You have this ability to become confident in every single area of your life. It's about us just learning a new series of behaviors. For example, there's something called a siren technique. In three, two, and one, I eat those.
I'm crazier than usual. Fantastic, that's fantastic. You did a great job, right? And then this next one is volume.
So critical. Because if I just increase my volume in my talk like this, I sound a little bit aggressive, don't I? But with volume, to highlight something, you could go very quiet. So it's about waking people up to the power of their lives.
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If you had to summarize what it is you do fundamentally and why you do it, how would you summarize it? I help people learn that they have access to one of the most beautiful instruments in the world that can help them negotiate whatever reality they desire. And I learned this through my first ever vocal teacher, Ms. Stanley.
I'll never forget this experience. There's a dingy music corner in South Australia and I'll go there for lessons. And for the first time I met her, I walked into the room, she's an old lady, and she says nothing to me except the words, sit down, young man. So I sit, it feels super awkward, it feels super weird.
And then she plays one key nonstop on the piano for two minutes. It's literally, I was like, oh shit, this is like a horror movie. And then she turns around, she goes, how do you feel? I said, nothing weird, awkward, what?
And then she goes, good, turns around, plays this beautiful song called Mariage D'Amour. Goes off for two minutes. And then she turns around, she goes, how do you feel? And I said, weirded out from before still.
But I feel, wow, that song had love, there was lust, there was romance, there was excitement. And she goes, good. Honey, most people go through life speaking like this. I'm going to teach you how to speak like this.
And that's, to me, at the time I remember thinking, that is the greatest sales pitch I've ever heard in my life. Because I'm now going to sign up for 12 classes with you, because you've just helped me realize something I've been struggling with my entire life. I haven't been thinking about my voice as an instrument. I thought it was a tool.
What do you do with a hammer? You use a hammer. What do you do with a screwdriver? You use a screwdriver.
What do you do with a piano? You play with it. What do you do with the violin? You play with it.
And she started to teach me that I have this instrument that depending on how I play it, it changes and shifts how others feel. How much do you think that will change the trajectory of someone's life? What is the impact? If I get really good at communication, why does it matter?
I was invisible my entire childhood. I was invisible. I wasn't the cool kid. I wasn't the good looking kid.
I wasn't the charismatic kid. I wasn't the funny kid. I wasn't the anything kid. And by learning the skill, I've been able to negotiate an incredible reality.
And that's why I love to infer us quite so much. Reality is negotiable. Cool. Well, what skill do we use to negotiate the reality of the desire?
It's our ability to communicate. Teaching that to others has been one of the most fulfilling things I've ever done. And I genuinely believe that makes the world a better place. And I almost sometimes feel like I'm just here to tune pianos.
I'm here to help people tune and fix and learn how to play. And I get so much fulfillment from that. My parents have this fundamental belief. It's so beautiful.
They believe every child is born with a diamond, with a gift, with something in them. So I found one of my diamonds early on. It was magic. So I was really good at magic.
They hoped it was medicine, accounting, and, you know, the Asian prophecy. So when I found that diamond being magic, I thought that all I had to do was get really good technically as a magician. Because that's what I was talking about university being an accountant. Oh, if you become really technically proficient as an accountant, you'll become an amazing accountant.
You'll be successful. You'll get the BMW. You'll get everything. So I thought, okay, magic's the same thing.
Get really good technically. Send thousands of hours in my bedroom by myself, in front of a mirror, practicing magic. Not nowhere. Because I was missing an ingredient.
Magician's call.