Imagination will take you everywhere
i’m
very very happy very very honored to be
here with you really
uh it’s been a dream come true for me
it’s been a long time coming
i’ve wanted to come to egypt forever for
a long long time
and here i am and i wanted to speak
on an african stage for three years
so i’m in egypt and speaking on an
african stage
so dreams do come true
okay so as
as many of you know we’ve been living in
a very different world
in a post-covied world everything
has been different um
traveling has been different
uh okay okay uh can you hear me better
now
okay i’m sorry so i was saying we we’ve
been living in a different world
with kovin 19 and quarantine traveling
has been different
uh you need to do a covet testing to be
able to travel
relationships have been different uh
there’s social
distancing and working has been
different
i personally have been working from home
since february
so homeworking so the world is really
really different since
kobe 19 and one of the things i decided
at the beginning of
of the kobe 19 outbreak is that it was
going to be something positive for me
i made that decision and i decided in my
mind that this is going to be good for
me
and i remember what einstein said in the
middle of difficulty
there’s an opportunity there’s an
opportunity in every situation
so i decided that during the quarantine
i was going to read
i was going to learn and i was going to
become
a better version of myself and that’s
what i did
i did a lot of reading i did a lot of
meditation
and i worked on myself and
i love philosophy and i love psychology
i don’t have a degree in those areas but
i’m very interesting i’m someone very
curious
i love to learn my philosophy is trying
to learn something every day
and this is what elon eleanor roosevelt
said
try to learn something every day to be
better every day
and one of the things i stumbled upon
was something that einstein said
okay einstein said logic
will take you from a to b
but imagination will take you everywhere
and i said wow this is awesome
i know nothing about science so i was
never very
interested in einstein but once i read
that i’d said
you know what try to learn more so i
i started to study einstein’s life and
what he said
not about science because i already said
i know nothing about science but
what was einstein’s philosophy about
life about dreaming about imagination
about relationships with people
and i discovered very very interesting
things
and there are three things that i came
to share with you
who wants to know what i learned from
anton the three things raise your hand
if you don’t raise your hand i’m not
going to tell you so i see a couple of
hands more hands
more more okay
so the first thing the first thing i
learned from
from einstein is that imagination
is more important than knowledge
i said wow more important than knowledge
more important than a high school
diploma
more important than an mba more
important than a phd
and he said yes i was
wow from einstein einstein
all of you know that einstein was the
genius of the century
he is considered and rightfully so as
one of the most
brilliant mind to have ever lived in the
history of humanity
so for einstein to say that it was very
very profound
so the second thing einstein shared with
me he said
imagination is everything
it is the preview to life’s coming
attraction
in other words your imagination is
an anticipation of what is going to come
in your future in other words
imagination
rules the world and i started to think
about that and i said
and i think about the wright brothers
they were in ohio they had
a bicycle store and they were talking to
each other like brothers do and they
and they were saying bro it would be
very interesting
if we could go from point a to point b
but flying like birds and the other one
said you know what bro
that’s a great idea and there were two
bicycle owners they sold
bicycles and they invented the first
airplane with an engine the wright
brothers
knew nothing about science but they
created what we know now as the aviation
industry that’s the power of imagination
and i was thinking also about the two
brothers
the lumiere brothers left they were in
france
also talking to each other and saying
you know what bro
it would be very interesting if we could
capture a moment in time a moment in
history
and be able to show it to our kids our
grandsons
and they were the pioneers of the
photography industry
and they also said it was funny if we
could make
pictures who move what we call now
videos
they were the first ones to do the first
video
in france in 1990 and 1895.
i know some of you are looking at me did
they post the video on facebook there
were no facebook in 1995.
