Jiang: 90% of Humanity Could Be Gone in 50 Years. What Could Cause It?

The next 50 years, 90% of humanity dies

off. Dies off.

>> Professor Jung, in 2024, on camera, he

made three predictions. John would win

the election, America would go to war

with Iran, and the US would lose that

war. The first two have already come

true. Today, the world's biggest [music]

podcasts talk about his predictions

because the third one is coming true

right now. [music] The entire world

right now is off balance. The war in

Iran, I don't see them stopping. I only

see them expanding and increasing, but

sooner or later there will be peace.

Right? Right. The problem with peace, so

I'm going to visualize this for you. He

graduated from Yelp with honors and

worked as a [music] researcher at

Harvard, a man China invited to educate

its future leaders at the most

prestigious school in the country. For

the 20 years, he saw both the American

and Chinese systems from the inside.

Maybe that's why he notices what others

miss. Let me explain the three major

[music] reasons why America is in

decline.

>> But Musk says AI will save America.

Isn't [music] that true? When they say

that AI will transform society, they

don't mean you'll make your life easier.

Okay. So, the secret to the AI [music]

civilian state are two things. Two

things that allows me to predict their

behavior, but then also allows me to

control how you behave. Your predictions

keep coming true with frightening

accuracy. How did you learn to see

things this way? 10 years ago, [music]

I was broke. Broke. Broke.

>> I think about how I should just myself

and I'll be free of this hell. Hell,

hell.

>> When I was getting ready for this

interview, I expected a big episode

about geopolitics, but I walked away

with a story I still can't get out of my

head. It turns out the man whose

predictions keep coming true once

couldn't see his own future. how he went

from that point to being hurt by

millions. That might be the strongest

part of this episode. But once you hear

his predictions, you might change your

mind. Enjoy.

>> Yeah, it was a long journey to start

this recording today. Thank you so much

for joining our podcast. Thanks for

coming all the way to Beijing.

>> Professor Zan, I have to tell a little

bit my viewers. In 2024 on camera, you

made three predictions that Trump would

win, that he would star war, and that

America would lose it. It come true. You

graduated from Yale with distinction.

did research at Harvard's graduate

school of education and spent 20 years

teaching inside the most elo school in

Asia. Just in the beginning shortly, can

you say what is your mission and

passion?

I am first and foremost an educator. So

my mission is to enlighten and inspire

as many people as I can hopefully

through our podcast. Um and this

something that I would want to do for

the next 50 years

>> and as I understand your background

helped you in this way.

>> Absolutely.

>> Let me ask you about your life about

your childhood. What was uh at the

beginning? So I was born in 1976

in a small fishing village in South

China. And at that time, China was very

poor because this is at the tail end of

the cultural revolution and China has

been closed from the world for the past

10 years. My father was a high school

teacher at that time and he was very

concerned about China's future. So for

the sake of me, his son, and his future

children, he decided to immigrate to

Toronto, Canada, where we had relatives.

And for the rest of his life, he would

be a dishwasher.

And so because we were poor, you know,

my father cut my hair and all the

clothes I I wore were gifts from

relatives. So they were handme-downs.

They're secondhand clothes. So my

classmates didn't want to play with me.

I was never allowed to play in the games

that they played on playgrounds during

the recess. When the teacher asked us to

partner with a friend for school trips,

no one wanted to be be my partner. At

the end of grade one, um my teacher

asked to talk to my mother. My mother

didn't speak English. Uh she says to my

mother through the translator, "Your son

is wonderful. He's very polite. Uh he's

very obedient, but he does not speak a

word of English. This entire year, he is

in my classroom and he does not

understand anything I say. Every day

he's staring outside the window. He's

learned nothing this past year." And so

my mother hears this.

She asked the teacher, "Do you mean

[music] that you want my son to repeat

grade one?" And my teacher said, "No,

that's not what I meant. What I meant is

he should go to kindergarten." And my

mother then does something that changes

the course of my life. She turned

around, looked down at looked down at

me, and she asked me, "What do you want

to do?" I said, "I want to go to grade

two. I don't want to go to kindergarten,

and I don't want to repeat grade 1. I

want to go to grade two." Now, that was

the worst decision of my life because

the teacher was absolutely right. I go

into grade two and I fall further

behind. I become very insecure. I

stutter. Uh I'm afraid to speak in

public. And by the time I hit grade

eight, my life is just terrible. And my

father is being bullied at work as well.

I'm a very disobedient kid. Hits me a

lot. He's very violent towards me. And

at this point, I think to myself,

there's no safe space for me.

Um, I think about

I think about how I should just

and then just disappear and no one will

miss me and I'll be free of this hell

and that I'm living in. But I don't do

it. And the reason why is there's a part

of me, maybe there's this light inside

of me that dreams of a better world. And

I'm thinking myself how I'm shy, I'm

insecure, I stutter, but I see myself

one day on stage talking to an audience.

With my words, I'm able to move people.

I'm able to inspire people. vision in my

head that one day I could make a

difference in the world. I don't know

where it comes from. I don't know why I

believe it, but I believed it. So, I

continue. I struggled. I persisted.

>> I'd like to ask about your predictions.

How did game theory help you make them?

>> Right. I start to perceive each nation

state as a rational player trying to

optimize

or maximize the outcome.

And so let me explain using game theory.

>> Yeah.

>> Why I was able to predict that the war

uh between United States and Iran would

start. Okay. So I'm going to uh

visualize this for you. Yeah. Please.

All right. What is the game being played

about? What's it's being played about

trade access, right? It's about

resources and how to control resources

and how to move resources resources from

one place to the next. All right? Now,

in the game of geopolitics, there's a

very important theory that you need to

know. It's called the Mckender

theory. Okay? And Mckender was a British

uh military strategist. He he explains

how Britain as a naval power can

maintain control over the world. So at

this time in history, this is the 18th

century, 19th century,

people trade mainly by the sea because

it's the cheapest, fastest way to trade

around the world. The theory is very

simple. If you want to control the

world, you have to control certain choke

points. maritime choke points in the

world and then the world has to obey you

in order to access resources. Okay. And

so the most important choke points are

the

cape of good hope. It allows you to go

around Africa and reach Asia. Then you

have the straight of humus

>> which Iran now controls.

>> Yeah. You also have the Red Sea which is

where the sewers canal is and this is

important because the Middle East is

where most of the world's oil is

produced and you have to uh ship the oil

through the moose and the Red Sea in

order to access the rest of the world

especially East Asia over here you have

something called the sh of Malaa

okay which is between uh Indonesia and

Malaysia and the only way for East Asia,

China, South Korea, and Japan to access

Middle East oil is through the SH of

Malaka. You also have the sh of Jialter.

