Ric Elias

He says, brace for impact.

The movie is actually very true to a lot of it, especially to this.

But at that moment, I look back at the flight attendant, Patrick, and then all of a sudden it's complete terror in her eyes.

She's like, holy cow, in training this is, we are not landing at an airport.

I don't know that, but I can see her eyes, and I know that that's what it means.

And the great gift of that day was 90 seconds to literally say, it's over.

I am sitting there going like, oh my goodness, it's over.

Not only is it over, and then some people, you may have a near-death experience of a second or two seconds.

This is a minute and a half to basically sign off from life.

And that's, for me, been super formative.

Previous to this last year and a half, it was a real moment of kind of resignation in life.

And lots of things happened from how have I dealt with spiritual beliefs from that time all the way to how it did impact my life.

And I did that TED Talk not knowing that it would ever get published.

But by the way, it was the greatest gift I gave myself because people talk about it.

And it's a reminder of me of a promise I made to myself that day, which is I was not going to let that experience someday.

I want it to be a part of me, not something that happened to me.

I've tried to live very hard, very consciously of the gift I got that day.

Can you remember sequentially what went through your head in those 90 seconds?

Yeah.

When I think about it and I think about it now more evolved with time behind is a lot of it had to do with the immediate emotion that I felt was this, oh, no, it's over.