I tell my audiences and my readers very straightforwardly that life is difficult and that there's a lot of suffering in it and that you have to learn how to conduct yourself in the face of that.

A problem with pursuit of happiness is that when life storms come along, happiness disappears.

Then you're left with nothing, and so you need to pursue something that's deeper than happiness.

People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you're doing, and it's totally true.

And the reason is because it's so hard that if you don't any rational person would give up.

And if happiness comes along, well, then hurry for you.

You don't want to despise it because it's fleeting to do it over a sustained period of time.

So if you don't love it, if you're not having fun doing it, you don't really love it.

You're gonna give up.

But it's much better to pursue things that are meaningful than things that make you happy.

It's deeper and it orients you more appropriately and it keeps you centered in your own life.

It makes you more useful for your family and your community.

You look at the ones that ended up being successful unquote in the eyes of society and the ones that didn't.

Oftentimes it's the ones that are successful, loved what they did so they could persevere when you know when it got really tough.

Who would want to put up with this stuff?

If you don't love it?

It's a lot of hard work, and it's a lot of worrying constantly.

If you don't love it, you're gonna fail.

So you gotta love it.

You gotta have passion, because in the end, what we get will never make us not to be doing something that you're truly passionate about.

It cannot be.

I just want to make money.

And strange has changed.

Can be There were times when it was hard to imagine that my life would be what it is today.

What makes us happiest Progress, progress equals happens if you're not growing, you're dying and I can't be there.

There's gotta be something that the son can't come up soon enough in the morning because you wanna go do your thing.

I mean, this is the time to pursue greatness.

I think you should go get a job as a bus boy or something to you.

Find something you really passionate about because it's a lot of work, because in the end, what we get will never make us happy.

E don't care how many stars on your chart, how many Academy Awards, how much money you make.

And I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non successful ones is pure perseverance.

And I worked 8 to 5 and literally I'd come home.

I get a bite to eat, and then I start my work at 6 p.m. 6 30 p.

M.

And I go from 6 30 to 2 a.m. And I'd get another 78 hours in.

And that's how I built everything in the beginning.

It it's so hard.

You pour so much your life into this thing.

There are such rough millions of times that most people give up.

That's honestly what's required, and to not do that is to cheat yourself.

And I knew this is where I'm supposed to be our war one branch manager.

Down to the point that he says to make garden based on persistence alone, we will give you a shot and it consumes your life.

It's rough because it's a pretty much 18 hour day job.

Seven years.

Unless you have a lot of passionate about this, you're gonna not survive.

You're gonna give it up.

Don't ever let somebody else tell you what you can when somebody else is saying something can be done.

What you gotta hear them saying is they can do.

They're just times when something is important enough.

You believe in it enough that you do it in spite of the baby steps count, too, as long as you're going forward.

And one day you had all those baby steps up and you might be surprised where you can get Thio.

Calvary ain't coming.

You got to do this yourself.

Ain't no back up.

So you gotta have a new idea of a problem or ah, wrong that you wanna write that you're passionate about.

Otherwise you're not gonna have the perseverance to stick it through, Mr.

Hitchcock, What is your definition of happiness?

A clear arise nothingto worry about on your plate.

Only things that are creative are not destructive.

Find that within yourself and you can look forward on the road is clear ahead.

And now you're going to create something.

I think that's a Xhaferri Pia's I would ever want to be is like starting companies like staring into the abyss and eating glass.

And there's some truth to that thing that goes on for a long time.

That bathroom.

I finally had to understand what my mom and used to say to me what she would say.

Boy, the Calvary is not coming.

Ain't no backup.

I was 28 years old when that part of my life happened.

Change was coming fast, and you know what changes everywhere.

Given that even if you're the best, the best, there's always a chance of failure.

So I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing.

If you don't like it, life is too short.

The most urgent question today, it's not so much as what are my values.

And who are we?

The urgent question in these times of constant changes?

How exactly are you going to navigate these new realities?

Put another way, what are you going to do?

So the idea of I drove here is empowering because the other side of it ISS.

If I drove here, that means I can drive out of here.

I have tow own it, but it's hard to look in the mirror and say, How did I get here the past 33 years?

I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself if today were the last day of my life, what I wanna do what I am about to do today and have the answer be.

I drove here, I had something to do with it.

And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

There's no one else like Steve.

Jobs can generally say that if their masters there's nobody else that could take their place, and that is the ultimate position of power.

The greatest danger that all of you face is that you're basically gonna be replaceable.

That's the fate that most people have.

The end game is to be irreplaceable.

You're one of a kind, your original.

The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do can't connect the dots.

Looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

So a lot of what people find in life that provides them with a sustaining meaning is a consequence of not the pursuit of rights or the pursuit of happiness or or the development of self esteem, but the adoption of responsibility and the more responsibility in some sense, the better.

It's people who take responsibility that they're the ones that you admire, and that's the right pathway through life.

That's where meaning is to be found.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it.

Living someone else's life.

Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Don't let the noise of others opinions drowned out your own inner voice and, most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want to become everything else is secondary.

You can't change something until you own it.

So if you're 50 plus and you're sitting out there and pointing fingers at other people, you could do that for a long time.

But it's hard to look in the mirror and say, How did I get here?

Believing that the dots will connect down the road, we'll give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.

And that will make all the difference.

I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

You've got to find what you love and that is this true for work as it is for your lovers, your work is gonna fill a large part of your life.

And the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

And the on leeway to do great work is to love what you do.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle.

No one is supposed to live in here.

No one is supposed to just spend extended periods of time in here.

This is a public restroom.

This is not a living space, but we're not for this space.

There were some days we would have had no place else to go.

E mean, a lot of decisions.

A lot of hard decisions were made right here.

About where you gonna do with your life?

Where you gonna go?

How are you gonna get there?

Yeah.