Karamo asks a guest who survived an uncertain childhood how he thinks about the future. The guest admits he never imagined living past a certain age. Karamo argues that picturing yourself at 90 forces you to build toward something real today.
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But I also think that you're mature enough and strong enough to realize that you do want a better tomorrow. Would the young boy who had to take care of his mom, could he have imagined the life he has today with this beautiful woman and having a business? Mm. Couldn't have. Couldn't have. Why couldn't he have imagined that?
Honestly, I didn't think I was gonna live this long.
Exactly.
So yeah.
So I say that to say, because I already, I know this, when you have a childhood where you don't even know if you're gonna live that long, if you don't know what's going to happen, you have to actually actively wake up and say to yourself, I see myself at 90 years old. Have you ever said that to yourself? Like, I see myself at 90?
No.
Yeah, I can believe it. I wanna know, it's like a weird conversation because you're working towards it. You've gotta start to wake up to yourself and say, I see a future with you and I see me when I'm 90. I'm 90 years old.