3/31/2012 THE ANNIVERSARY OF WHEN I BECAME A BLACK SWAN

This picture above marks my timestamp of where I began making tsunami waves in the kiddie pool of life 7 years ago on that TED stage. My advice is simple for you today. Never stop disrupting people to awaken them from their slumber. Nothing is better than elevating your fellow man from the mundane. TED may have banned my talk but they let the animal out of his cage that day and he is kicking ass and taking names even today.

Some of the most beautiful things I’ve experienced in medicine since 3/31/12 on that stage in Nashville in front of 3000 people came from the non-fatal mistakes humans made. Many thought I made an error that day by unleashing what I did. The talk was epic and very controversial. Within 3 weeks I had the medical boards and the federal government visiting me when the talk was delivered. Did it stop me? How have I lived for the last 7 years of my life? Hidding or kicking doors of the paradigm down to show you the wizard behind the curtain. 

You must give two fucks in tracking down the truth for yourself and your flock in this life. I love unbridled chaos in my search for the truth. The truth is we all have a mission in life and the Black swans among you out there are going to get it done. Some of you are going to succumb to life because you refuse to embrace the chaos of change. You are not who I am looking for. This day in Nashville I set my course to look for my tribe. 

MY TRIBE ARE BLACK SWAN MITOCHONDRIACS.

We are 'us'. 'Us' is a tribe. A tribe can be two Black Swans entangled for life and it can be a lot  more too I have found on this journey.   what have I found out about 'US'?  'Us' is a train rolling down the track 7 years later.  We are changing the world TOGETHER.  We do it slowly one Swan at a time.  We are effective.   We know we are not our current station in life.  We know there are other train stations for "us" to visit.   We are 'us'--the sum of what we've done, what we want to do, and the tribe who we keep close.

I said things that last day of March in 2012 out of the passion of my new found beliefs buried deep in the heart of Mother Nature. It was one of my proudest days as a neurosurgeon. I jumped off the ledge of comfort and threw caution to the wind to change my life and the life of people I have entangled with since that fateful day in Nashville.

To this very day, I am still riding the thermals as I soar and spread the message of-of light water and magnetism. Before this TED talk, I blended into humankind and hid under the veil of comfort. I decided to stir the pot and create waves. I decided to rise up. So. today I ask you to rise from your present ashes. There is no comfort in a growth zone and no growth in a comfort zone! Grab a few straws and suck it the fuck up. Our life's struggle creates a hunger in us. There is a strange comfort in knowing that no matter what just occurred, the sun will rise again tomorrow. That ends out hunger quickly when we trip up in life.

If you are new to me and the wisdom of nature I want your catepillar life to become a butterfly to ride the wind with me as you morph into a Black Swan.

Now go seize the day my Black Swans in training.  My tribe needs new misfits.