PROVE THEM ALL WRONG

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Let the critics and haters say whatever they want to say. Shut them up with your results. Your actions will always speak louder than any words.

Spoken by:

Les Brown
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Andy Elliot
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Eric Thomas
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C.T. Fletcher
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Brian Tracy
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Andy Frisella
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Tim Grover
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Chadd Wright
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Music:

2WEI - Gangstas Paradise

2WEI
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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
I had somebody in my life at one time told me,
you’ll never make it.
They laughed.
They’re gonna laugh at you.
People are gonna laugh at you.
People will count you out.
They’re like, that guy’s not gonna be anything.
Yeah, he’s not gonna be nothing.

(00:21):
They have no f*cking clue.
I’m gonna tell you what I know.
I know underdogs
kick everybody’s ass when they get serious.
When they get f*cking serious.
It is impossible
until some crazy son of b*tch
has the audacity
to believe that no matter what the expert

(00:42):
or the doctor says,
I can still do that sh*t.
And the first step for me
was seeing something I was not
before I was.
I gotta believe in me
before anybody else believe in me.
So when you’re uncommon,
get ready for the criticism.
When you’re uncommon,
get ready for the opposition.
When you’re uncommon,

(01:03):
get ready for the common people
not to understand you.
And most people can’t take the pressure.
They give up.
They quit.
They throw in the towel.
But if you want to see if you’re a brave person,
wait when things go
completely to pieces.
When things are the worst.
When your very best deal falls apart

(01:23):
and your rent is late
and you’re tired and you’re sick
and everybody is mad at you
and your car doesn’t work,
then it’s the person that picks themselves up
and says, nothing
is going to stop me.
Develop the quality of being unstoppable.
Say in yourself, that no matter what life throws at me,
it’ll never stop me.
You can be tired,
you can be worn out,
but no matter how rough it gets,

(01:45):
nothing
will stop you.
You know what crazy means?
Crazy means
that you have the ability
to see things that other people
can’t.
That’s what crazy means.
And if you’re not f*cking crazy,
you’re never going to succeed at anything in life.
Everybody has got to be
a little bit off.

(02:06):
Anybody that’s done something great,
they don’t think like anybody else.
They can’t.
And the people that tell you,
you can’t do it,
you know what your response to them is?
Watch me.
That’s all you have to say.
Watch me.
You better be f*cking pissed
when people doubt you.
You better learn
how to take that

(02:26):
pissed off energy
and put it into productive action.
Every f*cking negative comment
should trigger you
into productive action.
Every time somebody says something to you,
you should go do whatever it is
that is going to make them have to eat their words.
Right then, right now.
Whatever happens to you,
turn it to your advantage.

(02:48):
So I have now made that a blessing for me
as opposed to a handicap.
I went and proved them wrong
by engaging in self-study.
And consciously working to develop myself.
I started going to work earlier.
I started being the last one to leave there.
I started working harder than anybody else.
So now they have to ask themselves,
what were we thinking about when we labeled this guy?

(03:10):
Doesn’t matter how many failures I’ve made.
Doesn’t matter how many mistakes I’ve endured.
Doesn’t matter about my defeats.
Doesn’t matter about what I’ve done.
I don’t care about the fact I’m in a hole now.
Doesn’t matter about where I am.
The last chapter to my life
has not been written yet.
If you judge me now,
you’ll judge me prematurely.

(03:30):
I haven’t exposed all my stuff yet.
I’m still in the process of transforming my life.
I’m still in the process of becoming.
I don’t care if it’s impossible.
I don’t care how hard it is.
I don’t care how difficult it is.
I will my way through it.
All I want you to focus on is the impossible.
And one day,
you will laugh at the impossible.

(03:52):
You will look at the impossible and go,
how was that ever impossible?
You will look at the impossible and go,
what was I thinking?
You’re close.
You’re about to drop out.
You’ve gone too far now.
You ain’t got but two credits.
Hold on.
You can’t quit now.
Hold on.
"But this is my sixth time taking it."
You gonna pass on the seventh.
Hold on.
But you better get something

(04:12):
from all that hell you’ve been through.
I’m talking to somebody.
You ought to get excited.
You’re a hundred yards away.
You’re a hundred yards away.
You can see it in the distance.
You close boo, don’t give up now.
You close my brother, hold on.
Nobody’s gonna remember your mistakes
unless you are successful
in spite of your mistakes.

(04:33):
Unless you keep going while you’re covered in crap.
And when you do that,
people look around at you and they say,
"Hold on just a minute, man."
"He can’t do that."
"He can’t be successful."
"Remember all this"
"crap that he was covered in?"
"Hold on. Look at the mistakes this guy’s made."
They try to reel you back into that, man.

(04:54):
That’s what people want to do.
What do they call it?
Crabs in a bucket, right?
They want to pull you back down
into that crap that you came out of.
It freaking pisses them off, dude.
Most people make these big mistakes in life
and they hide in the corner, man.
And nobody remembers you.
I don’t care what you did freaking 10 years ago, man.
I don’t care what you did yesterday.
You just gotta keep going.

(05:16):
That’s it.
That’s how you put yourself in these environments
to become
who you want to be.
Pain is not permanent.
All roads to success,
you got to go through pain.
It’s not going to be easy,
but I want you to feel that pain going through your body.
And as pain leaves your body,
guess what’s going to take its place?

(05:37):
Success.
But you got to work through it.
I use the pain to push me to greatness.
and I’m telling you right now,
don’t give up.
I’m telling you right now,
don’t give in.
Get through it.
Just don’t let it break you.
If you get past it on the other side of it,
it’s going to be phenomenal.
At the end of pain
is your millions.

(05:57):
At the end of pain
is your promise.
So stop crying about it
and use your energy to get through it.