-: Have you ever watched somebody present 2 2
and they made a mistake or they stumbled? 3 3
And right away, 4 4
you liked them way more because they seemed more human, 5 5
more personable, 6 6
there's more humility in their presentation. 7 7
If I'm saying that right. 8 8
And so, the reason I'm mentioning this 9 9
is because if you mess up big time when you're vlogging, 10 10
and if it's gonna make people laugh at you, then publish it. 11 11
You know, within reason. 12 12
Like, for me, I gotta show you this one here. 13 13
So I'll make room here for the upper third. 14 14
Okay. So, I went for a walk once and I had this DJI Osmo, 15 15
a gimbal I was using. 16 16
And I was testing it out and I wasn't looking down. 17 17
And I tripped and dude, it was the mother of all wipe outs. 18 18
And I clued at my vlog, 19 19
and this was I think about a year ago or so, 20 20
but I included it. 21 21
Don't cut that stuff out. 22 22
You know? 23 23
People like you for being you 24 24
as I explained earlier in the course 25 25
through the first couple of side-notes there. 26 26
So the bottom line is, just be you. 27 27
If you mess up, leave it in, 28 28
especially if people are gonna laugh at you 29 29
because there's no better feeling than knowing 30 30
that you've made somebodies day much better 31 31
by making them smile. 32 32
Makes you live longer too, and them. 33 33
("Walk This Way" by Aerosmith) 34 34
I find when I go on these long walks, 35 35
I think much more clearly because you're exercising, 36 36
you're releasing endorphins and serotonin in your brain. 37 37
You know, that high you get after you finish working out. 38 38
It's like that the whole time you go for a walk 39 39
and whenever you have great-- 40 40
(crashing thud) 41 41
(sighs) 42 42
Ah. 43 43
I just wiped out big time. 44 44
I don't know if we're still rolling, 45 45
but I'm gonna keep it rolling (laughing) 46 46
so you can laugh at me. 47 47
(laughing) And not with me. 48 48
Okay. Whoa. 49 49
All right, 50 50
let me make sure everything's still working here, good. 51 51
Luckily I didn't wipe out on the road man, 52 52
jeez Louise, I tell ya. 53 53
Oh, I almost did it again. 54 54
All right, note to self, 55 55
get cleats next time (laughing) you go for a walk. 56 56
All right, our life's too short not to laugh myself. 57 57
What was I saying again? 58 58
God, before I almost died. 59 59
Oh yeah, that's right. 60 60
So, you know that high you get after you go to the gym? 61 61
It's kind of like that. 62 62
That's a great feeling that you get when you go for a walk. 63 63
And, what I do, 64 64
is I stop every now and then when I'm going for a walk, 65 65
without wiping out, 66 66
but I stop (chuckling) every now and then, 67 67
and then what I do is, 68 68
I take some notes in my iPhone. 69 69
Just life-changing notes for me. 70 70
And my best decisions have come (laughing) 71 71
when I've gone for walks. 72 72
Another hot day. 73 73
Some of the notes I take actually, look at that back there, 74 74
isn't that gorgeous? 75 75
We're gonna walk down there. 76 76
I have to go down the road and around the block to get there 77 77
but I'm not gonna die on my way down, okay. 78 78
(laughing) 79 79
All right, keeping up with my record everything in one take, 80 80
ow I hurt my hand, ow. 81 81
No, I write down all notes I have. 82 82
And what I do is this, 83 83
and I'm gonna show it to you actually. 84 84
I'll do a little screen insert right here. 85 85
What I do is, when I come up with ideas, 86 86
I'll send myself an email when I'm walking. 87 87
And the subject line is really short 88 88
but it's always the same. 89 89
When I'm going for walks 90 90
and want to add something to my vlog, 91 91
I'll say "add vlog" in the subject line, like here. 92 92
And then within Gmail or whatever email system you use, 93 93
I'll basically do a search on that subject line. 94 94
And I have all those unstructured notes 95 95
that I can then use later. 96 96