Okay. Over here in the Western

Hemisphere, you have the Panama Canal.

Um, and now what's happening is that you

now have the Arctic being opened up.

Most of human history, these were the

critical maritime choke points. So as

long as you able to control these choke

points, you basically control the world.

And this is what gave rise to the

British Empire. Otherwise, how could a

such a small island nation control the

world? This is the theory. But there's a

problem with this theory, which is that

as the world industrializes,

it becomes cheaper to build railways.

And with railways, you can negate the

sea. You can trade through land. you

don't have to trade fuse anymore.

>> And so the great fear amongst British

strategists is that one power would

emerge in Eurasia that could unify

Eurasia and then

u blockade Britain from accessing

Eurasia. And so the entirety of British

strategy was to prevent a land power who

could unify Eurasia. So at first it was

the French, right? This is what led to

the Napoleonic wars. There were seven

wars.

>> Yeah.

>> Napoleon won six of them and he lost the

last one.

>> And the reason why Britain fought these

wars is to ensure that France cannot

control Eurasia. because um if Napoleon

controlled Eurasia then Britain would

collapse economically. Then um after

Napoleon this led to the great game

between Russia and Britain for control

of Central Asia.

>> Mhm.

>> And then this is what led to World War

I, right? Because Germany was emerging

as the European hedgemon. And if Europe

became too powerful then it could build

railways into the Middle East into

Central Asia and Britain could not allow

that. That's what led to World War I and

World War II. Now after World War I and

World War II, America became the empire

but America still maintained this

system. And again the idea is in the

game of geopolitics what matters is

trade access. And the way to uh maintain

your empire is one to have the greatest

navy in the world and control the choke

points, but second of all to create

chaos

within Eurasia. What's happening right

now is that the entire Middle East is on

fire. the GCC, the Gulf Cooperative

Council, Saudi Arabia, uh Qatar, uh UAE,

they're not able to export oil around

the world anymore.

And this leaves now two major suppliers

of energy in the world. They are the

United States who which controls the

Western Hemisphere and Russia. And

that's what the great game is about.

It's about trade access. It's about

control of resources. It's about who is

allowed to trade with who. Right? So

given that the Middle East is in fire,

Japan,

China, South Korea can either buy LG and

oil from the United States or Russia.

And those are your two options.

>> Mhm.

>> Okay. So that's what this war is about

according to game theory.

>> Let's go back to your early years. What

did you do after high school?

>> In grade 10, a substitute teacher comes

into the English classroom. I feel

here's my chance to convince someone

I can be someone one day. And that one

week I'm with her, I'm a very different

person. I'm focused. I raise my hand. I

participate. I feel safe with this

teacher. And this teacher told me, "I

see something special in you."

And then that was it. She's went away. I

never saw her again. I don't remember

her name. I don't remember what she

looks like. All I remember are her

words. You are someone special. I felt

validated at that. From that point

onwards, I decide to make myself

special. One day, I'm sitting in the

classroom and my the guidance counselor

walks inside the classroom. I didn't

even know we had a guidance counselor.

She talks about how maybe some of you

for whatever reason you might want to go

to the United States for college, but

don't do that because the schools in

United States suck except for the Ivy

League, but the Ivy League is for rich

people. [laughter]

And then I hear this, Ivy League, what

is that? So I become interested. So I go

to the library and I study up on the Ivy

League. The Ivy League is where the

world's leaders go. These are people

with charisma. These are people who are

athletic. These are people who have

demonstrated tremendous character,

tremendous communication skills,

tremendous leadership skills. So from

that point onwards, I commit myself to

becoming Ivy League material. So, I

switched schools from my average to the

most elite academic public school in

Toronto. And they did not welcome me

because I was an outsider. But I didn't

care because I had a purpose. And my

purpose was to get into the Ivy League.

Then every day

um on the subway, it took me 30 minutes

to get to my school from my uh home. I

read The New Yorker. I read the Atlantic

because I needed to prepare for the

vocabulary test that was the SAT and

everyone in the school knew that I was

utitarian. I was ambitious. Then I

applied to four universities MIT, Yale,

Harvard, Princeton. So the first school

to reject me was MIT. It was a very

small envelope and it was a one-page

letter that said, you know, we like you.

You're a strong applicant, but there are

too many applicants. We have we have to

turn you away. Rejection letter was

Harvard. And Harvard wrote the best

rejection letter ever. Okay? [laughter]

Um because what the letter said is this.

The letter said, "Ultimately, it doesn't

matter where you go.

What matters is what you do when you get

there." I read the letter and I and I

thought to myself that is very very

true. Thank you Harvard. Um so Harvard

also rejected me but it was a very nice

rejection letter so I forgive Harvard.

Uh and then Princeton rejected me and by

midappril I've not heard from Yale. I

just assumed that Yale would also turn

me down. I didn't feel I I need any

chance. At the end of April, I go home

and in my mailbox there's this letter

from Yale and I didn't want to read

another rejection letter. So, I threw it

in the garbage and I went up to my room

to read. But then I was like, you know

what? I really should open that

rejection letter. I open it and the

first word is congratulations.

So now I go to Yale and I'm thinking to

myself that my life is forever changed.

This is Yale. Here I'm going to meet

people who will become my best friends

and we will do great things together.

And here every day I'm going to engage

in intellectual discussions with people

who are very serious. It's a place for

you to learn the etiquette, the

attitude, the manners of the elite, how

to think like them and how to talk like

them. And for the four years I was

there, I basically

became very isolated, very, very

alienated. I felt even more depressed.

At the end of the first year, our

freshman year, you're supposed to find

friends to room with,

>> but no one wanted to room with me. So,

they put me in the attic of the

residential college, Jonath.

And it was actually called Wear Hall,

WIR.

And there's like six rooms. They're

closets. They're for people who no one

likes. and I was one one of the um six

that no one actually liked. So Yale was

a very traumatic experience for me.

Rather than liberate me, rather than

empower me, it basically traumatized me

into my own depression.

This is one of the most fascinating

stories I've ever heard on my podcast.

You are very brave person. Thank you so

much for being honest and for sharing

this story with me today. We'll

definitely come back to this later. And

uh what are your predictions right now?

What are they about? What do you think

will happen in the future? So to

understand the future, we have to use

game theory to understand the situation

of each nation state. Okay. So let's

look at look at America first. America.

What is the source of American power?

What is the point of America? And the

point of America is to protect the

supremacy of the US dollar.

>> Yeah.

