The Secret Of Nikola Tesla

How do you think when it will happen? Remember your answer, even better write it down. Now I will ask you to try as hard as you can to resist to change your choice. Will you risk reading this and knowing that in the end your life will change completely? Today is that day.

What you will read is my personal story, story of how I became fearless, story of how I got to success, story of how I chose to stay alive no matter what and what I’ve got for all my persistence. Even though this story is about me it is also about you. Because I chose to do it for you and by searching inside myself you will find yourself.

During the time you are reading this I will ask you not just to read it but to feel it. And you will feel like you’ve never lived before. You will feel. After you will read it till the end. But first let’s see who is reading this. Little girls. So you think you’ve grown up? Can you tell us how old are you? So little girls, little boys and men.

Now we can begin and see what the problem is.

Till today around 108 Billion people lived on Earth. But that is just a number doesn’t it? All your previous relatives, relatives of people you see everyday are included in this number. How does that number feels now? That is 8% of those who can fit on the whole planet. Now imagine that suddenly all of them stopped to die. What will happen next? At some point in time there will be overpopulation. Now you need to move 1 billion people to another planet. You will find 7 scientists and will ask them how to solve this problem. Now you are one of those scientists. What will you choose to do? You will choose to build a spaceship because that is something familiar, already have been done and it’s a safe option doesn’t it? You know that it will work. Besides other 6 proposed the same solution. How can you resist that? To risk to tell something different, something that may not work. Besides that’s kind of a problem that people don’t solve every day and it is hard to solve. All your reputation will depend on your choice. To make it harder those 6 are already known scientists but this is your first task. Why did you choose that solution? Because of your fear, fear of unknown, fear to feel uncomfortable, fear of public opinion, fear of your own abilities. You can tell those 6 that you don’t fear anything but you are still choosing that spaceship. You still do it.

So the spaceship was built. The distance between planets is not like between cities. And there is a limitation of speed of that spaceship. But at least it works doesn’t it? Happy people get on board. They will start a new life just a little patience, just to get to that planet. And then suddenly all of them died. There was enormous amount of radiation, such that the spaceship wasn’t damaged but people weren’t able to stay alive. Who’s mistake it was? Now you are in front of more than trillion people instead of 6, people who stopped to die. Will you say I’m sorry it was my fault? After all you didn’t know that such radiation existed. You wouldn’t because you fear to lose your own face. Besides some managers told you don’t worry we will pay a compensation to close relatives of those, that was a natural disaster, it’s not our fault, it always works. And so it worked. And those people now instead of being angry will see how generous you are, really how you were able to do something, it was just an accident. But what is a reputation in compare to human life? But who will think that the cause of the trouble was your fear, fear to change? Sounds familiar doesn’t it? You thought that because people stopped to die they actually changed.

What if you chose another path? Let’s go back to the point where you were making a choice. The speed of spaceship is still the problem, something that you may not know is still the problem, your fear is still a problem. But you make an effort and despite that those 6 proposed to build a spaceship this time you will do something differently, against your fear. You think why do we need that spaceship after all? Because people can’t breathe outside, because they can’t travel at that speed by themselves and because, something sparks in your head, because human body takes space. What if to decompose the body into small pieces that can travel faster than that spaceship and through that radiation? But you dismiss that idea because if to do that people will die. You want to keep them alive. It doesn’t looks like a solution. And again you choose that spaceship but this time not because of your fear, because there are no other solutions. And the story repeats. What is the problem now? Your own mind. You had only one choice, because another solution will not work you think. It will not work, it’s not even a solution. If only …

Let’s get down from that space to the ground. You think that’s a distant future, besides the main problem was already solved in that time. How do people try to solve it nowadays?

People try to freeze the bodies. But that doesn’t solve the problem. Even if it will work it just delays it. But does that works? Do those people who try to do it have ever read how temperature influences blood cells, not even body? Do they know how blood transfusion from one body to another works? If I ask these questions you can guess what the answer is.

But just to illustrate another example imagine that it worked. The person after 200 years of sleeping wakes up, opens the doors, crosses the road and is hit by a car. In such a way that only pieces left. In that time people learned how to grow organs. They combine those parts with grown ones. Now comes the question will it be the same person?

Imagine that you have a twin. You take a needle and prick your finger. The blood will start to flow outside. But there is no blood on your twin’s finger. Despite that your twin looks, acts and even thinks the same that is a completely different person.

You can guess if cloning will help with the problem.

Uploading your brain into computer. Now you can answer on your own if that solves the problem.

What about DNA you will say? Do you know that DNA can change itself? Can you imagine looking on thousands of papers filled with numbers and trying to find something there? What will you look for?

But you can jump into that with all ambition like creating a startup, using artificial intelligence, drinking cappuccino, eating pizza for 6 months and telling we will figure out something. With no result.

And all of that in the time when people still die.

Now do you see something? Do you ask yourself why people do that? Like with that spaceship they don’t know any other solutions. They don’t have time to pause and think. Yet the time matters in life. And still the mind is the problem. And you still have those fears. Unless …

It’s interesting how people are going into space but at the same time they know little about their own planet, about oceans, about animals, about themselves.