And right now, one of the purposes for this walk, 97 97
aside from vlogging, and wiping out, 98 98
and making a fool of myself (laughing), 99 99
is to come up with ideas for my next course. 100 100
It's a course on business planning. 101 101
And so, every now and then during this walk, 102 102
I've been sending myself emails 103 103
with a subject line "Add bp", like this, business plan. 104 104
And that's how I make all my courses. 105 105
It's all unstructured logic 106 106
until I have all of the content ready. 107 107
I do a search in Google on my subject line here, 108 108
which is Add bp, business plan, 109 109
and then I'll kinda throw everything into Microsoft Word 110 110
and put headings on H1, H2. 111 111
Whatever, put a table of contents in, 112 112
and that's the crux 113 113
of how I create the stuff for my courses. 114 114
Anyway, I'm gonna keep walking, actually, 115 115
I think I left my water bottle over there when I wiped out. 116 116
So I promised you I'd explain what this hat is for, 117 117
what it's from. 118 118
I'll stand here before I bend down and pick it up, 119 119
it's actually from one on my heroes, 120 120
a wonderful man named Roberto Clemente 121 121
who died right before I was born, I think in 1972. 122 122
I'm dating myself yet again. 123 123
And what Roberto Clemente did, he's a beautiful soul, 124 124
he got 3000 hits in baseball, it's a huge milestone. 125 125
Huge milestone. 126 126
And then during the off-season, 127 127
he was on a flight to a wonderful charitable mission 128 128
somewhere I think in Central America. 129 129
And God bless him, that plane crashed. 130 130
I don't know why people don't make a movie about that guy. 131 131
He was amazing. 132 132
And so, when I go on walks, 133 133
I wear hats that kind of inspire me. 134 134
And this is my favorite hat, number 21, Roberto Clemente. 135 135
He really inspires me. 136 136
Okay, I'm gonna pick up my water, and my shake, 137 137
and a couple other items that fell (laughing) 138 138
out of my pocket here, when I almost died. 139 139
Which you almost saw live. 140 140
I mean, this is reality TV here. 141 141
Just, thank God it wasn't on the road. 142 142
Okay, so, I'm gonna keep walking 143 143
and I'll come back and visit you again soon 144 144
when I'm down there. 145 145
And then, 146 146
I'll show you the beautiful park there at the reservoir. 147 147
Thank you, see you soon. 148 148
("I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers) 149 149
Steve Jobs used to always used to go on very, 150 150
very long walks, 151 151
and he came up with a lot of his most brilliant ideas 152 152
on these long walks. 153 153
Now, he did them alone usually, 154 154
but sometimes he went on a walk with his best friend, 155 155
Larry Ellison, who's the founder of Oracle, 156 156
which is a big software company here in the Bay area. 157 157
But I really believe that if you take a walk 158 158
at least once a week by yourself, 159 159
you kinda think about where you are in life 160 160
and where you want to be. 161 161
Think of it like it's a rudimentary gap analysis. 162 162
Here's where you are now, here's where you want to be. 163 163
And if you just think about how do I fill that gap, 164 164
do it on a weekly basis. 165 165
I promise you, you'll be amazed with the outcome. 166 166
I think of it like, take that walk, change your life. 167 167
And I used to play golf by myself 168 168
every now and then as well, 169 169
and I call-up my best business ideas that way. 170 170
Let me just take you down from this tree there. 171 171
Thank ya. 172 172
So I would come up with a lot of my best ideas 173 173
by just going on a walk and by the way, 174 174
there's a couple of songs that I'm playing 175 175
in the background during this vlog. 176 176
And there's this new system in YouTube 177 177
in the top, right-hand corner 178 178
where you can ask people to answer a question. 179 179
So just for fun, 180 180
see if you can answer what songs I'm playing. 181 181
