The All-In Story Ted Talk
Back in March I shared the story of how Graymatter & your messages about Bright Mind's impact on your lives kept me going when I almost died last year.
That story has been making it's rounds and I was asked to tell it live at DePaul University's Annual Graduate School Symposium.
The video is linked below if you'd like to watch it.
My message to the audience was twofold:
Reframe your experiences of pain & suffering
We all have an Invisible clock that is ticking
Reframing Pain & Suffering
When Bad things happen to us it never feels right. We fight it.
I’m here to tell you to embrace your struggles because you'll often be able to look back at them as life's best learning experiences.
You can almost always connect the dots backwards as to why or how it lead you to where you are now.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia (3rd most valuable company in the world) said this to Stanford students a few weeks ago.
“Resilience matters in success. I don’t know how to teach it to you except I hope suffering happens to you. I use the phrase pain and suffering with great glee inside our company because you want to refine the character of the company. Character is formed out of suffering. So I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering. “
His clip went viral because the message seemed ironic but true.
Can you look back at time of struggle that sucked in the moment but you are now grateful that it happened?
The Invisible Clock
Time.
None of us know how much we have.
Reminding yourself of that often helps you get and keep your priorities straight.
My existential experience sparked something in me.
I’m passing that spark on to you.
I’m here to remind you, you don’t need to have a brush with death to simply decide to do big things.
I’m here to argue that you should spend the time to figure out the most ambitious thing you could dream of doing with your one wild and precious life.
And go do it now.
Because none of us know how much time we have.
Bright Mind is here to power those ambitious dreams ✨
Video: Going All In On Graymatter
Cheers All,
Jim
P.S. We are so excited to share version 2 of Bright Mind with you.
I absolutely love it. It tastes even better than v.1 and now contains vitamin D 🌞.
It will be ready to ship later in May.