For dozens of years, if not thousands, people were researching the brain only to be able to say the phrase we know nothing about how it really works. No idea. How does it feels?

Now does it seems like a worthless thing? To solve that problem. That many people tried to solve but failed. Will you even try to do that after knowing all of this? Knowing that you may never succeed.

I did. And here is my story.

When was the last time you heard that someone made a breakthrough? Not like increasing megapixels in the phone camera. But a real discovery. That can change everything on the planet, in your country, in your city, on your street, in your house, in your family, in yourself. Who said I’ve read about those people in autobiographies? But what those people have in common? They are all already dead. You can’t walk into the Hyde Park and ask Nikola Tesla, during his somersault, what were you thinking when you made that invention? The same Nikola Tesla who is considered the greatest inventor of all times. The same Nikola Tesla who made it possible for you to read this on your computer or your phone by using electricity. Like William Shakespeare once said “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”, you will see which part Nikola played in this story, which part is mine, which part is yours. And William really meant little girls.

Do you have a boring job or even you are being considered the useful asset, for many years you live for someone else and then you have just got fired or put aside, your life is not fulfilled, fancy things don’t make you happy, you travel without purpose to fill the emptiness inside, everything is a struggle and you ask yourself when it will all end? Will it all end?

Can you say no more! I can stand for myself!

Oh you can’t! You have fears! Then why don’t you close this down and forget about this. Yes really. Nothing will change if you will not change.

Now you are listening, don’t you?

Can you imagine that after reading this you will actually change?

Can you imagine that you may slowly but steadily pack your bags and going in the direction of the plane to start a new life?

Can you imagine saying:

- Honey, I’m selling our car.

- What?!

- This man is a genius!

But hold the horses, you will have the opportunity.

I was called a genius, I was called a prophet, I was called a brain of the team, a mastermind, all the synonyms, you name it. That is right now. But before I was blamed, I was humiliated, I have been through heaven and hell. Sometimes to get to success you have to go through tragedy. All it takes is persistence and willingness to change. And even after heavy rain there comes the sun.

After reading this you may say that you want to be like me but since childhood I heard other parents saying to their kids look how smart Michael is, stick to Michael he knows the thing, why don’t you be like Michael? They wanted to be like me but I always wanted to be myself. So be yourself. Learn but be yourself.

And so it will not be that sad let me tell you about me versus little girls. And little girls don’t get older, they just become more beautiful.

When I was going to dances once the teacher said to choose your pair. I approached a more beautiful and taller than me little girl and took her hand. She smiled, everybody smiled. The teacher said that Michael knows whom to choose.

When I was going to aikido there were only men. But one day a more beautiful little girl came. When the teacher said to choose your pair I was focusing on something else and when I turned around everybody was staying aside with their pairs and looking on me. Little girl stepped to me with a smile. I was elegantly throwing her over my back and at the same time not only saving her hairstyle but also a manicure. Everybody asked me so how was it? Ha, how was it? She always smiled when she saw me after that.

Nikola Tesla was never married and that was his biggest mistake.

My great-grandmother lived almost 100 years. You may think that she was eating something special or doing exercises. But the only reason she was able to live that long was that she survived two world wars. How many of you were able to talk to your great-grandmother?

My grandfather who died before I was born and I only saw him on photos once was forced and put on the train that was going to another country in depressive region. He jumped from the moving train and went back on foot. Will you jump from the moving train?

My grandmother had to go to the concentration camp in Germany. The brother of my grandfather was working in special division of local police. They made her a passport with a younger age written there. And saved her life. Will you go against the law to save your life?

Neither of that was legal by that time.

If they didn’t do that I will not born and you will not read this.

So you see that I inherited some bravery and obeying some usual rules is like they say in my blood.

I was born on June 11th 1990. You can calculate how old I am. Do you think I was always making public speeches? The first time was very bad but I wasn’t afraid to try. I learned that and you can also do that. But only if you will not be afraid. Will not be afraid to change.

So you fear your lack of education? You even haven’t finished your studies like for family reasons? How about hearing someone who dropped out from university? Twice.

The first time it was when I wanted to learn something but they expected me to already knew everything. Because different schools had different lessons. And in my college they taught it later but I went to university. And that was programming. And so you will imagine what was expected my mother has a computer cybernetics education. That’s higher than regular programming. And I was in computers like fish in the ocean. So I went to work. On the first day I earned just $1. I thought it wasn’t fair. People were telling me is that you who were studying with us and looking on me with pity faces? Yes, but I never told them how much I earned, let’s not upset them. The month have passed and I was earning 6 times more than professors in university with doctoral degrees and with 25 years of experience. And I had almost no experience. Pretty impressive doesn’t it? And that is during the time that I also was able to read books. How I did it you may ask? By listening to people, working smarter, changing myself, and doing more than was expected. Once one older man had a problem and it wasn’t part of my job. Somebody else will say can’t help you. But I actually said let’s meet after my work. And I went with him to another part of the city to solve his problem. That’s how people do it. How many of you will do that?

Nikola Tesla was digging dirt in New York.

