Create The FUTURE You Want For SUCCESS By Understanding This...|Peter Diamandis & Lewis Howes

at the end you have to accept that failure is an option otherwise you're stuck in incrementalism right each this and I say listen the day before something is truly a breakthrough it's a crazy idea welcome back in one of the school's greatest podcasts we've got one of the biggest leaders in the world Peter the amana's could see a man I'm happy that you're here pleasure we'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 we finally got you on here and a lot of people have asked when am I gonna interview you so I'm glad we finally had a time to here I am could make it happen enough to talk about you know the future is faster than you think and I love that you just mentioned about your mission yeah that we fear what we don't know and it's such a big industry in safety of the future right of bomb shelters and creating creating all these I don't know materials and resources for when did bad things might happen yeah we're living 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 you know 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 you think the tiger rather than the wind you see us you know crack on the ground you think snake rather than a stick because you have to think the worst case scenario save your life syndrome I would save your life before now what happens is our news media bombards us with negative news all the time right I laughingly call CNN the crisis news network or the constantly negative news network I don't have a good I don't have a good version for Fox but but it it is we're living in a world where listen Derek there there are media companies whose mission it is deliver your eyeballs to their advertisers and if we pay ten times more attention to negative news and positive news that we're feeding so I you know I went on you I coach 360 CEOs every year and my abundance event right here in Beverly Hills and 5,000 entrepreneurs and I'm saying listen at the end of the day you run the experiment pick up the newspaper tomorrow and count the number of positive stories to negative stories right it's like ten to one negative deposit on enema yeah and and it's not that it's not true I'm not saying that you know 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 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 don't your-your-your restrictive your your your scarcity mine did 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 right we're living arguably doing one of the most extraordinary times in human history today an individual is more powerful than then presidents were a few decades back more than the kings and 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 to you to transform the world to find a problem and solve a problem right some I'm with the entrepreneurs so they support it so listen stop complaining and start solving go go find a solution go find a solution because the world 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 write this beautiful convergence that that we're so powerful and we can solve these problems not everything but I think a good number yeah now isn't every generation or decade gonna be the best time in the world moving forward like 50 years from now words 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 a dear friend for where both of us was about I wrote a book called abundance the futures 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 health care education knowledge information entertainment all of these these factors of course there are issues around the environment or issues around all kinds of things but we forget how much life was about survival right fundamental survival and the holiday season we think about gratitude and Thanksgiving and give everybody some kiss there wasn't that okay no it was like I was you know millennia ago it's like can I live til tomorrow that crazy right can I find food Mike my son or daughter are sick what's going on can I get the right you know medicine man to help me you know figure this out we are we're not wait to worry about oh man you know it's like I got to cut the grass or I've got like you know I don't have enough time to see Mike my soap opera or I mean the stuff that we had that were that were worried about today you know we finally had 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 I don't make the world a better place yeah 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'm thinking of like the Egyptians and the pyramids like we've never figured out how they did those things over a period of time that was like man it was glorious time I I think we will romantic eyes the past but from almost all of human history the way described human history it was the king and the Queen on the hilltop or the Pharaoh whatever you want the you know 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 the life of that king or queen five hundred years ago doesn't compare to the poorest people here in LA right who have silver cell phone still air conditioner still have access to an uber or have access to all these things and in a bathroom I mean the things that that we take for granted now that would be miraculous just just you know decades ago or hundreds of years ago and and so people think about my god we have been 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 haves and the have-nots right lots of have not a lot 99.999% and the few haves at the top of the hill top 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 world of haves and yes there will be super haps 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 we're D materializing D monetizing and democratizing these things right and I'll come back to that yes there will be those 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 that a world of luxury but a world of possibility yeah yeah what is it you think that limits us from thinking bigger I think you're one of the the leaders who thinks so much bigger than people's wildest dreams why are people who are limited in the way they think about what's possible for them that's a great question and I think it's it fundamentally a person's