it's very simple this is what I believe
and I'm willing to die for it period
it's that simple you can't be scared to
die for the truth the truth is the only
thing that's ever going to be constant
the only thing that I see that is
distinctly different about me is I'm not
afraid to die on a treadmill you might
have more talent than me you might be
smarter than me but if we get on the
treadmill together there's two things
you're getting off first or I'm gonna
die it's really that simple
you're not going to outwork me it's a
it's a very is such a simple basic
concept the guy who was willing to
hustle the most is gonna be the guy that
just gets that loose ball you know he
got the outlook he got - oh god he's the
puzzle II grabbed out when I was going
to be out of bounds but he saved it back
in it's like the commodity that I see
the majority of people who aren't
getting the places they want or aren't
achieving the things that they want in
this business is strictly based on
hustle it's strictly based on being out
work is strictly based on missing
crucial opportunities I say all the time
if you stay ready you ain't gotta get
ready greatness is not this
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wonderful esoteric illusive
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godlike feature that only the special
among us will ever taste
you know it's something that truly
exists in all of us
what to do good I want the world to be
better because I was here want my life I
want my my work my family I want it to
mean something and it's like it has if
if you are not making someone else's
life better then you're wasting your
time
you know like that your life will become
better by making other lives better
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the first step before anybody else in
the world believes it is you have to
believe it there's no reason to have a
plan because it distracts from plan a I
realize that needed to have the level of
success that I want to have is difficult
to spread it out and do multiple thing
it takes such a desperate obsessive
focus it really gotta focus with all
your fiber and all your heart all your
creativity
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I've never really viewed myself as
particularly talented where I excel is
ridiculous sickening work ethic you know
while the other guys sleeping I'm
working what other guys eaten I'm
working the road to success is through
commitment and through the strength to
drive through that commitment when it
gets hard and it is going to get hard
and you're gonna want to quit sometimes
but it'll be colored by who you are and
more who you want to be being realistic
is the most commonly traveled road to
mediocrity why would you be realistic
what's the point of being realistic I'm
gonna do it it's done it's already done
the second I decide is done it's already
done somehow we just gotta wait for
y'all to see I'm motivated by fear you
know fear of what fear of fear I hate
being scared to do something and I think
what developed in my in my early days
was the attitude that I started
attacking things that I was scared
I don't want to be an icon I want to be
an idea you know I want to represent an
idea i want to represent possibilities I
want to represent magic right that
you're in a universe in two plus two
equals four two plus the only equals
four if you accept that two plus two
equals four two plus two is gonna be
what I want to do you know and there's
that there's a there's that there's a
redemptive power that making a choice
has you know rather than feeling like
you're that effect to all the things
that are happening make a choice right
you just decide what is gonna be who
you're gonna be how you're gonna do it
just decide and then from that point the
universe is going get out your way this
but his water wants to it wants to move
and go around stuff you know suffered
from need
I want to represent possibilities I'm
gonna represent the idea that you really
can make what you want
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there's a necessity to make a difference
I feel very strongly that we are we
choose to be the child my parents always
told me you could be whatever you want
to be you could do whatever you want to
do and you know that that office that
position of the highest office on the
face of the earth it was something I
heard my parents saying it but I didn't
totally believe it yet I went out in the
world and I carried myself and I held my
head high and I stood there and I look
people in their eyes and I talked to
people as if I was deserving of
everything that this planet has to offer
this one year he wanted a new wall the
front of his shop so he tore down
probably about 16 feet high and probably
about 30 feet long he just completely
turned the wall down and my brother had
been a six-foot hole it would mix in the
concrete by him we were building this
wall for
it was just myself and my little brother
and I remember standing back looking at
that wall there's going to be a holder
for after the half later the final
brothers never tell me very young you
you don't try to build a wall you don't
set out to build a wall you don't sell
anything though the biggest baddest
greatest wall that's ever been built you
don't start there you say I'm gonna lay
this brick as perfectly as a brick can
be later there will not be one brick on
the face of the earth as will be laid
better it means brick that I'm gonna lay
in this next ten minutes and you do that
every single day soon you have a wall
and I think psychologically the
advantage that that gives me over over a
lot of people
have been in competition with in
different situations is it's difficult
to take the first step look out
that the task the task is never huge day
we didn't grow up with the sense that
where we were was where we were going to
be and we grew up with the sense that
where we were almost didn't matter
because we will be coming we were
becoming something great the greatest
thing in my and my career has been the
constant commitment to putting something
in the world of value not putting
something in the world that makes me
look hot you know though I think as long
as you can stay focused on delivering
your art and delivering yourself and
delivering your energy and delivering
your ideas for the world to be better
the difference between depression and
joy right and I think it's purpose right
it's like when you wake up in the
morning
your life means something to somebody
other than you that you have a purpose
if you don't don't do the things that
you're gonna do people's lives will
suffer and I think that that kind of
purpose that like to live in service not
to you but to live in service to
humanity to live in service to your
family to live in service to your church
to your city to your country to the
world living in service is that I feel
like that is the purest form of Jordan
the separation of talent and skill is
one of the the the greatest
misunderstood concepts for people who
are trying to excel who have dreams that
want to do things talent you have
naturally skill is only developed by
hours and hours and hours of beating on
your craft he who says he can and he who
says he can't are both usually right and
I want you to keep in your heart just
know that you can
you