decide exactly what you want what do you
want to be able to do what is it going
to look like when you’re done what are
you going to be able to look at yourself
and say I did this thing that I’ve
always wanted to do what does it look
like I want y’all to know something man
you’ll never get your independence
without education for real education is
the most important thing in your life
I didn’t say degrees I’m not just
talking about going to school and get a
degree I’m talking about getting
knowledge knowledge is power information
changes situations you are blessed to be
in school that’s a blessing there are
other kids they go to school year round
they don’t get no break so your breaks
shouldn’t be a disadvantage your break
should be an advantage most students
that go to school you aren’t students
you don’t study you don’t see no real
baller no dude they call himself a
baller right no dude that’s a baller
that don’t keep some gym shoes and some
shorts in a ball in a bag in his ride or
he takes the school why cuz he a baller
so any chance he get the hoop he got all
his stuff ready because why he’s a
Hooper
you don’t know no Hooper that can’t tell
you if you’re one if he had to write if
he afford right he knows if he’s a car a
shooting guard a point guard you were in
school and you don’t know who you are so
number one you need to be a student what
do students do they study and they don’t
just study doing eight to three eight to
3:30 there’s no study with somebody
you’re not waiting for somebody to tell
you to play basketball to play
basketball you’re not waiting for
somebody to tell you to play football to
play football right you’re not waiting
for somebody to tell you to play soccer
to play soccer right you’re not waiting
I don’t know what your reason is your
mama broke are you hearing me
your mama working two jobs got the class
and get an education so you can become
an engineer adopter do it for your mama
get your mama out the hood your grandma
ain’t got good healthcare do well in
school so you get a scholarship so you
get your grandma some health benefits I
don’t know I don’t know your little
sister needs stuff for school and right
now y’all can’t afford it so you’re
gonna go to college so you can have your
business I don’t know but I need you to
take you serious I need you to take your
education serious because the only thing
that’s stopping you from being the best
student there could be is you you can do
the work it’s not like you can’t do the
work it’s not like you’re not
intelligent it’s not like you ain’t got
heart it’s not like you can’t do it you
just lazy the first moment you get after
a class you should sit down with your
notes and expand on everything you chart
it down give it depth flesh it out if
you even wait to go home and do it a
couple hours later you will have
forgotten some of your own notes but if
you take the moment right after class to
flesh it out you now have a little more
detail odds are at night you can still
recollect it that will be a powerful
addition with only about a five-minute
time investment per class that is a good
trade-off
your attention is like any other muscle
in your body as you train it it gets
stronger and your ability to focus
increases the act of noticing that your
attention is wandered and that you’ve
started daydreaming and then bringing
that attention back to your initial
point of focus is what helps build that
attention muscle if you’re trying to
learn something for your job the
incentive is don’t get fired or get a
raise you have built-in incentives but
for I’m going to learn French before I
go to France like six months from now
those are extracurriculars and they will
get crowded out of your life if you
don’t build in incentives meaning
rewards or punishments making it easy to
sit down and actually do the thing you
want to get better so in our lives we
have thousands of distractions we have
the television and the internet and
social media and family members and and
friends and all of the things in our
lives that make us so busy during the
practice process it’s extremely
important to make sure that you you are
not distracted by outside forces turn
off the TV block the internet close the
door turn off your cell phone the
process of learning is not difficult
what we’re doing in this process is
really just removing all of the
frustrations all of the barriers all of
the things that get in the way of us
sitting down and doing the work if you
practice shortly before sleeping
actually learn or or remember you can
consolidate the the practice in a way
that helps you perform better the next
before the semester starts or maybe
during the first week identify a good
location for you to do most of your
studying in and you can pair that with a
set studying time each day or maybe a
time that works for each day on your
calendar so maybe the library is a good
location for you it’s quiet there’s a
lot of other people working so you kind
of get that good vibe of focus to work
and you can put on your calendar that
every day from 2:00 to 4:00 or something
like that you’re gonna go there you’re
going to get all the studying and
reviewing assignments done that you need
to get done and that’ll start building a
habit so two months down the line when