mindset they don't give themselves it allow themselves to think of that scale what holds us back from a lower even even though fantasizing for a moment of a big dream and I think it's 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 the 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 you know 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 how to go big create wealth and impact the world was saying listen we're living in a time right now where you could 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 you know we're going from I've got an idea I run a billion dollar company fashion any time in human history they're 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 quickly yeah and it and fail it quickly or iterate different versions of it quickly and that's an amazing time and so it's never been better than be an entrepreneur yeah and I'm my 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 mmm doing anything big and bold is hard work it's all hard works all right we have this we get this incredible you know fantasy of what it was like to be Jeff Bezos or be Elon Musk or be you know Zuckerberg but all these guys and the fact the matter is we think it's easy we think it's like start at idea and go straight to billion dollars valuation but it's not there are incredibly difficult times along the road right there is this this period of launch your idea and then on the door on the death of you know and the 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 you know he tells the stories of being on the on the brink of of you know bankruptcy the brink of running out of capital and it was his sheer fortitude right the team at Airbnb I mean they iterated their idea hundreds of times to get something that works and so 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 you have to fail multiple times in order to have the credibility the experience to grow how many times explain what a moonshot is for those who maybe don't know what it is define it how many moon shots have you declared and said I'm doing this yeah how many of them actually happened or close to happening and how many you failed yeah so fair question so I mentioned massively transformative purpose let me what is your what is it yes so so an MTP is something I work with all of my entrepreneurs and CEOs around get clarity around what is 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 like I so want this to exist I so am excited about creating this income from place of sheer pain income from a place like this should not exist on the planet I refuse to I'm going to solve this problem right but it has to have a kind of emotional energy you and I both know Tony Tony Robbins and you know emotion is a fundamental driver for human greatness yeah and so getting that MTP right so I've had three over over my life one meta and then thinking of all they could evolve they can change over time they can they you can have one for a year for five years and find something else you connect with early on it was making the the earth of multiplanetary species the humanity multiply eteri species how do i how do i open up space right because i grew up on apollo and star trek alright Apollo showed us what was possible Star Trek showed us where the world was going right and that lit me alive that drove me and that is really and I've started a dozen space companies over the years really to make those make those happen my next one was solving the world's Grand Challenges and that gave birth to the X Prize 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 as if they are each with distribution right thing yeah and so when can one can set that goal so so that's a goal of yours as well so it's my second MTP and I sort of maintain the first and built on the second was was using technology to to impact the world's Grand Challenges and that gave birth to the XPrize when we launched we've launched about two hundred million dollars in prizes another two hundred million dollars on for solving from the world's biggest grand challenges and when the team competes for an X Prize they actually have to do it they have to build it and demonstrate it and then they get the you know the world 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 Ricker as well is really around helping entrepreneurs get access to exponential technologies computation sensors AI robotics 3d printing synthetic biology augmented virtuality 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 you know scale you know to a million fold a billion fold my latest area MTP has been around extending the healthy human lifespan so longevity longevity longevity of of a healthy longevity how it is like suffering but living forever but it's it's how do you and so I said a very simple first moonshot within that area so I think about an MTP is 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 source for example you want to impact a billion lives in a positive way is the overall could be a little campus your entity right but then the the moonshot is a very specific the so mucha is very specific it's like numbers it's like within ten years I want to do this thing to these many people and make this impact so that's right in my so in the longevity space I'm focused on how do I add 30 healthy years so that so that we have the aesthetics we look good the cognition we're thinking clearly and the mobility we're moving clear you know we have strength in our movement at a hundred that you had like at sixty right so how do you make 100 years old in new 60 and so I spend a lot of time as entrepreneur investing in that area building companies in that area Tony Robbins and I are writing our next book called lifespan I'm sorry called life force on that topic that will come out in 2021 and because it's possible the breakthroughs that are coming out right now that are in phase 1 phase 2 phase 3 clinical trials are extraordinary and I think we're really going to create a bump up in in healthy lifespan and Iceman to its Tamela it's about health span right how do you remain healthy and vibrant no one's to live in a wheelchair you know it depends what do you what do you think