Valuetainment - January 10, 2019


Episode 244： Visionary or Phony？ How to Tell Them Apart


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How do you tell the difference between a real visionary and a phony when it comes to a dream? How do you know who's a real one and who's just a phony? What do you do with someone who doesn't have a vision of what the future might look like?

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00:00:00.960 30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach
00:00:09.220 the sky, turn the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
00:00:16.220 underdog.
00:00:17.160 I'm Patrick Bedeb, your host of IOTA, and today, you know, it's an interesting topic
00:00:20.560 I want to get into today, and that is, how do you tell apart somebody who really is a
00:00:24.140 visionary, where they get up and say, one day we're going to be doing XYZ, versus somebody
00:00:28.760 who's just a phony. 0.76
00:00:29.520 How do you tell those two apart?
00:00:30.640 We'll talk about that today.
00:00:31.560 What do you think about when you hear the word visionary, right?
00:00:35.460 The word visionary.
00:00:37.680 When I tell the word visionary to Mario, my buddy here, who works here on a daily basis, he thinks
00:00:42.760 about Walter Mercado, you know, because he likes to watch Walter Mercado from, is it Univision?
00:00:52.900 On the other hand, my buddy here, Paul, Paul is a fan of Miss Cleo.
00:00:59.060 He's a big fan of Miss Cleo, tarot cards, that to him is visionary, right?
00:01:04.260 And then we have visionaries, Amor, Moral, and Tikran.
00:01:08.860 These guys sit around and have an Armenian coffee together, and they put their thumb in 0.99
00:01:12.520 there with Armenian coffee, turn it around for like five minutes, and then they say, someone
00:01:16.360 is going to come visit you from a very far distance today, and they're bringing money
00:01:20.100 with them, right?
00:01:20.760 This whole visionary thing.
00:01:22.320 I'm not talking about that kind of visionary.
00:01:26.480 When I'm talking about visionary, I'm talking about real-time visionary.
00:01:30.800 Because if you think about great countries, great civilizations, great churches, great businesses,
00:01:37.680 great families, great anything, it becomes that because there was a visionary that casted
00:01:44.580 a vision for that business, that family, that country, whoever it is.
00:01:48.620 And people bought into it, and there was a lot of pressure on that visionary to make that
00:01:54.200 vision become a reality.
00:01:55.440 But a visionary is only an event away from being a phony, and a phony is only an event
00:02:04.080 away from being a visionary.
00:02:05.380 Let me explain what I mean by that.
00:02:06.740 So, who is a visionary?
00:02:09.260 When you think about a visionary, you know, initially, a visionary has a vision that they
00:02:16.460 see that the future, you know, such and such is going to happen, okay?
00:02:21.440 Whatever it may be.
00:02:22.280 Here's what could happen.
00:02:23.100 And many times, visionaries are probably some of the most misunderstood people in the world
00:02:28.460 because when a visionary gets up and says, we are one day going to go to America, the
00:02:34.780 land of the free.
00:02:35.760 And this is a family, they're living in Iran, they're living in China, they're in Russia,
00:02:39.660 they're immigrants, they're in South America, and they want to one day come to America.
00:02:43.540 Everybody in their family says, you know, like a brother would say, you're crazy, no one's
00:02:46.640 ever going to America.
00:02:47.500 We're never going to get, you know, citizenship to go from here.
00:02:50.240 Are you out of your mind?
00:02:51.540 And families will say things.
00:02:53.140 Somebody will say, we are one day going to build a multi-billion dollar opportunity that's
00:02:57.120 going to do X, Y, Z.
00:02:58.100 A lot of people will say, what an arrogant, conceited person to say that it'll ever happen.
00:03:03.200 We are one day going to build the greatest nation in the world.
00:03:05.760 What an arrogant group of people that live in this la-la land. 0.96
00:03:10.340 You escaped Britain to come over here and you think you're going to build the greatest
00:03:15.120 country of all time when there's been civilizations that have been around for thousands of years.
00:03:18.780 You're going to come out there and do something big?
00:03:20.580 You are arrogant for saying that.
00:03:23.020 So visionaries are misunderstood.
