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00:00:00.840 Isolation has a lot of different side effects,

00:00:02.400 but there's one part of isolation

00:00:03.740 that could be totally catastrophic to a near future.

00:00:06.360 But before I tell you about isolation,

00:00:07.940 let me tell you a story about what happened this week.

00:00:09.420 So this past week, I was running a Zoom

00:00:10.780 with folks who were one of the first to buy the book,

00:00:13.140 and I did a raffle, it was 10 of them.

00:00:14.780 We're sitting there doing a Zoom,

00:00:15.980 everybody's telling their story, et cetera, et cetera.

00:00:17.660 And one of the guys gets up, he's 20 years old,

00:00:19.380 he says, I've been following by Taman 0.98

00:00:20.540 since 17 years old when I was in high school.

00:00:22.880 I watch all your videos.

00:00:24.000 He said, I watch everything.

00:00:25.440 He was quoting stuff from this video, that video.

00:00:27.340 So anyways, eventually he says, I'm in Vermont.

00:00:30.620 I'm living there.

00:00:31.820 I decide to go out of high school and become an entrepreneur.

00:00:34.260 He goes to university in Ohio,

00:00:36.400 goes, joins the entrepreneurship program,

00:00:38.440 joins a group in the school with 160 different kids

00:00:41.460 that are trying to be entrepreneurs,

00:00:42.980 asks how many of you guys are entrepreneurs.

00:00:45.080 None of them had a business at that time.

00:00:46.720 Says, then why am I in here?

00:00:47.880 He leaves, drops out, goes and starts doing online sales,

00:00:51.260 starts doing $180,000 here with his friend.

00:00:54.160 And he's in Vermont in his basement,

00:00:56.300 the last eight months, isolated because of where he's at.

00:01:00.440 You can't get out, shut down, you know,

00:01:02.980 don't go out, quarantine, everything to be safe, right?

00:01:06.100 He's the only child.

00:01:08.220 And he starts telling the story.

00:01:10.440 And he says, I'm not excited about life.

00:01:14.980 I said, why is that?

00:01:16.100 I said, how many people are you around?

00:01:17.660 My daughter's by the window there.

00:01:18.840 I'm trying to get this video before I get out.

00:01:20.580 I said, how many people are you around?

00:01:22.980 He said, I'm not around a lot of people.

00:01:24.760 I said, are you isolated?

00:01:26.220 He says, I am.

00:01:27.340 I said, how do people treat you?

00:01:29.080 He says, they think I'm a little weird.

00:01:30.400 I said, they think you're weird as well.

00:01:31.560 He said, yes.

00:01:32.600 I said, you're 20 years old.

00:01:33.660 I said, you're at a very rough age.

00:01:34.900 He said, you're at an age where you're trying to be accepted.

00:01:38.360 You're trying to be approved.

00:01:39.880 You're trying to get people to see the cool side of you.

00:01:43.760 And you're probably shy.

00:01:44.740 You've been rejected.

00:01:45.260 You've had a lot of pain.

00:01:46.100 And I just want you to know, everything's going to be all right.

00:01:51.640 I said this to him.

00:01:53.260 Everything's going to be all right.

00:01:55.020 He started crying for five minutes nonstop.

00:01:58.280 We have the video.

00:01:59.560 He started crying nonstop for five minutes.

00:02:00.940 And he's making money.

00:02:05.400 Things are good.

00:02:06.420 But he's isolated.

00:02:08.500 He's by himself.

00:02:10.260 He needs company.

00:02:11.840 He needs to be around people.

00:02:13.600 He wants to be around people.

00:02:15.600 We need that little tap.

00:02:17.440 We need that little, how you're doing?

00:02:19.060 How's everything?

00:02:19.840 You good?

00:02:20.320 Is everything okay?

00:02:21.900 I was in San Antonio yesterday for an event that some of our leaders put together.

00:02:25.420 There was 140 people in the room.

00:02:27.300 I can't tell you how many people couldn't wait to see each other at this one resort that the guys rented.

00:02:31.540 I was with them.

00:02:32.100 We stayed till 2, 3 o'clock in the morning.

