They're just busy with the
38:22wrong things.
38:23So if you have a literal roadmap to your
38:29ideal future, to your life vision,
38:31living your best life that is dynamic
38:34meaning you put feedback into it based
38:36on real world, you know, experiences,
38:38all you have to do is your daily habits
38:41cuz the only thing like we we we've
38:43we've talked about this before. The um
38:46we can imagine the the present and we
38:48can sorry the the future and we can
38:51remember the past but the only thing
38:53that exists empirically is the present
38:56right now. It just matters what I do
38:58today right now, right? Well, back to
39:01the fact that we live in two different
39:02realities simultaneously.
39:04In the mental world, the past and the
39:06future exist. In the physical world,
39:08it's always the present. So again, we
39:11inhabit two different worlds with
39:13completely different opposite sets of
39:15laws actually. Literally opposite sets
39:17of laws. But both can be grasped and
39:19generally understood. And once you
39:22understand that you inhabit these two
39:23different worlds that behave completely
39:25different and you can master both of
39:27them, you can go into the internal world
39:29of energetic intention
39:31where you have unlimited power
39:34and you can define uh the vision that
39:36you want to achieve and then you come
39:38out into the limited world where you
39:40don't have complete control but you can
39:42chisel away, chisel away, chisel away.
39:44And
39:44Yep.
39:45this this methodology is absolutely
39:47foolproof. You cannot fail. You
39:49literally cannot fail
39:51if you take the time to get crystal
39:52clear on the vision of what you want to
39:54accomplish, develop a solid plan to
39:57achieve that,
39:58take action on that plan every single
40:00day, pay attention to what's working and
40:02what's not working, roll that feedback
40:04into the system so that the plan can
40:06adjust, and keep going, there's
40:08absolutely no way you can fail to make
40:11measurable progress toward your life
40:13vision
40:14every whatever period you you you happen
40:16to be measuring, whether it's week,
40:18month, year. This isn't
40:20you can't fail. The only way you fail is
40:21if you quit.
40:22That's exactly right.
40:23Cuz failure
40:25for for for most people, I would I would
40:27guess, I would assume, that failure is
40:30what we define as feedback. This didn't
40:32work, so I'm going to feed that back
40:33into my plan.
40:34100% right.
40:35And now I'm going to do less of that and
40:36more of things that Setbacks are
40:38literally there to teach you what to do
40:41next.
40:41Yep.
40:42They're they're there to get you to
40:43stop, think, take inventory,
40:46what worked, what didn't, what do I want
40:48to pull forward, what do I want to leave
40:49behind? Boom, they're they're the best
40:52possible guidance system. Yeah, man.
40:54It's um, you know, it again it's pretty
40:57it's pretty simple and it seems like
41:00it's
41:02easier it's there's there's this good
41:04quote. I don't know who said this. It
41:05was either like Warren Buffett or
41:07Charlie Munger, one of these financial
41:09dudes,
41:10and they were talking about putting
41:10money into the S&P 500 and he said,
41:12"It's so easy. The only thing that's
41:14easier is not doing it."
41:16Which is kind of the same thing as as as
41:18this. The it's it's so simple and it's
41:20so easy, but the only thing that's
41:22easier than doing this is just not doing
41:25it and kind of letting life, you know,
41:26happen to you, living from the inside
41:28out as opposed to the outside, living
41:30life outside in as opposed to inside
41:33out. Yep. Well, you you know also that I
41:36don't know I think it's David Goggins
41:39who says, "Choose your hard." It's it's
41:42hard to get up and and work out every
41:44single day. It's also hard to be 200 lb
41:46overweight. Choose your hard, right?
41:48So, nothing in life is easy. You've got
41:50to you've got to
41:51make a choice. And if you if you decide
41:53not to make the choice, you've still
41:55made a choice. You've chosen not to
41:56decide and you've chosen to leave it to
41:58default, you've chosen to leave it to
41:59chance, and that doesn't usually work
42:02out great.
42:03Yeah. Chance is merely a term for the
42:05law of cause and effect not cause and
42:07effect not yet recognized.