But everybody was telling what you will do without education. You are looking what you will do in your life. And on the next year I went into another city and another university. It was aerospace systems. I needed to put somewhere my bags and one much more beautiful little girl who worked there said that she will watch them and when I returned I gave her a chocolate bar. Then suddenly she said that when I will become a prime minister or president so I will not forget about people like her. Even though I didn’t have such intentions back then but her words stuck in my head. You may ask what went wrong this time? Even though people were stealing money from education system, even though I was forcing myself to study. But one day something happened. I was walking on the street and the phone rang. That was my friend and he was telling me about another friend.

- Today he died.

- What?

- Nobody told you? He was in the hospital for two weeks?

- No.

- That is life.

That is life. He actually committed a suicide. I put a phone in the pocket and continued walking. People say that men don’t cry. I tried to stay calm. Entered the house, walked in the empty room, closed the door, sat near the table and started to cry. I was thinking why I went to this city. If I stayed at home then that didn’t happen. He shot himself and there was a chance to save him, they needed to put him on the helicopter and fly to another city to make a surgery. But doctors were afraid that he will not survive that fly, his parents were scared. If I was there I will just drag him into that helicopter without hesitation no matter what doctors or his parents said. But you know how it can be in extreme situations. People are overwhelmed and can’t think clearly. They are paralyzed by fear. And you can’t change the past. At least nowadays can’t. So I had depression, when I was falling asleep I didn’t see any dreams and you just wake up in the morning. I felt lonely. I didn’t want to talk to anybody. Almost nobody knew about my friend. I kept it inside myself. I lost weight, I can eat whatever you like and not gaining it. A little girl’s dream doesn’t it? You think how to lose weight and the answer is not to gain it. But the way I did it is the tricky one doesn’t it? So it was a hard year. I grew up very quickly.

If this didn’t happen neither of the following will and you will never read this story.

When Nikola Tesla was young his brother fell off the horse. Shortly after that he died. For years Nikola had almost no weight change. When he got to USA he handed Thomas Edison a letter of recommendation from inventor Charles Batchelor where he said “My Dear Edison: I know two great men and you are one of them. The other is this young man!”.

After a year I went to another city and another university. Because I promised that I will finish it and I keep my promises. This time it was about lasers and holograms. Once there was a philosophy lecture and discussion of ancient Greek philosophers. I elaborated my point of view and proved that there is no need to study what have already been studied not even once. After a long pause teacher agreed with me and said that he will get home in the evening, make some tea and will forget what he have heard. Because he was teaching that philosophy for many years and will continue doing it. He was trapped in that job. Who will admit that what they are doing is pointless? Who will change themselves that easily? Before forming my viewpoint I learned to do it more objectively by viewing the problem from many different angles. Once I was going by bus. There was much more beautiful little girl with heavy bags. I offered my help to her. When we got off she suddenly said that someday I will marry the most beautiful little girl and telling me how grateful she is for 5 minutes. I felt like I was the last man on Earth. Do people really forgot about things like giving a hand to little girls or open doors in front of them nowadays? Like chivalry.

In Dante’s Divine Comedy he brings his real-life beloved Beatrice to be his spiritual guide through heaven. But to get to that heaven you have to go through seven rings of hell.

One day my grandmother fell on the floor and wasn’t able to get up by herself. She had a stroke. It’s when half of the body becomes paralyzed through time. When the first time it happens you can start counting years if not months. Later people have trouble to talk. And one day in the morning you still can speak to the person in the afternoon it all ends. Just like that.

Because I still got depression and because of my grandmother my grades in university started to get lower. I had trouble to memorize things, I had headaches. And those grades really don’t matter. The only things that matter are practical knowledge and your willingness to learn it by yourself, not when somebody told you. How many of you continued learning after University or have you said that you already knew everything?

When the day of graduation came I sat in the park and recalled my friend. That cycle of memory was haunting me. I also promised my grandmother to finish it. And so I took all my strength and finally overcame the fear of the past. To set myself free.

Through their lives people make a lot of choices. When you can choose anything the problem is what exactly to choose. And as long as you find something to live for and to love you will succeed. As long as you will not fear. As long as you will change.

Like Lummus said about his favorite medieval love story, Dante’s love for Beatrice “from a bond between individuals, to the force that moves the stars”.

Do you feel everything is discovered nowadays? Do you feel that for years nothing really changes much? Do you feel that everything that happen in the world doesn’t bring you happiness? Actors look for fame just to find that after they got it they don’t feel happy. People go into space to talk about equality and peace in the world but they didn’t think about it before when they stood on the ground. Do you feel you can’t change anything? You can but only if you will not fear to change. To change yourself.

Steve Irwin was working with crocodiles and didn’t fear to do it. Crocodile can easily cut your hand. But even a crocodile can become calm if to touch her/him between the eyes near the nose. And Steve said about Siegfried and Roy who do the tricks with tigers “They did what not many people can do. They got tigers into people’s hearts. I believe that the time has come where if we don’t get animals into people’s hearts, they’re going to go extinct. We’re running out of time right now”.

That precious time that leads our destiny. Do you say that you have no time? You have time but only if you will focus on what you really want to do. If You will focus on what you love.