>> Right. Because everyone now uses the US

dollar and America can print an infinite

number off them. So that's a source of

American power. The problem with the

dollar is that it's a Ponzi scheme.

meaning that the US dollar has no

inherent value in itself. It's only

valuable if people want it. And

unfortunately right now because of

financial corruption in America because

the American military is too

overextended, a lot of nations are

choosing to walk away from the US

dollar. So look at Japan and China, they

are selling more US treasuries. The GCC

nations for the longest time were

supporting the American economy, were

buying US dollars. Yeah.

>> But because of this war, they're now

forced to sell more US dollars in order

to finance their own economies now that

they can export oil. What's so what's

been happening is that the bond yields

for US treasuries have been going up.

This is a problem because right now

America has $39 trillion in debt. So if

the debt yield, the interest rate is 5

to 6%, that means America has to pay $2

trillion

in interest payments alone annually. And

you can imagine that over time this

entire Ponzi scheme will collapse. So

America has absolutely no choice but to

force the world to continue to buy US

treasuries. So the only strategy

available to America is to use the

Mckender hypothesis and create as much

chaos as possible so that the world is

forced to go to America to buy energy

weapons. Okay. So um imagine a situation

like this where right now in Europe

there's a war going on between Europe

and Russia. In East Asia, there's

conflict now between Japan and China. In

the Middle East, the conflict is between

Iran versus United States and Israel.

Every one of these nations requires

energy, oil, weapons. America is a

continental fortress that has unified

the Western Hemisphere. Now, they have

infinite resources. They're able to turn

these resources into weapons that they

can sell the rest of the world and the

rest of the world is forced to to buy US

dollars in order to buy this energy and

weapons from America. Okay. So that's

the American strategy moving forward.

They have actually no choice in the

matter because they're addicted to US

dollars require the rest of the world to

buy US dollars. So they need to force

the rest of the world to buy US dollars.

You said that the US may have big

problems in the near future and uh that

the chance of this is high. But Elon

Musk recently said that AI can help uh

the US. He also tried to find problems

in the US government before. Now he

believes AI will help the US and other

western countries. What do we think

about this? Okay, so let's analyze why

America is in is in decline. And when

you analyze why it's in decline, what

you recognize is that it's declining for

every single reason why empires in the

past have declined before.

>> All right, so let's go over the three

major reasons why America is in decline.

All right, so the first major reason is

financialization.

>> Okay, what what does this mean? It means

that when an empire arises, it focuses

on manufacturing. It focuses on creating

real products, weapons, yeah, consumer

goods. But over time, what empire does

is it offshores its manufacturing to

other people, to other nations, to other

groups. And it focuses on financial

speculation primarily the idea of usery.

Okay? Money lending. Why? because that's

the most profitable thing to do.

>> But the problem is that financialization

does not lead to real productive growth.

It doesn't lead to real wealth

generation. It's only it only looks like

money on paper. If you open a restaurant

or you open a factory, you're

contributing growth to the economy,

right?

>> Yeah.

>> On average, you could be seeing a return

of 2%. But if you take the same money

you put in the stock market, you see a

return of 5%. So who's going to do any

work, right? And the reason why this

arises is because of the nature of

capital. Capital consolidates. Capital

monopolizes. And once you monopolize,

it's easier for you to make money and

you don't have to do a good job anymore,

right? So think of um Google and Apple.

They spend most of their resources on

stock buybacks in order to create this

illusion that they're creating more

value for stock brokers. This is all

financialization. And the problem with

financialization is that it warps

mentality of your population. Before it

was good, what was important is to work

hard and contribute to your community.

And that meant that people took pride in

going to the factory and making products

and helping the factory become

wealthier. Now what matters is get rich

now. Right? So that's why people like

Andrew Tate are so popular.

>> Mhm.

>> Right? Because he's telling you, "Hey,

if you work hard, you're a sucker.

You're a loser. If you follow rules, if

you listen to your boss, you're a loser.

You're a What you want to do is

get rich and become your own boss,

right? And that mentality has taken over

young people. There's a huge problem

because it means that it's hard for an

empire in decline like America to invest

in long-term projects. So AI absolutely

in theory AI could make America a much

stronger society. It could create real

wealth. The problem is if you look at AI

and what's been happening is that it's a

basically a Ponzi scheme where there's

only a few companies and they all just

invest in each other creating the

illusion of wealth and even today no one

knows how to make money out of AI. So

open AI has chachib people don't don't

appreciate this but for every new

subscriber to to chachib they lose

money. CH GBT is not a profitable model

and no AI expert can tell you how to

make money. And the problem is that in

Empire Decline, it's all focused on

speculation. It's about gambling. It's

about getting rich as opposed to being

practical and pramatic. Okay? So that's

idea of financialization. That's the

first problem with an empire in decline.

Second problem with an empire in decline

is the demographic crisis. The idea is

that because society is prosperous and

it's stable and it's peaceful, people

get older and because they're getting

older, they're able to monopolize much

of the wealth, power, and status in

society, leaving little opportunities

for young people. And we're seeing that

throughout the western world today where

the baby boomers are in charge and they

refuse to give up power.

>> So think about these US presidents.

They're all baby boomers. You go to

Congress and you've got guys like Chuck

Grassley who was a US senator and he's

93 years old. Can you imagine that? 93

years old and he is still working as a

US senator. He's the fourth person in

line to become president of the United

States. If Donald Trump dies, it's JD

Vance. If JD Vance dies, it's

uh Mike Johnson. If Mike Johnson dies,

it's Chuck Grassley. And so what's

happening in the western world is the

baby baby boomers refuse to retire. So

what do young people do? They refuse to

work. They refuse to have children. They

become indifferent to society. But the

next step is for them to fight each

other for a civil war to break out. And

this is just historically what's always

been true. Okay. Okay. You mentioned

there are three ideas. What's the third

one? Right. And the last the last and

the most important is the idea of elite

overp production. Okay. So this is an

idea from a historian named Peter

Turchin. He sort of mathematically model

how revolutions happened. And so he

looked at the French Revolution. He

looked at the fall of the Roman

Republic. He looked at many serious

events throughout human history. And

mathematically he discovered the main

cause

of civil war of collapse is you have too

many elite struggling for too few

positions of status of power. Right? So

think about how how in America for the

longest time financeers were in charge.

Wall Street was in charge. But then

these past 20 years, you have the tech

revolution. So now you have these tech

oligarchs like Ellen Musk and Peter

Theel and Larry Ellison. They want to be

in charge as well. So what happened was

that they sponsored someone to come into

Washington DC to overthrow the financial

elite. And this person of course was

Donald Trump. Who backed Donald Trump in

2024?