that 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 that what's a healthy yeah I think this is this decade right 2020 through 2030 that we're gonna 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 people to realize that we're living in a period of rapid exponential growth where all of these technologies are doubling in power over 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 enable us to understand aging as a disease not as an inevitability really yeah so so that's what we've all had a disease our entire life well so here's a question right when I was in medical school I was I was doing a joint MD ph.d program I ended up after the medical degree I stopped PhD and just got a master's cuz I was like no one's gonna call me doctor doctor and I remember watching this TV show on long-lived see life that on earth certain species of of sharks and whales and turtles can live two three four five six seven hundred years no way yeah and really so the question of the green Littman like the Greenland shark has a 500 year lifespan what yeah and not even track that you know they have by by looking at sharks that have harpoon still in them that were like can you can carbon date back 400 years back yeah stuff like that yeah that's crazy it is crazy but at the end why can they and why can't wait and I remember thinking it's either a hardware a problem or a software problem and we're beginning to understand that there's an amazing book by by a friend dr. David Sinclair had Harvard and runs the longevity Institute there the book just came out called lifespan I commend it to everybody and he talked about the information aging theory information theory of aging and and he believes and he's brilliant that we're entering a time were not only could we slow aging or stop aging that the technology potentially exists to reverse aging and so lately well if hundreds of fairs so here's my member my mission and that for you know all of us should be to live as long 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 and people saying what should I do my answers are still sleep yeah you need eat healthy you need a you need seven at least you know I target eight hours of sleep as much as I you know I've gotten to a point where I respect sleep more than ever there's an amazing another book called why we sleep by by Matthew Walker a beautiful book and the importance of sleep you know human nature or nature would have evolved sleep away if it was possible right if you could if an ant if a human species could live on less sleep you'd be more productive you know you believe me it's necessary so sleep eating right and for me that's a vegan diet right so I am I've been vegan for about three years there abouts and I think the evidence is damn strong and you know listen I'm not it's not religious for me I'll have some scrambled eggs or a piece of fish once in a while but the third is exercise for sure and then the fourth is mindset you know if you are if you're excited about being alive then you're gonna live a life of purpose and meaning and contribution and build healthy relationships and have community which and community is so spent yeah 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 themselves and yeah stem cells with pathway manipulations synthetic medicines a whole slew of things that are in different stages of clinical trials we're trying some of these yourself or some but at the end I think these are gonna come online over the next you know three to five to ten years so okay I tell my friends it's critically important for you to stay how I stay he'll have you right don't die from something stupid over the next ten years so you can intercept these capabilities yeah so and they'll probably start off extremely expensive and then it'll be affordable for the masses like every technology is right the first cell phones cost a million bucks and work really shitty right and then now there are forty bucks and they work amazing and everybody on the planets got one yeah and that's the normal process of technology and so my MTPs have been opening up the space frontier you know positively impacting a billion people and so AKA solving the world's grand challenges and now extend the healthy human lifespan and i then those 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 in my next book the futures 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 those mean for us as parents as entrepreneurs as as humans and how do was 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 how do I what's the process you said there's something from or something I love so if you've made a process for people to do that whether they've had it once and now they lost their machine yeah 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 and so I work with them on finding their MTB and some of the tricks is to say listen what did you want to do when you were a kid yeah before the world your teacher is reality he told you you couldn't do because you can make a career 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 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 dog like 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 I can't spend on yourself nothing frivolous make a world a better place what would you do with it and you can educate you can help you know different groups around the world you could make him a healthier you can stop poaching whatever it is right what what areas light you up and third good want to be a hero too right who do you want you know we don't be a hero - who do you want to make proud of you yeah is it entrepreneurs is it young women is that old people is your your heritage what is that and so these are questions that one can ask to get some reflection and then and then I'm saying okay within those questions find something to find something that is an experiment write down a massively transformative purpose right so my overall MTP that that I will say to myself every day in the shower every morning or in two or three times a day right I will say listen I I see hear feel and know that the purpose of my life is to inspire and guide the information of humanity on and off the