YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF - Best Hour of Eric Thomas Motivation

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spk_0 Do it your way, you don't need that permission but you need yours.

spk_0 You don't need that permission but you do need yours.

spk_0 You do need to look at yourself and declare who you are and you need to believe it.

spk_0 You think my dreams are too big?

spk_0 I said absolutely not.

spk_0 You just telling them to the wrong person.

spk_0 For some of you, the reason why you're not taking advantage of this opportunity is not because

spk_0 you don't believe in it.

spk_0 You don't believe in you.

spk_0 In order to achieve greatness, you must first believe you can.

spk_0 I'm ready.

spk_0 Because I get to decide I'm running my life now.

spk_0 I'm finally in control of my life.

spk_0 I'm finally the boss of my life.

spk_0 Are you ready to be the boss of your own life?

spk_0 Are you ready to be in control of your own life?

spk_0 Are you ready?

spk_0 And you deserve to have everything you want.

spk_0 You deserve to live your best life.

spk_0 You deserve it and stop listening to the people who tell you you don't.

spk_0 Kill the noise.

spk_0 Why don't they know?

spk_0 We're going to do the hard work now.

spk_0 So here's the hard work.

spk_0 I need you to confront you.

spk_0 I was created to be great.

spk_0 I was created to do great things.

spk_0 I was created to have great things.

spk_0 And I will no longer ask others for their permission.

spk_0 That person who is your hater, they thought they defeated you.

spk_0 That person who told you you'll never run out to anything.

spk_0 They thought they defeated you.

spk_0 You want me to tell you to give up?

spk_0 Huh? You want me to tell you to quit?

spk_0 Huh?

spk_0 Is that what you want me to say?

spk_0 You want to hear it in T. Say?

spk_0 It's all right.

spk_0 You give up.

spk_0 It's all right.

spk_0 This surrender.

spk_0 That's what you want me to say.

spk_0 Well listen to me.

spk_0 I can't tell you that.

spk_0 Some of us just cry.

spk_0 Some of us don't make excuses.

spk_0 Some of us don't surrender.

spk_0 Some of us don't give up and give it.

spk_0 It's all dream.

spk_0 Nobody's going to see it like you do it.

spk_0 It's your dream.

spk_0 Nobody's going to feel it like you can feel it.

spk_0 Nobody's going to be a dedicated to it as you are.

spk_0 It's your dream and they don't have to understand.

spk_0 And they don't have to like it.

spk_0 And they don't have to do it.

spk_0 It doesn't make a difference.

spk_0 And you, my friend, have been given the task to make it happen.

spk_0 And you can't let anything stop you from doing what you were called to do.

spk_0 What we do with the pressurize, we say I got to take it.

spk_0 I got to take it to another level.

spk_0 Once you start questioning yourself, you already lost.

spk_0 All of us will be successful in life if we don't quit.

spk_0 I got to believe in me.

spk_0 You can't anybody else believe in me.

spk_0 I get up at three because it's silent.

spk_0 It's easier to be focused when the environment is focused.

spk_0 Most of you wake up and you try to make money.

spk_0 Listen to me.

spk_0 If you would make you, money would come to you.

spk_0 Okay, you missed that whole thing, I just said.

spk_0 If you would make you a better person, you'd make more money.

spk_0 Now, watch what I do.

spk_0 The way people spend their money or treat their money is how I treat my time.

spk_0 All right, let me explain what I mean to you.

spk_0 I make sure that every single day,

spk_0 in that 24-hour period that I'm getting a whole bunch of wins.

spk_0 So I was supposed to be doing this at this time, doing this at this time, doing this at this time.

spk_0 The problem with most of you, you waking up and you worshiping money.

spk_0 Man, I was in the back when Carl Cull was like,

spk_0 E, I got this opportunity for you, I got this opportunity, I got this opportunity.

spk_0 When you become number one, you have to chase opportunity.

spk_0 So I became number one, not meaning I'm better than nobody else.

spk_0 It means I just mastered my craft to the point that I know what I do that don't nobody else do.

spk_0 I know that I have way of doing in this industry with nobody else does.

spk_0 And I've picked out in this industry, I've carved out my own wound.

spk_0 And your problem is you have 50% knocking on doors trying to get the result.

spk_0 Somebody had 100%.

spk_0 And you wonder why they're working because why you're doing what they're doing.

spk_0 You're not.

spk_0 They are.

spk_0 So why do I put more emphasis on time than I put on money?

spk_0 Because they print money.

spk_0 They don't print time.

spk_0 They're almost there one more time.

spk_0 You are worshiping the thing that they make every day.

spk_0 They don't make time every day.

spk_0 They don't buy the print time.

spk_0 I'm, I'm at them yet.

spk_0 I'm at no billionaire.

spk_0 I'm at no trillionaire.

spk_0 I'm at no institution.

spk_0 I'm at no company.

spk_0 I'm at nobody print money.

spk_0 So why you spending more time on the thing they print every day than the thing you know why?

spk_0 Because you're not developing and you follow another people.

spk_0 When you understand that the real thing is time and you ain't got a lot of it,

spk_0 you start focusing on your time and when you get your time right, money will come.

spk_0 Some people go to the bar once every 10 years.

spk_0 I'm going every other month.

spk_0 Why?

spk_0 When you master yourself.

spk_0 You put yourself in the position that a lot of people can't do what you do.

spk_0 And then you become rare.

spk_0 And diamonds are rare.

spk_0 That's why they call so much.

spk_0 If you would become rare, you just like everybody else.

spk_0 You look like you're acting like you just like everybody else.

spk_0 When you become you and you become rare, you become a,

spk_0 when you leave this room, you will take full ownership.

spk_0 And the reason why I say it's my fault, even when it's not my fault,

spk_0 because when I say it's your fault, I give you power.

spk_0 I give you control over my life.

spk_0 And I will never give another human control over my life.

spk_0 It's my fault.

spk_0 It's my problem.

spk_0 I'm covering up with the solution for it.

spk_0 Stop being average.

spk_0 Average people can't forgive.

spk_0 Average people can't let go.

spk_0 The great we do whatever it takes.

spk_0 They also have a why.

spk_0 Can bear almost any harm.

spk_0 How have I become number one in the world?

spk_0 Find out my wife had multiple soroses.

spk_0 They told my wife, listen to me, y'all,

spk_0 my wife's so beat-smile.

spk_0 They told my wife, she had MS, she's like, man.

spk_0 Then they told her she had the quitter job, she,

spk_0 she here came out of her.

spk_0 The doctor said, you don't have insurance?

spk_0 She said, yeah, I got insurance.

spk_0 She's looking at like, why are you crying?

spk_0 You got insurance?

spk_0 My wife's identity isn't her waking up and working every day.

spk_0 She went to school to be a registered nurse.

spk_0 She went to school to do breast and cervical cancer.

spk_0 She didn't want to be at home.

spk_0 She didn't want to be in her home white.

spk_0 She literally went to school to be a nurse.

