2:40 - And in that case, it was Roger Bannister coming out of the last turn, and as Landry looked over his shoulder Bannister blew by him to win the race, and they both ran a sub-four-minute mile. Since that time, more have accomplished it. I believe it's 1497 people that have now run the mile in under four minutes, and I believe we're down to about three minutes and 40 something seconds for a sub-four-minute mile. The point being is that when there is that belief that it can not be done, and then once it is done, the floodgates open, and we had more and more people running a sub-four-minute mile.

What's interesting to me about this is that in my two decades of working in finance I've had some similar things pop up. The first one came early in my career where I remember, I was walking into my house I was listening to the news the financial news on the radio. And I heard that for the very first time up here in Canada, the Royal Bank of Canada had recorded their very first quarter with $1 billion in profit.

That was the first time that a bank or a company in Canada have recorded a quarterly profit of $1 billion dollars. Once that was achieved, once that boundary of $1 billion in a quarterly profit had been achieved, now the five major banks in Canada regularly record over a billion dollars in profit in their quarters, and in some cases like RBC and TD Bank, they are over the $2 billion mark in quarterly profits. Again, the thinking before was that it might not be done, or It couldn't be done, or nobody had done it yet and then once that is achieved. Boom. There you go.

A few years back, no company had ever reached a market cap of $1 trillion. Apple broke through that barrier of $1 trillion, and now we have four companies with a market cap of over $1 trillion, and more are on the way. It also brings up the conversation around, billionaires, multi-millionaires and all of that.

Once those amounts were achieved by somebody, then that possibility flows through to the consciousness of all humans, and now, the game is on. We ask, how can I do that? What do I need to do to be there? People then line themselves up to start doing something, and achieving something that may have been before, thought to be impossible, but once it's done all bets are off.

It even makes me think of landing on the moon.

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