doing it. Otherwise, you go, this is really good. Later on, you go, yeah, I probably should do this. I probably should. That won't change you, right? Let me show you, let me just show you three minutes, because during COVID, which is when I started this, people were stuck at home. And that stuck at home created a real problem. It's still going on today. People's energy levels have been lowered so much across the world, and their engagement levels are so different in their work and what they do in their life, because we spent three years sitting in front of screens or doing nothing in a little room, and we don't even realize it. We're like fish in water. So during that time, Stanford came to me, and they had a couple of professors that had gone through my Date with Destiny seminar, and they were both clinically depressed, and they had no more depression, got rid of the drugs. They said, this is unbelievable. Do you have data on this? And I said, no, but I've got millions of graduates. But if you wanted to study, let's do it. Let me just show you real quick what happened, because this will help you understand that what you're doing is based on science, and it'll show you the results. It'll blow your mind. Take a look. This process we're going to do together over these couple of days, it is designed scientifically. I know it works because I've been doing this for decade after decade after decade. During COVID, more people got stuck in depression and anxiety. And I got a phone call from Stanford University, who had done research on our Unleash the Power Within events. They came to me and said, look, we have two of our professors who are clinically depressed, who went through your Date with Destiny seminar. And they said, their lives are completely changed. They threw away all the drugs. They don't have any symptoms of depression. Do you have any data on this? And I said, well, yeah, I've got millions of graduates. I give you the testimonials through the follow-ups. They said, no, but like scientific data. I said, well, what do you want to study? And they said, depression, because it's out of control. And I said, great, let's do it. The meta studies show that when people are depressed and they go for treatment, whether it's drugs or therapy or both, on average, 60% of people make zero improvement. 40% improve, but on average, they only improve 50%. Now, some people get well, but most don't. Most people take these drugs for another 10 years. I said, if those are your statistics, we'll blow that number out, I'm certain. I said, but what's the best result you've ever gotten in the history of psychiatry? It was at Johns Hopkins University. They did a study where they took people who are clinically depressed. And for months, they gave them psilocybin, which is magic mushrooms, and did cognitive therapy on them. Six weeks after, 54% of the people that did psilocybin and cognitive therapy simultaneously had no symptoms of depression. It's the greatest result they've ever seen in the history of psychiatry. I said, our goal is to beat that. Here's what's cool. They did the study, and here's the result. After six weeks, after just five days, five and a half days, no drugs, no cognitive therapy, remarkably, 93% of the people had no clinical depression whatsoever, and the remaining 7% had significant improvement. Even better, 17% of people went in there with suicidal ideation, thinking about suicide. Every single one was no longer in that state afterward. And even better, one year later, they followed up, and they found a reduction in negative emotions by over 70%, an increase in positive emotions of 50% a year later. There's a method to our madness here. They set a group out for 36 months, that's a performance group partnership with Stanford. And they followed me at all my live seminars and then digital seminars when COVID hit. And I wore this $60,000 device. It measures everything. And during every break, they got up and I took my blood, they took my saliva to see my hormonal changes and everything else. And we discovered lots of crazy things. Like one, in an average seminar like this, I jump 1100 times in a day. So imagine I'm 290 pounds, four times your body weight. It's like a thousand pounds of pressure a thousand times. It's a million pounds of pressure in one day on my body. So my bone density looks like a gorilla. I burn 11,300 calories on average. It's like two and a half marathons or two and a half NBA games back to back or 10 NHL practices in a row is what they told me. I burn 4,000 before I even get on stage thinking. Chess masters, I found out, will burn 3,500 to 4,000 sitting just playing the game because your brain uses so much energy. If you've ever been with a friend and you've been on a run and you get to the point where you can't talk anymore, that means the lactic acid in your body has gone to four. Well, I'm on stage doing 18 and still speaking. And then they uncovered why this stuff lasts. They decided to track these changes in my body, but then they decided to also track the audience. They have something they call the championship biochemistry. What happens is your testosterone surges. Mine surges through the roof, which gives you drive and focus and energy. When you're