People are more motivated by love than they are fear, but most of the world sells fear.

So stop selling fear to yourself. You're not going to work harder because you're saying you're a piece of shit.

Fear and negativity is a short-term motivator.

Love and compassion is a forever game.

Attention is the number one asset.

Look, I got incredibly fortunate.

I think I have a world-class mother who, you know, I was born in the Soviet Union and it was a very challenging place to live.

My mom, unlike most of the people from that part of the world, was an optimist.

People really struggled in that society. to the people from that part of the world was an optimist.

People really struggled in that society from 1917

to the time it fell in 1989.

And I don't have to tell this audience,

Russia's not the easiest place to live even right now.

And so I'm incredibly grateful because I think a lot of us in this audience

to succeed with emotional intelligence,

we either have to get very fortunate and get the luck of the draw of DNA and parenting or we have to put in a lot of work in meditation, therapy, and living life.

And so for me, you know, a lot of times people say a lot of people that live the life that I lived, which is worked a lot and worked really hard and worked smart. And people will throw lucky at them right they got

lucky and a lot of people that in the audience and their parents and me that have

put in the work you get triggered right you're like man're like, man, I just work so hard, this isn't luck,

you're not working, or you don't get it.

But I will say I got lucky when we talk

about emotional intelligence.

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