certain energy you’ve got to take a shot
you have to live at the edge of your
capabilities you gotta live where you’re
almost certain you’re gonna fail choose
actions that are in your own best
interest every day we are choosing
that’s not in our own best interest need
motivation
what’s top 10 with believe nation what’s
that belief nation it’s Evan my one word
is believe and I believe in you I
believe you have Michael Jordan level
talent add something and I want you to
find it embrace it and make a difference
using it so let’s get your motivation to
attend and get you believing in you grab
a snack and chew in today’s lessons from
a man who went from being a great
student in school but not wanting to go
to college because he wanted to rap to
now becoming one of the leading men and
most successful stars in Hollywood he’s
Will Smith and he was my take on his top
10 rooms a success vol 4 enjoy
alright let’s kick it off with rule
number one find your purpose finding
your purpose like that’s a that’s a
that’s a big one just keep trying stuff
just keep trying you got a key keep
going and and in terms of finding
purpose it was helpful for me to realize
that just because everybody at Philly
believed you know one thing in one set
of ideas and everybody in Philly was in
a certain paradigm as soon as I got out
of the city and out of the country I
realized there were people that didn’t
give a damn about stuff that was the
most important thing in the world
try experiment me travel that was a big
part for me and that’s a lot of what
you’re gonna sing on my youtube channel
to like travel is huge
rule number two maintain infectious
energy what you just told my piece we
just bought yes did you not just I it’s
hugely important to me to maintain a
certain energy it’s a it’s it’s healing
it’s loving its kind and I’ve learned
really young that my energy was
infectious right so when you know I come
into the studio when I long after I
leave the energy that I bring is still
gonna be here and then people are gonna
take it home and they’re gonna affect
their families with it so you know for
me it’s hugely important to maintain
just a positive loving energy just your
wife’s grateful yeah yeah I’m really
happy it’s fun at work TG I worked with
Gene Hackman and we had a thing every
morning because Gene Hackman wasn’t a
morning person and this is what I do in
the morning
you know so every morning I would say I
would say day good morning mr. hack
Manny oh yeah yeah I don’t say he’d say
how you doing well I say hey man I’m
just happy to be here he would say no
you’re lucky to be here every morning
but it became my way of like just you
know getting it getting it up and
getting it going is it’s just I love it
rule number three my personal favorite
fail forward I love this one fail early
fail often fail forward you know it’s
always a little bit frustrating to me
when people have a negative relationship
with failure failure is a massive part
of being able to be successful you have
to get comfortable with failure yet you
have to actually seek failure failure is
where all of the lessons are you know
when you go to the gym and you work out
you’re actually seeking failure you want
to take your muscles to the point where
you get to failure because that’s where
the the adaptation is that’s where
growth is successful people who fail a
lot they fail a whole lot more than they
succeed but they extract the lessons
from the failure and they use that the
the energy and they use the wisdom to
come around to the next phase of success
you got to take a shot you have to live
at the edge of your capabilities you got
to live where you’re almost certain
you’re gonna fail that’s the reason for
practice practice is controlled failure
you’re getting to your limit getting to
your limit getting to your limit you
can’t lift that you can’t do that you
until you get to the point that all of a
sudden your body makes the adjustment
and then you can do it
failure actually helps you to recognize
the areas where you need to evolve so
fail early fail often fail forward rule
number four dedicate your life to your
dream I think was 94 something like that
they were open to Planet Hollywood I
found myself in a room with Arnold
Schwarzenegger Bruce Willis and sly and
I was like oh my god I got these three
guys in
and I was like okay I want to be the
biggest movie star in the world and I
need you guys to tell me how to do it
and Arnold Schwarzenegger he said he
said if your movie is only big in
America it doesn’t matter you’ll be a
movie star only when you’re a movie star
in every country in the world you have
to travel you have to go you have to
meet the people thanks for the tip fax
son fax that became the way that I
started looking at movies I wanted to be
in every country in the world in that
part of my career I refused to do
anything that wasn’t in the best
interest of the goal I set for myself
and there’s probably a 12 year period of
my life where I did take a train I have
a drink where I didn’t go out on the
weekends that I was so set on my goal it
created a serious circle of protection
and an elevation because I refused to do
anything that wasn’t in my best interest
it’s hugely important that if you have a
dream that you have to dedicate your
life to it and there at every hour of
every day it has to be dedicated to
bring it into fruition the things that
you dream about rule number five seek
those who fan your flames I just saw
this Rumi quote that I love set your
