How To Light An Elevator On Fire

You know, the only difference between an American elevator and a European elevator is what level is zero. In America, you walk into a building, [music] into the lobby. What does it say? Floor one. You're on one. But in Austria or most of Europe, you walk into the lobby. What does it say? Zero. You are on nothing. The first floor is one. >> [music] >> What we call the second floor, they call the first floor. It's the same building. It's the same ground, but it's two totally different perspectives on life. America says, "Just by being here, just by existing, you're already a one. You're already a something." Europe doesn't even realize what they're doing, but their elevator is telling you a different story. >> [music] >> Europe says, "You think you're something because you're standing on the ground? You're a zero. You haven't done anything yet. Unless you are going up, you are a nothing." And maybe there's a deep message there because if you think [music] you're already a one just for standing still, you'll stay in the lobby your whole life. But if you understand that on your own, you're a zero, that ground level is a zero, then you know you always have to keep striving. [music] You have to keep climbing. You were not put here to stand zero. You were put here to go up. >> [snorts] >> And that [music] is how you light an elevator on fire.