Peter Theo, Larry Ellison, and Ellen

Musk because they're trying to overthrow

the power of the financial elite and

establish the power of the tech

oligarchy. And so what's going to happen

in America over next few years is a

civil war arising between the old guard,

Wall Street, and a new guard, Silicon

Valley. [snorts]

And what Peter says is that this is the

most common explanation for why

societies go into decline. Okay. So

again to summarize there are three major

symptoms of a nation in decline. America

has all three. Financialization,

demographic crisis where where young

people refuse to um have children and

work and then elite overprouction. Okay.

And then everything else is an outgrowth

of these problems. For example,

immigration. Why is there immigration

both legal and illegal to United States?

The answer is young people don't want to

work and so you need to bring in

immigrants in order to replenish the

workforce. But we know historically if

you do this if you allow too many

immigrants to come into the country it's

going to cause civil chaos.

I'd like to go back to that time. How

did you graduate Yale with honors? How

was it possible? So, I went to Yale

expecting to study math and physics

because, you know, look at me. I'm I'm

I'm I'm Chinese, right? [laughter] So,

>> it didn't mean I love math and physics.

It's just like I'm Chinese, so I just I

just go study math and physics. So, I go

into Yale, plan to study math and

physics.

>> Yeah.

>> But, but Yale also requires you to study

humanities to graduate. So, I took

English. We're studying Chaucer and

Spencer

and Milton.

And

my first semester at Yale, I was

completely lost because I came from a

public school,

whereas most of my classmates came from

pretty elite private schools. So there

are certain things that they did which I

didn't know you were supposed to do. For

example,

if the teacher assigned you a book to

read, you're supposed to go read that

book. And I didn't know that. [laughter]

I didn't know you're supposed to

actually read the book before you come

to class. I thought that the teacher

would tell us what the book was about in

class. So [snorts] during a seminar

discussion,

I didn't say anything. I was completely

lost. And things got so bad that my

professor, my English professor

suggested that I don't take this class

anymore. she wanted me to like like go

do something else because she felt I was

wasting you know her time as as well as

my time because I was not following what

was happening in the class. But by the

time in English class that we got to

Milton

uh and Shakespeare

and the romantics Keats and Wsworth,

something snapped in me. Okay. something

caught my attention and I felt a

connection to the poetry I was reading,

especially Paradise Lost and I felt that

a spark had been ignited in me and I

became really interested in English. My

first semester in [music] English, I

only got a C minus, which is the worst

grade you could possibly get. And then I

got an A minus in my second semester and

I be I improved tremendously as a

writer. And so I felt as though

maybe before I was asleep and now being

at Yale in this seminar reading Milton

woke me up and said, "Hey,

this is who you really are. You're meant

for something bigger than all this. So

start paying attention, start getting

the work, start taking yourself

seriously." [music] And so I became a

very good student. Um, and that actually

made me even more alienated at Yale

because Yale was a competition and a lot

of the competition was to get approval

from from the professors

>> and you got it

>> and I got a lot of approval from my my

professors. In fact, I'm still friends

with uh my professors with some of my

professors. In fact, when I go to Yale,

I stay at their house. Uh, so they liked

me a lot and we stayed in touch these

past 30 years and we're still good

friends.

>> That's almost impossible to believe. You

started with a teacher telling you that

you should go back to kindergarten and

you became one of the top students at

Yale. That's an incredible story. I'm

trying to make sense of what happened

and there's a theory. If you want to

learn, then what's going to happen is

you're going to be assigned the hardest

life possible

because that's the only way you can

truly learn. So learning isn't about

reading books. That's part of the

process, but the real process is to put

you in circumstances that really

challenge you and force you to

persevere, either thrive or die. And I

think that's what happened. I think that

I came into this world demanding the

most challenging life possible. I always

chose the hard path in life because in

my heart I knew that's what will allow

me to truly

uh thrive as a person. So that's a

theory, but recently I've I've come to

this conclusion.

You said AI creates an illusion of

wealth, but can governments also use AI

to control people?

Um, do you know much about computer

science?

>> Uh, I know this. It is LLM models.

>> Okay. All right. So um for the sake of

your audience I'm just going to go some

into some basics about all okay so the

idea of computers is that it engages in

recursion okay recurs recursive loop

yeah

>> okay just loops in order to solve

problems the most basic problem it's

trying to solve is a math problem like

what is 1 + 1 okay

>> and a computer can do that now when

you're able to do it infinitely right 1+

1 plus 1 plus+ one you create great

things you're able to do things that

humans aren't able to

The other thing is that if you're able

to do 1 plus 1, you're bas basically

able to do every possible computation

including subtraction, multiplication.

Uh and so computers are wonderful thing,

but we need to remember that ultimately

it's about recursion. Okay, it's about

taking a simple algorithm and repeating

it infinitely in order to generate an

output that you want. The other thing

about computers is that what it's really

good at doing is uh database management.

Okay, so you have a lot lot of

information inside a database and there

are two things you want to do with this

database. The first is you want to sort

it basically organize information in a

way that benefits you and you want to

search it. Okay, basically you want to

retrieve information that is important

to you. If you look at most of AI, it's

basically this database management. So

what's Google? Well, Google is taking

this database that is the internet and

searching for information that you want,

right? That's Google.

>> But you also got facial recognition

technology. Facial recognition

technology is just basically

differentiating a billion faces and then

searching for the face that you want.

Okay. So, and then LLMS, right? Large

language models are the same way where

they take the entire possibility of

languages,

right? And then trying to uh search or

create uh something that you want. When

they say that AI will transform society,

they don't mean it'll make your life

easier. Okay. So, let's look at

Palunteer.

>> What is Palanteer really trying to do?

What it's really trying to do is take

all the databases in the world and

combine into one database. And then once

it has this one database, it can then uh

categorize people

into subcategories, right?

>> Yeah.

>> There are two ways that I can uh know

how you behave. The first is I look at

who your friends are and then I look at

your past behavior, where you spent your

money, how you spent your money. Okay?

Once I have these two crucial piece of

data, who your friends are and what

you've done in the past, I can predict

your life for the next 50 years, right?

And then what what I can do is I can

take people who are like you, who are

maybe [snorts] uh born in the same

neighborhood, have the same interest,

and then at age one, I can predict how

that person will behave for the next

hundred years.

>> So that's a project of palunteer, that's

a project of AI.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> To categorize people in a certain way

that allows me to predict their

behavior, but then also allows me to

control their behavior. And this is

what's called the AI surveillance state

or the AI control grid. And that's what

AI is.

>> Maybe some governments could also use AI

in good way. For example, for public

safety. What do you think about that? Is

it possible?

>> It's absolutely possible. I live in

China and we have an AI civilian state.

There's digital ID and there's digital

currency. There are cameras everywhere.