spk_0 She loves her job.

spk_0 When they told her she had the quitter, my wife's like, I don't know what I'm going to do.

spk_0 I said, how much you make?

spk_0 She told me five thousand.

spk_0 I said, five thousand times 12 times, I'm going 60 times,

spk_0 30 years, I'm going 1.8 million, I'm going to book a birthday,

spk_0 hunt, 100, 100, 1.8 million.

spk_0 I'm number one in the world.

spk_0 Not because I'm a better speaker.

spk_0 I'm not number one in the world because I look the best,

spk_0 because I dress the best.

spk_0 I'm not number one because my, my, my, my,

spk_0 annunciation is the best because I use the best words because I got the best sentence structure

spk_0 because I come from the best background.

spk_0 I got, I may, I may get number one because I woke up and I hunted down the 1.8 million.

spk_0 So my wife will never have to work again.

spk_0 If you wake up every day and you want a role,

spk_0 it's right, you ain't about to beat me.

spk_0 If you wake up for a Bentley, you ain't about to beat me.

spk_0 If you wake up for a go and change, you ain't about to beat me.

spk_0 If you wake up for a role, you ain't about to beat me,

spk_0 because you're going after material stuff,

spk_0 I'm going after my phone.

spk_0 I'm going after my baby.

spk_0 I'm going after my high school sweetheart.

spk_0 I'm going after my kids so they can see their mom when they're mom and don't die.

spk_0 I'm making sure their mom and don't get in a wheelchair if I can help.

spk_0 If their mom and don't lose her sight, if I can help me,

spk_0 if her mom and don't lose her memory.

spk_0 So I start studying MS like I had.

spk_0 I start studying MS.

spk_0 Your problem is you're not studying this product like your life is bound on it.

spk_0 Like your life depends on it.

spk_0 You're playing with this product.

spk_0 You know what?

spk_0 You like the people that work for me that want to check

spk_0 and they never end up getting it.

spk_0 But the people who own who work for my company act like they own it.

spk_0 Wake up every single day, make sure she don't have to go back work.

spk_0 So I start studying and I found out two things.

spk_0 One is stress so I had to take her out of a stressful situation

spk_0 and then the other thing was vitamin D.

spk_0 And I literally, people say, bro, why you moving to Southern California?

spk_0 Because my wife got it.

spk_0 I literally tight.

spk_0 What's the best place in the world for vitamin D?

spk_0 Southern California.

spk_0 What's the best temperature in the world in the United States of America?

spk_0 San Diego, California.

spk_0 It don't never, it don't go 99, 100 and then back down.

spk_0 It's right there.

spk_0 I said San Diego, I'm hunting down.

spk_0 You moving to San Diego, wow.

spk_0 I don't care about San Diego, my wife, my wife.

spk_0 And the first year last year we were in San Diego.

spk_0 My wife said to me, back to Michigan when the summer came.

spk_0 My wife said, you know something, I said, what?

spk_0 She said, I never took a nap in California.

spk_0 She said, what you mean by that?

spk_0 She said, the sun energized and I never needed to take a nap.

spk_0 You're going to come after me.

spk_0 The reason why most of you can't do what you do,

spk_0 you can keep getting knocked down, you keep quitting.

spk_0 Because whatever your wire is, it ain't stronger than a V-down take.

spk_0 Whatever the V-down, whatever life is throwing at you,

spk_0 whatever punches is blowing, whatever is happening,

spk_0 it ain't that deep enough for you to wake up.

spk_0 Like you're getting punched and you feel that pain

spk_0 and you like and don't need to get up.

spk_0 No, and I feel you, you need to stay down.

spk_0 So life don't beat you.

spk_0 You talk about making millions, life don't beat you down.

spk_0 You talk about making millions, multi-million,

spk_0 billions, life don't beat you down.

spk_0 So when you feel the pain and you get knocked down, stay down.

spk_0 Then you got a lot of steeper than your pain.

spk_0 Reach out, reach out, I will my way through it.

spk_0 I don't care if it's cancer, I will my way through it.

spk_0 I don't care if it's MS, I will my way through it.

spk_0 I don't care if I'm struggling in school and I'm trying to get a degree.

spk_0 I will my way through it.

spk_0 I don't care if you fail the boards.

spk_0 Go again, I don't care if you fail the law exam.

spk_0 Go again, will your way through it.

spk_0 Some things you can scale your stuff through,

spk_0 some stuff you gotta wheel your way through.

spk_0 Without a vision, there's no direction,

spk_0 without direction, there's no progress.

spk_0 Reason why you're struggling getting up,

spk_0 because you don't have nothing to get up for.

spk_0 It's gonna be a dog fight.

spk_0 I would love to tell you that on a road to success,

spk_0 everything is gonna work out, it's not.

spk_0 It's gonna be a dog fight.

spk_0 On a road to success, I lost five odds to cancer.

spk_0 To dog fight.

spk_0 In the midst of my business, I lost aunts.

spk_0 I have to go to funerals, we have to get on a plane,

spk_0 we have to drive, we have aunts that are close to my age.

spk_0 Who died, who didn't have insurance.

spk_0 We had to raise money, a dog fight.

spk_0 I had cousins, shop, and stores, execution style,

spk_0 shop back of their head, back of their head, twice.

spk_0 To dog fight.

spk_0 Now you don't see that on YouTube,

spk_0 you don't see that on my TGI, it's a dog fight.

spk_0 My wife three years ago, seven legions falling to brain,

spk_0 it's a dog fight.

spk_0 It hasn't been easy, it's a dog fight.

spk_0 It hasn't been the road hasn't been successful,

spk_0 it's just a paved road, and like each he goes to play,

spk_0 it's been rock, it's been crooked, it's been hard.

spk_0 But I've made up in my mind that I will get a reward

spk_0 for the pain that I go through.

spk_0 I will not stop in the middle of the process.

spk_0 I will not be defeated, I will not be destroyed.

spk_0 I will take everything that happens in my life,

spk_0 and I will allow the pain.

spk_0 Once you've been arrested, you will not break me.

spk_0 You will not stop me.

spk_0 You will not defeat me.

spk_0 The only way I lose is if I quit,

spk_0 it's going to be a dog fight.

spk_0 And so have you ready to quit, and don't get started?

spk_0 If you ready to quit, don't get started.

spk_0 If you look at what has easy happened, don't get started.

spk_0 If you think they're not going to close the door,

spk_0 and you would say no, a million times, don't get started.

spk_0 But every time they close the door,

spk_0 I just get excited why?

spk_0 Because I am not a no, I'm one yesterday.

spk_0 I'm one yesterday.

spk_0 You can't keep telling me no forever.

spk_0 You can't keep denying me forever.

spk_0 That's how I manage, that's how I'm compassionate.

spk_0 You can't stop it.

spk_0 You can't change it for a while.

spk_0 But you cannot stop this in life.

spk_0 And you can't defeat me.

spk_0 There is not.