I’m against animal experiments. People who are researching the brain usually going into “monkey business”. As monkeys are the closest to humans they think. Ask yourself do anesthetized apes behave the same way as they do in everyday lives? Is it worth to do those experiments in order to say “Finally we did it! Now that Italian coffee machine works again! Bring me another monkey”?

I had trouble memorizing dates. When I was in school the dates on history lessons meant little to me. But I found a way how to do it. I had a calendar where you can calculate the day of the week. So for example February 8th 1980 was Friday. Friday is the end of the working week. And you can imagine that it was winter and people were going somewhere, that they were breathing the air, that they were dreaming, that they were looking on the Sun and on the Moon. Like you do today.

What is the most important thing in life if not the life itself?

Through generations people were inspired by the legends. Like the legend of Atlantis where the whole civilization managed to advance more than anybody else. Like the legend of King Arthur who pulled the sword Excalibur from the stone, the act that could only be performed by the true king, during the time he was on the journey to reach the city of Avalon to find eternal life. Like the legend of his knights of the round table who were searching for the Holy Grail — the cup that can provide an eternal youth for its owner.

Through centuries people used knowledge to make their everyday life better. They put it into books to pass it on to their daughters and sons. But sometimes that knowledge was lost like in the fire of the library in Alexandria caused by Julius Caesar and others. And they needed to rediscover it. That’s where the saying “the history is repeating itself” comes into play. But with different people, different cultures, different times and different knowledge. Knowledge about nature, knowledge about the universe we are all experiencing.

Through years people wanted to change the world. Those people read the stories like “The Man Who Would Be King” by Rudyard Kipling where two British adventurers became the kings of Kafiristan and watched movies like “The Jewel of the Nile” where Joan Wilder and Jack Colton were searching for a treasure but found a holy man Al-Julhara to unite the world.

For years I was looking for clues. It was like searching for the needle in the huge hay. And that needle was yet to be found. And you are looking everywhere. I learned about inventor William Crookes who studied ghosts. I learned about inventor Elmer Gates who studied the ways the mind discovers knowledge. But one man kept coming on my mind. And both of these men knew him back in the day. His name was Nikola Tesla. How did he make so many inventions? Was he some kind of magician? It felt like there was a secret about him. The secret that even he himself wasn’t able to find. I studied neurobiology. I studied the brain. I wanted to know where emotions come from. So you studied physics? Have you ever read in any physics book what are emotions that you feel everyday in this physical world? I wanted to know how to make people not to sleep. The problem was very hard, too complicated, after all nobody managed to find how the brain works and more time will help to study more. Even though I tried but I had almost no result. Will you pursue something for years when there is no sign of progress, when you don’t know what to call a progress?

Everything was worthless. Somebody else will stop and quit. But not me. I learned to be persistent. I made a decision that somehow I will do it yet I had no idea how it’s going to happen.

And when you least expect it and when nothing else worked the universe shows you the way. To find the answers I needed to get into trouble. In such trouble that at stake was my own life.

I was put into heavy interrogation. To imagine how it was if you saw how Bill Gates was interrogated when he wasn’t very talkative, it was like 10 times heavier. Either I will do something or I will die. Any wrong word, any wrong move and that’s it. I will just say that there are some unethical things that the laws force you to do. Because I have high moral values and because what happened to some of my relatives before I had no intentions to do that. In extreme situations people run away from problems, people hide, people are scared. But because of what happened to me before even in such situation I wasn’t scared. I was worried but not scared. If you saw me you will say that I was calm and it was just like a regular talk. Will you be not scared? Will you be not scared even to tell about it? If I was told back then that such question will save my life I will think that it could be anything but that, even though I didn’t want to do it. The question was if I wanted to commit a suicide.

How Julius Caesar did? Crossing the Rubicon. How people say? To burn all of the bridges behind. That question saved my life but only for some time. Till one day when I looked the death in the eyes.

There was no turning back. The point of no return.

People told that I could be a great actor. I’m good in improvisation. I have a sense of humor. I don’t need to be told what to say. I can grasp it on the fly. It was time to test my acting skills.

People say that either you will go to jail or you will become a millionaire. Not in a jail. Just in the hospital.

We were walking behind one worker who was leading us to the front door. I winked my mother to show that everything will be ok and at the same time I had no idea what will happen next.

I put everything out of my pockets, I put off the belt from my jeans for obvious reasons, phones were not allowed. I stepped inside only with a handkerchief. I was completely on my own.

- Guns, knives?

- No.

- Drink, smoke?

- No.

- Welcome! (To the family I guess!)

In the beginning it was like in living hell. Bars on the windows, so nobody will jump out, 24 hours per day surveillance, all the doors are locked, you stay in the same room and not going outside, eating is on the schedule, clock on the wall and TV. And that’s when any wrong word, any wrong move and I’m in trouble. All the food was without salt. Try to eat soup or porridge without it. How does it tastes? Not to say that almost everything was tasting very bad, even with salt. And this is in the time that you have to eat it because you are being watched if you were eating or not. Even in such situation I managed to eat only what was edible. And that wasn’t without the consequences and it wasn’t just because of that. One day I stood up from the bed, made 5 steps and almost fell down on the floor. I sat on the bench and put my head on the table. I said that I felt bad and don’t want to eat. I wanted to sit for a little. What do you think happened after that? Compassion? Empathy? Not at all. They said that they will put a probe into my stomach if I will not eat. The head of the department came, looked at me and said to give me a baby milk or how it’s called baby formula. If I was going on the uninhabited island I will bring only that sweet tasty baby milk! In the end of two weeks one new doctor told me that I can be a supervisor in there, I was able to tell all the names in the roll-call and how they were feeling. Little he knew about me! After two weeks I came out of that room.