so they didn’t post it um so
that’s the power of imagination so and
i’m sure
as sure as i am here today in front of
you and i could see your faces
i’m sure that the wright brothers and
the lumiere brothers
were called crazy those guys are crazy
it’s impossible to fly
on a machine like a bird it’s impossible
it has
never been done and i am sure that the
lumia brothers
were also called crazy what do you mean
a motion
picture what do you mean doing pictures
doing videos
it doesn’t exist but they still
do it they still did it that’s the power
of imagination
imagination can do everything and i’m so
glad
that someone like steve jobs said that
only crazy people
can realize their dreams only someone
crazy enough
to think they can do something that
could change the world
can actually do it someone crazy
who say you know what it doesn’t exist
but let’s create that and nelson mandela
said
it is always impossible
until one person does it until one
person
believes that it’s possible
to do it so that’s the power
of imagination
that’s the power of imagination yes you
can clap yes you can clap
the third thing the third thing einstein
shared with me he said bruno
the person with a big dream or
imagination
is more powerful than the person
with all the facts all the knowledge
all the training all the information
as i said right now i gave you a couple
of examples people had imagination
and some of them had no degrees but they
changed the world
so that’s the power of imagination and
i’m i’m thinking about someone
like walter disney walt disney
is someone that i admire very very much
i have studied his life and it’s and
he’s someone who
inspired me in a profound way
and he said all
our dreams are possible if we have the
courage to pursue them the courage
not the knowledge not the degree
not the training if you have courage
you can accomplish amazing
things in your life and and i love what
for example someone
like osho also said courage
is taking a risk it’s risking the
present
in order for you to have a great future
you have to take a risk
you have to do something that makes you
uncomfortable
in order for you to have a great future
it’s not going to be easy
it’s like if you want to have a great
body
muscles lose weight you’re going to have
to train
and you’re going to have to diet there’s
no miracle
pills there’s no miracle solutions do
you agree with me
yes i think i think you do
so so courage becomes something very
very important
and and i love what someone like dr
jordan peterson said he said
it’s delaying gratification
and bargaining with the future in other
words you’re going to do something now
that is painful
something now maybe that you don’t like
but tomorrow you’re going to have
something great
so that’s that’s how it works okay
success works like that yeah
you have to you have to suffer a little
bit
okay and i’m sure that some of you are
thinking
okay bruno all of that dream stuff
it’s very very great the lumia brothers
yeah they did something extraordinary
it’s true
the lumia brothers they did something
extraordinary that’s true
but me you know i’m a little person you
know i can’t do that
no you’re not a little person you’re
like them and and you have the question
how can i do that bruno how can i
manifest my dream
how can i make this dream come true in
my life
and i’m glad you have the question
because me personally
i had the same question many years ago
i had the exact same question
the exact same one and
here’s here’s the answer mark twain said
the success success in life
this this is how it worked you have to
get started
if you want to be successful in life you
have
to get started that’s the secret
mark twain shared with me in order for
you to be successful in life
just start maybe you don’t have all the
information you don’t have
all the knowledge but you have to start
to do something you will never have
everything you will never have all the
diplomas you will never have all the
money to start your business your idea
you will never know everything have
friends helping you
people believing you supporting you
sometimes in life you will be the only
person
believing in you but a lot of people did
great things
starting by one because when you believe
in yourself you are convinced
you are determined people will look at
you and say you know what
i believe in him why because he believes
in himself
if you don’t believe in you i’m not
going to believe in you
i’m not it’s the same thing in life
you have to believe in yourself and
people will say people will be attracted
to you
they will be drawn to you because of
your fate because of your determination
because of your conversation oh this
person is different
these guys he doesn’t speak like
everybody else he has a different
conversation
this woman is different she’s really
serious she’s really driven
and people will see that and you and
people will follow you people will
believe in you
and that’s how people make great things
happen
in order yes yes
yes and i know now you have the question
you have the other question and i had
that question okay
[Music]
now i understand that but how do i get
started the secret
in life is to get started but how do i
get started
i’m glad you asked the question because
walt disney i told you
who was one of my my mentors a model i
considered
he said the secret the secret in life if
you want to get started
you have to quit talking
and begin going in other words
you have to stop talking and start
working
that’s the secret to success that walt
disney shared
and i’m going to say it again stop
talking
and start working
yeah that’s that’s how it works
that that is exactly how it works and i
want
uh as i as i come close to the closing
and i want to really all of you i’m
looking at all of you here and many
many people i’m so happy to see all of
you here
and i want to really encourage you
to find your purpose
to find your passion and to pursue it
relentlessly passionately and loudly
be persistent
and win angela bassett was
absolutely right when she said that
and i have many many mentors and one of
my mentors called
augmentino said many years ago
i will persist until
i succeed i will persist
until i succeed i made that my
philosophy
i never give up i’m a pit bull i
never never never never give up
like winston chuntel said never give up
never
and if you have a dream don’t let
anybody steal your dream
don’t let anybody don’t let anybody tell
you it’s impossible
it’s not going to work you’re too young
you’re too old you’re women you’re this
your child no no no no no
you tell them no don’t steal my dream
all things are possible if what if you
believe it’s you you have to believe
that
uh the the wonderful poetess maya
angelou
she said nothing happens
in life unless what you do
you it’s you it’s you
nothing happens in life unless you do
it’s you it’s not anybody else it’s you
one of my favorite philosopher epictetus
he said
your future is determined by what you do
who you it’s you
i mean what can i say it’s you
and i’m going to give you uh a success
formula
who here wants to have a success formula
raise your hand okay i’m going to ask
the question differently
who here wants to be successful raise
your hand okay i have more hands now
okay
okay i’m going to give you my success
formula
okay i’m going to close it’s
power courage
and perseverance okay einstein remember
einstein said the person with the big
dream is powerful
so if you have a dream you’re powerful
you have
courage and you have perseverance
you’re going to be successful thank you
very much thank you very much thank you