spk_0 You don't have enough power.

spk_0 You don't have enough energy.

spk_0 You don't have enough strength to stop this.

spk_0 You can take it for a year, you might.

spk_0 Two years you might.

spk_0 You do not have hate.

spk_0 There's not have enough energy to destroy love.

spk_0 You cannot destroy this.

spk_0 It did happen to me at 19.

spk_0 It happened to me at 40.

spk_0 It happened to me at 30.

spk_0 The pressure I thought I could go through.

spk_0 Like I said, you finish with all the pressure.

spk_0 I say it here.

spk_0 I said let it bring on the heat.

spk_0 When I went through the pressure in the heat, y'all,

spk_0 I thought it was over.

spk_0 The creator said now you ready to get cut.

spk_0 You say you wanted to be great, so?

spk_0 You say you wanted to travel the world.

spk_0 You say you wanted to help people inspire people.

spk_0 And you've got to be a diamond.

spk_0 In our armed forces, let's just pick one.

spk_0 The Navy, for instance.

spk_0 The first thing they teach you.

spk_0 Somebody over here, help me out.

spk_0 You were in the Navy.

spk_0 Right? You're going. They're teaching you war.

spk_0 Right? What's the first thing they teach you?

spk_0 The first thing they teach you.

spk_0 The very first thing they teach you.

spk_0 Is how to respond when you have a jam gun.

spk_0 And number two, how to carry a dead body.

spk_0 Not the first thing they teach you.

spk_0 They don't teach you how to defend yourself.

spk_0 They don't teach you how to swim.

spk_0 The first thing they teach you is when your gun is jammed.

spk_0 The first thing they teach you is a dead body.

spk_0 How to carry a dead body.

spk_0 And somebody tell me why would they start you there?

spk_0 That's the worst accident area.

spk_0 That's what you're not prepared for.

spk_0 That's what you're not thinking.

spk_0 You're not thinking when you go out to defend yourself.

spk_0 That your gun is going to jam.

spk_0 You're not thinking when you go out there,

spk_0 that your boy will get killed.

spk_0 And you got a drag. You're not thinking that.

spk_0 So let's do it. It's not.

spk_0 It's not hardships that hurt us.

spk_0 It's not my cousin getting shot twice.

spk_0 It's not my cousin's been in 15 years in jail.

spk_0 It's not my eyes down the camp.

spk_0 It's not my white blood to be a diagnosis.

spk_0 What seven leeches on a brain that will break you.

spk_0 What will break most people that you didn't prepare for that?

spk_0 So you put all your legos and all your legos together.

spk_0 It's not the thing that broke you, that broke you.

spk_0 It wants you never even thought about the fact that you're going to be broken.

spk_0 This is going to be a dull fight.

spk_0 And if you solved this, ain't that you want to get out now.

spk_0 This is where he, like I quit.

spk_0 But if you were going to say, I'm not going to quit.

spk_0 Ganty, whatever success you want to have, you're going to have to.

spk_0 You will not outrun me.

spk_0 You won't outrun me.

spk_0 You can be smarter than me.

spk_0 You won't outrun me.

spk_0 I'd get up at 3 o'clock in the morning and do videos.

spk_0 I'd do a video at 3 o'clock.

spk_0 I'd do a video at 2 o'clock.

spk_0 I'm putting out so much dumb on content.

spk_0 They can't keep up.

spk_0 They smarter than me.

spk_0 I admit, I got a GD.

spk_0 I ain't the smartest person in the world.

spk_0 But I get up and do this for D.D.

spk_0 I do this every day for D.D.

spk_0 Because of what D.D. did for me.

spk_0 I do this for my kid.

spk_0 My daddy wasn't there.

spk_0 I do this for my family.

spk_0 You can't stop me.

spk_0 The reason why some of you should be stopped is you're going for yourself.

spk_0 And guess what happened when you get tired?

spk_0 When you grinding and what grind, when you grind it, grinding hurts.

spk_0 Grindin' is a sacrifice.

spk_0 Grindin' costs.

spk_0 When you're grinding and your body tells you you hurt.

spk_0 When you're doing it for you, you stop.

spk_0 You never, you never prepared.

spk_0 You never, you never prepared for worst case scenario.

spk_0 And the reason why E.T. is dead here.

spk_0 Because I'm prepared for it.

spk_0 If you know any think of Bobby, I still lay on floors.

spk_0 I still eat chips off the floor.

spk_0 I still do some stuff that to most people is crazy.

spk_0 Like, E.T. why would you do that?

spk_0 Because I'm always prepared that we may not live in our house one day.

spk_0 One day something might happen and we might have to go back to that.

spk_0 And if I have to go back to that, it's not going to break me.

spk_0 The thing we covered the most,

spk_0 and for D.D. I'm going to be produced.

spk_0 And most parts go through extreme heat.

spk_0 Extreme heat.

spk_0 Extreme pressure.

spk_0 Are you here when I'm telling you for a diamond to be produced?

spk_0 It has to go through extreme pressure.

spk_0 Extreme heat.

spk_0 And if that wasn't enough, what makes a diamond a diamond is the cut.

spk_0 So I put you on a put through.

spk_0 If you want to be a diamond,

spk_0 you must go through extreme pressure.

spk_0 If you can't take pressure, then you're not a diamond.

spk_0 After you go through all the pressure,

spk_0 you thought you could not handle.

spk_0 And you think it's over, then they turn on the heat.

spk_0 Of all the stuff I'm going through in my life,

spk_0 eating out of trash cans.

spk_0 Slippin' in the band of builders.

spk_0 The worst thing that ever happened is when I went to the hospital,

spk_0 and they told me my wife had a chronic illness,

spk_0 and she might not even walk one day.

spk_0 People said, E.T. at CJ,

spk_0 it never broke me wide,

spk_0 because I've been broken so much.

spk_0 They've figured so much.

spk_0 I've been disappointing so much in my life.

spk_0 But I know what it feels like,

spk_0 and I can't wait.

spk_0 It's your turn.

spk_0 You shouldn't feel guilty, it's your turn.

spk_0 It's your time.

spk_0 You've blessed everybody else.

spk_0 You've said everybody else was success.

spk_0 You've compromised you for them,

spk_0 and look where you are.

spk_0 It's time for you.

spk_0 That's why for a lot of you, you're not doing nothing,

spk_0 because you don't have any purpose right now.

spk_0 You don't have a sense of purpose.

spk_0 You're not waking up for nobody.

spk_0 And I need you to get that engine.

spk_0 I need that drive, because you know what to do.

spk_0 You're the right person to do it,

spk_0 but you just can't seem to get out of bed.

spk_0 You can't seem to do what you're supposed to do.

spk_0 Every time you come up against a trial or a tribulation,

spk_0 you let it stop.

spk_0 You gotta find your why,

spk_0 and your why is what's gonna start you.

spk_0 In the problem with something you in this room,

spk_0 you don't have no drive.

spk_0 You ain't got nothing pushing you.