All the time I spent in that hospital I was outside only once and only for 5 minutes. Imagine that. There was one problem. I didn’t know how to get out of there. I can’t just say one day that everything is ok and ask to write me the postcards. But how they say through the hurdles to the stars. Even some rockets and rocket engines were invented under stress and pressure in prisons. In Agatha Christie’s “The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim” Hercule Poirot made a five-pound bet with inspector Japp that he could solve the case without moving from his chair and if he will do that inspector will eat his hat. What is your favorite color? If it is green then imagine that it was a green hat. So doors locked, bars on the windows, not going outside and people who were working there didn’t say much and nothing in my pockets. Some people with special training will envy. After a month I got money, food, candies, I knew everything about everyone, names, salaries, what cars they drive, how long they work there, I was giving lectures about cybernetics, even organized a chess tournament and at the same time keeping low profile. If I wanted I will drive Ferrari out of that hospital! What beautiful little girl? Do you say I love this man? Do you know how many times I heard that? Hint: more than once. You may ask how on Earth I was able to do that? It was hard but not impossible. And you can forget this word. You see laying on the bed is boring and besides you can get muscles atrophy if you will not move, some people who go into space after that learn how to walk again. There was a canteen. Spaghetti allo scoglio, calamari, mozzarella and cappuccino weren’t in the menu. The food was the same. And one day I decided to help with serving the dishes on the tables. There was just a little problem. They said that they already have people who do that. And during the time that they do it the doors are closed and everyone else was waiting. Will you give up? I was persistent. Once I’ve just walked inside with those people, the doors closed and one man said let him help us. After that day they memorized that I was doing it everyday and their resistance lowered. Do you say I will not go to work or school or university today because I’m not feeling well? I put those plates on the tables 3 times per day and everyday without weekends.

And like Nikola Tesla I also was feeding pigeons with bread that I took from canteen. Pigeons were the only birds that sat on the windows. Once the pigeon flew inside and thought catch me if you can. That was fun.

From that time I was able to eat only what I wanted. Besides the workers got better food and after some time they shared it with me. Some of them even brought food from home. And you know how more beautiful little girls say look at him he needs to eat more. I didn’t even need to ask. Not gaining weight was a puzzle for them. So it was like a competition between them because how is it possible that after their food that they cooked at home themselves my body stayed slim like after the gym? Those workers also were eating in that canteen. So everybody memorized me. And I shared my food with some other people. Once one more beautiful little girl said that they ran out of that better food and so she gave me nothing. And she wasn’t the kind of those who share it. Imagine that on the same day in the evening she was searching for me all over the place to give me a plate with her food with the difference that she didn’t eat anything that evening. It was her own supper. Imagine that! How even greedy people can change to feel themselves good.

Asking questions became easier. It started from a simple question like can you remind me the surname of that more beautiful little girl? I knew only her name. And she wasn’t just a more beautiful little girl. She was the head of the department. After that I was able to tell phrases mentioning her full name like but she said. And only few people knew her full name. Once she told me that I can go home on the next week. I didn’t ask her, she told it herself. And on the next week she said that she hasn’t said anything like that and she haven’t said this week. Head of the department. Zero responsibility. Imagine that! If you want to succeed in your life you have to become very responsible. But don’t worry about her. Later she said sorry to me.

Everyday in the morning and in the evening everybody was checked if they are still in the hospital. Once in the beginning they even thought that I went home. You will never guess why. Because I always was making my bed and I was the only one who was doing it. That’s what is called a self-discipline. I trained myself to do it. If we will sleep on the same bed I will be able to wake up and stay on my feet in just 2 seconds and you will tell I will lay just a little more time. If there was a fire I will be already dressed in less than 10 seconds just to wear the shoes and jacket and I’m ready to go. If my friend was in trouble or needed help and called me at night in 3 a.m. with no hesitation I will say that ok I’m going regardless of what I will need to do in the morning. If there is rain or snow outside and there is a need to go somewhere you will say it’s too wet, it’s too cold, I don’t have an umbrella, with or without umbrella I’m going. Do you say can’t do it, too hard, if only I was younger? You can, this is what determination can do.

One day I was standing near the window. People were smoking nearby. One man looked at me and because he thought I also wanted to smoke he gave me a cigarette. I took it and because I didn’t start to smoke he said that he understands that I like to smoke alone. Remember I don’t smoke. I wasn’t thinking long and ask him if he can give me one more cigarette. And he gave it to me. After some time I had a pocket full of cigarettes. Where do you think people went when they ran out of them? To me. It got to the point that all the cigarettes and money were going through me. Workers also bought them because it was quicker to buy it from me. There was a worker who was going outside in the shop. And I was buying cigarettes from him and reselling them with higher price. Where do they got the money you may ask? There was a room where you were able to sit, eat and talk when the visitors came to you. My mother was visiting me twice per week. Other people were seeing relatives everyday because they were living not very far. They were allowed to bring them cigarettes, money and food. But you were able to eat that food only in that room. Imagine other people were bringing all of that but they went home with empty pockets. My mother was bringing only some food because I asked her not to bring me anything else and went home with pockets full of money and candies. She smiled and joked that I can live in that hospital. Other people were introducing their wives to me because it was some honor for them to do that. Because after I got sault, that was not allowed, I shared it with them when they were eating and I became like a living legend for them.

