Vinh Giang - Beliefs

brilliant this last point I'd love to share with you I need seven people as I stand up here I'm watching you as much as you're watching me so I've already picked the seven people that I'd like when I point to you please stand you don't need to come on stage just stay where you are but stay standing so the first person the lovely white over here number one thank you very much number one number two the gentleman just there thank you on the corner yes thank you number two number three the lady in the blue

yes thank you number three number four the lady just there on the and just before the gentleman there thank you yes thank you in the black and white as a beautiful dress number four then number five the gentleman just there thank you six in the blue thank you and seven where are you oh where are you uh sorry oh the gentleman just there with the blue shirt arms cross than you good please give the seven people a big round of applause thank you the seven of you now have an extremely important task you need to

think of a number between 1 and 45 the most common number to be picked between 1 and 45 is 37 so please do avoid that otherwise it's quite boring but you can pick it if you really want to so uh if you could first number nice and loud so everybody can hear what number would you like 44 40 44 in Chinese that means die die um well thank you I appreciate that no that's fine thank 44 we'll stick with that it's good uh and there please 20 perfect thank you very much for that you're coming

up with these numbers obviously on your own please come up with them on the spot if you feel the need to change it before you tell me please do it what would you like eight thank you very lucky number thank you appreciate that eight good your choice as well no one forcing you gentleman there 27 27 would you like to change your mind oh of course not okay thank you but when we don't change our mind in society some people can look at us and go oh that guy's quite St um so so you stick

you stick oh we stick okay that's fine that's fine um just look look don't don't yeah don't worry just understand we're fully judging you at this point um what would you like 2 20 he went for 27 you went for 26 some people might look at that and go oh she's being a bit of a follower um so you can stick with that or you can do something that nobody's done which is truly Innovative and change your mind 11 11 thank you very much for that good 11 good thank you good thank you perfect and

what would you like there sir 14 40 14 14 good choice thank you 14 and lucky last number five number five stick good thank you please give a big round of applause it'll make sense in about 10 minutes have a seat the last thing I want to share with you is something I I keep very close to my heart um I need somebody in the room who who's very good with long words so please there must be one person who's very good with long words please do raise your hands if you're very good with long

words please absolutely honest I need somebody to help me or please feel free to point to somebody who's very good with long words uh so do you mind giving me a hand with this please give him a big round of applause as he joins me on stage thank you so much for this thank you thank you so much thank you Nick lovely to meet you oh care I've got you okay I'm a ninja parttime so so Nick I have got three books three classic books Stephen King The Shining obviously great book D Vinci C Dan

Brown and another classic Harry Potter yes classic of all classics so I would like you to make a choice which book would you like to use Nick up to you Harry Potter good choice thank you very cultured man so you see what I need you to do now Nick um is something very specific so listen to my instructions very carefully in a moment Nick I'm going to ask you to open that book not yet but in a moment to a completely random page please don't go to your favorite chapter obviously just go to a random

Page open the immediately just random random is very key so do that now Nick random page and lift the book up towards yourself make sure no one can see good so Nick you see two pages there I need you to look for a nice long interesting word please don't go for and then he or she um or the names of the characters I do know them off by heart so just don't see the don't go for the first long word you see change your mind as many times as you like and look at at the

many long words there and just stick with one don't say it out loud just keep it in your head and once you have one and you stick with it close the book and please say the word to yourself a few times just in your head and put the book down and please say the word to yourself continually in your head as I talked to the audience in 1907 a magician performed this in the UK and he made the world believe that psychic powers were real see I'm a magician I'm the biggest skeptic you probably ever

meet I don't believe that but I I wanted to perform what he performed how could he make the world believe that I thought it was crazy so this is what he did Nick if you could join me here just stand just here Nick if you don't mind and Nick you have the word in your head just the word I want you to think of the first letter Nick just the first letter don't say just think of it I want you to pretend you do have psychic powers and yeah thank you so just pretend you do

just let just imagine and I want you to hold one hand up like this and in a moment I'm going to get you to send the first letter to everybody here in the audience so just kind of look at everyone and just set Maybe use both hands it's better for reception obviously um and just just begin over there ni if you don't mind and just kind of scan through the audience members just guess a letter as we look at this just guess the letter all the way through Nick all the way to this side as

well all the way to this side all the way yes good thank you perfect now please just guess a letter just guess one in your head in a moment when nick names that letter just the first letter nice and Loud if you got it right please do stand so we can count you in a room with 2,000 people statistically speaking at least 50 of you should get this correct at least so hold the mic so in a very loud voice first letter what was it t t who thought of t stand T 1 2 3