They all have the word walk in them. 182 182
You probably recognize at least one of them. 183 183
I gotta take a look at my leg here. 184 184
So first of all, this here, it's Lululemon. 185 185
Canadian brand represents. 186 186
No damage at all, let's see. 187 187
Oh I got some scratches, not too bad. 188 188
Not too bad. 189 189
And if it scars, 190 190
I don't care 191 191
because I always wanna look back and think to myself, 192 192
dropped something again, sorry (laughing). 193 193
I always want to look back and think to myself 194 194
"that was a pretty funny moment." 195 195
Anyway, I hope you got a good laugh 196 196
out of my wipe out there as well. 197 197
I'll check back with you in a couple minutes. 198 198
("Walk Of Life" by Dire Straits) 199 199
And I love to actually just sit by the water, 200 200
listen to the water, 201 201
it's very soothing and therapeutic as well. 202 202
And I come up with my best ideas that way. 203 203
And I take out my iPad and I kinda map out where I am now, 204 204
where I wanna be. 205 205
I've got that cool little iPad pencil. 206 206
Kinda helps me to kinda structure where I wanna be, 207 207
and a fun way too because I love using technology 208 208
and I'll show you what I mean. 209 209
Let me just cross the street here. 210 210
♪ Whoo who who ♪ 211 211
-: I take out this 212 212
and I'll show you what I'm drawing as well. 213 213
It's so relaxing just sitting here 214 214
and being inspired by the water. 215 215
It's a lot of fun, it's a lot of fun. 216 216
I really enjoy it. 217 217
So I'll show you what I do. 218 218
I've got an iPad pencil and it's just Bluetooth. 219 219
And it really helps me to kinda map out 220 220
where I am in my life and where I want to be going. 221 221
♪ And after all the violence and double talk ♪ 222 222
♪ There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife ♪ 223 223
♪ You do the walk ♪ 224 224
-: Actually, what I think I'll do 225 225
is I'm gonna bring you closer to me 226 226
so I can talk to you a little bit more closely. 227 227
People think I'm crazy, that's for sure. 228 228
♪ Whoo who ♪ 229 229
-: There we go, that's more comfortable now. 230 230
I use Microsoft OneNote, which is a free download. 231 231
And the cool thing about using Microsoft OneNote, 232 232
another hot day, 233 233
is that it's free and you can synchronize it 234 234
with Microsoft's version of Dropbox called OneDrive. 235 235
Which isn't that great, but it's free, whatever. 236 236
And whatever you write here into your tablet, 237 237
gets duplicated on your iPhone 238 238
and on your desktop computer as well, 239 239
whether it's Windows or a Mac. 240 240
Centrally stored. 241 241
And so, I love to just kinda map out 242 242
where I wanna be in life using Microsoft OneNote. 243 243
Now, I've used other things before like, 244 244
I've used PowerPoint, which is not that hard to use. 245 245
You can actually drag and drop circles and images, whatever, 246 246
and I don't use PowerPoint just for presenting, 247 247
I use it kind of for visually mapping 248 248
where I wanna go next in my life. 249 249
Or, some of my courses, I have Excel Dashboard. 250 250
I like to kinda map out what's it's gonna look like 251 251
right here within OneNote or within PowerPoint, 252 252
which is fun. 253 253
There's lots of other cool programs too, 254 254
and you can get lost in this as well. 255 255
It's so fun, kinda mapping out your goals visually 256 256
instead of just writing them down. 257 257
I enjoy the whole process, it's a lot of fun. 258 258
It's really, really relaxing. 259 259
(upbeat music) 260 260
When I used to work for other people, 261 261
which I hated (laughing), 262 262
I would always take off one or two days a year 263 263
when I wasn't physically sick but mentally, 264 264
I was kinda stressed out. 265 265
You could do a lot of harm to yourself in your career 266 266
if you're not in the right frame of mind. 267 267
You go to work, you know, 268 268