earth right so I am about inspiring people 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 are going to be create this transformation on and off the earth and my mission is inspiring guiding entrepreneurs to make the world a better place or 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 that you can write down memorize you know inspire and guide the transformation of humanity on and off the earth the off the earth placed in 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 and then try out your MTP share it with your husband wife boyfriend girlfriend kids whatever it is to them what people are your 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 any way Wow have you have you ever doubted yourself of course what and when do you have those moments of doubt so I am the bigger you go the greater your moonshots no 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 and I say listen the day before something is truly a breakthrough it's a crazy idea mmm right so if if you're trying to create something and it's not a crazy idea for most everybody else it's not gonna be a breakthrough it'll be an expected small incremental improvement like if people say yeah sure of course you know you can you can increase your sales by by 10% or 20% I think you can work harder you can do the right thing but if I said listen I'm gonna I'm gonna 10x buy a fan go increase by a thousand percent or I'm gonna create something it's like that's a crazy notion and and in order for you to really drive a breakthrough you have to be willing to step over the line and to crazy and not know how you're gonna get there all right how do we figure out the knowing so I think ultimately you have to be if to get to a point of is it impossible meaning my disobeying the laws of physics here right right is there some evidence to show that this is possible there's not any direct evidence but someone else in a different area has done something of the the same scale or there's some analogy right there's something to say that this is this is possible I don't know how to get there I'm not a hard person sure I can but the fact that these things have done something similar gives me the belief that I can there's a a fundamental belief and now I have to figure it out mm-hmm right so in bold I told the stories for Richard Branson and Larry Page Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and 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 am I have a whole set of Peters laws and one of them is the best way to predict the future is create it yourself right and we we're crate we create the future all the time but it's hard to really friggin hard it was against you so there may be a few people right and it's like and the chances of success are potentially low and so how do you it has to be something you're sufficiently willing to pursue the energy has to be there right so a few of my a few of my ventures like zero gravity corporation which we use parabolic flights to fly Stephen Hawking and so many people in the XPrize foundation I mean they were decade along problems and the the companies crashed and burned you know dozens of times there were hundreds of knows you know Wow but it's like 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 that kind of energy is what it takes to keep going how do you not doubt yourself the next big moonshot then once if you see something fail and everyone 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 you know your first 10x can be from A to B you know my first and then B to C and C to D and and on and the more you know 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 what you call your shot of something you're gonna do mm-hmm 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 you know I write about this in bold where my 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 and Rosberg France that teaches all the top space leaders around the planet and I it was a you know my first my first step was I held a conference to study the idea that found my co-founders the next step was we held a summer program we bar the campus of MIT the next step was we repeated that and finally we create we hold we held an international global competition for a campus in Strasbourg France won that competition anyway it was just a process over a decade yeah and and that's okay especially as our lives that longer we've got more time and sometimes the impossible are gonna take longer than a few years to reaching this big moonshot it's gonna take potentially decades maybe not as long but it's gonna take time right and 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 loved the experience the people you got to meet the things you got to learn yeah huh so when you when you face doubt what do you say to yourself to help you get back on try to be confident and 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 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 provide that technology and and I think ultimately it is if if I can't survive that doubt then maybe this is not the right thing for me doing mmm and you know if I'm not if they if the energy isn't there then I need to reevaluate if this is the thing from your vision yeah what you said you have two boys right - yeah you know eight-year-old boys and they're fraternal twins yes did you did anything shift in you because I don't have any kids you know we've got an amazing relationship don't any kids yeah yeah did anything shift in you and you're either thinking process of I need to think bigger when you're when your two boys were born or I need to be a little more cautious I need to like like maybe the moon shot can be like a I don't know I think I shot I had the big cloud sure cloud shot so I had the boys later in my life so I had gotten some of the that's where the fundamentals I mean listen I respected made money you say if you have yeah credibility and had some capital and so forth yeah not you know not as much as I as anybody 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 and you know I can do that given where I am in life right now where I'm calling the shots of my companies and when I start my day