42:09right.
42:09Right.
42:10So,
42:12we we we touched on earlier how you can
42:14control the things that matter most in
42:16your life, but not geopolitical events,
42:18not volcanoes, not earthquakes, not any
42:20of this stuff.
42:21When something outside of your control
42:24hits you hard, like illness or loss or
42:28something like this,
42:30what do you have under your control
42:32there? Well, that depends on the
42:33individual situation. And so so
42:36luminism, the tenets of luminism, the
42:39transformation equation,
42:41like like I said, it's it's it's
42:43foolproof in the sense that you cannot
42:45fail if you follow if if if you follow
42:48those steps, you cannot fail to make
42:49measurable change. And that is in the
42:52absence of serious physical or mental
42:55disabilities or or challenges. Sometimes
42:59things hit you so hard that you can't do
43:00anything but lie in bed for 3 months,
43:02right? I mean, we've known people that
43:04that's happened to and
43:06I'm I definitely don't want to discount
43:09the fact that there are sometimes
43:10tragedies that are so intense that they
43:13literally take up they they everything
43:15else has to go away. But most of us
43:18don't don't live there. You know, that
43:20is the exception, not the rule.
43:22Yeah. And the I think this was Marcus
43:24Aurelius that said you can't change you
43:27can't change what happens, but you can
43:29change your reaction to it. It was
43:31something like this, right?
43:32it's it's one of the greatest quotes and
43:33there's there's been a lot of people who
43:35have said it, but I think I think close
43:37translation to what Marcus Aurelius said
43:39is,
43:40"If you are vexed by a thing, if you're
43:43upset about something, it's not the
43:45thing itself that's upsetting you. It's
43:48your reaction to the thing. And this you
43:51have the power to revoke at any moment.
43:54You are in complete control of how
43:56you're viewing that. Is it a tragedy or
43:59is it a challenge?" Those are two
44:01completely different mental orientations
44:04to the to to to the same thing.
44:06And that's a and that's a big big thing
44:09and I I work on that every single day.
44:11Like if you master that, if you if you
44:13can master your response to the things
44:17really master,
44:18where you are the master of your your
44:20responses and your emotions, that's one
44:23of the greatest areas and forms of of
44:25human mastery.
44:26And that's been a a years-long,
44:29you know,
44:31path for me. Yeah, it's it's a battle,
44:33man, cuz like you said, there's some
44:35things that are just like
44:36ooh, I've been hit so hard I need to
44:38stay in bed for 3 months. Exactly.
44:40Right. And and I think that especially,
44:42you know, the Stoics
44:44the Stoics had a very good grip on
44:48focusing on the things they could
44:49control. That's what the Stoics did. And
44:53they they didn't waste a lot of time on
44:54the things that they couldn't control.
44:56You know, Justin, one of the greatest
44:58pieces of philosophy that has ever ex
45:00one of the most dialed-in
45:02pieces of philosophy ever is the
45:05Serenity Prayer.
45:07It is it is so freaking profound. You
45:09can live your life God grant me the
45:11serenity to accept the things that I
45:14can't change,
45:16the courage to change the things I can,
45:20and the wisdom to know the difference.
45:22Now, that third piece, the wisdom to
45:24know the difference between what I can
45:26control and what I can't control, are
45:28what most people get wrong. Right.
45:30They sell themselves short.
45:32They have they have no idea the level of
45:35control that they could exercise over
45:37their own existence if they would
45:39literally step forward and have the
45:41courage to do it. Yeah. And so that that
45:44piece of philosophy is it's one of my
45:46absolute favorites. It's so dialed-in.
45:48Yeah, man. I mean, it's And let me just
45:50say something. And and when I was young,
45:53I realized that I could control just
45:56about everything in my life that
45:57mattered. When I had that experience of
45:59illumination when I was reading Atlas
46:01Shrugged when I was 21, and I realized
46:03my life is mine. There is going to be no
46:06knight in shining armor coming to my
46:07rescue, no one's coming to make my life
46:10right, no one's coming to solve my
46:11problems. If I want a a healthy, happy,
46:15fulfilled, balanced life, it is up to me
46:18to learn how to satisfy that desire.