00:02:33.440 If you were following my Instagram, we were listening to R&B.

00:02:36.040 And they were playing R&B music to see if I can guess it.

00:02:39.080 And I was playing R&B music to see if they could guess it.

00:02:41.520 And I got some they couldn't get.

00:02:43.140 They got some I couldn't get.

00:02:44.160 It was 17 of them.

00:02:45.100 There was one of me.

00:02:45.680 I lost 7 to 6.

00:02:47.220 But we weren't isolated.

00:02:48.840 We were around each other.

00:02:49.800 There was strength in numbers.

00:02:52.300 There was strength in having people around you that have bought into your vision.

00:02:56.040 So if you're listening to this, I just want you to know 2020 has been a weird year.

00:03:00.520 One of the biggest parts of 2020 that's been weird is the fact that a lot of people have been isolated.

00:03:05.160 They've been forced to be isolated.

00:03:07.780 And what you've missed is that camaraderie with another human being.

00:03:12.280 That conflict with another human being.

00:03:14.800 That conversation with another human being.

00:03:16.880 That, you know, discourse with another human being.

00:03:20.020 What do you think about this?

00:03:20.940 I agree.

00:03:21.460 I disagree.

00:03:22.160 What do you think?

00:03:23.380 You're missing that because you're in isolation.

00:03:26.300 And, you know, everyone's telling you to stay and everyone's telling you to do all this other stuff.

00:03:32.040 I'm sorry.

00:03:32.640 You got to go see people.

00:03:34.240 I'm not telling you to go to a nightclub and go to a bar and get hammered with 5,000 people and be irresponsible.

00:03:39.440 But you got to kind of get out and go see people.

00:03:41.680 Even if it's a couple people.

00:03:43.340 Even if it's five people.

00:03:44.600 Unless it's 10 people.

00:03:46.260 Staying in isolation's got very big side effects long term.

00:03:49.700 But there's a lot of you that are watching this right now that live in different parts of the world.

00:03:52.900 Some of you guys are in states saying, Pat, I'm not in isolation.

00:03:55.000 I can be out.

00:03:55.860 Some of you guys are in countries that you are isolated.

00:03:57.920 You can't get out.

00:03:59.820 Two messages for you.

00:04:01.100 If you can, by law, go out and meet with people.

00:04:04.920 Do so.

00:04:05.360 Number two, if you can't, because you're isolated and your imagination is going crazy, thinking crazy, crazy thoughts, just taper it down and bring it down to not overreact and make a dumb decision.

00:04:21.020 I'm sincerely telling you, everything's going to be all right.

00:04:25.600 Everything's going to be all right.

00:04:26.740 It's a motto that's changed my life.

00:04:29.100 Future looks bright.

00:04:30.500 Even if it's ugly right now, when you're patient enough, it takes three months, six months, 12 months, 24 months.

00:04:37.340 Things all of a sudden change for the better.

00:04:39.700 So whatever you're going through right now, this week of Christmas that we have coming up, I celebrate Christmas.

00:04:43.720 I comfortably say Merry Christmas to people.

00:04:45.800 But if you don't celebrate Christmas, happy holidays to you.

00:04:50.580 As you reflect with everything that happened in 2020, just know, I promise you, everything's going to be all right.

00:04:58.600 But I'm telling you, everything's going to be all right.

00:05:01.000 I'm telling you bad things are not going to happen.

00:05:02.560 Bad things are going to happen.

00:05:04.040 But everything is still going to be all right.

00:05:05.920 And future looks bright.

00:05:07.420 Don't let your imagination make you believe that Armageddon's around the corner.

00:05:11.060 It's going to be fine.

00:05:12.480 Things are going to go in the right direction.

00:05:14.340 With that being said, I got a video I want you to watch.

00:05:16.700 It's 12 mistakes I made my first year as an entrepreneur.

00:05:19.940 If you've never watched this, click over here.

00:05:21.260 And if I don't see you, or I'm around you, because you're going to be around some friends and family,

00:05:27.100 from me to you and your family, Merry Christmas to you.

00:05:30.500 Take care, everybody.

00:05:31.260 Bye-bye.

Consequences of Isolation

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