Matthew Hussey uses a Back to the Future DeLorean replica to argue that living extraordinarily requires embracing passion and irrationality, not just logic. He reflects on childhood wonder and invites viewers to his retreat program to design a life they love.
This video is for all of the crazy people, the irrationals, for anybody who doesn't want to just live an average life. Now you may remember that me and Jameson did a video not so long ago on the five questions to ask to know whether he's the one. And in this video you may remember this moment. Does the relationship only work if you time travel? Many of you commented at the time that that it seemed pretty crazy that we had the Back to the Future DeLorean in that video. Well, here is an almost word-for-word reenactment of the conversation that led to that DeLorean. Which brings us to question number five. Does the relationship only work if you time travel? Can we show time travel visually? Hot tub time machine? put you in a spa. Don't want to take my shirt off. Donnie Darko puts you in your bunny suit. No one's going to understand that reference. And you know that's at the cleaners. Well, we could just do it in a DeLorean. I'm only doing this if it's in a DeLorean. And so began our mission to track down a Back to the Future. DeLorean. And in our research, we found a man named Mike. When Mike arrived in the DeLorean for our shoot, Jamison and I melted. We were like two little kids looking at this car. What did you say? You've never felt so young and so old at the same time. Yeah, that's appropriate. Mike is a guy who had dedicated literally years of his life to transforming an original DeLorean into the time traveling machine from Back to the Future. The funny thing is, I got so excited about the level of care and attention on this car that I started talking to Mike about a whole different subject than the video he came for. Show us around it because it's like the level of detail to me is exquisite.
Like the wires, like this bundle of wires, of course, same color, and then the detail as far as where all of the little wire size zip ties would go.
Yeah. So they're literally in the same place.
Yeah, as much as possible. This is actually right here, the Mr. Fusion on the top of it. It's a coffee grinder from the 1980s. And where the black base here is actually a hard drive cover from a 1960s era computer.
What I love is, like, around here, this, like, all of the working lights. like you didn't take the easy road anywhere.
No.
You went for the working lights, like all of these buttons here. I love, like, things make noises. But there was one moment that really struck a chord with me when I was talking to Mike. It was a moment when he recalled being a child.
I mean, I was probably eight when I first saw the film, and I saw it at a drive-in theater, and I was so impressed with it, I was like, wow, It was so amazing. One day I'd love to have one of those cars. For me, it was the experience. Because you could buy something that looks the part, drives the part, but to be able to take it to the next step where you've got the lights and the sounds and all the little details that really just make it real for yourself or other people.
But when you drove up, the thing that made it magical to me and Jamerson was not just that it was a DeLorean, that the looking, we were digging in and looking at the lights and looking like the flux capacitor in the middle. See, the thing about being a child is that we think in irrational ways. We don't think about what's realistic. We simply operate from these core desires, core emotions that make us feel alive. And then we grow up. And as we grow up, we become more responsible, we become more pragmatic, we start thinking inside the lines more. And some of that is necessary. Some of that is part of what it is to be an adult and to be responsible. But sometimes we lose too much. Sometimes we lose that spark that we had as a child that made us feel connected to life. And I want to bring a bit more of that in, but I want to do it in responsible ways, right? I'm not talking about these kind of, I hate the self-help ideas of just quit your job and go do what you really love. Well, sometimes that's not practical. Sometimes that's not possible. But what we can do is start squeezing some irrational moments into our everyday lives. It wasn't a rational thing or a practical thing for Jameson and I to include a DeLorean in that video. That made it much more difficult. It created a lot more work, but it made us feel alive. It wasn't practical for Mike to take a DeLorean and spend years turning into the Back to the Future car, but that made him feel alive. And interestingly, his passion and all of the magic that went into that creates magic now for other people, because I've seen fully grown men walk past that car and melt because of the way it makes them feel. But in order to craft a life that you love more than the life you have today, you have to start being a little irrational. The people that go through my retreat program, they don't want to live a normal life. They don't want an average life. They want extraordinary. They want something more out of life. They want to be slightly unreasonable, slightly irrational. George Bernard Shaw said, Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. So you have two options right now. You can either be one of life's reasonable people or you can be someone who's slightly unreasonable, somebody who demands more from life. If you want to learn how to be responsibly irrational with me and actually design out a life you love together, try the retreat program. I've worked on it for years. I'm extremely proud of it and it's a tried and tested process for doing this. Otherwise, as always, I will see you.
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