and my day is up to me and not somebody else but and so I love seeing the world through their eyes and and I think about the world through their eyes right so you know they're eight years old and you I just spent you know the last year and a half working on this book the futures faster than you think looking at the next decade and the next 50 years but focus in the next decade in the fields of Education reinventing education transportation entertainment healthcare finance food real estate energy all of these fields and they're gonna live a very different life you know people realize how fast the world is changing you know we humans don't like change we like to wake up 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 and we're heading towards the world where things are gonna change at a blinding speed and because one of the iPhone game come out of the four years ago 12 years ago right and doesn't 7 2007 and look what we've done in 12 years yeah and it's incredible where you know where the where the the tech has gone and 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 UM to really apply to their lives but rakers Wells prediction is that within a decade by 2029 we're gonna 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 know you're talking we have a version of Alexa Google home and Apple home pod 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 there are conversations with you questions we're all gonna have a version of what I observe is we're Jarvis an Iron Man right so it's crazy and so we're you're gonna give permission to your AI to listen to your conversations read your emails look at your blood chemistry is all those things because when you do that you're AI is presenting you all the information just in time like when's the last time we met you know what's your birth date where all of that it's it's and then it's like if you walk in and you're AI is judging you as a little bit depressed it may change the muses 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 is you adapting to your world your AI is doing all your shopping for you nothing's ever out and everything automated and it impacts all kinds of industries like right so if if AI is doing a shopping for you buying things that it knows you need or it was watching where you look 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 you're you're 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 longer advertising advertising is about influencing you right advertise it's not going to influence your AI so a lot of change is coming across the world and so my kids probably will never drive Wow right they're gonna be living in a world where autonomous cars are de facto for them they're gonna hop in the car took me at 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 right the fact that today you can know anything you want right I mean you just just say hey Siri exactly tell me that right you can talk to anybody you can download and watch a movie running through the airport we forget how amazing the world is right it's magical today magic yeah and it's just getting more and more 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 and and in pixel google pixel phones in my drawer and I'm like what I'm gonna do with these may I donate them whatever each one of those would have been a CIA or KGB secret they would have killed for you know 20 years ago and now we think nothing of them disposed trash yeah good well what exactly does this just the future make us dumber or smarter with the acceleration of acceleration of Technology so if everything is done for us do we even have to think yeah so it's a good question and I think the answer is we're empowered to think at new or levels at higher levels they no problem solve bigger but I'm solving following our dreams you know 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 you know dig ditches or stock boxes or clean bathrooms where 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 for from working for pleasure desire contribution I also think one of the things I talked about extensively in the book is a world of in which we're gonna head to a point where you can know anything you want anytime you want anywhere you want let me double-click on this so by 2020 but in the next year we're gonna have 20 billion connected devices right my Apple watch my suit my aura ring I've got little embedded RFID chip over here my iPhone all these things are connected and and we're also gonna head to a world of a trillion sensors right so there's sensors everywhere in this room alone we their lights the guys all these cameras I got probably a hundred 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 a hundred 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 it dozens of sensors on it it's sensing every that's one autonomous car you know thousands of autonomous cars are seeing everything are looking at our forward-looking you know augmented reality glasses that we're gonna 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 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 work or suit whatever it is and so we're heading towards the future and I in which it's more important to ask great questions then what you know and so when might drop my kids off at school I say to them you know and they they will roll their eyes at me now because I'll say ask great questions today and what questions did you ask right and I talked to CEOs and entrepreneurs and I said listen it's the questions you asked not what you know so why didn't you know Avis and Hertz asked the questions that would have led to goober or lyft right why didn't intercontinental and hi and Hilton say how do we double the number of rooms we have without spending any dollars on capex right so asking 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 in too that all of these things are changing that 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 how you you know find the least common denominator right I mean here's a question for you this might be weird but and it 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 you know and you said you know what if you just waited an extra