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 2 3 4 5 16 789 1 right slightly below average room okay that's fine uh that's fine we'll try this with me then Nick we'll try this with me so face me turn Face me I good stay right there please think of the second letter and again I know this is going to sound weird let's just go with it look into my palm and lock your gaze here good Nick I want you to pretend you can see the

second letter in my palm very oh make sure it's in lower caps not upper caps sorry oh okay oh there's a difference thank you for that oh okay don't give too much away so you can see the second letter there as I walk closer to you you can see it getting bigger and Bolder and clearer you see oh thank you it's um oh it's open it's an N no no soor no no it's an H thank you for that you you don't don't tell me don't tell me pck the face now the next part not

allowed to use your fingers you have to think to yourself how many syllables are in this word and just say yes when you know don't don't use your fingers just say yes out loud yes good takes one second per syllable took you 4 seconds or so um I'd say it's either 3 four or five syllables if you had to name a number three four or five not necessarily number of syllables just name a number 3 four five name one three three good you just gave me the number of syllables thank you for that there's three

syllables thank you thank you your wife can read you like a book this is great um so Nick think about this this um you're very honest man so thank you Nick the last thing I'm going to ask you to do is can you balance with your eyes closed okay good so I'll hold your shoulder so in a moment um no you don't have to lift the leg uh that makes it much harder you keep your leg down I I'm going to squeeze your shoulder in a moment and when I do I need you to say

the word in your head without moving your lips over and over and over again just in your head starting now just do that Nas you do that yep keep going every every single syllable nice and clear keep going and as you're doing this you can listen to me now and just keep doing it and I want you keep going in your head just to say the word loud just in your head louder and louder to the point where keep going louder to the point where you're saying every syllable feels like you're scream screaming it at

me thank you good thank you very much um was that weird yes thank you just close your eyes just for a second as I show the audience has to be this umone can see this obviously uh has to be this if I get this wrong it's it's obviously Nick's fault so so here's the thing Nick into the mic into in a very loud voice you could have chosen any word you wanted open your eyes any long words you wanted wasn't the first one you went for was it no it wasn't good brilliant so could you

loud into the mic what was the word yes nice and loud thunder struck thunder struck of course it was big round of applause it was thank you so much Nick you're amazing thank you so much I do appreciate that brilliant good thank you big round of applause big round of applause thank you thank you so much Nick pleasure in 2012 I wanted to perform this more than anything in my life and I remember taking a newspaper Ash uh a newspaper not Ash a newspaper extract there were four sentences took all my magic buddies and I

said guys this is the best thing ever we have to do this we have to and they looked at me and they said Vin average book has 100,000 words man that's that's impossible dude you're an idiot obviously removed them from my top five um we we have this we have this sick need to be right me and my friends so I saw as that as a perfect opportunity to drill him about intelligence so I said you're wrong obviously impossible implies zero out of 100,000 one out of 100,000 technically speaking means highly improbable you're the idiot

and we're still friends but I never like any of his posts I don't care how cool what he's doing is I never like it um from that conversation I learned one of the most valuable lessons in my life all those magicians my magic buddies who believed that this could not be done they never tried they never tried why try something if you believe it's impossible Why Try I was foolish enough to believe that it could be done I hope I stay foolish forever for the rest of my life because I was foolish I found a

way because I was on the journey I found away my friends as a treat I'd love to share with you how this is done and the reason I'm sharing this with you is because I know there will too come a time where you will embark on a journey that appears impossible but when you do embark on that journey and it appears impossible possible please think of me and this very moment because people always ask magicians how do you create the impossible how sometimes Innovation can feel like it's impossible how do you approach that you see

I'll share with you this is how you do it the first step to creating something truly Impossible Is You Must Believe with your heart and soul that it can be done you have to have absolute conviction no doubt at all not even announce and when you really believe that it can be done and you really believe this with intensity you take the first step why because our beliefs dictate our actions in life so you take the first step you believe it can be done only when you take the first step you can see the Second