spk_0 You ain't got no reason for waking up in the morning.

spk_0 You ain't got no reason for pushing past that pain.

spk_0 You have no reason.

spk_0 You better find one before you get out here today.

spk_0 You better go inside.

spk_0 You still looking outside for the stuff that's already inside.

spk_0 You're still looking for someone to save you

spk_0 when you already are superhero.

spk_0 You looking for some information from somebody

spk_0 when you already got what you need in your head.

spk_0 It's just time for you to get up and be the best version of you.

spk_0 It's not an option.

spk_0 And the reason why some of you are not where you're supposed to be.

spk_0 You're giving yourself an option.

spk_0 You're giving yourself an out.

spk_0 You're giving yourself an excuse.

spk_0 You're giving yourself room not to do it.

spk_0 But you have what it takes.

spk_0 Give me some energy I can.

spk_0 I can.

spk_0 I will.

spk_0 I must.

spk_0 Come on I can.

spk_0 I will.

spk_0 I must.

spk_0 I can.

spk_0 Let's go.

spk_0 I can't means I have the ability to do it.

spk_0 I got what it takes.

spk_0 I have the ability to do it.

spk_0 I will.

spk_0 I have the willpower to make it happen.

spk_0 I must.

spk_0 My wife needs me.

spk_0 I must.

spk_0 My son needs me.

spk_0 I must.

spk_0 My daughter needs me.

spk_0 We can.

spk_0 We will.

spk_0 And we must get through this.

spk_0 Let's go.

spk_0 I want to ask you a question seriously.

spk_0 This is going to be hard.

spk_0 Because some of you are young and you like still worried about what people think about you.

spk_0 So you don't want to be honest with other people.

spk_0 I want you to think about whatever you want.

spk_0 You're giving 90, 80, 70.

spk_0 This is what I'm saying for me.

spk_0 I gave everything I got.

spk_0 I have no more to give.

spk_0 I really put 120 into this.

spk_0 So raise your head if you give it 120.

spk_0 I don't have no more to give it to me.

spk_0 E.

spk_0 I'm giving 100.

spk_0 I know I'm doing at least what coach want me to do.

spk_0 I'm doing everything coach want me to do.

spk_0 I'm giving about 90% of him to be real.

spk_0 I'm giving about 90%.

spk_0 Let me see your head.

spk_0 Of my effort.

spk_0 Let me see your hands.

spk_0 I'm giving about 80%.

spk_0 70%.

spk_0 I need you for you to admit where you are.

spk_0 Where's it going to take for you to give every single thing you got?

spk_0 What is that going to take?

spk_0 It's consistency.

spk_0 And so I got to go to bed at a certain time.

spk_0 There's certain things I can't eat, certain things I can't wipe, certain things I can't do.

spk_0 And I'm talking about that grind.

spk_0 I got an opportunity.

spk_0 You got an opportunity.

spk_0 So here's a deal.

spk_0 When you have an opportunity, why would you give 80% when you have an opportunity?

spk_0 Somebody answer that for me.

spk_0 Y'all talk.

spk_0 Why would you give 80%, 70%, why wouldn't you always give 120%.

spk_0 This right here for a lot of y'all, y'all ain't got no discipline.

spk_0 It's killing you.

spk_0 And you don't even realize it's killing you.

spk_0 It's killing you.

spk_0 If you're not giving 120, I'm not mad at you.

spk_0 My job is not to dog you out.

spk_0 Because once we go back out, my goal is to come here and take you to that next level.

spk_0 From today on, you play whatever your best game is.

spk_0 You play that level every single time.

spk_0 It doesn't mean you go score every time.

spk_0 But the effort has it.

spk_0 You can always give 120% effort.

spk_0 Life gone wrong regardless.

spk_0 Mental toughness.

spk_0 It is in those times.

spk_0 We have to be stronger than we've ever been before.

spk_0 Why? Because they need us more than ever need us before.

spk_0 I just want to make sure that the life we got left that is sweeted in the life

spk_0 that if I wasn't focused and I wasn't doing what I was supposed to do.

spk_0 And we're going to make it the best possible.

spk_0 It's your life. You got it. What you're going to do with it?

spk_0 I want to ask you a question seriously.

spk_0 How many of you are in this room?

spk_0 You're like, oh, he is my life.

spk_0 But I ain't been in control of it as much as I should be in control of it.

spk_0 And after the day, I'm taking more control of it.

spk_0 Let me see your hair. Be honest with me.

spk_0 Come on. Let me see your hair.

spk_0 And so you looked up to who when you played ball.

spk_0 Like who were the people you looked up to?

spk_0 Kobe. Kobe.

spk_0 LeBron.

spk_0 C.P.

spk_0 D.W.

spk_0 Kobe.

spk_0 I was the same thing with me with Dr. Monter King.

spk_0 And Washington, like all those people I got to dream,

spk_0 when I saw Malcolm like boom.

spk_0 And I saw hundreds of black-nade boom.

spk_0 Like, let's go. I'm like, like I could do that.

spk_0 And then when I found out I could make money doing it.

spk_0 And I could take care of my family.

spk_0 I was like, show time.

spk_0 Like you only got one shot, E.

spk_0 So here what I'm saying.

spk_0 Opportunity.

spk_0 You have an opportunity of a lifetime.

spk_0 When you understand you have an opportunity,

spk_0 you just, you play a little different.

spk_0 Here's what I want to tell you.

spk_0 If you're going to get it, you're going to have to have that dog.

spk_0 You're going to have to have that dog.

spk_0 You're going to have to be that dude that said,

spk_0 I'm not just going with skills.

spk_0 There's a, there's a one type of dude who feels like

spk_0 because he's gifted that it's this auto-trip.

spk_0 It's a automatic road for him.

spk_0 Let me tell you all something.

spk_0 You are gifted but you got to humble yourself.

spk_0 You got skill and you got will.

spk_0 Two total different things.

spk_0 You were born with certain things but to get to the next level.

spk_0 And not just get to the next level.

spk_0 To study at the next level.

spk_0 You got to have will when you get to that next level.

spk_0 So when you play, you have to compete.

spk_0 It's sports.

spk_0 It's basketball.

spk_0 Why wouldn't you give 120%?

spk_0 Talk to me.

spk_0 What would make you not give 120%?

spk_0 You got to answer it.

spk_0 You play that level every single time.

spk_0 It doesn't mean you go score every time.

spk_0 But the effort has it.

spk_0 You can always give 120% effort.

spk_0 You can't dictate if the ball going always going in.

spk_0 You can't dictate what kind of game you're going to have.

spk_0 You can't dictate how your body is going to respond to moving around.

spk_0 But you can dictate your what.

spk_0 You can dictate your good.

spk_0 You can dictate your you can always give 120% effort.

spk_0 Like here's a deal.

spk_0 When y'all go play tonight tomorrow.

spk_0 My goal is for you to go 120.

spk_0 So you're going to have the right people in here helping y'all.