you might snap at someone verbally, whatever. 269 269
I'd take one or two days off. 270 270
I remember when I worked in New York at Goldman years ago, 271 271
everyone was cool where I worked, 272 272
but I was kinda burned out. 273 273
And I remember I used to take a day off every now and then, 274 274
go to Central Park, go to a movie by myself, 275 275
just kinda sit on a park bench like I am right now 276 276
and just kinda reassess where I am in my life and really, 277 277
where I wanna go. 278 278
And my best career and life decisions have come 279 279
when I've just kinda had the solitude of listening in nature 280 280
like this and going on a walk. 281 281
I recommend everybody do it. 282 282
And if you can do it once a week, 283 283
doesn't have to be an entire day of events, 284 284
but if you can do it once a week, 285 285
I really recommend doing it 286 286
and really assessing where you are in your life 287 287
and where you wanna be longer term. 288 288
And if you're not happy professionally 289 289
doing what it is you're doing, 290 290
then go on that walk, take that walk. 291 291
And kinda think about what would make you happiest in life 292 292
and make that happen. 293 293
And if I can be resourceful in any way 294 294
and helping make that become a reality, let me know. 295 295
I'm creating a business plan course right now. 296 296
And what I'm trying to do, 297 297
is I'm trying to visualize it and target it 298 298
so that people working for other people 299 299
can create this business plan, 300 300
fill in this business plan template I'm creating. 301 301
And then, decide whether or not to quit their job. 302 302
And I think if you work for somebody else, 303 303
which we all have to at one point in our lives, 304 304
I think that about 70% of your time should be spent thinking 305 305
about work at that company, and doing your job, 306 306
and making quota, whatever. 307 307
But the other 30% 308 308
should be you mapping out a company you wanna start. 309 309
And, you only have to be right in business one time. 310 310
Keep filling in templates, and dreaming, 311 311
and filling out goals. 312 312
Write them out and just make business plans over, 313 313
and over, and over again. 314 314
You gotta watch out because you will get what you want 315 315
if you keep doing that. 316 316
And again, you only have to be right in business one time. 317 317
Just keep making business plans over, and over, 318 318
and over again until you have something tangible 319 319
you think that you can use to become ultimately free. 320 320
Free to be you, free to be able to live life on your terms. 321 321
Freedom from politics, freedom from bureaucracy, 322 322
freedom from people that you work for feeling threatened. 323 323
People might think they hired their assassin 324 324
because you're so good at what you do. 325 325
And you're so sick and tired of dumbing it down 326 326
and not trying to create the best possible work 327 327
in certain situations 328 328
because you might come across as a threat. 329 329
And I know it might sound elusive to a lot of you, 330 330
it will happen to you if it hasn't yet 331 331
in your career working for somebody else. 332 332
If it's a big organization, you do a great job, 333 333
and somebody feels threatened by you. 334 334
It's not a meritocracy, you don't eat what you kill. 335 335
That's not the way the world works. 336 336
There's politics involved until you start your own company. 337 337
And again, you only have to be right in business one time. 338 338
And there's a bunch of other people here, 339 339
I think they wanna sit here and I feel bad, 340 340
hogging this bench. 341 341
So I'm gonna get up now 342 342
and I'll come back to you in a couple minutes. 343 343
Thanks. 344 344
Do you want me to take that picture for you? 345 345
(bright music) 346 346
Sherry: Can we ask what you're doing? 347 347
Chris: Yeah, I'm just doing a video shoot, 348 348