46:20And that's what I intend to do.
46:23And
46:24and ever since ever since that
46:26experience, I've I've decided that I'm
46:29going to shape my world in the image of
46:31my values. I spent 40 years doing it.
46:35And as a result, I wake up every day in
46:38a world of my own making. I'm surrounded
46:40by the exact environment that I built
46:41around myself, the relationships that I
46:44cultivated according to to the things
46:46that matter most to me. I I've sculpted
46:49my body to be exactly the way I want it,
46:51or more precisely, exactly the way my
46:53wife wants it. There's a there's a
46:55second party involved in that one.
46:57Even my inner world, my my thoughts, my
47:00feelings, my emotions, I've worked
47:03really really hard on. Haven't mastered
47:05that yet, but I've refined them to be
47:07more more harmonious and aligned. The
47:11reason
47:12that Missy and I
47:14have the life that we have
47:16is because I don't know of any human
47:19beings on the planet that have thought
47:20more deeply about what they want than we
47:23have. And as a result, we we wake up
47:26every day in a world of our own making.
47:28And we've codified how to do that. We
47:32have we've defined a rigorously
47:35structured process that anyone can go
47:37through, a step-by-step process,
47:39to do exactly what we did. We We had to
47:41do it manually, and that wasn't so easy.
47:43It took decades. But but now there is a
47:45structured process, step-by-step, that
47:48you can start at the beginning and and
47:51go all the way through and and and learn
47:53to
47:54master the skills that we've learned to
47:56master over the last 30 years in a
47:59fraction of the time.
48:01It's precisely
48:03a create-your-character,
48:05choose-your-own-reality adventure game
48:08that we inhabit right now. And and AI is
48:11what makes it possible. Right. Five
48:13years ago,
48:14anyone with with a little basic training
48:16can get clearer on the vision of what
48:18they want for their That's what the
48:19Lifebook program does that we created.
48:22And and you can go through that program,
48:24whether it's in a four-day experience
48:26or, you know, do it doing it It takes
48:27about 18 hours. And and and people who
48:30don't think that they have 18 hours to
48:32sit down and think through their life,
48:34well, I'm sorry. I don't know what to
48:36tell you. That's not that's not a lot of
48:37time to to take for the benefit that you
48:39get about having that North Star and
48:41knowing where you're going. So, anyone
48:42with a little bit of basic training can
48:45can think through a vision, an ideal
48:48vision for their life.
48:49Also, most people are willing to take
48:52action to get what they want once they
48:54know what to do. It's it's the plan.
48:57It's the bridge between the energetic
48:59intention and the 3D physical
49:01materialization of that intention that
49:03has been so hard. And and like I said,
49:06less than 20% of people are capable of
49:10doing that heavy intellectual lifting.
49:13But now with AI,
49:14it makes it available to all of us. So,
49:17we're we're stepping into a world where
49:19the delta between having the thought of
49:22what you want to materialize and the
49:24materialization of that thought is going
49:26to get shorter and shorter and shorter
49:29until we're probably just materializing
49:31things very very quickly.
49:33Yeah, it's going to be it's going to be
49:34interesting to see kind of the
49:37the evolution of of humanity cuz you you
49:40outlined in the um
49:41the Luminous Manifesto, the the power,
49:44how the agricultural revolution sort of
49:47freed up humans' time. We have food
49:50surplus, we have shelter, we don't
49:51really have to worry about survival much
49:53anymore. And the industrial revolution
49:57freed up people's minds, right? Because
50:00we automated things with machines and
50:03and assembly lines and things like this.
50:05And now we're going through the AI
50:07revolution, right? Which is Which is
50:10freeing us from intellectual labor. The
50:12industrial revolution freed us from
50:14physical labor. That gave us more time
50:16to think, which led to the
50:17enlightenment. But now with the AI
50:19revolution, we're being freed from
50:21intellectual labor. We do not have to do
50:24the deductive reasoning. We don't have
50:27to do the reverse engineering, the the
50:29the intense calculations. We can get
50:31that done for us at the speed of light.