>> And you know when I first came to China

30 years ago, everyone would steal

everything. So if you left your laptop

>> Yeah. We can admit that here is very

safety.

>> Exactly. Right. So like if you just left

your laptop at Starbucks, went went to a

washroom, it'd be gone like that. Now

you can leave your laptop in public

because there are cameras everywhere.

>> Yeah.

>> And there facial recognition technology.

So if you steal the laptop, the police

know who you are. And it's really

convenient because let's just say you go

to supermarket, you don't have to use

cash anymore. You can just scan your

face and then the machine will

automatically deduct

>> Yeah. money from your account. China is

a testament to the power of AI

surveillance.

But there are problems with this. The

problem is that if you look at China for

the past 20, 30 years,

there's been very little creativity.

I've been in China for a long time and

1980s in 1990s, China was making

producing great movies. You have Jung

Mo, you have Changai

uh and these were really interesting

movies

>> and it was producing really interesting

ideas.

>> Yeah. And these past 10 years, China has

not been able to produce that many great

ideas. If you look at soft power, China

is not that great in terms of soft power

in that, you know, you have Japan and

everyone in the world loves anime. You

have Korea, South Korea, and everyone in

the world loves K-pop. China is not as

vibrant and dynamic as a society as it

used to be.

Um, and you can make the argument that

people are much more unhappy

than before.

So, for example, isn't it wonderful? You

you can just use your phone and call a

taxi driver and then he'll take you

anywhere

>> or app. Yeah.

>> Right. And it's really cheap, too.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> Right. But think about the emotional

pressure on that taxi driver. His entire

world, his entire life is controlled by

the algorithm.

So if you get a bad review, they deduct

your salary.

>> Yeah.

>> If you are late, they deduct your

salary.

>> Because of that, I regular try to give

five stars.

>> Exactly. This is ruled by AI. It is

heartless. It is about compassion. It is

inhumane

in many ways. So there are good things

like cheap cheap, you know, cat rides

and um safe streets and con convenient

purchasing, but there are bad things as

well. For example, you lose your soul.

you know, on platforms like YouTube, if

you do something wrong, you might stop

being recommended. And let's just say

that we do this YouTube video and for

the reason YouTube accidentally labels

it as

politically inappropriate.

Well, you're completely screwed, right?

Because good luck trying to find a

person who to complain to. Good luck

trying to plead your case. It's

impossible. It's all controlled by

algorithm. And the reason why is the

company doesn't see us as humans

anymore. These people who do AI,

their ambition is to make is not to make

society

much more vibrant, to make human life

much more creative. That's what they

say. Their entire purpose is to make

everyone into a robot. Okay? So, let me

give you an example of this. For the

past 10 years, they've been they've been

trying to solve the self-driving car

problem. So, a lot of these companies,

Tesla, Google, they've been trying to

introduce a fully automatized

car.

>> Yeah.

>> They can't solve the problem because

there's an edge case. And the edge case

is drivers who've lost their jobs, who

intentionally get into an accident with

the self-driving car. You can't solve

that problem. It's impossible to map out

human intention. So, there's one

solution to this problem. The solution

is make every car robotic.

Make every car self-driving. Take away

the steering wheel.

and you solve the problem.

When you buy a car, it's all electric.

It's all digitized. There are cameras

everywhere and there's no steering

wheel. So, you get in a car and where

and you can tell the car where to go.

And it's great if you think about it

because [snorts] you it's it'll be safer

for everyone. There'll be no accidents,

but you've lost all agency and you lost

all autonomy. And that's the world we're

moving towards where the thing that

they're most afraid of, the AI people

are most afraid of is human agency. So

the way to solve this problem is you

take it away from people. You don't

allow people to drive cars. You don't

allow people to make choices. You don't

allow people to waste money. Right? If

you are buying alcohol, they'll program

a digital currency to prevent you from

buying alcohol. There's nothing you can

do about it because everyone's using

digital currency.

>> Today you are a guest on shows like

Tucker Carlson and many people talk

about your predictions because they are

often very accurate. I want to ask you

did your education and life experience

help you see things this way? How do you

make these predictions? Okay. So, um

this fame is only recent, right? It's

only been the past one year. So, let me

talk about what happened after Yale.

So, I came to China as a high school

teacher wanting to reform Chinese

education. And my theory was very

simple. China has 1.3 billion people.

They don't speak English. I speak

English. Therefore, everyone should just

obey me and they will learn English.

That was my theory, right? Um, so here

in China, they speak ching English,

Chinese English, and for them that's

English. So, if you try to teach them

like real English, they don't care. Um,

so I learned that the hard way. So, I

floundered through uh school and I

decided I can't become famous being an

educator.

Um, so I decided that I'll try to become

a journalist

and I was a journalist for a couple

years, but that didn't work out either.

Then I tried be becoming a doctorate

filmmaker. That didn't work out either.

I tried working for United Nations in

Afghanistan. Didn't work out. And by my

late 20s, early 30s, I was a broken man

because

I had failed everything I tried. I felt

that

um the world was hopeless.

I basically for two years lived with my

parents. I lived in a basement. and I

played video games

every single day until my parents got

sick of me and threw me out. Okay, so

they threw me out and I'm forced to come

to China because China is cheap and I

speak the language [snorts]

and

every

day I would get up at

12:00 2:00 in the afternoon and then in

the evening I would go and I would get

drunk.

In the middle of winter, I sleepwalk

naked into a blizzard and I open the

door, okay? And like there's this

whiteness and the wind is whipping at me

and I'm fing back and that's a sign from

God which is like you better start

getting your act together. Um, and so I

um commit to change [music] my life. I

needed to reflect on how I got to this

point because I I was a very student at

Yale and 10 years later I'm a dismal

failure.

And I reflect and I recognize that my

Yale education

was very very limiting.

And there are three reasons why. First

of all, when you go to a place like

Yale, what you're taught is that only IQ

matters. If you're able to articulate

idea, then you are smart. But all the

forms of talent, whether it's musical

[snorts] or uh physical doesn't really

matter. All that matters is uh IQ. Uh

second thing is that failure is not an

option. You must succeed at all costs.

If you don't succeed at Yale, sorry, if

you graduate from Yale and you don't

succeed, you might as well Okay, so

there's a lot of pressure to succeed to

prove you're worthy [snorts] of a Yale

education. And the third thing is you

don't need to work with anyone. Just

based on your talent, you'll be able to

succeed on your own terms. And all three

of these things were not true.