you’re a little bit stressed and you got
a lot more assignments you still have
that habit engrained you’re still gonna
be at the library every single day like
you said you would and you’re keeping
steam going throughout the semester
maybe you feel like you know your school
ain’t the best school you ain’t got the
best teachers I need you to kill all of
that all right
don’t don’t make a bad thing worse I
need you to take initiative like this is
your year remember what I told you I
don’t care if you got the best teachers
the worst teachers you’re in the best
school district the worst school
district you got to take initiative you
got to take ownership like this is your
life at the end of the day right at the
end of the day and this is what I know I
don’t care what school you come from
I’ve seen as kids who’ve gone to the
best food who turned out terrible lives
I seen some kids become some of the
worst foods and a detroit public school
system specifically and they doing it
big are you hearing me I’m not gonna
call out names but I specifically know
kids who come from schools where people
would never believe they would amount to
anything and they took their
professional career and they like to a
whole other level have you actually done
all that’s in your power to create
systems to generate motivation when you
tell yourself that you just can’t get
the motivation to study or do your
homework are you being honest with
yourself or in reality are you just not
willing to put in that groundwork are
you not willing to build those systems
to create the motivation if that’s the
case then look at what you’ve been doing
in the past to create that motivation if
it’s not sufficient then it’s time to
make a change
have you forgotten why you here you
bigger than a final you can make it
through no people have made it through
worse remember your purpose remember why
you’re doing this you’re doing this for
Grandma you doing this when you’re look
brothers and sisters
look up to you you doing this for your
cousin you first-generation you’re the
first one in your family to go to
college you’re doing this to show your
family you can do it
but what i am telling you do is to
create something in that environment
right to make up something in that
environment that pumps you up that gets
you excited alright like pretend like
it’s to school you want to go to pretend
like it’s the teachers did you wanna
have like I don’t know but what I want
you to do is I want you to find
something brilliant I want you to find
something attractive I want you to sign
instead of looking at just a negative I
want you to find something about that
school that you can love something about
that school that you can embrace are you
hearing something about that school
that’s gonna help you to get pumped up
wake up every single one going in and do
what you got to do listen to me
sometimes what you want it doesn’t exist
so you got to create it you may hate
your environment you may not like your
environment but I want you to find
something in your environment something
in your environment I want you to create
something in your environment I want you
to initiate something in your vibe
that’s gonna make you want to get up
that’s gonna make you want to love it
and I want you to find people in that
environment who love that environment
who are prosperous in that environment
who found a way to take that which is
not necessarily the greatest thing in
the world and make something beautiful
out of it and then finally I want you to
go to the places that you love the Vista
colleges go visit Collin you live in the
neighborhood some of you live you live
you live 1015 miles five miles away from
a major university you’ve never been
there before I want you to go to that
University when you get out of school
catch the bus and go to that University
I want you to just go in there libraries
I want you to go in their classrooms and
sit down and just start doing your
schoolwork all right environment is
everything the culture is everything
sort of the culture that that you’re
looking for does not exist in the place
that you live or the ski that you go to
I want you to create the culture and I
want you to change the culture favit you
can study for a half hour it doesn’t
take a half hour break to recharge your
batteries for most people about five
minutes this is where you go away do
something fun for five minutes call a
friend talk to a child talk to a parent
a roommate
enjoy some music use something you enjoy
and actually say this is my treat for
having studied for 30 minutes
effectively go back and here’s what
happens
your efficiency is nearly a hundred
percent study a half hour take a break
study a half hour had she done that over
a course of six hours to it have got
about five and half hours of serious
studying and about a half hour of total
break time you can have those little
study breaks but the coolest part is
this because you’re now reinforcing it
with those little breaks and something
fun you extend it and you’ll find you
can go thirty forty fifty an hour an
hour and a half and this is training
those of you go on to advanced degrees
you’re gonna have to study incredible
lengths of time without taking a break
because you’ve got to get it done [Music]
