so many people put me down and say Nick you look too weird and no one's really
offended you can't do this and you can't do that and I couldn't change anything I
it's not like just fixing my hair one day and everything's fine it's not like
you know just whatever I couldn't change my circumstance I could have just one
day wake up and say hey give me arms legs I need arms legs yeah I mean like I
went to a bodybuilder you know and said can you make me some arms and legs no
I'm joking body builder do you get it right hey you know I got to be able
can you give me a hand you know I'm just joking but it was so hard because
people put me down and I started believing that I was not good enough I
started believing that I was a failure but I'll never ever be somebody who
people would like or people would accept and it was so hard man I thought to
myself I you know I can't go on the go on the soccer field with like everybody
else and I can't ride my bike and I can't skateboard and all these sort of
things and I started getting depressed I thought what kind of purpose do I have
to live I mean do you are you just here to live to die I mean is there not a
purpose for me is there not a purpose in life and I had questions and no answers
and I asked my mom and dad why did this happen I asked doctors why did this
happen they don't know there are some things in life that are out of your
control that you can't change and you got to live with the choice that we have
though is either to give up or keep on going I wanna ask you what are you
gonna believe are you gonna believe in yourself are you gonna believe everybody
else's judgment on you are you gonna believe people when they say that you're
a failure no one really likes you no one really cares about you it's not really
to say that hey you need someone to come up and say hey really I I like you I
care about you no it's not that but it's the fact that people put you down people
don't even look you in the eye people ask you how you why and you say fine but
you're not fine and they'll know they'll never know that here's maybe the
greatest thing a teen or anyone in this room and who's watching on the
television at home can learn from the champ these are words to remember when
anyone tries to tell you to give up tell you to give in because whatever you're
trying to do is impossible the champ said this impossible is just a word
thrown around by a small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been
given than to explore the power they have to change it impossible is not a
fact it's an opinion impossible this potential impossible is temporary
impossible is nothing greatest goal ever
so as a relatively new dad and a former team I'm here to say you will make
mistakes along the way you will fall down I have
many times even Ali did but what we do after that fall is how we make
history because impossible is nothing in your
life what obstacles that you face before you achieve success did positivity help
you in some ways and how did you come up with this solution wow that's a good a
good philosophical question and you know we all have adversity in our lives I
doubt if you really you know if you know somebody any friend or anybody that you
talk to there's no lack of adversity and by the way that's good because it's what
teaches us how to get back up you fall down you get back up it always happens
and you know you get certain gifts in life and you wanna take advantages of
those but you like it's my advice on adversity and success would be to be
proud not of your gifts but of your hard work and your choices so you know you
may be the kinds of gifts you get like you know you might be really good at
math it might be really easy for you that's a kind of gift but practicing
that math and taking it to the next step that could be very challenging and hard
and take a lot of sweat that's a choice you can't really be proud of your gifts
because they were given to you you can be grateful for them and thankful for
them and but your choices you choose to work hard you choose to do hard things
those are choices that you can be proud of how easy is it when you go practicing
now to have what your mindset is it to improve or is it just to keep winning or
because it's yeah personally I found it very difficult at some points ya no
for me it's always to improve and I've had some tough losses this year but
those losses I think were necessary and they helped me to work on my game
forced me to see that I need to get better at this I need to get better at
this and this and now I've gotten better at it so yeah why are you here what's
your reason for being why do you get up in the morning most people don't have a
clue and yeah the bills keep a roof over your
head I think we have to reflect on Who am I why am I here
what drives me if I died today what three words what I want said about me if
I died today you know what is it that defines me you know and how how do i
define myself most people allow their circumstances to define them as opposed
to defining themselves and how they're gonna show up in life and so my
mission is to help people to connect with the power they have within their
greatness when you're pursuing your greatness you don't know what your
limits are so you act like you don't have any and when you live from that
place you can now be able to make a greater contribution and make a greater
impact with your life when I was 25 or so I probably weighed about 138 pounds I
smoked like a pack of cigarettes day I drank tremendous amount of alcohol I was
from northern Alberta this rough little town up in northern Alberta called
Fairview and you know there were long winters there and my friends were heavy
drinkers and most of them dropped out of school by the time they were 15 or 16
went off to work on the oil rigs and you know it was a rough town and we drank a
lot I started when I was 14 and you know and so I was I had a lot of bad habits
let's say and things that were and I wasn't in great shape physically and I
was also still intellectually obsessed by as I am now and so that would have
been that would have been in 85 but when I but I decided around that about 85 84
or something like that maybe a little earlier that I was really gonna try to
get my act together and so I started doing that I you know I first of all I
quit smoking well that took a long time because I eventually had to quit
drinking too in order to quit smoking and I started working out starting playing
sports which I'd never done I had a fine time when I was a kid and
but I needed really to get disciplined and I had to do it because I was working
on these hard problems that you know that I've been discussing with all of
you and I've been working on them really you know obsessively since I was
probably about 18 maybe even earlier than that got to the point around 25
when I was in graduate school trying to get my PhDs doing all my research like I
published fifteen papers by the time I graduated with my PhD which was by I
think by a fairly large measure the most papers that any graduate student at
that time had ever published at McGill I think that's right might have been twice
as many or maybe twice as many maybe even three times as many and at the same
time I wrote maps of meaning which was a terrible terrible terribly difficult
thing to do because I was writing about three hours a day doing that and I
couldn't do all that and continue with my misbehavior you know my sort of my
what what would you say my my my hedonistic my hedonistic my massive
hedonistic consumption of alcohol and all of that I just couldn't keep it up
and also work seriously on the issues that were at hand so you know I had to
stop now it's a sacrifice I had to stop messing about and straight myself oh I'm
I'm a believer bro I like I see things and I wanna make them real no matter
how how hard it takes no matter what obstacles no matter how many
embarrassing meetings I have to imagine it's happening when I leave does it
matter I'm a doer and a freaking make it happener I was a garbage man like Troy
huh you get eight hours worth of work but you can do it in three so you can go
home as soon as you finish post office you get three hours worth of work and
you make it last eight I did both I like being the garbage man better but they
weren't bad jobs just like you know people say oh the difficulty of making a movie
I'm like send your son in Iraq that's difficult it's just a movie it's like
relax I don't play that precious nonsense oh whoa get out of here
you know your son got shot in the face that's difficult making a movie is
this is a luxury it's a gift it's an opportunity and most
importantly it's a gift obviously everybody here is talented enough to do
that but don't get it twisted it's just a movie
the harder I work the more productive I will be is has been debunked by the
science if you study human performance just what they've realized it Jim
Lehrer and Tony Schwartz have done some great work in this field but here's what
the science says optimal performance and productivity happens in 90-minute cycles
so what am I saying work for 90 minutes and then take a
break to recover then work for another 90 minutes and then go for a
walk and then work for another 90 minutes and then take a drink of water
and then work for another 90 minutes and maybe take a nap or read something
interesting that's not related to what you were doing what will that do it will
keep your mind focused on the work at hand it will increase your energy
because energy is like a well you deplete it you need to fill up the well
again and it will really keep you and your productive that's also keep you
inspired rather than getting burned out
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