00:03:24.920 They're violently opposed.
00:03:28.140 People call them phony.
00:03:29.760 They call them crazy.
00:03:31.540 They live in this fantasy world.
00:03:33.580 They're living in dreams, right?
00:03:35.720 Because they say it.
00:03:37.500 So because they say it, they're a phony.
00:03:39.920 People say they're a BSer.
00:03:41.460 He's a liar.
00:03:42.640 Total liar.
00:03:44.020 Every, you know, look what he says.
00:03:45.240 They're going to do this.
00:03:45.960 That's never going to happen.
00:03:46.960 He's a liar.
00:03:47.960 Don't believe him.
00:03:48.680 You guys are never going to go to America and be free.
00:03:51.240 He's a liar.
00:03:52.200 He's just trying to sell you a lie.
00:03:55.080 And at the end of the day, one of those two groups is going to be right.
00:04:00.460 Because if a visionary doesn't fulfill any promise of his vision, then you have a phony.
00:04:08.040 You know, you ever met people that talk a very big game?
00:04:10.140 Oh, I'm going to do this.
00:04:10.800 I'm going to do that.
00:04:11.240 I'm going to do this.
00:04:11.700 I'm going to do this.
00:04:12.400 We're going to do this.
00:04:12.820 We're going to do that.
00:04:13.740 And they always say it.
00:04:15.220 Eventually, nobody believes any word that's coming out of their mouth.
00:04:17.680 That's a phony.
00:04:19.240 And then you have the visionary.
00:04:20.660 Now, there are different levels of visionary.
00:04:22.920 Let's talk about the three different levels of what a visionary is.
00:04:27.640 You know, the highest level of visionary is somebody that's a world changer.
00:04:31.380 You know, that's the one that we read about in the books.
00:04:33.140 Like, you know, MLK, Martin Luther King, is a visionary where the world knows about.
00:04:39.000 And he did something that's just out of this world.
00:04:41.620 It wasn't something small.
00:04:42.500 It affected everybody, right?
00:04:44.340 Graham Bell, who said, you know, people are going to talk amongst each other through a
00:04:49.600 phone, a machine, a mechanism, no wires, no nothing.
00:04:52.780 We're going to be able to talk to each other.
00:04:54.440 Now, Graham Bell created this, right?
00:04:57.040 When you think about Edison, how a light is turned on, that's a visionary.
00:05:00.860 I'm going to light up the world, and people don't need a candle anymore.
00:05:04.920 And he completely, he's a world-changing visionary.
00:05:08.760 The second level of visionary is a, you know, celebrity visionary.
00:05:13.520 You can call this kind of visionary a famous visionary.
00:05:17.540 So it could be an Ali who would say, I'm going to knock out such and such in seventh round.
00:05:21.440 That's a visionary.
00:05:22.300 He said he's going to do it, and it happened, right?
00:05:24.060 And Billy Bean, who is from the movie Moneyball, that said, the best way to put a team together
00:05:30.200 is you don't need to go get the home run hitters. 0.99
00:05:32.060 It's about on-base percentage, because if you go on on-base percentage on how often this
00:05:36.200 guy makes it on base, those are the teams that are going to make it.
00:05:39.440 So the philosophy of Oakland, and then went to Boston Red Sox, and that's a visionary.
00:05:44.700 That's a person who's a visionary.
00:05:45.720 George Lucas made a movie, Star Wars, that they said, this is never going to happen.
00:05:49.300 He's out of his mind.
00:05:50.340 What are you talking about to make a movie like this?
00:05:53.180 He said, you're full of it.
00:05:54.920 You're arrogant.
00:05:55.820 You're insane.
00:05:56.940 He's lost it.
00:05:57.900 He's a little bit of a maniac.
00:05:59.780 He's nuts.
00:06:00.680 He's crazy.
00:06:01.900 That's a visionary, but that's a famous visionary, right?
00:06:05.080 That's not a world-changing visionary, but that's still a visionary.
00:06:07.980 But the kind of visionary that doesn't get a lot of credit is sometimes the everyday
00:06:11.780 visionary.