spk_0 But if you do giving me 70, 80, 90.

spk_0 You ain't giving me 120.

spk_0 You're not going to get out of this experience.

spk_0 What you're supposed to get out.

spk_0 That's my job.

spk_0 Why don't you always give 120% effort?

spk_0 I don't belong in this room.

spk_0 I remember the videos had already been out.

spk_0 My numbers were great.

spk_0 And I would come in rooms and go.

spk_0 Or like that room.

spk_0 Like I go to a high school like boom.

spk_0 I go to a youth detention center.

spk_0 Boom. I go to a prison.

spk_0 Boom.

spk_0 I come to corporate and go.

spk_0 I don't know if I belong in here.

spk_0 Everybody in the room don't look like me.

spk_0 They don't come from where I come from.

spk_0 I don't know if I belong here.

spk_0 And I'll never forget.

spk_0 I had a conversation with Les Brown.

spk_0 Les Brown had called me to Orlando.

spk_0 We sat in the hotel.

spk_0 And I left. And I started talking to Les.

spk_0 And I started naming like yo,

spk_0 that you Les Brown, this person, number one in the world.

spk_0 He said, don't you ever say that again.

spk_0 I said, don't say what?

spk_0 He said you the best in the world right now.

spk_0 I said, what? He said you the best in the world right now.

spk_0 There's nobody as good as you in the world.

spk_0 You're the best right now.

spk_0 The only reason you're not the best right now

spk_0 is because you don't believe you the best.

spk_0 And when you walk out this room,

spk_0 I want you to go in and do something.

spk_0 I'm the best right now.

spk_0 He said before you even become number one.

spk_0 Start to proclaim it.

spk_0 And say it long before it happened.

spk_0 Say I'm the number one motivational speaker in the world.

spk_0 And when I was number 20, I started saying,

spk_0 I'm the number one motivational speaker in the world.

spk_0 And I went to the computer.

spk_0 And the world said exactly what I said.

spk_0 And Eric Thomas is number one in the world.

spk_0 I spoke it, the world heard it,

spk_0 and it activated.

spk_0 Your problem is that you don't believe you belong here.

spk_0 Your problem is that you don't think you should be sitting down here.

spk_0 So listen to me.

spk_0 There are those of you who said, I want to be a millionaire.

spk_0 I want to be the best at this company, right?

spk_0 But your value system says,

spk_0 you believe in sleep money, you believe in crying games.

spk_0 And you're spending more money than you're making.

spk_0 Why? Because you're a conservator.

spk_0 You're reading all the books and you're saying

spk_0 everything the books are saying.

spk_0 But those books are not in line with your value.

spk_0 And if you're going to go to the next level,

spk_0 your values are going to have to change.

spk_0 When I believed that my voice was needed in his world,

spk_0 when I believed that I needed to be on the stage,

spk_0 not for myself, but to speak to a group of people

spk_0 who come from where I come from,

spk_0 a working class who don't know what it's like

spk_0 to make millions of millions of dollars,

spk_0 who don't understand what wealth looks like,

spk_0 that I need to come in the room

spk_0 when a single pair of mother,

spk_0 when a father not in my life,

spk_0 be a homeless and a husband drop out.

spk_0 Only somebody who comes from where you come from

spk_0 can tell you you belong

spk_0 and I had to give my butt on stage

spk_0 because there's some folks

spk_0 that less bro can't reach.

spk_0 There's some folks that Tony Robbins can't reach.

spk_0 There's some folks that only I can reach.

spk_0 And so I need to be on the stage with them,

spk_0 doing what I was called to do.

spk_0 But what you cannot do is you cannot

spk_0 quit going to process.

spk_0 You cannot give up because it ain't what you see.

spk_0 You cannot give up.

spk_0 Champions keep going

spk_0 when they don't have anything left in their tank.

spk_0 When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe,

spk_0 that's when you find a way.

spk_0 Some of y'all been worshiped since she was in high school

spk_0 so you don't really know how to grind.

spk_0 Like you talk grind.

spk_0 Like I love it. Like I go into the waveroo

spk_0 and y'all playing like Bach.

spk_0 Y'all playing Biggie.

spk_0 Like y'all all in it.

spk_0 Like you like Bach but you don't have to sphere the Bach.

spk_0 You like Lord Bach.

spk_0 You like listening to Bach.

spk_0 You like listening to Biggie.

spk_0 You like to talk about the grind.

spk_0 But you don't really know what the grind is like.

spk_0 I know what the grind is like.

spk_0 I was homeless.

spk_0 I ain't out of trash can. Now go in and go in and that right now.

spk_0 I'm one of the number one speakers in the world.

spk_0 I started from the bottom.

spk_0 Like you like listening to it and see.

spk_0 Starting from the bottom.

spk_0 What's your bottom?

spk_0 What is your bottom when you've been worship since middle school?

spk_0 You've been tall your whole life.

spk_0 Big your whole life.

spk_0 They worship you so much now that you think it's about you.

spk_0 You don't even know what the grind looked like.

spk_0 I'm from Detroit.

spk_0 Homeless. Mama got pregnant with me at 17 years old.

spk_0 High school dropout.

spk_0 To me 12 years to get a full year degree.

spk_0 I'm coming now. It's in view.

spk_0 You finally made it to the Bigles.

spk_0 And now you want to chill?

spk_0 Now you got the big head.

spk_0 Now you can't grind. You here now.

spk_0 You here now.

spk_0 You finally made it.

spk_0 And this is where you break up.

spk_0 This is where you start chilling.

spk_0 This is where you get comfortable.

spk_0 You made it now.

spk_0 You made it now. You and the Bigles now.

spk_0 They watching you now.

spk_0 This is where you make it permanent.

spk_0 I saw it. I saw it.

spk_0 Perfect. Perfect.

spk_0 No practice. Don't make perfect.

spk_0 Practice make permanent.

spk_0 This permanent.

spk_0 This is permanent.

spk_0 You can go wherever you want to go from here.

spk_0 It does not take talent.

spk_0 You don't have to be talented.

spk_0 Right? You don't have to be gifted.

spk_0 You don't have to be the quickest.

spk_0 The strongest.

spk_0 You don't have to be the most intelligent to get to where I am.

spk_0 That's what you got to do.

spk_0 You just got to grind.

spk_0 You're grind.

spk_0 You got to out grind.

spk_0 So many of you heard me say this.

spk_0 Your father listened to me.

spk_0 My own company.

spk_0 Your mama might be a millionaire.

spk_0 You might come from privilege.

spk_0 Your daddy might hook you up with a car.

spk_0 He might know people.

spk_0 He might be able to get you a job.

spk_0 But you will not outwork me.

spk_0 And what you have to decide.

spk_0 And your position.

spk_0 And the NCAA.

spk_0 You have to make a decision.

spk_0 That nobody in this league.

spk_0 And your position will outwork you.

spk_0 I will walk away with stuff.

spk_0 I never heard before.

spk_0 Books I've never read before.