There was one man. Doctors weren’t able to understand him. After a stroke he had trouble to speak and he also spoke slowly. Not always after a stroke it starts with paralyzing body. He was feeling bad because nobody understood him. He was wanting to tell me something. But I didn’t understand what it was. And unlike other people I was listening to him and I was figuring out what he was saying. He even tried to show it on his palm with his fingers. Until I got it and he smiled, took my hand and shake it. It was the first time he smiled. He was saying that after a stroke he became overweight and to lose weight he was drinking much water 3 times per day and eating less. Later I brought him papers and pen so he will be able to talk to other people and he became very happy. But what I’ve asked him after his story I thought was an ingenious question. Remember my grandmother. I asked him if with inner voice inside his head he can speak normally and with normal speed? And he said yes. Imagine that a person is laying in coma. In such coma that people lay motionless for years connected to life support system. And in more hard cases people even can’t determine if the person is still alive. You are visiting that person everyday. You are telling how your day was, reading books, recalling your life stories. But you don’t hear anything from that person, you don’t know if this person even hears you, there are no visible signs. Imagine that this person not only hears you but tries to talk to you but the mouth is motionless and you don’t hear anything. Imagine that this person is your relative. How does it feels now?

You may think that everything was great in that hospital. But I felt that something was wrong. Starting from the moment when I almost fell on the floor in the beginning. And I wasn’t able to understand what it was. Until one night when I decided not to sleep and to think about it. But the Universe thought otherwise. After that night I thought that I will remember it for all my life. That night I almost died. Imagine how it feels. Only Moon is shining in the window. You look around and see that everybody sleeping. No one will be able to help you. Your own body is against you. Everything falls apart. I cried like I never cried before. Quietly. I thought is that’s it? I will die here just like that. I thought that all my life I spent doing good things and it’s going to end there. I imagined how in the morning my mother will come and get a heart attack. I also was thinking that I can’t tell anyone because after that I will get into trouble. Only this saved my life. That I didn’t want to die. That even then I didn’t give up. And there is much scarier thing than death. Because it happens and that’s it. And that is the loss of freedom. And I’m not talking about democracy, the thing that never actually worked. Imagine that one day you will wake up but your hand doesn’t move. No matter what and how hard you try it doesn’t move. Now imagine it’s not only a hand that you lose control of. How does it feels? I got home after 2 months. And I had a very productive 2 weeks. What does it mean very productive you may ask? When all my wishes came true.

What do you know about near death experiences? How many people have been through that?

Have you heard about people who after a car crash stayed alive but after that their life have changed?

People that never played on the piano but after that were writing the most beautiful music very easily. But you may struggle to write a simple song. If you will ask them how do they do it? They will answer that they don’t know, it just happens. And they can do only one thing that good — to play the piano. Nothing else. You will say that you will never be able to play as good as them.

Do you know about people who are called geniuses?

People who can glimpse on the picture. Close the eyes. And recreate it from scratch on a blank paper with a pencil with all possible details. But at the same time they may not be able to simply go in the park by themselves. They can’t tell you how they do it. They only can memorize that good. Nothing else. And you will say that you have a bad memory and never will be able to do that.

People who can multiply big numbers without calculator in a matter of seconds. And they can do only this that good. Nothing else. Is this practical to do it? If you will ask them how they do it the maximum they will tell you is that they just see the colors and after that they just know the answer. Right answer. Without mistakes. But if you will insist and still ask them ok but how do you do it? They will say that they don’t know, it just happens. You will say that you never liked that math and you can calculate that on computer. And again you will think that you will never be able to do that.

Computers weren’t made by programmers. There were no programmers back then. They were poets, mathematicians, painters — anyone but programmers. People are universal. They are not limited to one profession. It was the time when people saw opportunities, when people had dreams, when they were full of enthusiasm because it was interesting, they were doing something that no one else did before, they were able to tell their daughters and sons look I was working on this computer and their kids were proud of them, they knew that there is a better life ahead. How the computers influence your everyday life today? Computers brake, don’t they? Are they reliable things to store information? The photos where your son first sat on the bicycle, where your daughter first braid her hair, where you visited your parents at home after a long time, where you fell in love. Why do you want to keep those photos? To feel again those moments. Because you have bad memory and you can’t turn back time. But you can change yourself. You can change how you feel. And there are more important things in life than photos. To spend your life with your relatives and closed ones before you can. To make the right choices that can change your life and lives of people around you.

People tried to find how those geniuses do it. They measured brains of people like Albert Einstein. They gathered statistics. Doing polls. They wanted that their kids will be smarter than them. That their kids will have better lives.

