Name: WHAT YOUR DAD FORGOT TO TEACH YOU - Poweful Motivational Speech Video
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If I said I can't, my dad's teeth would start to go.

I remember this one time I was going out to my chores Saturday morning to mow the lawn and I couldn't get the damn lawnmower to start.

Checked everything, couldn't get it started.

I went and he got up, walked with me through the kitchen, through the garage, out the backyard, went to lawnmower, messed around, pulled a couple things out, da, da, da, da, da, da.

After about 10 minutes, boom, cranked it.

And while the lawnmower was running right there, he came over to me and bent down and looked me out.

He goes, see, son, you were just having trouble.

Your neighbor down the road is in a difficult place and they can't get their yard mowed.

The old lady across the street, the old gentleman across the street, it snows, just take your shovel and go over and shovel their sidewalk.

Just somebody at work, you watch and you look and people at work, they're going through a hard time.

Now, being dangerous is not being a threat.

And it's not about going out and lifting weights and getting a bunch of tattoos and wearing leather jackets and walking around with your chest and shoulders up, hulking around, saying, I'm dangerous.

That's very rarely is that a dangerous man.

Often the most dangerous man in the room is the quietest man in the room.

You want to know how to be a man among men?

You start following and reading and listening to guys like Jocko Willock, Jordan Peterson, these guys, and

start learning, and start learning, start reading.

The brain is a muscle and like any muscle, the more you work it, the stronger it becomes.

My dad worked for a large corporation and before he retired he said to me, don't work for a large company because when you're, you know, 65 or whatever, they're going to retire you and you'll never hear from them again.

And that is exactly what happened to my dad.

And he said, look, whatever you do, you're going to have to be patient because it's not going to happen overnight.

If you want to do well, you've Got to learn to be good at it.

And it could take 20 years, it could take 30 years, but understand that.

You don't have to be rich now, but do you have a plan?

Have you, do you, have you found means of being confident?

Can you demonstrate kindness and excellence across anything?

The greatest gifts in life are not in the plans, they're in the detours.

There is no way I could plan my way to being on the stage.

I have failed a lot more and a lot longer than I have succeeded.

I didn't originally get the role in Top Gun that I auditioned for and it's worked out better than I could have ever even imagined.

So if you want your life to be a great story, like a great movie, if you want it filled with adventure, comedy, Roman romance, action, thrills.

When you go out there and things inevitably don't go according to plan, just remember that's when your movie's plot is just getting interesting.

That's when your protagonist is being tested.

That's when the writers are working overtime to give the audience some nail biting drama.

Enjoy things not going according to plan.

If you knew the ending, it wouldn't be worth the watch.

No good story happens from things going right.

What advice would you give to someone who is unsure about what to do in life?

I would start asking you questions, asking you to investigate yourself for the things that you like doing, for the things that you can't stop thinking about, for the kind of fiction or nonfiction that you read, the areas of the world that fascinate you or irritate you.

Each one of us is sitting here in these, you know, roughly ambulatory engines of our bodies and looking at.

And each of us latches on to different stuff about the world that moves us in different ways.

And I think that there is value in investigating those, those parts of your point of view.

We look down now to 16 year olds and say, where are you going to go to college?

What are you going to do for the rest of your life?

And it's like they're sick, they're not fully baked yet.

Just say, look, I think after high school, take a year off, take two years off, join the Peace Corps, travel, go figure things out or just enjoy yourself.

For the first time in their lives, they're adults and they don't have to be somewhere they're not told to be somewhere.

Get used to that freedom, even at the age of about seven or eight, you know, in our neighborhood, go round to people's houses, knock on their door and say, can I.

Because my mum and dad said if we pay for the holiday, you've got to earn your spending money.

But I used to love it if you got 10 quid for, like, washing a car.

I mean, it was like bingo with the best feelings, the things that always stuck in my mind.

And it was quite an odd thing to say to a year old.

He said, everyone in life, Simon, has a sign on their head, and

Maybe he's had a couple of drinks and then I forget when I realized what it meant.

But, boy, did that stick in my mind, which was, if you want to do one in life, it's going to be a team effort and make sure you recognize every single person on that team.

And so if I walk into a room, I instantly.

I think pretty much the point I understood it is that I can walk into a room and I can see.

In one moment, I see the person who's opening the door.

I see the person who's doing a particular job.

So in other words, I see the room always as a team.

And you did that the minute you walked into this room because there was, what, 10 people here from the person opened the door, the person that got the coffee, the people, you know, taking care of the cameras and you.

And Obviously, I've done 300 of these conversations.

You went around to every single person in this room and took an interest in every single person, which is.

First game of my senior year, I break my foot.

I come back in six weeks, and I break my foot a second time.

In my mind, my college career was over and my NBA dreams were dead.

I got offered a $75,000 job because one of our season ticket holders liked me.

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