FROM 70% TO 120% – BEST STUDY MOTIVATION
I never said when you want to succeed as
bad as you want to eat cause you can go
21 days maybe 30 but without eating
I never said when you want to succeed as
bad as you want water because you can go
about three days or so without it I said
when you want to succeed as bad as you
want to breathe
then you’ll be successful and so one of
the things I want to do for you as an
educator today you don’t necessarily
need better skills per se that’s not
what you need but what some of you need
is to go from 70% to 120% someone you
need to go from 80% to 120% the reason
why I’m giving a hundred and twenty is
because your dad is not in your life the
reason why I’m giving 120 is because
your father’s in prison the reason why
I’m giving 120 is because your mom is
working two jobs the reason why I’m
giving 120 is because your grandma’s
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the reason why I’m giving 120 is because
you live in the community where
education is not valued so I don’t care
what you do academically when you leave
here you can’t go and get credit for
getting aids that in your neighborhood
in your community
nobody affirms you for reading at a
certain level
nobody affirms you for doing well on
your a CT or your SAT where you come
from
education is not affirm so even if you
are a scholar you have to keep it to
yourself you have to suppress it so the
reason why I give 120 is because your
daddy’s not here to get paid and your
mom was too tired to give a hundred and
your grandma is washed out so she’s
giving 50
and y’all do that little stuff about you
gonna eat Macaulay got no dog or motor
you get tired wake eat you practice for
one or two days you all out you do a
couple hours you tired but yet you
compete against people right now that
stay lifestyle and you think they want
to let you take they lifestyle I don’t
want to do it as much as I want to eat I
don’t want to do it as much as I did
drink I want to be the best in the world
as bad as I want to breathe I want to be
the Michael Jordan of education I’m
gonna be the LeBron James of Education
and I ask you the questions I ask you
the question
today are you giving 120 I never said
when you want to succeed as bad as you
want to eat
I never said when you want to succeed as
bad as you want water I said when you
want to succeed as bad as you want to
breathe then you’ll be successful
like I told my professor what happens if
I fail he said what happens if you pass
I said but what happened if I don’t get
it
what happened about putting all this
years and it doesn’t work out he said
but what happens if you put it on here
and you get it you got skill and you got
will you got skill and you got will to
total different things you were born
with certain things but to get to the
next level and not just get to the next
level to sadly at the next level you
gotta have will when you get to that
next level so when you play you have to
compete when you have an opportunity by
what you give 80% when you have
opportunity so if I answer that for me
y’all y’all talk about what you get 80%
70% why wouldn’t you always give 120%
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you might get it but right now what oh I
can’t hear y’all you may get it but
right now I want you don’t have it
you have nothing to fear guys you
already overcame all kind of stuff
because a lot of you don’t see that
what’s gonna take you to that next level
it’s gonna separate you from everybody
else because you gotta have some that
separates you what’s gonna separate you
from everybody else I I don’t know what
that is for you but just talk about when
you about leaving my videos one of the
things you notice that separates me from
everybody else I don’t do what any of my
videos I don’t curse enough you’ve never
seen me cuss before you’ve never seen me
drink before you’ve never seen me smoke
I’m not against drinking and smoking but
my brain is I don’t drink I don’t smoke
what are you gonna do to separate
yourself like I do things that separate
myself from my the passion that I have
when I speak the grind that I have when
I do what I do what are you going to do
to separate yourself people you’re not
even gonna be hanging out with all I
want to hear this eat and grinding like
dating at the ground beef Oh John yeah I
want to hear that out there handle that
rock like he they monsters he they like
freaks out here he like they go hard
that’s all I want
well some more stuff is keeping you from
doing what you supposed to do I love it
you have an opportunity of a lifetime
and and and what what I’m trying to get
you understand is when you understand
you have an opportunity you Jack you
play it look different
I wasn’t successful because of who I was
like in a lot of y’all for real here’s
what you got to stop doing you hold
people to the fire when they don’t do it
they supposed to do but you give
yourself a pass like and you got to stop
doing that
like I see in this generation people
will let their kids get away with stuff
that I know you wouldn’t let your BIOS
kid get away with but sometimes when you
so close to something you don’t treat it
in there you don’t you don’t treat it
real like you give it a pass because
it’s yo is your baby but if somebody
else was to get on your couch and do
that you never fit or somebody so what I
had to start doing was saying you got to
stop holding other people to the fire
you got all yourself to the fire and I
realized that without a schedule I was
the one that was messing up my life and
I realized I needed a schedule because I
wasn’t I wasn’t the brand to get me
where I wanted to go if that makes it
like that version of Eric Thomas would
never make me a one-percenter I realized
that so when I sat down with Warren
Buffett three things that blew my mind I
never really realized where his money
came from so the first thing I did was
like you always when he comes from
investing well what happened was when he
was 12 years old his father gave him his
first bike grant and let him make an
investment so I realized he’s not
getting up early the morning just to get
up in the morning but he says he does is
he real he doesn’t just read books
that’s not what he does he reads
financial reports so this dude was
telling me he read a financial report of
General Motors in like 1960
and I’m thinking like why would you be
reading is 2014 he was reading the
document to the financial listen to me
he’s a financial genius what was he
reading finances for real y’all be
coming up to me like yo eat what you
reading why you trying to be a
motivational speaker you trying to be
the legs mother to King you trying to be
the next mother Teresa why are you
trying to read what I’m reading like
what do you talk like you trying to
impress somebody why are you reading
what I’m trying to read and do not try
to be me he was not reading mother
Teresa he wasn’t reading about leaders
he was reading a financial report from
1964 General Motors why because General
Motors had one of their successful
financial years in 1964 and so he was
looking for the clues of what were they
doing specifically in 1964 that can be
duplicated in 2014 that’s what he was
looking for so a lot of you getting up
early because et get up early but you
getting up early for no reason you just
up early so be careful that your routine
is pointing to where you’re trying to
get to and you not wasting time so I’m
looking at Warren Buffett he says he
reads six hours a day
he reads series financial documents six
hours a day that’s the first thing he
does 7 days a week 6 hours but watch
this you go ooh when you read something
for six hours times seven that’s 42
hours right that’s 42 hours a week right
I don’t know how many hours that is a
year but guess why he makes the best
financial decision because all he’s
doing is financial stuff that’s what he
put in 10,000 20,000 40,000 50,000 hours
if you’re gifted in three areas that I
mean you won’t have to get 30,000 hours
just to be like basically a master but
what if you did one thing and got 30
hours of information in just that one
area you guys got ten thousand and three
different areas so why you got ten
thousand I got forty fifty thousand in
one area what speaking and guess what
the disk is the disk is here going
further into personalities it’s still
the same exact thing so I’m putting more
hours on top so the routine is important
because eventually it’s going to make
you a beast in one particular area
that’s why you need a routine because
you can’t trust yourself not to get
off-track that routine is going to keep
you on track and make you a 1%
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