00:06:13.000 And let me explain to you what I mean by the everyday visionary.
00:06:15.200 Listen, a family who sits down and a father says, boys, you know, this is a special family.
00:06:27.920 And one day, all three of you are going to get a college degree, and you guys are going
00:06:34.280 to have your own good families that you're going to raise.
00:06:36.240 That could be a visionary.
00:06:37.580 That's a pressure on the father because the father has to work to provide to put the kids
00:06:41.580 through school, and there's a pressure on the kids to deliver on the vision.
00:06:45.220 And kids don't believe it that you're crazy.
00:06:47.280 No one in our family has ever had a degree.
00:06:49.100 We grew up in Compton.
00:06:50.240 We grew up in, you know, Chicago, the bad side of Chicago.
00:06:54.080 We grew up in, you know, Brooklyn.
00:06:56.160 We grew up in bad parts of, you know, L.A.
00:07:00.520 We grew up in—no one's going to get a degree.
00:07:02.540 No one in our family has ever gotten a degree.
00:07:04.360 What are you talking about that?
00:07:06.000 That's a visionary.
00:07:07.120 But that's an everyday visionary that we don't see, that that person doesn't necessarily
00:07:10.900 get a recognition that's on a history books, but that person's going to get recognition
00:07:14.960 in that family lineage that'll be remembered.
00:07:17.660 That's still a visionary.
00:07:19.460 When a family, a father or mother says, we're going to—kids, we're going to go to America
00:07:23.900 one day, and the kids have some level of hope in them to believe, hey, you're watching
00:07:28.480 that movie Rocky.
00:07:29.260 One day, we're going to take you to America.
00:07:31.380 Hey, husband says to his wife, honey, you told me you're Italian, but you've never been to
00:07:35.660 Italy before, I'm going to one day take you to Italy.
00:07:37.640 That's a visionary.
00:07:39.040 That's a visionary.
00:07:39.880 He said, honey, I'm going to take you to Italy.
00:07:41.140 That's an everyday visionary.
00:07:43.400 And when he takes his wife to Italy, he went from a phony to a visionary because the dream
00:07:49.160 became a reality, and that's a visionary.
00:07:52.200 That's a certain level of visionary that we're talking about.
00:07:55.020 Now, again, I said it earlier, the difference between a visionary and a phony is one event.
00:08:00.000 A phony keeps saying what he's going to do and doesn't happen.
00:08:02.480 A visionary does and it does happen.
00:08:03.920 So, how does one go about, you know, becoming a visionary when you think about, well, I want
00:08:11.600 to be known as a visionary myself.
00:08:14.500 Great.
00:08:15.320 You know, there's a lot of pressures of being a visionary.
00:08:17.880 This is why a lot of people don't want to be a visionary.
00:08:19.680 For instance, what's the pressure of being a visionary?
00:08:22.340 There's a very high likelihood of you being wrong.
00:08:25.900 There's a very, very high likelihood of you being wrong when you claim to be a visionary.
00:08:30.140 You know, there's a very high likelihood of it.
00:08:33.140 You know, you could put that pressure on yourself.
00:08:35.020 This is why when somebody claims that something's going to happen, they don't get a lot of sleep
00:08:40.360 at them because all they're thinking about is, I got to make sure this thing becomes a
00:08:42.980 reality.
00:08:44.120 So, the pressures of being a visionary, whether it's on the everyday level or the famous level
00:08:48.320 or the world-changing level, it doesn't matter.
00:08:50.880 It's a lot of pressure of being a visionary because the first step of a visionary is what?
00:08:56.140 They envision something.
00:08:58.460 They have a moment where they say, I think this is going to happen.
00:09:03.480 And then you must share that vision and declare that vision and intention with other people.
00:09:09.200 At the everyday level could be to your family.
00:09:11.900 Honey, our family is one day going to come together.
00:09:14.700 We're all going to be under one roof one day celebrating someone's birthday.
00:09:18.520 It may take 10, 20 years, but this is going to happen.
00:09:20.660 And we will have a family reunion even though we're all scattered all over the world, honey.
00:09:25.000 That's going to happen.