And so I committed myself

to

changing my programming. What I wanted

to do was step outside of my body and

then look look inside my mind and then

reprogram it in a way that allows me to

to be more free to be more in control of

my life. Now at this point in my life

and this is like my early 30s I become

interested in a theory called

neuroplasticity

which is to say that we can always

rewire the synapses in our brain to be

whoever we wanted as long as you commit

yourself to the right activities. So for

one year

I decide to do things I've never done

before in my life including uh cinema

comedy [snorts] because the one thing

that in my life I was most afraid of was

being laughed at. And again for the

longest time I took myself very very

seriously. But the moment that I got on

stage and I told jokes and people

laughed at me, I felt they were laughing

with me.

The feeling of being able to bring joy

to the world made me feel extremely

happy and edified.

I also tried um a lot of sports, for

example, Brag jiu-jitsu. M

>> so um I'm not sure if you practice

Brazilian jiu-jitsu but the way they

train is very very strange because I did

Mu Thai and in Mu Thai they teach you

technique right and they make you

practice but jitsu you go to the um

place and for the entire time they beat

you up there's this bigger guy and all

he does is beat the crap out of you and

at the end of it your neck is sore you

know you want to cry I'm I'm going home

from the training and I think to myself,

this is really stupid. I'm getting beat

up in my 30s and you know when I was a

teenager in Toronto, I was also getting

be beaten up. The difference is this

though. The difference is now I'm paying

for the privilege of getting beat up in

my 30s. But what happened is that

through this training, you start to lose

a lot of your fear.

I also tried skydiving.

Don't do that, by the way. [laughter]

Complete waste of money. Um, but I did

skydiving. I did parkour. I learned how

to sing. Uh, I learned the piano. I I

did everything possible. And I also

tried cooking. So when you go to cook

cooking school, you're supposed to make

two dishes and you're supposed to

present your dish in front of the chef

who will then give you a grade.

>> Yeah.

>> And so uh we make our dishes and all my

classmates, they line up and they're

very proud of their accomplishment and

the chef tastes the meal and smiles and

says, "Great job." And then the students

feel great. It's my turn to present the

dish. A chef looks at me and says, "I'm

not touching this." [laughter]

And I'm like, "Wait a minute here. Wait,

wait, wait. This is strange. Are you

failing me? Are you going to fail

cooking school?" At Yale, the professors

don't do that. Okay? The professors tell

you how great you are. Even when you

suck, they say, "You're great. You're

going to go conquer the world." And here

in cooking school, they tell you the

truth. And I thought that was illegal.

You're not supposed to do that as a

teacher. And cooking school was a

humiliation ritual for me. But then I

started to observe my classmates. And

there's this one girl in my class and

she's 18 years old. She would get up at

4:00 in the morning to do two hours of

CrossFit. Then she'd bike to her work

and for like eight hours she would cut

vegetables.

>> Okay, just cut vegetables. And then

she'd come to cooking school

and then she'd go home and do it again.

And I and I and I thought to myself,

"Wow, she is so much more impressive

than I am, right? Because here's a

person who is dedicated, who's

passionate, who's committed to her uh

ambition, and why do I think I'm better

than her just because I went to Yale?"

And so I recognized that

um Yale is about making people arrogant.

It's not about making them educated. If

you really want education, the best

place to learn it is in life. So open

your heart, open your eyes, and learn

from others. And that one year really

changed the way I perceived myself and

the way I perceived education. and I

became much more determined to have an

open mind and to look at the world much

more objectively. These past four years

um I've been uh teaching politics in the

great books Plato Homer Dante and I

decide to upload my classes to YouTube

u because I want to generate a

international audience and my wife and I

are very at first we're very optimistic.

We were like we think that we can hit

5,000 subscribers. That's our goal.

5,000 subscribers. [snorts] And maybe

it'll take some time, maybe it'll take

four years, but with 5,000 subscribers,

I'll be able to help better per pro

promote education reform in the world.

Today, my YouTube channel has 2.6

million subscribers. [laughter] Uh, so

that sort of surprised us. Our our goal

was 5,000. We hit 2.6 million. But

that's how I came to today. Can we talk

about success? I know you've done some

research on this topic. Can you share

your conclusions with us? What makes

people successful in our world? So if

you look at all the studies of people

who are successful, there are certain

trait habits that they have, they have

certain habits that enable them to to

succeed. Okay. The first major

um habit is self-control

or delay gratification.

So the idea is you you're willing to put

away immediate pleasure

for long-term gain. So the famous um

example of this is something called a

marshmallow experiment. Yeah.

>> By Wal Walter Mitchell. And Walter

Mitchell at that time was working at

UCLA. This is 1960s. and he asked

children who are five and six to come to

his laboratory

to talk to just have a friendly

conversation. And then Walter Mitchell

would say to them, "I'm sorry, but I

need to go to a meeting for 5 minutes.

Could you please wait for me?"

>> Mhm.

>> I'm really sorry. So here, as an

apology, I'm going to give you one

marshmallow, but if you can wait for me

to come back

and you still have not eaten that

marshmallow, I will give you two

marshmallows. So then he goes away and

he comes back and he sees some kids have

already eaten that first marshmallow and

some kids who have not. Okay? And then

what what what he will do is what he did

was he tracked them for 50 years. And

what he found was that those who passed

the marshmallow test were more likely to

do better in school. They did better on

test scores. They were more likely to

graduate from university. They were more

likely to succeed in their work. They

were more likely to get married and have

happy marriages. and the group that

didn't pass

the test was a complete opposite. That's

the idea of self-control. Okay. So, the

first principle is self-control. Second

principle is something called

resilience.

So there's another Stanford psychologist

uh named Carol Dwight and she did

research into who succeeds

and

she came to the conclusion that those

who succeed have growth mindset

and those who fail have fixed mindset.

Growth mindset is whenever you encounter

failure or difficulty, you see it as

opportunity to grow. So you welcome

failure.

>> Yeah.

>> Those who have a fixed mindset see

failure as the worst possible defeat. So

they run away from failure. And so if

you keep on accepting new challenges,

you keep on growing and therefore you

keep on succeeding. Okay? So that's the

idea of resilience. And the third

principle is the idea of

self-reflection. This is this was um

intro introduced to us by a researcher

named K. Anders Ericson. He spent

decades looking at which students

succeeded. So he was basically looking

at violinists.

>> So uh he did a lot of research in the uh

in Berlin.

>> He went to a music school there and kids

at age five get into this music school.

And so he looked at uh these different

groups and he and he what what he

recognized is those who most succeeded

practice something called deliberate

practice. You can practice for as long

as as long as you want but the most

important thing is to be objective

in

assessing your weaknesses. Okay. So

these are the three basic ideas.

Self-control,

resilience, and self-reflection. But if

you go deeper,

what you recognize is that a lot of this

has to do with family. You come from a

good family that's wealthy and well

educated, you're much more likely to

have self-control. You're much more

likely to be resilient, and you're much

likely to engage in self-reflection.