50:33And that is going to be a game changer
50:36in every area of human endeavor. Yeah.
50:38You can use artificial intelligence to
50:41make your grocery list or to crunch
50:43spreadsheets.
50:45But the consistent with the highest use
50:47of the power, probably the highest use
50:50of AI, not probably,
50:53but definitely, is to figure out a plan
50:55to create the life that you want to
50:57live.
50:57Exactly. And that plan is going to
50:59consist of your goals and your habits.
51:01So basically what you do, nobody and
51:03nothing can look inside of yourself and
51:05decide what you want. AI doesn't have
51:07access to that.
51:08Your preacher, your teacher, your guru,
51:11no one has access to that. Your parents,
51:13your best friend, no one has access to
51:15that. The only way you can
51:17the only way you can get in touch with
51:18your desires is to use your insight. And
51:21what that means is you turn inward. When
51:23you look inward and ask yourself
51:25questions, that's called insight.
51:27Mhm. And the reason that no one can
51:29access that information other than you
51:32is because no one stationed at the
51:33critical point of view to have access to
51:36that information but but you.
51:38What do I really want out of life? How
51:39do I feel about myself right now? Where
51:41am I going in my life? What's the
51:43purpose of my life? These are things
51:44that only you can can look inside and
51:47and and answer. The answers are not out
51:49there, they're in here. Yeah. But once
51:50you do that and you look inside and you
51:52define what it is that you want in the
51:54most important areas of your life and
51:56you you organize that and you get it
51:58together, you pull it together into a
51:59vision,
52:00you put that into AI and then you you
52:03ask AI, what are the six goals that that
52:05depends on that I need to accomplish?
52:08Oh, wow. So if I just get those six
52:11things done, I'll be living my ideal
52:13life? Yeah, okay. Can you please break
52:15those goals each down into the main
52:16milestones that I need to accomplish?
52:19Great. Now, what daily habits will
52:22ensure the progressive accomplishment of
52:24those worthy goals? And now it's not
52:27going to be perfect, you're going to
52:27have to massage it, you're going to have
52:28to work with it, but but that's your
52:30plan.
52:32You perform your habits every day,
52:33you're going to achieve your goals. You
52:34achieve your goals, you're going to be
52:35living your life vision. And and that's
52:37what AI can give you now, the bridge
52:40between your energetic intention, your
52:42desires,
52:43and the physical materialization of
52:46those desires.
52:47I think it was um
52:49like Ralph Waldo Emerson or or Bernard
52:51Shaw, one of those quote machine guys
52:53that was like we we are what we
52:55consistently do every day or something
52:57like this.
52:58of people have said a variation of that,
52:59yeah. But it's it's absolutely true.
53:02It's absolutely true.
53:04And it's it's very interesting to think
53:06about how
53:08in order to accomplish this really big,
53:10super vivid vision of of my life, what I
53:13want to accomplish,
53:16I just need to do these things every
53:17day.
53:17Exactly. Well, it's freeing. It's it it
53:20it makes your path astonishingly simple.
53:24Yeah. You no longer have to worry about
53:26the complexity of your life vision. You
53:28no longer have to worry about the
53:29magnitude of your goals. You don't have
53:30to think about that stuff anymore. You
53:32don't have to second-guess. You don't
53:33have to All you have to do is wake up
53:35and say, I've got these 12 things that
53:36I've got to do today and I'm going to
53:38check all of them off.
53:40You do that 365 days in a row,
53:43you're going to be so far down that path
53:45to your life vision, it'll boggle your
53:47mind.
53:48It'll be unrecognizable.
53:49Exactly. That's just the deal. We
53:51Basically, the transformation equation
53:53is the mathematical formula
53:56for learning how to harness the power to
53:59transform thought into matter. Yeah. So
54:03obviously we've talked about the the
54:04power and and luminism and luminaries in
54:07a very positive light in this in this
54:09interview so far.