so I've got a vlog. 349 349
Do you wanna be in it? 350 350
-: Sure. 351 351
-: All right, great. 352 352
Let me pick this up, hold on a second, sorry. 353 353
All right, let me grab this, make sure that the mic is on. 354 354
Sherry: Was that shooting while it was rotating? 355 355
-: Yeah, that's okay though. 356 356
It's all right. 357 357
All right, so I'm Chris. 358 358
What's your name? 359 359
-: Meg. 360 360
-: Meg, pleasure. -: Nice to meet you. 361 361
-: How are you you? -: Sherry. 362 362
-: Sherry, nice to meet you as well. 363 363
Let me see if I can get you guys in the shot here. 364 364
This thing I'm holding here, 365 365
it's called a gimbal. 366 366
And basically, it allows me to kinda swing around the camera 367 367
and it stays stable when I'm walking. 368 368
-: Yeah. -: Right? 369 369
I have a vlog I do every day. 370 370
It's for business and just personal development stuff. 371 371
I'm a little bit of a nerd, I've got this new toy. 372 372
I'm playing around with it a bit. 373 373
I wiped out earlier using it. 374 374
(women exclaim) 375 375
Yeah, I was okay though. 376 376
It was right by the road. 377 377
I'm just grateful that it wasn't on the road itself. 378 378
-: Could be worse. 379 379
-: Yeah. 380 380
-: Okay. 381 381
-: So I'm just having fun. 382 382
-: Yeah, I saw you talking to it up the road-- 383 383
-: When we first came in. 384 384
-: Yeah, and I attached it to a tree as well 385 385
and I walked up to it. 386 386
I had a separate microphone. 387 387
I wanna help my students as much as I can. 388 388
Oh, so I teach online. 389 389
-: How wonderful. 390 390
-: It's just fun, I just love it. 391 391
-: What do you teach? 392 392
-: So, I teach business and personal development. 393 393
-: Great. 394 394
-: Yeah, it's fun. 395 395
Mark Twain had this great quote, he said 396 396
"the two most important days in your life are, number one, 397 397
"the day you're born. And the number two, 398 398
"the day you find out why." 399 399
(laughing) 400 400
And for me, it's to teach. 401 401
I just wanna teach. 402 402
I wish I did it years ago. 403 403
-: Well good for you. 404 404
-: (chuckling) Something I enjoy doing. 405 405
-: Oh, it's great, you seem exuberant. 406 406
It's wonderful. -: Oh thank you, thank you. 407 407
-: That's great. 408 408
-: I worked for other people for years, I hated it, 409 409
I was frustrated. 410 410
But I'm glad I was frustrated 'cause it kinda pushed me to 411 411
go in this direction. -: It's very motivating. 412 412
-: Great. 413 413
-: Yeah, to do something I enjoy. 414 414
Otherwise, what's the point? 415 415
Get out of bed every day 416 416
and you work with people that aren't fair to you. 417 417
But I look back in hindsight 418 418
and everything that happened to me, 419 419
I'm grateful it happened even though I got fired once. 420 420
I remember the time thinking 421 421
"God, why is this happening to me? It's not fair." 422 422
But, I'm happy it happened. 423 423
-: It was your path. 424 424
-: Exactly, weld you own path. 425 425
-: Failing is good for all of us. 426 426
-: Exactly. 427 427
-: That's right. -: Exactly. 428 428
Gets you closer to your next success or-- 429 429
-: Exactly. 430 430
And you think you're out a lot. 431 431
-: Yeah. -: Yeah, definitely. 432 432
-: Well, that's great. 433 433
Can we look at your vlog or blog? 434 434
-: Yeah, absolutely. 435 435
Just go to YouTube. 436 436
If you need to write it down. 437 437
But if you go to YouTube and you just do a search. 438 438
Just search my name Chris, that's C-H-R-I-S. 439 439
Last name is H-A-R-O-U-N. 440 440
It's a daily vlog, you'll see. 441 441
-: Okay. 442 442
-: Say the last name again. -: Oh sorry. 443 443
H-A-R-O-U-N. 444 444
-: Gotcha. 445 445
-: And you'll get a kick out of it because today, 446 446
the first thing I did was I wiped out. 447 447
And I'm not gonna edit that out, I would include it. 448 448
-: Great. 449 449
-: You'll get a good kick out of it, 450 450
