ny Trejo. He gets all the attention because he was a celebrity. Obviously the unknown person who helped him get the baby out of the car is also a hero but nobody knows that person's name. But here's the best part of the story.

So actor Danny Trejo gets interviewed afterwards and he said this quote. I swear if you never remembered anything else in your whole life and you just said all right I'm going to ignore everything I've learned in my entire life and then I'm just going to build my life around this one quote from Danny Trejo you would actually have a pretty good life. Yeah, this quote sums up almost everything. Here it is, quote from actor Danny Trejo: "Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything." So he has everything at the end. I'm going to read that again. It's probably the best quote you'll ever see in your life in terms of how useful it is, right? "Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything." That's it. Secret of life right there. The secret of life right there. Because if you help other people they say well there's somebody I want to associate with. If you help other people you feel good about yourself. You feel important. You feel like you have a place. Do you think the people who are helping other people commit suicide? Sometimes because there's mental illness is the thing. But how many of these mass shooters were working at soup kitchens? How many mass murderers are helping other people? No, none.

If you want meaning in life help other people. If you want financial security learn how to be valuable to other people. It's the only way. The only way I'm rich is because I helped other people. I made them laugh. I made them think. I entertained them. I helped them. I helped them somehow. Now how many times have I been offered promotions back in my corporate world and why would I be offered the promotion and maybe something else? Well in many cases it's because I did extra work and I helped other people with no direct thought of some direct reward. And if you are in your corporate situation and people look around and they say hey this person keeps helping me — other people, as long as you're getting your own work done — well what are people going to think when they want to promote somebody? You just killed everybody else you know economically or career-wise. You just eliminated everybody else's appearance of value. If you do your work and you're consistently helping other people in whatever way you can you're the boss or you can be if you want to be. Somebody's going to offer you the next promotion.

So Danny Trejo's quote is everything. He actually uses the word everything in this quote twice. "Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything." It's perfect. It's just perfect.

All right, here's the thought that I want to put into the mix of ideas in the world. So we've got these urban blighted areas and you know parts of the country where things aren't working out. There's bad economic distress, etc. And then we're watching Bill Pulte go into these areas in some cases and make a difference. You saw the cleanup crew make a difference as well. But Bill Pulte goes in and he can clean up the urban blight. I saw an article recently that Pontiac, Michigan, the value of real estate just started zooming. Now Pontiac if you don't know this was I think one of the first one or two places that Bill Pulte removed the blight. So he removed the blight and there's not one reason that real estate goes up in value but I got to think it's a big one. The real estate values went up. So Pontiac is heading in the right direction. Who made that happen? Bill Pulte. You know other people worked on it too. The mayor had to be part of that, etc. But I was reading this book I was just telling you about about the founding of the nation. I'll show it to you again. I'm only a little ways into it. If it's already so interesting that I'm getting all these tidbits out of it that really change how you think. It's called "American Nations." Right? I'm only a little bit into it. It's already having a big impact on me.

And one of the things I talked about is something I don't think I knew. Pretty sure I didn't know it. And I didn't know it. Let me say that for sure. If you don't know it you didn't know it. I always wondered why the United States was so successful. Now you can give a number of reasons. You could say okay the United States was successful because we had all these natural resources and maybe because of the ocean barriers you know we didn't get that direct brunt