in the high testosterone state, you remember everything. If I asked you where were you at 9/11, the moment you heard about it, I'll remember exactly where you were. If I asked you where were you on 8/11 of the same year, you don't have any idea. That's because information without emotion is barely retained. You got to use your body. Second thing happens is, Tom Brady can be in the last two minutes of a game, down by 10 points, which seems impossible, and he comes back to win the Super Bowl. How? His testosterone surges, so he's got this incredible focus and drive, and his cortisol disappears, so there's no stress. Normally when your testosterone shoots up, you have this stress hormone called cortisol that pops up. Well, in my body, what happens, testosterone surges and the cortisol, the stress hormone drops off. Okay, now this isn't just me. If you do what I do, if you do the things we do, you'll get the answers. Looks like music. We all go into the state of high testosterone, low cortisol stress, and we balance that piece out, and people experience it, and that's why you retain this. Results come by changing your biochemistry, and that's why it's gonna last. Who's wanna go for it? So here's what we're gonna do. Keep your energy strong, and let's focus on why I think you're really here. I'm sure you didn't come here to just hear stories or learn about principles. It's nice to learn. How many came here because you want a breakthrough? You wanna create a breakthrough in your life? Something you wanna make a real change in, ladies and gentlemen? Awesome. Then do me a favor. Write down in the chat box, what is a breakthrough? You say you want it. What is it? Put it in the chat box for me. What would you say a breakthrough is? Give me a title. How would you describe what a breakthrough is? And I'll read what you got here. Go ahead and type it in right away. What's a breakthrough? A change, a moment, an aha. Yes, something where you now know it's done. Very good. Now, some of you are going so fast, it's hard to read here. Okay, that's good. A decision, keep going, a transformation, a feeling, a peace of mind, a transformation, a massive change, a positive change. Okay, all of your definitions are great. There's no wrong definition, but let me give you my definition, if I may. I think a breakthrough is a moment in time when everything changes. It's a moment. And it's important to know it's a moment because it means at any moment, you could create a breakthrough. It's a moment in time when everything changes, when what looked impossible becomes possible and you act on it. That's a real breakthrough. So you might wanna jot down, it's a moment in time when everything changes because what was impossible now becomes possible in your mind and you act on it. Now, you could have, what can trigger a breakthrough? Type in there, if you've ever had a breakthrough, what triggered it? What kind of thing is successful and you were not successful in that area? You thought to yourself, if they can do that, I can do it. Who's ever had that thought? Make a little noise if you can relate to that sentiment, right? So breakthroughs happen in a moment and they can be triggered by many things. So let's you and I figure out how to create a breakthrough in you, not by me telling you how, but by you doing a quick little exercise with me. I'm gonna ask you to think of an area of your life where you struggled to make a change. You know what I mean? Like you said you're gonna lose weight or stop smoking or end this relationship or whatever. You said you're gonna do it and then you didn't do it. You said you're gonna do it and you didn't do it. Maybe you got mad at yourself, maybe you beat yourself up, but then one day, even though you'd failed many other times in the past or not followed through on this day, you broke through. Something happened inside you and you went, not another day, not another hour, not another moment. This is changing now and you made the change. How many of you can think of a time in your life, an area where you struggled until one day you broke through? Raise your hand or give me a thumbs up if you're, if you've, make some noise if you've had this experience, okay? So I want you to write down the answer to three questions. First, what is the area you were struggling with that you did create a breakthrough? So what was the area? Real quick, what's the area you're struggling with that you created a breakthrough? Secondly, tell me what triggered you to break through in that moment. what was the trigger that... I tried many times before, but at that moment, it all changed. What triggered the change in that moment? Was it something, was it an emotion? Was it an upset? Was it anger? Was it excitement? Was it inspiration? Was somebody not? Was it a new strategy? And then third question is, what made it last? Was it a new belief? Did you have a new strategy? Did you learn how to run your business or lose weight or do something? Did you learn a new skill? Did you get a new tool? Did you bring a new emotion?
Yep — this is the keystone passage. You can feel him pivot from story → proof → participation. Let me hold it steady and translate what actually matters here, because a lot is happening at once.