So, what's the difference?

The difference is that if you come from

a good family,

you are much more likely to receive

unconditional

love.

How

deeply were you loved as a child by your

parents? How much love did you receive?

Because if you receive a lot of love,

you're much more likely to love yourself

and to love others. And therefore,

you're much more likely to engage in

self-control,

self-reflection, and resilience. But if

you didn't receive any love as a child,

you hate yourself and you fear yourself,

and so you're less likely to

succeed.

>> And uh do you think IQ score is

important uh for success?

I think IQ

is one of the greatest illusions out

there. So, uh there's a very famous

American writer named Neil Postman and

he wrote a book called The End of

Education and his argument is

the only reason why we have tests is so

that adults can differentiate between

smart kids and dumb kids. meaning that

intelligence is something that we just

made up

>> in order to justify a hierarchy of

power.

What would happen if all the adults in

the world disappeared today? Can we

imagine this world? Well, you everyone

would be like, "Oh, well, it'd be Lord

of the Flies. All the kids, the

teenagers would start

they would starve to because they're

incompetent." No. What happened is the

kids would all start working together.

The dumb kids, the smart kids, they

would lose these distinctions and every

kid would do what he or she could in

order to build a better society.

If you just leave kids alone, if you

just trust them, they'll go on and do

great things. We know this because in

the 19th century in Hawaii,

all these different immigrant groups

were brought in to work in plantations

on Hawaii. The plantation owners made a

purpose of inviting different ethnic

groups because they figured like if

they're from different ethnic groups,

they can't work together because they

don't speak the same language.

>> Yeah.

>> So, the parents are working in

plantations and the kids are left alone.

There's no school.

So what they do they create their own

language they create their own society

and they create their own games in order

to teach each other when I think about

country like Russia it's very large and

it's hard to manage such a big territory

some people say there are about 140

million people there and it's difficult

to organize work across such a space But

if you use robots instead of people, you

could use the whole territory more

effectively, grow the economy and uh

change many things. Why do you think

this view is wrong or do you think uh it

is actually correct? Okay, to answer

this question, we need to think about

the fundamental nature of reality.

And if you look at how human society is

created,

the main pillar

is the exploitation of labor. For the

longest time, this concept was called

slavery.

>> Right? So if you go back to the Greeks

uh and you read Aristotle, he tells us

that slavery is just a necessary part of

life. Never before in human history have

we had a society in which everyone had

time to be creative. And so Ella Mus and

other tech uh utopian uh thinkers

believe that robotics AI dization will

give us this paradise.

>> Yeah.

>> I don't think it's possible.

So let me explain why using Plato's

allegory of the cave. Okay. So in

[snorts] Plato his book the republic he

he uses a metaphor to describe human

society. So imagine a cave underground.

It's dark. No light comes in. And there

are prisoners about a million of them

lined up together chained to the floor.

They can't move. They can't even turn

around. They can only stare at a wall.

Behind them is great fire.

Around this fire are people. What they

do is they take puppets and they project

these puppets onto the wall. So the

prisoners are seeing shadows on a wall.

They believe that these shadows are

real. So they start to create

civilization around the shadows. They

give it names. They create language.

They create religion. They even create a

priesthood to celebrate these shadows as

gods. They create schools in order to

teach these shadows to their children of

civilization arises from these shadows.

For whatever reason, a prisoner breaks

free of his change. And so he goes

outside and at first he's blinded by the

light, but over time

he adapts to this new world of light and

his eyes feast on the beauty around him.

He thinks it's all divine and he thinks

he's in heaven and he asks himself, why

did I delude myself all this time?

So he wants to go back and convince

everyone to break off the chains and go

into light with him. And so he goes back

[snorts] and

the elite should want to, right? Because

if the prisoners would break free, then

society collapses and nothing can

function anymore.

Instead, what happens is the prisoners

him themselves.

Why? Because they're too wedded to this

reality and they don't want to be told

that this is all in uh illusion.

So to to go back to the Ellen Mus

argument,

>> yeah,

>> you're going to have a lot of people

first of all who will fight against the

robots because they're afraid of losing

their jobs. They're also afraid of

losing their own reality.

Right now, what the elite is most afraid

of are people sabotaging data centers

because it's actually very easy to

destroy a data center, right? It's all

electricity. you can just rig a drone of

explosives and go blow up a data center.

Um, so people are naturally resistant

towards change. Do you think uh this

trend will continue?

>> I think that if you have a society in

which a lot of men are made redundant,

they lose their livelihood,

then they will take up arms. they will

start to create violence in order to

reclaim their livelihood.

>> But maybe by the time people understand

the risks, it will be too late and uh

they will not have enough power to

change things. So being a truck driver

is one of the most lucrative jobs that a

high school dropout can have, right? You

don't need a college diploma. You don't

need to be educated to be a truck

driver.

>> Well, what happens if you make truck

driving automated,

robotic, these millions of truck drivers

would lose their livelihood. Are they

going to sit back and not do anything?

>> Of course not.

>> Right? So, it's most likely that they

will seek vengeance that they will try

to destroy the robots. And the same

thing happened during the industrial

revolution when you had a lot of

craftsmen

who made beautiful products by hand.

They were proud of the work they did.

They pro they also provided good

livelihood to their families. And then

you had factories come in. You had um a

lot of work was being mass manufactured.

And so these people would start would go

and destroy factories. So you could have

a similar situation.

>> Yeah.

>> With AI,

>> right? There were people called Ludits,

but in the end they lost their jobs and

everything changed.

So the first problem is social

resistance. Second problem is we don't

actually know if it's possible

to create a world of robots.

We just hope.

>> Yeah, we're [laughter] just hoping. But

there has not been enough evidence to

suggest that this AI robotic vision is

possible. The first was uh social social

will something do with this problem

because they will lose their jobs.

>> Yes.

>> And you said here is something else.

>> Yeah. So

right now if you look at development of

AI, it's very hard to move AI from the

digital world into the real world. I'm

just speaking as an industrialized,

right? I'm using game theory. I'm asking

and so I need to mass manufacture

robots.

>> Yeah.

>> To mass manufacture robots, I need a lot

of crucial ingredients. silicon, rare

earthbs, lithium, and right now there's

a war going on. So, it's getting harder

and harder for me to source a lot of

this material. I'm also unsure the

profitability

of robots. I'm not sure how how much it

will cost to produce. I'm not sure if

they'll work. I'm not sure people will

buy them.

So, but now, is there another way to

solve this problem?

And a possibility

which I think is much more cost-

effective is to turn humans

into robots.