that this meant years your kid would actually live fifty 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 for 10 years it's the conversation with a girlfriend no I'm just I'm just curious I'm just having like you said ask different questions all right I'll give you know should we wait odd here should they you I'll give you that so right now I think kids born today potentially have an indefinite lifespan today gosh yeah I don't think I mean we're seeing incredible forward progress Wow anybody who is pregnant or plan 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 and we'll get him on so so in all seriousness right so I backed my kids placenta and full disclosure one of my company co-founders a company called cellularity right and it has a division called life back USA and it is in the business of banking placentas right now until now what has happened is we have done people have known about cord blood where you save the the blood from the umbilical cord and that is useful from the perspective of you know knock on wood or any other tradition you want your child should have a 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 get rid of the cancer and so this is viable and peoplebank cord blood for the first 18 years of the kids and it saved thousands of kids 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 disk and so we created essentially you can the placental cells are gonna give you the ability later in life to regrow our heart liver lung kidney right so it's a 3d printer for your body and and so I Wow I for the time being right now saving a child's placenta there may be other companies but life bank usa.com is one at the end for me it's like a moral ethical obligation if you could afford it how much does it cost us it's you know it's it's in the order of a thousand to a thousand dollars to do the initial banking and then it's like 100 200 bucks I have a friend whose wife is being induced tonight at 2:00 a.m. how can he do that let me just so ya the pricing here my friend is literally having text me right before he was and said placental tissues to $2,200 for a one-time payment yeah so couple grand for it's gonna be couple of grand see adding personal in addition so that's for a one-time one-time payment if he wanted in a multiple time pain how does someone have if they have a baby tonight is it possible to gift of this or oh [ __ ] I know it isn't too late I don't I don't know but I can almost say the placenta like a life bank us a life Bank USA commies website anyway my points of the things and then I don't want to I don't to be selling it's on the show it's I just feel like there are we're heading towards a magical world Yeah right in longevity for ourselves for our children and 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 the because I have to you know have a baby by age 30 35 right and then of course there's this mythology because of in Hollywood where you can have a baby till 45 and that's [ __ ] you start having difficulties after age 35 and and 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 it's a blessing for women because this is truly the the century forward for women taking leadership roles men have screwed up right but to empower them tool to like you know build a career create their desires and have a family without having to sacrifice health yeah do you feel like in the future when these trillions of sensors are there providing us information giving us the answers to how many people are driving on Santa Monica Boulevard right now to have men are wearing certain colors anything we want at 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 well that make people more hungry or less desire it's like the kid it's like when you have a rich parent who's got kids it's like how do you get hunger inside of them so you know I've seen both you know and I think we all know kids of successful parents who are spoiled and lazy and kids who are incredibly hungry yeah and and I don't you know 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 yeah right and what we can do is much much greater I mean the ability to think about and talk about the [ __ ] that we talked about today or living on Mars extend the healthy human lifespan you know you know I mean it's crazy crazy yeah you I love that you asked your kid your boys to 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 Yeah right and they're never about some business deal it's always about the moment I spent when my kids or the way I was I had a chance to you touch somebody's life or when someone said Peter I listen I love your work I read you know I read this or I part of your organization here whatever it is and it's like a meaning it looks 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 it's what are the three most important things I should do today right that if I do these things today it will be a great day so it's those are for me things that I do and ultimately there's one fundamental question and I do this with all the CEOs that work with do you know what your massively transformative purposes do you know why you're on this planet do you know the purpose of what your mission is today it can be it can it can have just materialized yesterday it can be from your childhood whatever it is but do you know that do you are you connected to that and if you're not then I would pause it it's one of the most important things you can do to get clarity and get clarity to get crystal clarity of what it is that drives you right so you know for me my it's what I work with my entrepreneurs around and you know even it's amazing I have this singularity University which I hear amazing which brings and go there yeah incredible things right and 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 you know asking deposit how many people here are crystal clear about what their what their MTP is in life and less than half the arms will go and these are the leaders these are yeah there and there are working on you know they're running on a treadmill and they're working faster and harder but it's unclear towards what end 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 yeah so I mean