spk_0 All of you I've never seen before.

spk_0 Going to conferences.

spk_0 That I've never gone hanging out with people.

spk_0 That I've never hung out with before.

spk_0 This is nothing.

spk_0 God. This is just a desire.

spk_0 There are those of you with phones.

spk_0 And every new phone that comes out.

spk_0 You get it. Every upgrade.

spk_0 You get it. Every piece of software.

spk_0 You get it. You are upgrading your technology.

spk_0 And you not upgrading yourself.

spk_0 Listen to me closely.

spk_0 When you get to the point where you're not busy enough.

spk_0 When you get to the point where you're hurt real bad.

spk_0 When you get to the point.

spk_0 You can't take it no more.

spk_0 When you get to that point.

spk_0 Pedor start opening.

spk_0 Opportunities start happening.

spk_0 Listen to me very closely. It's our dream.

spk_0 Nobody's going to see it like you do it.

spk_0 It's your dream. Nobody's going to feel it like you feel it.

spk_0 It's your dream. Nobody's going to be a dedicated to it as you are.

spk_0 It's your dream. And they don't have to understand.

spk_0 And they don't have to like it.

spk_0 And they don't have to do it.

spk_0 And you my friend has been given the task to make it happen.

spk_0 And you can't let anything stop you from doing what you were called to do.

spk_0 You have an opportunity right now that you'll never have.

spk_0 People say why you grind so hard.

spk_0 I might not be the number one motivational speaker in the world five years from now.

spk_0 I've got to get everything I can get right now.

spk_0 Every book I can write.

spk_0 Listen to me. My school is being paid for by the athletic department.

spk_0 I'm hot right now.

spk_0 A real man in the dark.

spk_0 When nobody's watching, he put me in work.

spk_0 A real man when coach ain't even watching.

spk_0 He's studying film on his own.

spk_0 Because he's in he loves the process.

spk_0 Because real lions like to hunt.

spk_0 They love the process just as much as they love to pie.

spk_0 And some of y'all just want to score.

spk_0 You don't like the process.

spk_0 You're not in love with the process.

spk_0 You're just like to put the pass on.

spk_0 You love when it's show time.

spk_0 Everybody in the car.

spk_0 You're like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

spk_0 Ma can you see you can't even start until you know your people there.

spk_0 I want you to see them.

spk_0 I'm like show time.

spk_0 They have the day, have the day grind.

spk_0 Have to grind, have to grind.

spk_0 And it's what I have the edge.

spk_0 What driving ma have the ma eating aren't you tired?

spk_0 Yes.

spk_0 I might be, I don't know.

spk_0 Ety aren't you ready to take a break?

spk_0 Yes.

spk_0 I might be, but listen to me.

spk_0 I can't why.

spk_0 Because I grind for J.L.A.

spk_0 I grind for J.L.A.

spk_0 I grind for D.E.

spk_0 I grind for my mother.

spk_0 Are you here when I'm telling you I grind for Vanessa.

spk_0 I hustle for.

spk_0 So the days I want to hit that alarm clock.

spk_0 I think of all my wild.

spk_0 I can't quit.

spk_0 My son is 25,000 dollars a year.

spk_0 I can't stop.

spk_0 He can't hold me.

spk_0 My daughter.

spk_0 I can't quit.

spk_0 I can't stop.

spk_0 I can't get tired.

spk_0 I can't give up.

spk_0 I can't give in.

spk_0 My mom and count on me.

spk_0 My wife is count on me.

spk_0 Ah yeah, I might be different, but I am brilliant.

spk_0 Yep, I might be loud, but I am special.

spk_0 We can go from being homeless and high school dropouts

spk_0 to having P.A.D.

spk_0 riding books and becoming the voice of a generation.

spk_0 We can do whatever we believe we can do.

spk_0 And we don't need anybody's permission to do it for us.

spk_0 I am phenomenal.

spk_0 And I don't owe anybody an apology.

spk_0 I am going to do great things.

spk_0 And I don't owe anybody an apology.

spk_0 I am.

spk_0 One, two, three.

spk_0 One, two three.

spk_0

spk_0 I thought if you were a good person and you do right by people, that people will take

spk_0 your kindness and give you kindness back.

spk_0 But what I realized is sometimes in this world, the kinder you are, the more they try to

spk_0 play you like a fool.

spk_0 I was delusional.

spk_0 I'm nice to you, you're nice to me.

spk_0 Don't always work like that.

spk_0 Sometimes it's nice to me and I take advantage of you.

spk_0 So some of y'all, you delusional.

spk_0 I just need you to do me a favor.

spk_0 When you are delusional, you can never get the outcomes you want because your premise and

spk_0 what you're operating from is a lie.

spk_0 So you got to work from truth and some of us don't want to do with truth because it's

spk_0 so difficult.

spk_0 ET, you dropped out of school.

spk_0 ET, you grew up in a certain community.

spk_0 In order for you to be able to do what you need to do like a Tony Robbins, there's some

spk_0 things that you don't have in your arson that if you can just admit you don't have it

spk_0 in your arson, then you can go get it but until you admit that you don't have it, you'll

spk_0 never be able to do it.

spk_0 So I need you to meet here, you respect.

spk_0 I just need you to be real.

spk_0 And the reason why a lot of y'all don't want to be real because some of you would rather

spk_0 be in a lie and at least have a lie and not have anything at all.

spk_0 You already know that job you ain't about, you're bossing about the cash well.

spk_0 You just scared it quit and start your own business because you don't know if you're going

spk_0 to do well tonight.

spk_0 You know you shouldn't, come on, be honest.

spk_0 You know you still shouldn't be at that job right now.

spk_0 Let me see your hand, let's just be real, let me see your hand.

spk_0 You know you should raise your high, don't play with me, raise your high.

spk_0 You still shouldn't be at that job.

spk_0 But you're delusional.

spk_0 That one day is going to be your day.

spk_0 That one day you go merge your job and you'll call it together.

spk_0 It's not going to happen.

spk_0 You're going to have to just leave.

spk_0 He gave me permission to say I am brilliant.

spk_0 Yeah I might be different but I am brilliant.

spk_0 Yeah I might be loud but I am special.

spk_0 He gave me permission.

spk_0 And so the first thing I want you to do today is I want you to keep saying to yourself,

spk_0 I am, I am, I am, I am.

spk_0 And for those of you who hadn't quite started yet, I am.

spk_0 And for those of you who got started, I am why?

spk_0 Because I can't believe that I started with a GED and that GED turned into a four year

spk_0 degree.

spk_0 I am great.

spk_0 Listen to me.

spk_0 And I don't owe anybody in the policy.

spk_0 I am phenomenal.

spk_0 I am going to do great things.

spk_0 I am.

spk_0 That air Thomas that grew up in Detroit and had like that Detroit mentality while I love

spk_0 it, it doesn't transfer to every community.

spk_0 I had to let the dream destroy you.

spk_0 Let it strip you.