They were amazed when Nikola Tesla was passing million volts through his own body. That mysterious Nikola Tesla. Who was able to sleep just 3–4 hours. Who was able to make so many inventions that easily without even need to write them down on the paper. Just imagining them.

At first I thought that nothing changed but it felt like something was different. Until it was time to go to sleep but I was able not to sleep. Not to sleep at all. Insomnia you will say. Feeling tired? Headaches? Exhausted? Not refreshed? Forget about that. If I wanted to sleep I was able to sleep. If I didn’t want to sleep I wasn’t sleeping. You may say wow. At first I was surprised but in the morning I thought what else I can do.

Once you made a hole in the dam the water starts to flow like a flood so quickly and in such quantity that you start to wonder where it was all those previous years.

What do you know about reflexes? Those things that you think all of your life are unchanged. Can you move your fingers on your hand one by one separately? Now can you do the same on your leg? Some of you may say I can but how easily? Can you yawn without closing your eyes? Few of you may say I can. Can you look directly on the Sun without looking away? And you may forget one thing that you do everyday but may not pay attention to it. Because you don’t even need to think about it. When you walk, when you sit how do you keep your head? Aligned with your back and shoulders. To keep it vertical. When you turn your head you know that at some point you need to stop and not to turn it further. When I was able to stretch my neck and when I heard a crunch sound after turning it I thought I will break it.

But remember through what I’ve been through. It was very dangerous.

Let’s get to something more interesting. How about raising and lowering your temperature? In any part of your body. My hand is cold and now it’s hot. Is it too hot outside? Just a moment and you are feeling well.

How about changing your blood pressure? Do you have low or high blood pressure all your life and you feel bad about that? No problem. Just a second and it’s normalized.

But at least that is something more usual.

I was sitting and looked on the shelf. There was a Rubik’s cube. When I was younger it was too tedious, too boring to solve it. When I got stuck I’ve just took it and glued the color squares to their original positions and started again. But this time I took it and began to solve it. You want to show it to someone. Whom will you show it? Of course to your mother. But just to show it is not interesting. I have a sense of humor. I’ve hidden the cube behind, took a pencil in another hand and said that today I’ve cleaned the kitchen, I fed the cats and can you take this pencil for a moment? Oh my! Look at this! Then I’ve just took the cube in front, made 3 moves and she opened her eyes from delight. But I haven’t stopped on that. I started to think how to solve it in the least possible moves depending how the colors where placed and regardless of their positions. I will just say so you will not even try to count how many moves it will take that people used supercomputers to find those numbers. It’s that hard. There are so many combinations.

But let’s move to more advanced things. What can be more advanced than that you may ask?

How about super multitasking? Imagine that you have a sword in one hand and you have to defend yourself from 8 people. But now imagine that there are not 8 but 16 people and at the same time you manage to eat an apple with another hand and make plans for the evening. Do you like to solve sudoku? By the time you will find the first number I’ve already solved half of it. And I’m talking about not the easiest one. The hardest. Imagine that!

Have you ever scanned your brain on FMRI scanner? The thing that shows activity of your brain by detecting the changes in the blood flow? The thing that may cost more than $150'000. The thing with noisy images that need to be cleaned. What do you prefer? That strong magnetic field will pass through your head or nothing at all. So you think your brain can sense only temperature, pressure and headaches? Some of you may even know that when people do the brain surgery it can be done without anesthesia. But any kind of that surgery can cause you later epilepsy. Didn’t know that? And you will live with that whole your life. I was able to know exactly where the activity was going. I want to sleep and this is here. I want to eat an apple and it is here. How it changes through time. An apple a day keeps a doctor away now has a different meaning. But unlike those scanners I knew why that activity was there and what actually was going on at that time.

Now you stare on your screen, don’t you?

And about that anesthesia. What about it you may ask? Do you have a chronic pain? Need those painkillers every day? Maybe even whole your life. Or what is it? A Toothache? I felt a pain in my hand. Less than a second and it’s gone.

And there are things more advanced than this. What can I say? I wasn’t wasting time.

How about changing blood structure? Do you know people with diabetes? Those people who need insulin injections. Imagine that they can be cured without need of any medications. Imagine that!

What about allergy? What beautiful little girl? Don’t use makeup because of that? Before this happen to me I had a little allergy on my hand that I never had before. Not in a second. But few days and it’s gone.

Imagine a person after a fire with the highest level of burned skin. Do you know where the new skin is taken from? From other people, from their own skin, from the skin grown in laboratories. Now imagine that you don’t need anything of that. And you can regrow your own skin.

Should I say about cancer?

I’ve got to the point even when I thought that I will be able to stop my heart and start it up again. But I haven’t tried it because of what happen to me and because I was worried that I will not be able to start it up. Even though I’m sure that I was able to. Besides Indian yoga practitioners can do it through years of practice. No yoga, no practice and it’s done. But you may say what is practical in that? Imagine that there is electrical interference in the air that will cause your heart trouble if it will be beating. So you stop your heart, pass through and start it up. And everything is ok with you.