Step you cannot see the Second Step from Step Zero have to be on the journey have to be on step one and then you see the Second Step you can see it now did you hear what I said right at the beginning right at the beginning what did I say I said open the book to a random page random random random what does random mean has a double meaning means somewhere in the middle not in the first 25% not in the last 25% but somewhere in the middle double meaning people don't think this this action

of going it's in the middle take the Second Step it's not one out of 100,000 it's one out of 50,000 it's much easier of course and you get stuck on this step I kid you not you get stuck on this step for a year and it very quickly turns into a year and a half and then two years and you think to yourself why are you so crazy to stay on this journey why are you so crazy it's because I believe in it and when you believe in something think about this for a second when

you believe in someone and when you believe in something do you ever give in no you don't no matter how tough the journey gets you continue the journey you don't give in and then you collaborate with somebody who isn't in your industry who is a linguist who has a different perspective and influences you in a different way and they show you something that's been in front of you the entire time the second thing I said was pick a long word not a short word it's right there the entire time what does that mean a long

word is a word that has more than six letters anything with less than six letters next to long words looks visually short so out of the 50% that's left what if I removed every single word in here that has less than six letters I've removed 90% of the 50% that was there it is not one out of 50,000 it is one out of 5,000 the next two steps will blow your mind but I'm not going to share them so yeah sorry that how this trick is done is not important it is not the most important

thing is that first step is that very first step far too often you see my friends in our lives we look at a challenge that is before us before we even inspect that challenge we label it as being impossible before we even try and take that first step we label it as being cannot be done too hard can't can't do it as a magician I understand a thing or two about Illusions and I can tell you now with absolute certainty that the biggest illusion you'll ever experience in your life is not a a piece of

magic that I perform for you the biggest illusion you experienc in your life isn't even from David Copperfield and is amazing it isn't the biggest illusion you ever experience is when you tell yourself something cannot be done it is not real you create that I know what you're thinking uh how does he have the audacity to stand up here and and and tell me that anything is possible in life he's 29 I I'll I'll prove it I promise I'll prove this to you it was with an exercise that a mentor did with me that changed

my mind about this do you mind all standing I like to show you something please do stand please do stand thank you and as you stand please do face a partner for me face a partner have a good look at a partner you can go in groups of Threes if you like face a partner good thank you and group groups of Threes if you need to groups of Threes if you need to and as you face your partners have a good look at them and then turn your back so you can no longer see them

turn your back so you can no longer see them see how good your memory is now here's the thing this is your challenge for you my friends with your backs turned I I want you to to change 33 things about the way you look go for it now no no I'm just kidding I'm just kidding I'm just kidding I'm just kidding um I want you to change one thing about how you look just change one thing please change one thing don't let them hear it don't let them notice it please do it as discreetly as

you can just uh yes good discreetly as you can and 3 2 one face your partner see do you notice it do you notice the change see if you can see it good [Applause] good I'm not going to give you too long turn your backs turn your backs turn your backs I'm not going to give you too much time turn your backs now listen with your backs turned turn your backs again turn your backs again with uh with your backs turned with your backs turned your next challenge if your partner didn't notice what you changed

I want you to be a little bit more dramatic this time but please please don't don't please don't keep clothes on um I I I want you to change one more thing but please be a little bit more more dramatic I want them to notice this just one more thing perfect good and 5 4 3 2 1 facial Partners very good very creative oh I love that that's that's hilarious I'm good have a seat everyone have a seat be seated have a seat have a seat have a seat than [Applause] have a seat have a

seat everyone thank you so much for that have a seat have a seat [Applause] brilliant you see here's here's the thing here's the thing my My Mentor in Australia when he showed me this Matthew when Matthew showed me this he said Vin right I've just proved you anything can be achieved I was like what what he what this man's crazy and he said to me well let me explain and I'll explain to you as he explained to me he said to me vin right at the start when I asked you and all your team to

change 33 things about the way you look or your appearance how are you feeling and I said well Matthew I felt like it was highly improbable yeah not impossible highly improbable he said me no Vin you're wrong I mean think about how you felt just now I mean I see people give in I see people give up the moment I said change the three people think no it cannot be done and people laugh and then they kind of do this no universal sign for giving up I think and you just thought it couldn't be done

there was a mental block you didn't take the first step you just didn't you made an assumption you assumed it was imp impossible or highly improbable then he said to me vin when I asked you to change one thing about your appearance how did you feel I said oh was you know was easy and I think all of you just didn't even think there was no mental block you just took the first step you changed one thing you even had fun and you see then I asked you to change one more thing how did you

feel yeah I can do this you don't think we just do you see if I if I had the time and I wanted to bore you all to death I I could have stood up here and said change one more thing change one more thing change one more thing times 33 every single one of you in this room whether you initially believed it could be done or not you would have changed 33 things about your appearance my friends challenges moving forward will always appear impossible but it's not real as long as you take things one

step at a time you never fall victim to ayum and mentality you always ensure you protect your environment the top five you're bringing the best and only the highest quality of people and you ensure that you have strong beliefs that you believe that it can be done and where do our beliefs come from this is where it becomes full circle now our beliefs come from the top five people we spend time with that's where they come from if you've got self-limiting beliefs change the people you spend time with and your beliefs change with them see