54:10Although it is a the power is neutral,
54:14the term luminary is also neutral. There
54:17have been bad people that are
54:18luminaries. They've left their marks on
54:20the world and shaped realities. Lenin,
54:22Stalin, Mao, Hitler.
54:24Adolf Hitler was a was a very very
54:26powerful, very effective luminary who
54:28was really really good at shaping the
54:30world around him and and turning
54:33transforming his thoughts into matter.
54:35Yeah. But he used his power for evil.
54:37And um in doing so, he destroyed half
54:40the world and and millions of lives as a
54:42result.
54:43Yeah. And and he went completely off the
54:44rails. Um another example that's not so
54:47extreme is a lot of the brilliant
54:50artists and musicians that we've we've
54:53had in history who have died of
54:55addiction.
54:55Mhm. Um that had the power to shape
54:58their own realities. They they This is
55:00creative power that we're talking about.
55:01This is the God spark.
55:03There's nothing more powerful in the
55:05universe than a mind that has the
55:08ability to shape that very universe in
55:11the image of its values. That's pretty
55:13much
55:14that's the God spark, right?
55:16Well, you know, people like Jimi Hendrix
55:19and Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison and
55:21all of the, you know, how many?
55:23Countless brilliant, wonderful
55:27creative geniuses that have left us so
55:29much, but they couldn't control the
55:31power that they possessed. It was too
55:33much for them. Cuz here's the thing,
55:36once you realize that your life is yours
55:38and you can take it any direction you
55:40want, it is up to you to decide how to
55:43drive that car. When you move from the
55:45passenger seat into the driver's seat,
55:47the power is yours now.
55:48Are you going to crash the thing?
55:50Because you can crash it if you're if
55:52you're not conscious with it. Using the
55:53power unconsciously, using it
55:56recklessly, losing it using it
55:58maliciously is going to lead to
56:00destruction for yourself and for the
56:02people around you. So it is a it is an
56:04awesome
56:05but neutral gift that comes with an
56:08equally awesome responsibility.
56:11It'll take you anywhere you want to go,
56:12but it will not replace you as the
56:14driver. If you decide that you're going
56:16to learn how to how to harness
56:18and wield the power,
56:21you need to do it carefully,
56:23consciously, and for the highest good.
56:25For the people that have consciously
56:27done evil,
56:29obviously their their goal was
56:31destruction or or to, you know, affect
56:33the world in in the way that they did.
56:36But for you you just gave a really
56:37interesting example of the artists that
56:40have died of addiction, the creatives
56:42that have that have died of addiction.
56:43That wasn't necessarily them trying to
56:45do that. That was the unintentional
56:47misuse of the power. Yeah. Cuz you you
56:51control everything that matters most.
56:53You control what vices you have, you
56:55control what drugs you take, you control
56:57whatever what whatever goes in or out of
57:00your of your body. And Can I share a
57:03thought about that? I thought about this
57:04a lot. I
57:06did the movie Black Star that's about
57:08this, that's about the connection
57:10between between artists and addiction
57:12and death. So these are creative people.
57:14Yeah. And and they usually start with a
57:17vision. Elvis Presley wants to be a rock
57:19star. Marilyn Monroe wants to be a movie
57:21star. Whitney Houston wants to be an
57:23amazing singer. They all start with a
57:25with a vision.
57:26But but one of the commonalities it
57:29seems to me is once they get into that
57:32channel,
57:33it becomes too much. It it sort of
57:36starts to override or like like Elvis,
57:39poor Elvis, he, you know, he's a country
57:41boy and all of a sudden he's the biggest
57:43thing in the world. There are just the
57:47women throwing themselves at him. Money
57:49coming at him right and left. It's like
57:51no place to hide, no privacy. He can
57:55give away Cadillacs. He can There's no
57:57limits on anything. Well, damn, dude.
57:59Now now you got a country boy behind the
58:03wheel of a Maserati.