00:09:27.340 And then that person has the pressure of spending the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years of making sure
00:09:31.660 that event takes place because it's important to them to become a visionary.
00:09:37.000 It is important to them to become a visionary, right?
00:09:39.460 So, how do you constantly improve and become a visionary?
00:09:45.200 You've got to declare an intention and keep it.
00:09:47.480 And the more intentions you declare and the more of your intentions you keep, the more
00:09:53.740 stronger you're becoming of a visionary.
00:09:56.600 The more you say it and nothing happens, the less everybody believes in your word and the
00:10:01.420 less you believe in your word, you are losing your credibility of a visionary, right?
00:10:06.860 So, it starts off with a small vision and it becomes a reality.
00:10:10.720 Honey, I think in the next 90 days, I'm going to take you to a nice three-day weekend.
00:10:15.600 We're going to go to such and such place.
00:10:17.480 Hold that commitment.
00:10:18.680 Your wife may think it's not real and then it happens. 0.94
00:10:21.740 Boys, girls, if we do this, we're going to go to Disneyland before the end of the year.
00:10:26.960 Kids see it.
00:10:27.720 Oh, that's it?
00:10:28.200 We're going to go to Disneyland?
00:10:29.180 Boom.
00:10:29.480 It becomes a reality.
00:10:30.440 Kids, if you do good in your grades, I see ourselves going to Hawaii next year.
00:10:34.720 Boom.
00:10:34.960 It happens.
00:10:35.460 You go to Hawaii.
00:10:35.860 So, now the family slowly but surely is starting to trust into what?
00:10:40.500 Your word.
00:10:41.020 And you, on a certain smaller level, are becoming the visionary of your family.
00:10:45.580 You could say it in your business and say, listen, we're going to grow and we're going
00:10:49.900 to be in five states within the next 24 months.
00:10:52.820 And you go and turn into six states.
00:10:55.460 People are now starting to trust your word.
00:10:57.620 You say, hey, we're going to go out there and bring on board the best talent and we're
00:11:01.580 going to do X, Y, Z.
00:11:02.800 The trust that you have, people that have trust in your word, goes higher.
00:11:05.940 So, then a visionary starts having a reputation.
00:11:09.980 The moment you have the reputation of what you say becomes a reality, now you've got to
00:11:14.780 go and cast more difficult visions.
00:11:17.600 Now you've got to go out there and put your name on the line for more challenging things
00:11:21.320 to do in life rather than the everyday ones because you've already done that and your family
00:11:25.680 already believes your word on what's going to be taking place, on the realities that's
00:11:30.500 going to take place when you cast any kind of a vision and you declare your intention.
00:11:34.020 So, the higher and higher and the more commitments you make, next thing you know, you're going
00:11:39.180 from, you know, being the everyday visionary in your family to next thing you know, you're
00:11:42.960 doing stuff that the world knows about.
00:11:45.040 You know, you're doing stuff that people are reading about.
00:11:46.960 But I believe, in my opinion, I believe everybody can strengthen their muscle of being a visionary.
00:11:57.180 And that's including you.
00:11:58.560 And it starts off with you declaring an intention to your family, declaring an intention to the
00:12:07.440 people you work with, declaring an intention to those you're in business with, and going
00:12:13.420 out there and taking that pressure that you have while everybody calls you crazy, everybody
00:12:19.580 calls you a liar, a phony, all these rumors that are going to be created about you, whether
00:12:25.880 this person has no clue what they're talking about, you know, la la la and all that stuff.
00:12:30.160 And then when the vision becomes a reality, when the vision becomes a reality, the faith
00:12:36.180 in your word goes to a whole different level, not from you to you, but from a lot of other people
00:12:41.120 to you, where the next time they're just hoping you don't declare any more intentions.
00:12:47.140 Because if you declare more intentions, they know something crazy may happen because you
00:12:51.260 fight so hard to keep your intentions, because it's important to you to keep the reputation
00:12:56.040 of a visionary.
00:12:57.040 So we started off with my buddy here, Walter Mercado, and Miss Cleo.
00:13:05.240 And we ended up coming back to you on what would happen if you wanted to be a visionary.
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