want to be able to do what is it going
to look like when you’re done what are
you going to be able to look at yourself
and say I did this thing that I’ve
always wanted to do what does it look
like I want y’all to know something man
you’ll never get your independence
without education for real education is
the most important thing in your life
I didn’t say degrees I’m not just
talking about going to school and get a
degree I’m talking about getting
knowledge knowledge is power information
changes situations you are blessed to be
in school that’s a blessing there are
other kids they go to school year round
they don’t get no break so your breaks
shouldn’t be a disadvantage your break
should be an advantage most students
that go to school you aren’t students
you don’t study you don’t see no real
baller no dude they call himself a
baller right no dude that’s a baller
that don’t keep some gym shoes and some
shorts in a ball in a bag in his ride or
he takes the school why cuz he a baller
so any chance he get the hoop he got all
his stuff ready because why he’s a
Hooper
you don’t know no Hooper that can’t tell
you if you’re one if he had to write if
he afford right he knows if he’s a car a
shooting guard a point guard you were in
school and you don’t know who you are so
number one you need to be a student what
do students do they study and they don’t
just study doing eight to three eight to
3:30 there’s no study with somebody
you’re not waiting for somebody to tell
you to play basketball to play
basketball you’re not waiting for
somebody to tell you to play football to
play football right you’re not waiting
for somebody to tell you to play soccer
to play soccer right you’re not waiting
I don’t know what your reason is your
mama broke are you hearing me
your mama working two jobs got the class
and get an education so you can become
an engineer adopter do it for your mama
get your mama out the hood your grandma
ain’t got good healthcare do well in
school so you get a scholarship so you
get your grandma some health benefits I
don’t know I don’t know your little
sister needs stuff for school and right
now y’all can’t afford it so you’re
gonna go to college so you can have your
business I don’t know but I need you to
take you serious I need you to take your
education serious because the only thing
that’s stopping you from being the best
student there could be is you you can do
the work it’s not like you can’t do the
work it’s not like you’re not
intelligent it’s not like you ain’t got
heart it’s not like you can’t do it you
just lazy the first moment you get after
a class you should sit down with your
notes and expand on everything you chart
it down give it depth flesh it out if
you even wait to go home and do it a
couple hours later you will have
forgotten some of your own notes but if
you take the moment right after class to
flesh it out you now have a little more
detail odds are at night you can still
recollect it that will be a powerful
addition with only about a five-minute
time investment per class that is a good
trade-off
your attention is like any other muscle
in your body as you train it it gets
stronger and your ability to focus
increases the act of noticing that your
attention is wandered and that you’ve
started daydreaming and then bringing
that attention back to your initial
point of focus is what helps build that
attention muscle if you’re trying to
learn something for your job the
incentive is don’t get fired or get a
raise you have built-in incentives but
for I’m going to learn French before I
go to France like six months from now
those are extracurriculars and they will
get crowded out of your life if you
don’t build in incentives meaning
rewards or punishments making it easy to
sit down and actually do the thing you
want to get better so in our lives we
have thousands of distractions we have
the television and the internet and
social media and family members and and
friends and all of the things in our
lives that make us so busy during the
practice process it’s extremely
important to make sure that you you are
not distracted by outside forces turn
off the TV block the internet close the
door turn off your cell phone the
process of learning is not difficult
what we’re doing in this process is
really just removing all of the
frustrations all of the barriers all of
the things that get in the way of us
sitting down and doing the work if you
practice shortly before sleeping
actually learn or or remember you can
consolidate the the practice in a way
that helps you perform better the next
before the semester starts or maybe
during the first week identify a good
location for you to do most of your
studying in and you can pair that with a
set studying time each day or maybe a
time that works for each day on your
calendar so maybe the library is a good
location for you it’s quiet there’s a
lot of other people working so you kind
of get that good vibe of focus to work
and you can put on your calendar that
every day from 2:00 to 4:00 or something
like that you’re gonna go there you’re
going to get all the studying and
reviewing assignments done that you need
to get done and that’ll start building a
habit so two months down the line when
you’re a little bit stressed and you got