58:05And and and he's not necessarily trained
58:07on how to drive that Maserati. He's
58:09going to go off the freaking rails at
58:10some point. What I've noticed like I
58:12remember a Whitney Whitney Houston
58:14interview where she said, at some point
58:17it just became too much. It was just too
58:19much. I couldn't I didn't know she lost
58:21her vision. She lost her sense of self.
58:24She wasn't living her life anymore from
58:26the inside out. It was all coming at her
58:28too fast and she didn't know what to do.
58:31So
58:33those luminaries who have gone off the
58:35rails
58:36and died from self-destructive behavior,
58:39most of them started off with a vision,
58:42but that vision
58:44got somehow Derailed. derailed and and
58:47wasn't strong enough to pull them
58:49through. Yeah. Right?
58:51It's it's the people the the ones who
58:53have survived that almost a great
58:55example is is David Bowie. He you you've
58:58you've told me about the white diet of
58:59of milk, bread, and cocaine and he wakes
59:02up in a ditch and he's like, this
59:03probably isn't great.
59:04Right, right. Right? He he decided to
59:06renounce all of these things and then be
59:07like, I'm going to go to Didn't he go to
59:10He went to Berlin. He got off coke and
59:12got on heroin. He went to Berlin with
59:13Iggy Pop, right?
59:14Right. But he eventually he eventually
59:16was able to end his relationship with
59:18with drugs.
59:19The the the point is, if you have the in
59:22in the example of I'm I'm a rock star,
59:25I'm a country boy, and I I have
59:28come into basically a lot of power. I
59:30have influence over people. I can do
59:32whatever I want. Money's not really an
59:33issue. Things like this.
59:35The ability to renounce that in favor of
59:38your life vision is one that is
59:40literally a matter of life and death.
59:42Yeah, that's right. Right?
59:43Yeah. So, you know, obviously I I don't
59:46think that many people watching this are
59:48in Elvis's shoes. I don't think that
59:50they're like, "Oh, well, I was a country
59:51boy and now I have millions of dollars
59:53and I have all these I'm giving away all
59:54these cars and things like this."
59:56But, there are tradeoffs in life that
59:58you must make in order to get to your
1:00:00life vision, right? If If you have a
1:00:03self-destructive behavior, limiting
1:00:04belief, or something like this, there
1:00:08there are tradeoffs that you need to
1:00:09make in order to get there.
1:00:11How How would you say
1:00:14What What would you say is the best way
1:00:16for people at home watching this to
1:00:18trade off limiting beliefs, destructive
1:00:21behaviors, things like this in the name
1:00:22of their life vision? If you have a
1:00:24clear life vision, it's a lot easier
1:00:27to participate in deferred
1:00:29gratification. Here's the problem.
1:00:31Without a clear life vision, if you
1:00:33don't know what you want in your life,
1:00:35you can easily find yourself in a place
1:00:37where most people find themselves, and
1:00:38that's gravitating toward what makes you
1:00:40feel good in the moment.
1:00:41Mhm.
1:00:42Right? Which is every form of addiction
1:00:44you can think of. It's It's drugs. It's
1:00:45alcohol. It's pornography. It's
1:00:47gambling. It's It's you know, that whole
1:00:49ball of of stuff. Going toward pleasure
1:00:53and away from pain. Going toward
1:00:54pleasure in the moment and away from
1:00:56pain without regard to the long-term
1:00:59consequences. When you have a clear life
1:01:01vision,
1:01:03you accept both pleasure and pain as a
1:01:05necessary part of the journey. Right.
1:01:07Some days are going to be easy. Some
1:01:09days are going to be hard. I'm going to
1:01:10have my wins. I'm going to have my
1:01:11losses. It's all part of the process.
1:01:14That's not what's important, that I have
1:01:15a hard day here and an easy day here. My
1:01:18destination is what's important. So,
1:01:21that clear vision again, it's a
1:01:23decision-making framework. It allows you
1:01:25to defer a little short-term
1:01:27gratification because you know you've
1:01:29got a a much bigger reward waiting for
1:01:31you in the future, which is the
1:01:33attainment of your ideal vision.

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