Charla de Arnold tp tic

The speaker discusses the importance of having a vision for success. He shares his personal experience of growing up in Austria and feeling the desire to achieve something big. He mentions watching a documentary about America and being captivated by the skyscrapers, high-rises, and modern infrastructure. This experience solidified his vision to leave Austria and pursue a different life. I'm here to talk about success, right? And the way we have set it up is that I'm going to talk about my first three rules right up here on stage, and then I'm going to sit down with Jürgen and he's going to talk to me about the next, the last three rules, because there's six rules basically that I always have laid out that are the rules of success. Let me get right away to the first rule of success. The first rule of success is to have a vision. You see, if you don't have a vision of where you're going, if you don't have a goal where you go, you drift around and you never end up anywhere. It's like you can have the best ship in the world, you can have the best airplane in the world, if the pilot or the captain doesn't know where to go, it will just drift around. You will not end up anywhere or most likely in the wrong place. So I was very fortunate that I stumbled onto my vision. I mean, as you know, I was born in 1947 in Austria after the Second World War. And I didn't really like Austria when I grew up. I couldn't wait to get out of there. I couldn't see myself becoming a farmer or working in a factory or anything like that. Even though my parents wanted me to stay there and have a normal life. My father wanted me to become a police officer like he was. My mother wanted me just to stay there and marry a girl by the name of Heidi, hopefully. And have a bunch of kids. And run around like some trapped family in the sound of music. But that was their vision, not mine. My vision was totally different. I felt that I was born for something special, for something unique, for something big. So I was searching. And one day I went to school. I remember I was 11 years old. And they showed a documentary about America. And there they showed in this documentary the huge skyscrapers. The high-rises. The huge bridges. The six-lane freeways. The huge cars with the wings sticking out. And all of this stuff. And I said to myself, that's where I want to be. I don't want to be around here.