you can laugh at me, not with me. 451 451
If that brought a smile to your face then I've done my deed 452 452
for the day (laughing). -: No. 453 453
For me, it would just be like ow. 454 454
I'm a physician and-- -: oh you are, okay, right. 455 455
-: These things are really gritty. 456 456
So, make sure, as painful as it is, 457 457
that you scrub the heck out of with water. 458 458
-: Yes, I will. 459 459
Absolutely. 460 460
-: It can turn into trouble. 461 461
-: It can turn into big trouble. 462 462
So, just a do a really good scrub, 463 463
and even as it gets sore and tight, 464 464
just get in there and keep scrubbing it. 465 465
-: Keep it clean, yeah. 466 466
-: It'll scab up and then again (scrubs skin). 467 467
-: It's a badge of honor. 468 468
Every time I'll look at it, I'll laugh. 469 469
If it's a scar, I'll be like 470 470
"oh I remember that, remember that was funny." 471 471
(chuckling) 472 472
-: That's great. 473 473
-: Positive attitude I guess, but whatever. 474 474
-: This is pretty inspiring, so enjoy. 475 475
-: Isn't this great? 476 476
Oh it's beautiful. 477 477
-: And thanks for taking the time-- 478 478
-: Of course, yeah, it's fun. -: Yeah to explain to us-- 479 479
-: I'm trying to figure it out. 480 480
I'm trying to do this panoramic thing where it turns. 481 481
And it records as it turns slowly. 482 482
So you see that in movies, right? 483 483
Where it seems like high speed 484 484
but they're hording really slowly 485 485
as the camera's moving slowly. 486 486
And these things are cheap enough now 487 487
that anybody can do it. -: Wow. 488 488
-: I know. 489 489
-: I'm trying to set it up so that it pans from there 490 490
all the way over here to me where I'm sitting. 491 491
Even if I'm not in it, I don't care. 492 492
And then back. 493 493
You'll be able to see a bunch of birds and the trees moving 494 494
maybe a bit, 495 495
it's not that windy today which is great for recording. 496 496
That's why I have this fuzzy thing up here. 497 497
My kids call it a pet. 498 498
(laughing) 499 499
-: Well, that's great. 500 500
-: For the wind. 501 501
-: Yeah, exactly. 502 502
-: Good. 503 503
-: I'm trying to figure it out. 504 504
It's fun though. 505 505
I don't have a job, I have a passion. 506 506
Love what I'm doing, I'm a nerd. 507 507
I'm trying to figure this out, it's just fun. 508 508
-: All right. -: Which is great. 509 509
-: It's fun, yeah. 510 510
-: Enjoy, well good luck. 511 511
-: And thanks again, appreciate it. 512 512
-: Thank you, thank you. 513 513
-: I'm a landscape photography person, 514 514
but this is really fun to see what you're doing. 515 515
-: And if I see you down here again soon, 516 516
I've ordered a new drone. 517 517
It comes out soon. 518 518
I don't think we can drone anywhere down here 519 519
but I have it in my backpack, 520 520
or I will have it in my backpack. 521 521
I'll show you everything about it. 522 522
It's a lot of fun. 523 523
-: All right, have a great day, nice to meet you Chris. 524 524
-: Nice to meet you too, take care. 525 525
-: Wish you the best. 526 526
-: Okay, thank you, appreciate it. 527 527
(bright chiming music) 528 528
So, let's say that you might wanna get an MBA, 529 529
you're not sure. 530 530
You currently work in tech, 531 531
and you wanna work on Wall Street, 532 532
and you're not sure 533 533
if you should go to business school or not. 534 534
I'm gonna show you how I map out these goals 535 535
and these conundrums in my life. 536 536
And I'll just record what's on the screen here. 537 537
And I'll try this a little bit so you can watch me. 538 538
And then again, 539 539
I'll just do an insert to have this picture and picture 540 540
in the top corner there for you. 541 541
So, what I'm gonna do is, first of all, go to record screen. 542 542
3, 2, 1. 543 543
Good, it's recording, nice. 544 544
All right, great. 545 545
And move a little bit closer so you can hear me. 546 546
Let me just move this up.