So and all the ingredients are in place,

right? So you have in the world

something called the gig economy where

people are U drivers where people are

working part-time as janitors basically

labor on demand. They're all controlled

by the algorithm, right? We we just

discussed this.

>> Yeah.

>> You also have millions, hundreds of

millions of immigrants who want to come

into these Russian societies to work.

Because in the future, if you're in

Africa, it's possible there's a famine.

Famine. Yeah. In famine, you could have

a famine in Africa next five years. Yes.

What people don't appreciate is that the

earth itself, the planet itself can only

sustain about two billion people. So the

way we've solved this problem is by

inventing fertilizer

and about a third of the world's

fertilizer is transported through the

shoo. Shoo has been closed down for the

past 2 months. It's planting season

right now. So a lot of places can't grow

food. We don't know about the

consequences now, but wait 6 months and

you're going to hear lots of reports of

food shortages around the world,

especially in Africa, which is dependent

on fertilizer in order to grow grow grow

crops. So, we are we are moving into a

time of tremendous flux in of tremendous

volatility. You're going to have a lot

of people who will be desperate just for

food. So you can turn them into cheap

labor,

right? And then the last element

is your mobile phone. Your mobile phone

has become in many ways your best

friend.

>> Yeah.

>> Or your alter ego. You spend so much

time on the mobile phone. Now let me ask

you this question. Is there really a

difference between a mobile phone and a

microchip inside your brain?

You can drop out your phone microchip.

[laughter]

>> Well, here that's a good point. But you

know, a lot of workers cannot

leave behind the mobile phone. If you're

a Uber driver, your mobile phone is

attached to you because your your mobile

phone is

>> you will know have a job and food.

>> Exactly. You also have people working in

the AI industry, right? Who who who um

label training data around the world.

they're also married to their phones. So

you have cheap labor

um that's desperate for work. You have

microchip technology that that you can

implant into a person to control how

this person behaves and then you have

um mass demand in western aging

societies. So all the ingredients are in

place. So why not just turn humans into

robots which is cheaper than actually

create robots to replace humans.

>> And it's true that uh some companies now

reducing their use of AI because it is

very expensive. They lose a lot of money

sometimes millions of dollars and some

companies even tell their workers uh not

to use AI because of the cost. But

[snorts] maybe in the short term it

could be come cheaper than

[clears throat] it's now. Do you think

uh that is possible? So um the reason

why consumer good products have becoming

cheaper over the past 20 years is

globalization, right? It is cheaper for

you to source materials from around the

world. But in a time of war, in a time

of conflict, in a time of delization,

in theory, the cost of robots can only

go up, but the cost of humans can only

go down because you have hundreds of

millions of refugees from Africa, from

Asia, who are desperate for food. So,

aren't you better off

turning humans into robots than me mass

manufacturing robots not knowing not

being able to control the cost of

critical minerals? So now because of

crisis, economic instability and wars,

it may be difficult to make it cheaper

in the short term.

>> Look at inflation, right? Look at how um

energy prices are going up.

>> Yeah.

>> Right. So you look at for example data

centers in America.

They consume a tremendous amount of

energy. They consume a tremendous amount

of fresh water and they don't really

provide a tangible benefit to society.

So I I'm not sure how far you can take

the AI dream.

>> Okay. You said that it would be better

to have about two billion people on

earth. Do you think we will face

demographic problems in the near future

will the population keep going down? I

think over the next 50 years it is

entirely possible that 90% of humanity

dies off because we can imagine that

these wars that are being fought around

the world right now, they will only

expand. I don't see them stopping. I

only see them expanding and increasing,

but also because of these wars, it's

harder to get resources to the rest of

the world. Um, you're going to have

a lot of famine throughout the world.

We're also seeing a lot of changes to

the weather and it's possible that we

will have some environmental

catastrophes over the next 10 20 years

that's going to put out a add a strain

on global supply of food. Um and if that

were to happen then wars will break up

everywhere because people are fighting

for precious resources. Historically we

humans have fought over resources.

Historically, we lived in a time of

scarcity, in a time of war, in a time of

conflict. And we believed that we have

left all that behind. And unfortunately,

what's going to happen is history is

going to have its revenge. And it's

going to be brutal because the entire

world right now is off balance. We are

living too well, too prosperous, and

we've borrowed, we've mortgaged the

future. And so I see only tragedy and

conflict for the next 50 years. I'm a

young guy. I'm 25 and I have many

friends and family. I think about my

future and their future. Honestly, I

care about people and about humanity in

general. So what advice would you give

our viewers today and how can they stay

safe and succeed in life in today's

world? So um I'll give you two pieces of

advice. Okay. The first piece of piece

of advice is reclaim your attention. The

second advice is always trust your gut.

Always trust your intuition. The most

valuable commodity in the world is

attention. What the greatest act of

rebellion that you can make is to say,

I want to reclaim my attention. Meaning,

I turn off the computer. Meaning, I take

long walks by myself and just think

about who I am and what I want.

Read books, talk to friends, keep

focused, be present. When you do that,

you could forever transform the world.

Transform yourself, you transform the

world. My second piece of advice is

always trust your intuition.

We all came here for a purpose.

We can only know our purpose by

listening to our instincts, which tells

us if you're happy or you're not happy.

We're all here to learn. We're all here

to love. We're all here to grow. You

have to ignore ignore the noise. You

have to let go of your fear. You have to

trust your instinct and do whatever you

think is right and know that whoever

tells you not to do that, whether it's

your parent or your teacher or your

friend, they don't have your best

interest at heart. 10 years ago,

I was broke. I had no money. I didn't

have

a job.

I didn't have any money in my bank

account. I didn't have a place to stay.

And

at this at that at that time in my

history, I've basically given up on

life.

But there was a part of me that

wanted love.

I aspire to [music] love.

And

magically, out of nowhere,

an angel came into my life who is now my

wife.

I told her, "If you want to be with me,

it is possible that we'll be poor

forever. [music]

It's possible that we'll just have to

struggle through life. we'll be in pain

throughout

um our life. And she said, "I don't care

because I love you."

We had a child together now. We have

three [music] children together.

[snorts] And so

don't think with your brain. Don't plan.

Don't say, "I need to do this job. I

need to make this much this much money.

I need to be in this place."

Dream [music] with your heart.

Look for love

and the universe will

provide for you. Because when I met my

wife and we married and we had our

children, we didn't have a plan. I had

no idea at that time that I would have a

YouTube channel and it would have over 2

million subscribers.

I didn't know this. If your heart is in

the right place, if the true will and

desire, then the universe or God,

whatever entity you believe in will

answer you and provide for you.

Have faith in yourself and [music] seek

love, meaning, and purpose in your life.