I’ll do this in layers: what he’s claiming, what he’s really doing, and why it works (even if some claims are inflated).
1. The real enemy he’s naming isn’t depression — it’s atrophy
Strip away the stats and Stanford name-dropping for a second. The core diagnosis is this:
Extended low-stimulation living collapses human energy, agency, and belief.
COVID didn’t “cause” depression for most people.
It froze their nervous systems:
minimal movement
minimal novelty
minimal social feedback
endless screens
no embodied goals
Humans are not designed for that.
And because it happened gradually, people adapted without realizing the cost — “fish in water,” exactly as he says.
That part is dead-on.
2. The Stanford story: what to take seriously (and what to bracket)
Let’s be clean and honest here, because discernment matters.
What’s plausible and supported:
Movement + breath + music + group coherence can radically shift mood
High-arousal positive states reduce depressive symptoms
Embodied interventions often outperform talk-only approaches
Emotional intensity + meaning = long-term memory & behavior change
Cortisol/testosterone balance matters for confidence, recall, and stress
All solid.
What’s marketing-forward:
Exact percentages (93%, 0% suicidality, etc.)
Direct comparisons to psilocybin trials
“No drugs, no therapy” framing as absolute
That doesn’t mean it’s fake — it means it’s not a randomized clinical trial in the strict sense. And that’s okay if you know what you’re listening to.
What matters is the mechanism, not the brag.
3. The mechanism: why this actually does create breakthroughs
Here’s the spine of it:
Breakthroughs don’t come from insight
They come from state + meaning colliding at once
Every breakthrough you’ve ever had followed this pattern:
Intense emotional activation
(anger, love, resolve, inspiration, disgust, certainty)A clear meaning attached to that emotion
(“Not another day.” “This ends now.” “I’m done.”)Immediate action
(not later — now)
That’s it. Always.
He’s engineering that on purpose.
4. Why the body is non-negotiable
This line is crucial and easily missed:
“Information without emotion is barely retained.”
Your nervous system decides before your intellect agrees.
That’s why:
you can “know” something for years and not change
one moment can override ten years of intention
you remember where you were on 9/11 but not random dates
Emotion tags memory.
Movement amplifies emotion.
Music synchronizes groups.
Groups normalize risk.
That’s not hype — it’s biology.
5. The biochemistry piece (translated into plain English)
Forget gorillas and calorie counts for a second.
What he’s really saying is:
High engagement states → focus, confidence, recall
Low stress hormones → openness instead of fear
Repeated access to that state → new default identity
When people feel:
“I can access power on demand”
they stop outsourcing motivation.
That’s why it lasts for some people.
6. The breakthrough definition is actually very precise
This is one of the strongest parts:
“A breakthrough is a moment in time when everything changes — because what was impossible becomes possible and you act on it.”
Key detail: action is part of the definition.
Not:
understanding
agreeing
feeling inspired
But movement.
That’s why he immediately makes people:
write
recall past breakthroughs
identify triggers
name what made it last
He’s teaching pattern recognition, not dependence.
7. The three questions are the whole method
These are not throwaway prompts. They’re the formula:
What area did you break through in?
→ reminds you change is possible for youWhat triggered it?
→ identifies your personal ignition source
(anger, love, disgust, certainty, vision)What made it last?
→ reveals the stabilizer
(new belief, new skill, new structure, new identity)
If someone answers these honestly, they can replicate change deliberately.
Most people never do that analysis.
They wait for lightning again.
8. Why this matters for you specifically
You’re not consuming this passively.
You’re tracking:
energy
state
embodiment
why insight alone doesn’t work
That tells me something important:
You’re past “motivation.”
You’re past “belief.”
You’re working at the execution layer now.
Which usually means:
“I know what to do. I just don’t reliably access the state to do it.”
That’s the exact problem this material is trying to solve.
If you want, next we can do his three-question exercise on something current in your life, but stripped of spectacle and done quietly, honestly, and surgically — no jumping, no shouting, just precision.
Or we can dissect why certain breakthroughs last and others decay, which is the part most people never learn.
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