I'll I'll leave you one last thing to do or to say that anything is possible one must therefore do the most impossible thing something in this box here actually there was a lady who joined me on stage before and she thought of an animal I'm not sure where she is there's something in here I'd like to show you I think you'll find this rather intriguing um might be dead but I'm not sure could we could it could she join me back on stage where is she could she join me back on stage please where could

do you mind coming back on stage please give her a big round of applause as joins us big round of applause please please keep it going for her as she comes up i' like to show you what's inside I have a uh have oh it's oh it's slimy oh no I'm sorry it's actually oh oh no I'm kidding just building suspense with that but you see I always keep a jar with a scroll of paper inside and I keep it on the side at all times if you could just take that out for me thank

you very much to for that don't open it just yet and as I leave it in the glass jar I always have a scroll as I said and I always write on this scroll how I think this keynote is going to go so if you could just stand over here for me if you don't mind thank you thank you so much for that Ru and just here hold that in for me the first thing I always write down is who's going to think of the the number seven and the number three and thank you very

much and I thought to myself well what would that person look like so I wrote down a few things about you uh first thing I wrote was uh medium blonde brown sorry hair but it has streaks of of blonde so not exactly right not very impressive you seem very unimpressed so I read a few other things as well I read that you would have black shoes again statistically correct most people wear black shoes the conferences but also one more little thing Red Top now the next thing was I asked you to think of any animal

you wanted and what animal did you think of wh whale and everyone laughed at me so I uh I drew it just to make sure so clearly yeah no thank you clearly a whale could you confirm for everyone that's clearly what thank you Australian whales look different so that's clearly a whale I knew you would laugh again so I had to just be sure my drawing skills didn't let me down I wrote I'm a whale thank you thank you very much indeed thank you thank you hang on to this there's a bit more thank you

brilliant hang on to this thank you thank you you see now here's the thing the the most impossible thing is not is not to innovate the most impossible thing is not you achieving all the dreams you desire it is not it's highly probable for you to do these things you just have to be a to Bear failure at least 50 to 100 times it's been done if you're willing to do this you will find a way to do things differently the most impossible thing statistically speaking that I can find on this Earth is winning the

lottery in Australia seven numbers you have to get to win the jackpot that is 1 out of 45,3 60,1 147 those seven numbers there are today's lottery if you don't mind reading the lowest numerical number there uh I've also written down seven numbers five five ladies and gentlemen here's the first one five it's only one don't panic thank you next one please if you don't mind Ru thank you eight eight I gave you a chance to change your mind I asked you change your mind go for it do it and only one of you did

but it wasn't eight you stuck and eight 11 11 and you thank thank you so much for that that was the perfect one you changed too so thank you next one 14 14 just building the suspense again so it's important 14 thank you 22 22 again I told you the follower don't change but you didn't change your mind thank goodness you didn't next 27 27 my friends now you've won $38.50 it's rather exciting at this point yes next one 44 where's the person who thought of 44 please stand where are you thank you very much

indeed for this like a crescendo at the end of an orchestra could you name the number in the loudest voice you possibly can the last number one out of 45 million is sorry it's a it's Australian accent it's horrible so like a crescendo I'm going to get you to name your number that you chose in a very loud voice so we can make this very dramatic so the the last number for 1 out of 45 million is 44 44 let's of course 44 big round of applause of oh sorry please stay standing uh wait wait

wait sorry sorry no uh I get this were you thinking of the number 43 before 44 no not even to save the show thank you for that it's very kind um no but I'm so glad I'm so glad you stuck with that decision cuz if you didn't this next part probably wouldn't really make sense would it cuz if you add the one of course it equals 44 big round of applause thank you so much for that Ruth thank you you're amazing thank you so much indeed for that brilliant good thank you I'll leave you with

one last quote from Steve Jobs my friends please remember perspective influence and beliefs and I'll leave you with a quote from Steve Jobs everyone's aware of Steve Jobs obviously best company in the world um I give them money every 6 months and they give them an iPad in return it's fantastic lovely you see Steve had this this beautiful metaphor or this beautiful quote that you always say has inspired me for more than 15 years of my life and he would always say this those people in the world who are crazy enough to believe that they

can change the world they are the people who actually do those of you in this room who are crazy enough to believe that you can change the World and Achieve all the dreams you desire you are crazy enough to believe this then you are the people who will good luck my friends thank you thank you very much thank you ladies and gentlemen don't forget to complete your session of value