those are doesn't be hard it's not gonna be easy but it's but even if you fail along the way you are you are learning you're advancing in some way right you'll have to actually hit the grand slam home run but if you move the if you move the conversation forward in your community in your own mind you make 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 you know I'm on my twenty second company working this is my third book I've got number four and five coming out and and the experiment I haven't done is like like stopping you one thing what if you if you were forced to eliminate everything but one thing yeah for five years yeah invite you back next year you've got too many CEOs you're working with companies you run so you couldn't make a decision of what you would it is 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 I love create I love the creative energy challenge it's so many 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 the 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 yeah and I have an amazing team around me who help protect me in that regard and they'll call [ __ ] on they say no to these they'll say listen no bogus we've got this to do right now and I respect that because I'm you know on a treadmill of wanting to help people wanting to say yes I can do that I can take that redeye I can go squeeze this in and another 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 am if I do this is it training against time with them and so that's really an interesting you talk about the future but but the everything it's possible to go to the past and get time back no of course not we so I so what so I talk a lot about the idea of creating abundance let me take a moment and talk about this it's a fundamental precept of the future as fast you think so we are creating we're going from a world of scarcity to a world of abundance and and people say 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 an abundance of communication you can talk to anybody on the planet instantly by just you know push of a button push of a single button we're heading towards a world where we have an abundance of energy going from scarcity of energy to bunions of energy so think about it 100 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 the 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 of the year so there's plenty of energy it's just about use useful zooming it right we're not packaging it and we are heading rapidly towards the world we have all the energy we want from the Sun and that's putting aside all the amazing tech or confusion that's going on in 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 why is that that well just because of the the heat of the equator and and so forth I mean South South and Central America Africa 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 were lucky it's the impact of these technologies right technology takes whatever was scarce and makes it abundant over and over again I mean when it threw out a topic and I'll show you scarcity to abundance any topic we yeah you can pick any any area that you think is scarce well the first thing that came to mind was female leaders okay let's talk about and talk about like resource like so you know I think one of the things that we can think about is we can think what leaders we can think about even genius on the planet and so you know it's abundant everyone's a genius well but but I think the point I wanna make there is it used to matter where you were born what family were born into what language you spoke all those things limited your the school you went to yeah as a woman as a human right if you were born into the wrong religion the wrong culture and the wrong village that wasn't near school or a telephone you didn't have the chance to become a bright light mm-hmm and so we're now heading towards a world where you know in the next six years we're gonna be connecting every single human on the planet as a gigabit connection speed so you could self educate and become a connected leader mail woman you know whatever religion whatever ethnic group if from from you could you could rise the highest level of your ability in this connected ecosystem because technology gives you the platform to to do that and so these things you know when the examples people say is well diamonds are scarce and then to be asked diamonds are not scarce there's a amazing company up in the in the valley I speak about called the diamond foundry as a machine but the size of a refrigerator in one end comes water methane electricity out the other end comes perfect diamonds away yeah six eight ten carat diamond 20 carat diamonds if you'd like imperfections they can add that no we're gonna add that so so we are the creating abundance even time right so people show up time is scarce yes as time is scarce but if you wanted to to learn some information before you'd have to go and get in your car drive to the library I hope they have the book you know and then wasting multiply time today it's called save time Ryan I can save time in all the things I do you know I'm a private pilot I fly a couple planes ultimately I save time at LAX right I'm buying back time and then we can add time in the backend through all the conversations on longevity she talked about right it's amazing if I could let me tell people the the book my purpose in this in writing this book was to give people a positive view of the future people fear what they don't understand right and I'm in this book we look add all the exponential technologies we look at new business models and we look at how the world is 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 gonna create more wealth from the next 10 years then we have in the entire past century so it's we're also gonna 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 books 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 future faster book calm we've got $800 worth of giveaways and benefits so if you order copy the book for example you'll get a digital copy of abundance and bold my first two books in addition right and then there's a whole bunch of other things on top of that if