George Chanos on Connecting with Greatness & a Future of Hope
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
Release Date: 02/29/2024
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info_outline"Moment's change lives."
Yes.
His mom was driving the car when a call comes over the radio about Kennedy's assassination. She pulled the car to the side of the road and started to cry.
That was the moment when George Chanos decided to become an attorney. Yes, he went on to become Nevada's 31st attorney general. As an attorney general he represented 3 million people, and wanted to represent 30 million.
Watch FULL YOUTUBE INTERVIEW HERE
In 2012 George Chanos had a heart attack which sent him on a whole new direction. He wanted to prepare his 15 year old daughter for her future. So, he began writing her a letter which eventually evolved into his first book ‘Seize Your Destiny: A Road Map to Success’.
Then he realized that the world he had lived in was not the world that his daughter was going to live in— she was going to live in the next 30 to 50 years. So he began doing research into the future and what he saw amazed him, which became his second book: ‘Millennial Samurai: A Mindset for the 21st century’ to educate her and his nephews and nieces and other people.
He has also been called a futurist and a visionary. He’s an author, speaker, and mentor.
George strongly believes: the next 5 years is going to be highly disruptive. The country that has dominated Artificial Intelligence will dominate the world.
The technological revolution will impact every area of human endeavor.
He founded Uvolution for people who want to make the most of their one and only life, while avoiding predatory programs that overpromise and under deliver.
Uvolution will empower you to think critically, overcome your fears, network and build relationships, communicate and collaborate more effectively, and leverage technology to make the most of your one and only life.
In this episode you will take away many promising insights as below:
-Political climate in the first couple of months in the election year
-The Thinking of Russia behind the terrorist attack on Israel on October 7th by Hamas
-Why does USA have failure in leadership
-Russian as an economic power
-AI race towards singularity
-Why countries need to come together and collaborate
-Examples of inflation caused by governments
-How Greece became bankrupt
-Cloward-Piven Doctrine
-What is eliminating the ‘American Dream’
-Why are some people so afraid of Donald Trump
-How can you leverage technological advancements
-About uvolution.io being run by George
Important Quotes from the Episode:
-Aristotle once said: ‘the man who thinks he knows everything knows nothing at all’
-The first stage of wisdom is knowing and recognizing how little you know
-To think that you have some insight or some knowledge that is truth is just a supreme kind of example of ego
-Our brains are filled with a lot of misinformation, lot of biases, a lot of things that we have been exposed to throughout our lives
-Alvin Toffler said the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, it will be those who cannot learn unlearn and relearn, importantly unlearn
-You have to get that garbage out of your head
-People don't even recognize that they don't even have the capacity or the intelligence to recognize their own limitations
-War and conflict is not the answer going forward
-Why can't we live and let Live
-We can clothe, feed and house our massive 7.5 billion population through the use of AI and advanced technology if and only if we don't kill each other first
-What I believe or what you believe, that is not necessarily the truth
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