spk_0 Let it remake and mold you.

spk_0 Don't be afraid.

spk_0 Some of you are afraid.

spk_0 Listen to me.

spk_0 Wherever you from, if that's where you from, if you leave, you can always come back.

spk_0 I promise you.

spk_0 Whenever you come back, you can get right back into conversation.

spk_0 Ain't nothing going to change.

spk_0 I promise you, whatever world you're from, if you go to other worlds, you can always go

spk_0 back to that world.

spk_0 The version of you that you are right now is a blessing, but it won't take you to the

spk_0 next level.

spk_0 What God you hear won't take you there.

spk_0 So let the dream destroy you.

spk_0 Let's hear you down, redefine you, build you back up, make you stronger.

spk_0 The first version of Eric Thomas, the high school dropout, that guy would have never been

spk_0 able to stay here and help you.

spk_0 I had to destroy that Eric Thomas.

spk_0 No matter who you are, your average or if you're good, when you get around greatness and

spk_0 you stare around greatness, you start listening to great podcast and reading great books and

spk_0 you start hanging around great people and you start becoming a part of great masterminds.

spk_0 God, you just evolved and I don't know what happened but every year I went from a high

spk_0 school dropout at homeless to I started to becoming every single day more who I am and

spk_0 I can't believe it.

spk_0 My next goal is to win the Nobel Prize.

spk_0 Why?

spk_0 I had to come up with something.

spk_0 I am giving you permission to be great.

spk_0 I'm giving you permission to be everything you were called to be, to do everything that

spk_0 you're capable of doing to have everything you're supposed to have.

spk_0 Listen to me, you have to be careful when you hang around average people.

spk_0 All they're going to do is tell you what they can't do and that's okay that they can't

spk_0 do it but that has absolutely nothing to do with us.

spk_0 We can go from being homeless and high school dropouts to having PAD's writing books and

spk_0 becoming the voice of a generation.

spk_0 We can do whatever we believe we can do and we don't mean anybody's permission to do

spk_0 it but ours.

spk_0 You aren't brilliant.

spk_0 You are special.

spk_0 Yes, you're different and yet you're not doing it to traditional route but greatness is

spk_0 upon you.

spk_0 You got to keep going.

spk_0 In the 12 years to get the 4 year degree turned into a master's degree.

spk_0 In the master's degree turned into a PhD guy.

spk_0 I can't believe it.

spk_0 I went from being a high school dropout from being homeless, limiting the band and building

spk_0 to eat now the trash cans to knock the airy Thomas to write in six books.

spk_0 God, are you here what I'm saying?

spk_0 Today, stop playing small and start playing big because I'm.

spk_0 All right, all right, all right, let's stop on three.

spk_0 I'm one, two, three.

spk_0 Listen to me, I was literally homeless.

spk_0 I was coming to church not really taking showers.

spk_0 I wasn't brushing my teeth and this guy looked at me and said, you need to get your GED.

spk_0 You need to leave Detroit.

spk_0 I'm going to send you to college because greatness is upon you.

spk_0 I was 16, 17 years old.

spk_0 I had never spoken a day in my life and this guy saw it.

spk_0 He saw something to me that I didn't see and he gave me permission to be what other

spk_0 people said I couldn't be.

spk_0 He gave me permission to believe I was great.

spk_0 He gave me permission to think I could change the world.

spk_0 He gave me permission to start something that had never started in my family before.

spk_0 He gave me permission to say, oh, oh.

spk_0 Listen to me very closely.

spk_0 When you graduate and you get a job, if you want to get paid, you never say no.

spk_0 You never say it can't get done.

spk_0 Don't you ever say out your mouth, it can't get done.

spk_0 Even if you feel in your heart, it can't get done.

spk_0 You all say it out loud.

spk_0 You let the broke folks say that.

spk_0 You let the folks say fire and fire and first say that.

spk_0 You always say it can get done.

spk_0 Even if you don't think you can get done, just say it and try to make up something.

spk_0 I'm being real.

spk_0 I don't deal with people who say, well, they get paid real low in my company.

spk_0 They're like maintenance.

spk_0 When you say, I don't know how, well, I don't think it can be done.

spk_0 I'm like, okay, cool.

spk_0 If you want to be like at the end of the year, when bonuses been passed out, you won't

spk_0 be getting no bonus.

spk_0 What I need you to do is I need you to kill the noise.

spk_0 I need you to embrace the I am.

spk_0 And however you get it done, I need you to get it done.

spk_0 They looked at the most successful men and women of the world.

spk_0 And they found that they had like seven, eight things in common.

spk_0 And one of the things they all had in common was routine.

spk_0 They are obsessed with their routine.

spk_0 They don't have a gap of wasted time in routine.

spk_0 You know, I realized the reason why I'm so successful and the reason why I don't get

spk_0 in trouble like I used to when I was younger, because when I was younger, my schedule

spk_0 has only the gap.

spk_0 The devil had like, okay, he might pray at six, but my man is watching TV.

spk_0 He plans video games by 8.30.

spk_0 It's not that I'm sweeted and nobody to devil can get to me because all my time is taking

spk_0 up.

spk_0 And by the time he gets to me, I'm asleep, I'm too sleeping to out to see it.

spk_0 I'm just being real 8.30.

spk_0 He's like, Eric, you should have like, we're up time.

spk_0 Come back to me tomorrow.

spk_0 You know what I'm saying?

spk_0 I'm good.

spk_0 My body said, oh, you got to just put your shoes on.

spk_0 That's the hardest thing you got to do.

spk_0 You got to put your shoes on and I'll do the rest.

spk_0 I can't put your shoes on for you, but put your shoes on and then just go.

spk_0 And I just went and I was walking for the 11 in-climb, boy.

spk_0 And I was just walking.

spk_0 Two and a half, and I was just like, you know what?

spk_0 So almost an hour, I don't feel like running.

spk_0 My body was like, I don't do everybody.

spk_0 We'll get you that when we get to you.

spk_0 I did my hour.

spk_0 You about to get off, my body was like, you know we run now.

spk_0 I said, what?

spk_0 We run now.

spk_0 Let's go.

spk_0 You ain't tired?

spk_0 I said, I am tired.

spk_0 You're not.

spk_0 You just walk for an hour.

spk_0 You're not tired, Eric.

spk_0 Your brain is telling you some dumb stuff.

spk_0 If you were tired, you wouldn't have been able to walk for an hour.

spk_0 Okay, so let's do this.

spk_0 Just run for two minutes.

spk_0 I'm trying to help somebody right now go to a whole other level.

spk_0 The reason why you go back to sleep is because you always want back to sleep.

spk_0 It's like a default.

spk_0 You go back to sleep because you all, all you got to do is stop going to sleep and then

spk_0 you go stop going to sleep.

spk_0 All you got to do is stop fussing and cussing and you go stop fussing and cussing.

spk_0 All you got to do is stop spending all the money you got and start saving it.

spk_0 Listen to me.