And there are things much more advanced than this. So advanced that they are considered the most complicated in the world. Like human consciousness. Or how are they called? Higher-order brain functions. These were the hardest. And sometimes it was illogical even paradoxical. Only because I thought it should be like in neurobiological books I’ve read before. But it was anything but that.

Changing the quality of memory from almost total amnesia to super memory. In a blink of an eye. Changing the time perception. Deconstructing the visual perception process. The reasoning process. Changing voice. Increasing and decreasing the speed of the voice. Do you think you can do it? Try to maintain the same speed for more than few seconds! Can you feel a wind without actual wind? With all the possible details like pressure and temperature on your skin. Or can you feel how a drop of water falls on your hand and it feels wet? Like the actual drop of water. And about that consciousness. How long do you think it took me to understand what it is? Less than 5 minutes.

Remember Nikola Tesla was able to imagine his inventions.

If I was making a car I was able to imagine all of it’s parts up to the bolts. With 10th of thousands of parts. Just give me a paper and I will draw the whole manufacturing process plan. And my hand will be much slower than my mind.

Let’s say that the whole cycle of manufacturing the car takes 6 years. From idea to the physical car. Now imagine it can be done in just month or less.

At the same time I was able to memorize my actions, analyze them and even figuring out how in the Universe I was able to do that.

Do you know why people were advancing their knowledge very slow before? Because of the competition. They believed that it is something good. But it’s a total waste of time. Many thousand years ago people were living in small groups. There were no jobs, no one was fired. There was work to do. And everybody was doing it to survive and live in harmony with each other and nature. Imagine what will happen when thousands of people will be working on the same problem and all of them will have super abilities. Any hard problem will become the easiest. Unsolvable will become solvable. Impossible will become possible.

When I realized that I was able to control everything inside my body that was the moment I was waiting for all my life. And unlike those geniuses you can do that too.

Once my grandmother gave me a clock. It was broken. She asked me to repair it. I thought that I will never do it because I’ve never done that before. But even though I took it and after all I did it.

Do you think that everything that happened to me was coincidence? There were moments when 1 minute earlier or 1 minute later and it will be completely different outcome. How people say look on this randomly distributed brain cells? Can randomness create complicated highly organized things? Is there randomness at all?

What are the human limitations? Are there limitations? Nikola Tesla even was thinking how to make people not to eat food. Do you know that you are just an automatic thing? With emotions, feelings, believes but automatic. You can switch on and off, regulate anything you want. Do you realize that? Do you know that your body is not isolated? It is embedded inside the Universe. Universe is everything surrounding us. Including us. And that Universe is changing in some kind of direction. And you are experiencing that direction through your senses in the process called life. Your life. That emotions and feelings are not something unique to living beings. Neither is your ability to memorize everything, to have dreams, to think. Do you still think that everything is discovered?

Where do your fears suddenly have gone?

Have you noticed how you changed?

So when it will happen? The question in the beginning.

Faster than you thought!

Now you are not a little girl. You are a Lady.

So Ladies and Gentlemen we are entering into new era. Era of new possibilities. Where everyone will have an equal opportunity. When for the first time in human history we can change everything. Health system, education, work, science, society, the world around us. It gives a lot of opportunities and at the same time it takes a lot of responsibility. Only your good intentions will create the future that you always dreamed about.

You heard Nikola’s part of the story. You heard my part. Now comes your part.

I promised the Lady from university that I will not forget about people like her. People that spend their lives on the regular jobs and can’t change anything. People who are voiceless. People who have dreams. I breath the same air you breath. I walk on the same ground you walk. I’m not scared. And neither you should be.

Now you have an opportunity to change everything you always wished. The opportunity of your lifetime. Today is that day. Know that it will not be easy. It will take years. But it will be fun and it will be the most interesting thing you have ever did in your life. If you are ready to go to another planet knowing that you can ran out of food and only your choices will keep you alive then you are ready for such work. I learned to make choices in less than 7 seconds. Now is your choice. If you will pass this little exam you can apply.

Imagine that you will be given an honorary degree. What will you do? Now pause and decide. I will go there the day before. I will find there a little girl with a dream and will say:

- Bring your parents tomorrow.

- Why?

- You will see.

The next day when I will be standing on the stage they will give me that degree. And I will say:

- Can you give me a marker?

They will be perplexed. But after a pause somebody will give it to me.

I will look on that little girl and say:

- Come here.

And during writing on that paper I will say:

- I never really needed those degrees.

“From”

- The life should not be a challenge.

“To”

- You can do great things if you wish. And nothing is limiting you from doing them.

What name do you like? Let it be Monica.

“Monica”

I will give this degree to Monica, look on those who gave it to me and say:

- Do you agree with me?

They will have no choice but to say yes. And I will say:

- Now Monica tell what do you want to do in your life?

And she will tell her story.

For somebody that marker will cost $1 Trillion but for Monica it will be more than life.

P.S. Life is a never-ending story. But to end on a positive note if you happen to know people who were working on that large hadron collider or in CERN tell them that in their string theory there are no strings attached.

And if you like music you can check that theory about twins. You can go to the Collingwood Elvis Presley annual festival and ask one of them if he knows if there is just one Elvis Presley or there are many of them. And don’t forget to bring a needle. I will not tell you what will happen next. Let it be your sense of discovery.