For Those Who Fear Death & Aging
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For those of you who fear death, and maybe you think you re getting older, you're having a midlife crisis? This video is for you. As a kid, John D. Rockefeller had two dreams. One was for him to live up to 100 years old. This is in 1839, when the average life expectancy for a male was 39.5 years.
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So for those of you who fear death, and maybe you think you're getting older, you're having
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Did you know John D. Rockefeller, who was born in 1839 as a kid, he had two dreams.
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One of them was for him to live up to 100 years old.
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This is in 1839, he wanted to live to up to 100 years old.
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He didn't make $100,000, he didn't make a million dollars, he didn't make a billion
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He made in today's money $340,000,000, nearly as much as Bezos and Musk combined.
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But let's talk about a second dream, which was to live to 100 years old.
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In 1839, the average life expectancy for a male was 39 and a half years old.
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What do you mean you're going to live up to 100 years old?
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That's nearly three times more than the average man in America.
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So John D. Rockefeller didn't live 39 and a half, not 50, not 60, not 70, not 80, not 90.
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He lived 97 and 11 months, one month shy of turning 98 years old during the time where
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the average life expectancy was 39 and a half years old.
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By the way, Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie, I think was born in 1835.
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He ended up living to 83 years old during the time where the average life expectancy was
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I'm doing a webinar this last week with seven CEOs that run big businesses.
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One of the guys who is doing around $20 million a year said, Pat, I'm about to turn 40 this
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year and I'm having a little bit of a midlife crisis challenge and I'm concerned, man.
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I said, I'm not 42 years old and you're not 40 years old.
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I said, do you realize what the life expectancy today is?
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And when I did the math, here's what I came up with.
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So Rockefeller died at 97.9 years old at a time where the average life expectancy was
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39 and a half years old, which means he lived two and a half times, roughly 2.48, but let's
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you say two and a half times the average life expectancy of a person in 1839, right?
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If we take today's average life expectancy, which is 76.4 years old, and we multiplied times
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two and a half, which is what he did, Rockefeller would have lived today to 190 years old.
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If I do the same thing with Carnegie, he died at 83 at a time where the average life expectancy
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He lived 2.1 times the average life expectancy.
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He would have lived roughly, you know, 154 years old, if you do the math, give or take
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So if I take my age, which is 42, and I divide it by today's average life expectancy, which
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In 1839, a 42-year-old male, me, would have been 22 years old, which means realistically
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Some of you are like, oh my gosh, I'm 35, I'm turning 40, I'm turning 50, I'm having a
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Listen, you are a baby in today's times if we compare it to an 1839.
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Medicine, lifestyle, you know, taking care of ourselves.
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He says, in the next 20 years, everyone's going to be healthy.
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He says, because everyone's going to wear smart clothes.
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He says, smart clothes you wear, it's going to beep when your blood pressure goes too high.
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It's going to tell you to sit down and relax and do 20 burpees or do 20 push-ups.
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A smart clothes is going to tell you, hey, you need to put some water in your body.
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Can you imagine like we're all going to be smart?
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Like seeing somebody with a six pack 20 years from now is not going to be a big deal because
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You can't turn on social media without hearing about magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin
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Every day we're being health, health, health, health, health.
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So to those of you that fear death and for those of you that think you're getting older,
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Then go take that formula and multiply it times 39 and a half.
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When you do it times 39 and a half or for women 43 and a half because of 1839, that was the
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That's really how old you would have been in 1839.
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And odds are you're probably a baby in your 20s.
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You know what we do learn about Carnegie and Rockefeller?
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The average life expectancy, highest country with the highest life expectancy, is a small
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Smaller than Central Park, the average life expectancy is 89.4 years old.
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The average net worth of a citizen in Monaco is 2.1 years old.
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The more money you make, the better doctors you get.
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So maybe you ought to figure out a formula to go take care of your finances, take care
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of your health, take care of your body, and know that you ain't as old as you think you
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You just have the advantage of going and winning early today so you can live the rest of your
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life doing whatever you want to do by your choice, not by force.
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So having said this, I'm going to take you back.
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I'm going to take you way back, maybe seven, eight years ago when I did a video.
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But I talk about how we can stay young forever, okay?
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If you've never seen it, it's only got like 3,900 views.
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Click here to watch it because it validates, again, my point of what I'm telling you today.
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And if you know anybody that fears death and they're thinking they're getting older, go
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Having said that, have a great week, everybody.