life on fire and seek those who fan your
flames the Phillie translation of that
is don’t be hanging with no Jang casts
Joker’s that don’t help you shine the
prerequisite for spending time with any
person is that they nourish and inspire
you they feed your flame look at your
last five text messages are those people
feeding your flames or dousing your fire
put your phone down for just a second
and look around look to the people
around you are those people throwing
logs on your fire or are they pissin on
it
the people that you spend time with are
gonna make or break your dreams
everybody don’t deserve to be around you
you got to defend your light
your life so who are the people in your
life that are fanning your flames shout
them out tag on below rule number six do
everything he originally settled off as
a rap uh so I was wondering you know
it’s been soon over ten years since your
last album experimenting in the studio
yeah I can explore in like new sounds
like the new wave of people are you
releasing like planning on releasing any
new music so yes so I just I just I’ve
been probably 30 days on on Instagram
and so you can follow me at and I just
launched a YouTube channel and I didn’t
realize how great social media was for
the short form content so I have all of
these ideas I have all of these songs I
have all of these skits I have all of
these things that I didn’t think I’d
ever get around to putting out that I’ll
be doing on my social media so I’ll
definitely be putting out records I’ll
definitely be doing skits and I’ll
definitely be creating content that has
been bubbling in me for years rule
number seven decide to inspire people I
went to Catholic school up to eighth
grade with all white kids and probably
two or three black kids but if you know
predominantly white school and then I
went to my neighborhood high school in
ninth grade that was 99% black kids so
the first day that I walk in to ninth
grade I walked into the lunchroom and
you know it’s like five hundred kids and
for said to this day I don’t know why I
did this I’m sure it was because I was I
was nervous and you know I got that I
have a thing with fear I don’t like
being scared so I’m sure I was I walked
in I looked around and I said excuse me
can I have your attention can I have
your attention please
he’s here he’s here right now thank you
thank you people who got to looking and
there was just one dude and
sitting there and he looked up to me
said man don’t nobody get that you here
right and I said hey just give me ten
minutes your girl going care right and
he was like and you got to watch that
not that not is not a good nod you like
and I was like okay so I went some
walking up the steps we’re out of the
lunchroom and I forgot about it
so we’re gone and I’m walking up the
steps and he had taken one of those
combination locks and he put the lock in
the palm of his hand and put his but the
the loop around his knuckle and he was
holding the lock in his hand and as I
was walking up the steps he cracked me
in the side of my head with the lot and
I went down I was out I don’t remember
nothing I still got the lump on my head
you can’t see it cuz they over here but
I stood like there’s still a lump so I
remember I fell down and I hit my mouth
on the steps all of that stuff you know
so I went up so I’m in the principal’s
office all of that the police come and I
got the ice on my lips and I’m sitting
in the principal’s office and my father
comes in he sees me and you know I’m
telling the story now the police are
there and I remember I saw this kid they
put him in handcuffs and took him out of
the school and I’m looking sitting in
the principal’s office and I’m watching
the police take him out and put him in
the back of a police car and I just
couldn’t believe it had escalated to a
kid being removed from from school and I
was laying in my bed that night and I
was just feeling like Shh
and I had the recognition that I had
caused this kid to throw his life away
right and he was kicked out of school
and I never knew what happened to him
but I have a sense that it didn’t go
well
beyond there and I felt a deep sense of
regret and a deep sense that I had
caused an emotion in a person that made
them do that and that that feeling of
regret turned into a sort of a fear of
how much power I had and I was like
everything I say and do has that kind of
effect on other human beings and in that
moment I decided that I would never walk
into a room and do anything other than
inspire and uplift and enlighten people
and help people to be the greater
versions of themselves and I would never
do anything that would cause people to
or to rile up the darkest dirtiest
parts of people I only wanted to enliven
and enlighten and inspire and I remember
laying in my bed that night and I made
that promise to myself and I made that
promise to God and it’s something that
has completely shaped how I approach
people how I approach moments how I walk
into rooms how I deal with every human
being on this earth rule number eight
develop self-discipline dude
scream to me the other night well I
wanna be active man I wanna be active
just like you you know usually people
say stuff to me like that I’m like yeah
man
you do is give them an encouraging word
but I was just sitting here thinking and
it dawned on me 99% of people that say
stuff like that are not willing to do
what it takes to make their dreams come
true the Marines have a saying everybody
wants to go to heaven but nobody wants