spk_0 I became number one in the world.

spk_0 I became a millionaire, not because I made more money.

spk_0 I became a millionaire because they told me millionaires only live off of 30% of their income.

spk_0 I want to make it plain for you.

spk_0 I became a millionaire because I did what millionaires did.

spk_0 I stopped living off 100%.

spk_0 I paid my tie and I was like, all right, you only got 20% left.

spk_0 With the rest up.

spk_0 So the first thing I did, listen to me.

spk_0 The very first thing I did to become rich, somebody said he to be rich, but six months

spk_0 of your earning to the side.

spk_0 So I was like, all right, man, that's what the rich told me to do.

spk_0 So I put six months to the side.

spk_0 How long did it take?

spk_0 I don't remember, but I put it to the side.

spk_0 Then somebody was like, yo, you need to put a hundred thousand to the side.

spk_0 I was like, all right, 100,000.

spk_0 You need to put a hundred thousand to the side.

spk_0 Then somebody was like, yo, you need to get your credit score to A.

spk_0 And I was like, all right, you're going to get my credit score to A.

spk_0 Then somebody said, et, if you want to be Tony Robbins, there's no way you'll be able to be like those

spk_0 things that you don't have the language they had.

spk_0 You're going to get your master's in the PhD from a white institution.

spk_0 I said, what? I was Oakwood.

spk_0 I went to HBCU, he was like, yeah, but you didn't learn the language of Zig Zig or Oakwood.

spk_0 So Oakwood is a phenomenal play.

spk_0 Oh, you're not here with me.

spk_0 I'm saying, I just saying something, miss it.

spk_0 Now I give you the Michigan State University.

spk_0 C.J. Where's my, you see my master's degree anywhere?

spk_0 I'm talking about my PhD, not in the office, not in church.

spk_0 Need you see it in my house?

spk_0 I didn't go to Michigan State to get a PhD.

spk_0 I went to Michigan State to learn a majority language.

spk_0 Listen to me very closely.

spk_0 When you graduate and you get a job, if you want to get paid, you never say no.

spk_0 You never say it can't get done.

spk_0 Don't you ever say out your mouth, it can't get done.

spk_0 Even if you feel in your heart, it can't get done.

spk_0 You all say it out loud.

spk_0 You let your folks say that.

spk_0 You let the folks say it behind first, say that.

spk_0 You always say it can get done.

spk_0 Even if you don't think you can get done, just say it and try to make up something.

spk_0 But every time I put on a dress shirt and wet it up, I just feel and I hear people say all the time.

spk_0 Man, you look like you dressed a success.

spk_0 I'm like, it's put on a shirt and the tie dress is a success.

spk_0 I'm dressed for success.

spk_0 I'm getting paid.

spk_0 I'm dressed for success.

spk_0 I'm not dressed like he dressed, but I'm dressed the way I feel comfortable.

spk_0 I feel good being me.

spk_0 I feel good not to have it like.

spk_0 Not only can I say, no, I don't have to explain why I'm adding them all.

spk_0 It feels good being me.

spk_0 Because guess what?

spk_0 I can never be sweet being you.

spk_0 The majority of you are poor because you read poor stuff.

spk_0 You watch poor stuff.

spk_0 Bro, you just scrolling through like you ain't got a light.

spk_0 Bro, some of y'all on Instagram, you're on it for 30 minutes.

spk_0 If I ask you what you saw, you know you just scrolling through.

spk_0 Rich people don't waste time.

spk_0 They realize it's their most important commodity.

spk_0 They don't watch a lot of TV.

spk_0 They don't do a lot of entertainment.

spk_0 If they're not working, they're studying, they're crap and getting better at their credit.

spk_0 So I need you to stop having the power of my mindset.

spk_0 So when I quit my job to be an entrepreneur, my mom was like, what are you doing?

spk_0 I was like, I'm quitting.

spk_0 My mom was like, don't you dare quit.

spk_0 You're gonna embarrass me.

spk_0 You got to wipe it.

spk_0 Kids, the YouTube have insurance.

spk_0 The YouTube have a 401k.

spk_0 And I was like, your mom, I ain't trying to be funny and I ain't trying to be disrespectful.

spk_0 I love you.

spk_0 But you can't teach me how to be a millionaire because you're not.

spk_0 You come from the working class and I'm not mad at you, mom.

spk_0 We would be where we are without you.

spk_0 But you told me that every generation is supposed to get better.

spk_0 So I'll take your values, but I'm gonna take your work at them.

spk_0 Because rich people don't work that they think.

spk_0 Poor people go, clock in, I make this much and I.

spk_0 Rich people go, I put them to work and I make this much and I.

spk_0 See what happens is you're working for you and your family one.

spk_0 They got 40 of you working at one time.

spk_0 So they give you 20% and then they keep in the 80% off of 15,000 people.

spk_0 So what you have to decide is, are you gonna keep being the 99% or you ready to be a part of the office?

spk_0 Because it doesn't make a difference when you come from high school dropout.

spk_0 It doesn't make a difference when you come from GED.

spk_0 It doesn't make a difference when you come from a 17 year old mom that got pregnant.

spk_0 It doesn't make a difference when you come from took 12 years to get a 40 degree.

spk_0 You know what makes a difference?

spk_0 What makes a difference is when you become a 99% or 100%.

spk_0 When I start thinking like acting like and behaving like a 1%

spk_0 So I went to every single class and the teachers was talking.

spk_0 They thought I was just doing homework.

spk_0 I was listening to how they conjugate verbs.

spk_0 I was listening to how they tell stories.

spk_0 I was like, ooh, they, ooh, I peep it out y'all.

spk_0 They weigh more linear.

spk_0 So then I realized when you do corporate is A, B, C, D, E, F.

spk_0 It's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

spk_0 It's topic, body, body, body.

spk_0 It's topic support, support, support, conclusion.

spk_0 I need your language though if I'm gonna compete.

spk_0 I need your rules if I'm gonna compete.

spk_0 I need your codes if I'm gonna compete.

spk_0 The problem with most of you is you don't have a 1% language.

spk_0 You got a poverty language.

spk_0 There was a language that I needed to learn.

spk_0 Does it mean I need to learn the language that I learned?

spk_0 Absolutely.

spk_0 You don't have a salmoner for it.

spk_0 You couldn't take what it really takes.

spk_0 Just for those of you who don't know, when they came from Africa and were enslaved,

spk_0 they didn't move them to San Diego.

spk_0 They weren't doing doctor's studies.

spk_0 I just wanna give you some perspective.

spk_0 They were in Mississippi, Alabama.

spk_0 It was smoking hot and they didn't quit and they didn't give up.

spk_0 Because they said we gonna give them in for the next generation.

spk_0 Come on.

spk_0 All Latino-Pervos sisters who were migrant workers, they come on.

spk_0 They admit it.

spk_0 They were no AC.

spk_0 And the stuff that y'all complain about, the stuff that y'all think is like,

spk_0 oh!

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