Keynote speech by John Assaraf introducing his study of what causes individual and business results. He frames the talk with a personal backstory (street-kid upbringing, early interest in personal development), poses the promise of dramatically increasing business revenues, and references research over the past decade into how people ‘manifest’ results (mentions The Secret and a ‘house story’ referenced by Vern).
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Turn this on. Good afternoon. I don't know whether to be thrilled to be at the end of the day when you're really tired and use your brains, or not thrilled. But I am. I'd like to ask a question first, if I may. And here's the question. If there was a way. Just the question. If there was a way for you to double or triple or quintuple your business revenues this year, would you be interested in knowing how? If your answer is yes, say aye. Aye. If you're skeptical, say aye. Good. Just where I want to start you off. My passion has been in really studying results of successful individuals and companies, mostly because I wasn't supposed to win at the game of business or life. And my first book was initially called the Street Kids Guide to having it all, because in my early teens, I spent a lot of time doing things I shouldn't be doing with people that I shouldn't be doing them with, getting into a lot of trouble. And then when I was in my early 20s, I got involved in the personal development or personal growth field. And what I was about to learn the first few years of my life fueled my life and business success to some degree. But there have been several coincidences, you may want to call them, or several occasions where I needed to understand more about how were we manifesting? How were we as individuals creating the results that we were in our life? And the house story that Vern talks about stems from me doing some research for the last 10 years, specifically around what is at cause of our results. How many of you have seen the movie the Secret or the.