a lot more assignments you still have
that habit engrained you’re still gonna
be at the library every single day like
you said you would and you’re keeping
steam going throughout the semester
maybe you feel like you know your school
ain’t the best school you ain’t got the
best teachers I need you to kill all of
that all right
don’t don’t make a bad thing worse I
need you to take initiative like this is
your year remember what I told you I
don’t care if you got the best teachers
the worst teachers you’re in the best
school district the worst school
district you got to take initiative you
got to take ownership like this is your
life at the end of the day right at the
end of the day and this is what I know I
don’t care what school you come from
I’ve seen as kids who’ve gone to the
best food who turned out terrible lives
I seen some kids become some of the
worst foods and a detroit public school
system specifically and they doing it
big are you hearing me I’m not gonna
call out names but I specifically know
kids who come from schools where people
would never believe they would amount to
anything and they took their
professional career and they like to a
whole other level have you actually done
all that’s in your power to create
systems to generate motivation when you
tell yourself that you just can’t get
the motivation to study or do your
homework are you being honest with
yourself or in reality are you just not
willing to put in that groundwork are
you not willing to build those systems
to create the motivation if that’s the
case then look at what you’ve been doing
in the past to create that motivation if
it’s not sufficient then it’s time to
make a change
have you forgotten why you here you
bigger than a final you can make it
through no people have made it through
worse remember your purpose remember why
you’re doing this you’re doing this for
Grandma you doing this when you’re look
brothers and sisters
look up to you you doing this for your
cousin you first-generation you’re the
first one in your family to go to
college you’re doing this to show your
family you can do it
but what i am telling you do is to
create something in that environment
right to make up something in that
environment that pumps you up that gets
you excited alright like pretend like
it’s to school you want to go to pretend
like it’s the teachers did you wanna
have like I don’t know but what I want
you to do is I want you to find
something brilliant I want you to find
something attractive I want you to sign
instead of looking at just a negative I
want you to find something about that
school that you can love something about
that school that you can embrace are you
hearing something about that school
that’s gonna help you to get pumped up
wake up every single one going in and do
what you got to do listen to me
sometimes what you want it doesn’t exist
so you got to create it you may hate
your environment you may not like your
environment but I want you to find
something in your environment something
in your environment I want you to create
something in your environment I want you
to initiate something in your vibe
that’s gonna make you want to get up
that’s gonna make you want to love it
and I want you to find people in that
environment who love that environment
who are prosperous in that environment
who found a way to take that which is
not necessarily the greatest thing in
the world and make something beautiful
out of it and then finally I want you to
go to the places that you love the Vista
colleges go visit Collin you live in the
neighborhood some of you live you live
you live 1015 miles five miles away from
a major university you’ve never been
there before I want you to go to that
University when you get out of school
catch the bus and go to that University
I want you to just go in there libraries
I want you to go in their classrooms and
sit down and just start doing your
schoolwork all right environment is
everything the culture is everything
sort of the culture that that you’re
looking for does not exist in the place
that you live or the ski that you go to
I want you to create the culture and I
want you to change the culture favit you
can study for a half hour it doesn’t
take a half hour break to recharge your
batteries for most people about five
minutes this is where you go away do
something fun for five minutes call a
friend talk to a child talk to a parent
a roommate
enjoy some music use something you enjoy
and actually say this is my treat for
having studied for 30 minutes
effectively go back and here’s what
happens
your efficiency is nearly a hundred
percent study a half hour take a break
study a half hour had she done that over
a course of six hours to it have got
about five and half hours of serious
studying and about a half hour of total
break time you can have those little
study breaks but the coolest part is
this because you’re now reinforcing it
with those little breaks and something
fun you extend it and you’ll find you
can go thirty forty fifty an hour an
hour and a half and this is training
those of you go on to advanced degrees
you’re gonna have to study incredible
lengths of time without taking a break
because you’ve got to get it done [Music]
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