to die and that’s just real at the
center of bringing any dream into
fruition is self-discipline you know
something as simple as food and eating
it’s not about your body as much as it
is about your mind it’s getting command
of your mind to be able to choose
actions that are in your own best
interest every day we are choosing
that’s not in our own best interest
right so if the world is attacking you
and the world wants to fight you in the
world’s trying to hold you down so you
gonna kick yourself in the balls so you
will stop yourself from getting what you
dream self-discipline is the center of
all material success you cannot win the
war against the world if you can’t win
the war against your own mind
rule number 9 take responsibility I was
just having a debate with a friend of
mine and we got stuck on the difference
between fault and responsibility she
kept talking about how something was
somebody’s fault somebody’s fault and I
was like it really don’t matter whose
fault it is that something is broken if
it’s your responsibility to fix it for
example is it’s not somebody’s fault if
their father was an abusive alcoholic
but it’s for damn sure their
responsibility to figure out how they’re
gonna do with those traumas and try to
make a life out of it it’s not your
fault if your partner cheated and ruined
your marriage but it is for damn sure
your responsibility to figure out how to
take that pain and how to overcome that
and build a happy life for yourself
fault and responsibility do not go
together it sucks but they don’t when
something is somebody’s fault we want
them to
suffer we want them punished we want
them to pay we want it to be their
responsibility to fix it but that’s
that’s not how it works especially when
it’s your heart your heart your life
your happiness is your responsibility
and your responsibility alone as long as
we’re pointing a finger and and stuck in
whose fault
something is we’re jammed and trapped
into victim mode when you’re in victim
mode you’re stuck in suffering the road
to power is in taking responsibility
your heart your life your happiness is
your responsibility and your
responsibility alone and rule number ten
the last old me for a very special bonus
clip is have fun she’s gonna ask us each
to name three things three types of like
cars or something and we’ll have five
seconds to name three things and then
hit that to see how much time is left on
the clock okay all right if you do it
you get a point if time runs out you get
no points at all five seconds goes very
very fast okay I shall go first you
shall go first okay okay Ellen name
three things you do in a car you drive
I see I see now we need some like judges
are you job you say hi you wait you wait
will ya name three things you should
never do in a car
never drink smoke three words you use a
lot love baby and be kind I’m gonna give
okay we’ll name your three favorite
songs to sing in the shower in the
shower the dream girls
I’m telling you Whitney Houston died
yeah but that’s it’s like the end I am
[Applause]
your best man no there’s no way I can
ever go no no no no that’s my song
[Applause]
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now I’ve got a really special Will Smith
bonus clip I think you’re gonna enjoy
around how to be still but before that I
want to know what did you learn from
this video will has so many great
messages what did you take from this
that you’re going to apply somehow to
your life or your business starting
today leave it down in the comments
below when you write it down you’re much
more likely to actually take that action
so write it in the comments thank you
guys so much for watching I believe in
you I hope you continue to believe in
yourself and whatever your one word is
much love see you soon and enjoy the
something that came in Islands just got
finished doing a couple days of work and
you knows I’m in the room I’m finally by
myself as quiet as no people around I’m
chilling and I’m like me enough trying
to figure out something to do so you
know I figured I had let me go turn the
news on and then it dawned on me I was
like but the news agitates me it’s
disruptive I get aggravated and I was
like nah and then I felt this crazy urge
like I couldn’t stop myself from going
to turn the news on and I was like oh Sh
and I realized my mind was seeking
disturbance but now it’s too peaceful I
need I need to be disrupted and and
aggravated and then I realized like we
actually have to cultivate a taste for
peace we’re actually addicted to things
that agitate and aggravate us you know
you’re like damn every time I see this
person we argue I’m just I don’t I don’t
want to argue with this food will stop
what happens is we actually get addicted
to the argument we’re addicted to the
aggravation addicted to the agitation I
just really made a decision to myself
today just sitting here in the Cayman
Islands that I’m gonna be quiet I’m
gonna be still and I’m gonna be alone I
mean right after you listen to my ig
story and right after you you follow me
then then put it down and just just
see once once long media the most
important work ever if you had to think
of one word that’s most important to you
or that sums you Apple that would be to
like a little beacon hey believe nation
if you want to know what the most
important one word is for Tony Robbins
Gary Vaynerchuk
Oprah Winfrey will.i.am and Howard
Schultz I have a very special secret
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