you if you order more than one but what's the link again it's future faster book.com tool and and ultimately my goal is help you know people fear what they don't understand people fear as things are changing in 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 yeah 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 thing the single most important skill we should all be developing is it learn the power of storytelling learn the you know how to dream bigger learn Spanish I mean what's the skill and so everyone did I think it's hard for me to pick one ever a couple or a couple so 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 you know if I said there's a fire and you look around the room you see a fire extinguisher it is a very different meaning for you mm-hmm right 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 look for it you'll stuff educate so that's one thing learning the skill of asking great questions yeah is really important I think ultimately it's constant self education you know people forget that educate you know advanced education college and graduate school and so forth isn't one and done mm-hmm so a hundred years ago the average male would live into the late 30s 38 39 40 yeah that was average age for men and so you would go to school you graduate at age 22 and whatever you learn had to last you 18 years Wow and things didn't move very quickly that women fared better they live longer but ultimately you would have an 18-year run rate and and today you know 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 or politics all of this at the end it's if it's entertainment for you that's one thing but people will spend hours consuming the news living in fear worry got your mindset is your most 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 I mean it's it's debilitating yeah and 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 I will learn the things that are relevant to me if there's something that is significant to me self my family my my social network the news will come to me it's it's not 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 someone asked me this question last night this was one of the last three questions I have citizen and I just curious your response you said if I've got an envelope that has the date that you're gonna die yeah that's one point you're gonna have to be gone yeah let's just hypothetically say right even though you don't believe it need to extend it for everyone but let's just say it's 500 years it's five year whatever yeah and you could choose to open it and know the exact date and time yeah would you open it no and why not not all because I want to live life in driven by different in different elements and not driven by a fear of death hmm one of them inspire you to say okay well let me focus my energy and attention on with the time that I have left you know I I think so I just feel altom utley that it's not something that I would want to stop you got it okay no okay so let's imagine that let's imagine an issue though though though there is you know I just put out a blog I put out a blog every two blocks a week and 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 and I wrote open the blog and I said your daughter this is a true story for her your daughter has just been told you've just learned your daughter's five years too which is a disease what do you do eh do you try and make those five years the most comfortable loving or be do you go heads down and cure the disease alright and so Martine did did the did the curing approach the ladder and actually with no biology background with it was she was a lawyer in the telecom business when and track found a cure to her daughter's disease away and ended up building a four billion dollar pharmaceutical company towards that I mean secure daughter yeah she grew yeah I'm so and and it's extraordinary so this is I mean the mindset you know if if I was told they tell you what you what when when you're likely to die and what you're likely to die from and you have a chance of curing and solving it then then I'm all in then I'm like hoping to goddamn over oil the situation moves into submission right sure sure because that's the world were living in today where if you've if you know a problem you can ultimately solve it that's it okay this is a question I asked at one at the end called the three truths so imagine this is your last day many many years from now no just you it's the day you about to turn the lights off you know 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 kids have everything's good but for whatever reason you have to take all of your work with you the content you know 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 nine three truths they don't have anything else to have access to your content it's only these three things and you know to be true the world Wow 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 God light with a small G and empower to transform and solve the world's biggest problems and I think that love is the most powerful force the universe mm-hmm that's powerful yeah I love that I'll acknowledge it 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 me for your gifts your love you're the light that you shine great and your ability to enroll the world and humanity in your vision is really inspired you make sure you guys get the book the future is faster than you think you can go to the link yeah so its future future faster calm future faster book calm 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 of a 360 calm is my CEO community and ultimately my my goal is really how do I help people dream bigger go from success to significance you know empower them to transform the world because I do believe that you know that 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 the final question what's your definition of greatness playing full out playing full out and and contributing in a way that that leaves the world a better place thanks man appreciate you man a pleasure thank you thank you thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music]

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