Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 07.22.24

Today in Closing Remarks, we get the improbability of statistics from Our Fearless Leader.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are our last break of
the day. Jay, it is the last break of the day, Steve.
You know I often talk about your mental attitude. I'm
gonna share something with you because it's a way that
I was thinking of how I really thought, and I

(00:21):
was thinking about statistics and how statistics. People use statistics
to help them be okay to me with their failure.
People use to statistics to find a way to describe
their lack of movement or their not being successful or something.

(00:42):
Because you got to be careful with any stat that
says one out of you know, you ever hear stat
one out of every five thousand, one out of every
one out of every six out of ten see and people,
if you're not careful, statistics can be very crippling. Thirty

(01:06):
percent of the people who do this will wind up
that way. And what negative people do, They automatically put
themselves into the to the negative side of the equation,
because if you're accustomed to thinking negative, you will always
take the negative side of a statistic. What they told

(01:28):
me years ago, one out of every two thousand comedians
will get on the Tonight Show, So that means one
thousand nine hundred and ninety nine comedians out of the
two thousand will never get on the Tonight's Show. So
you know what everybody around me was talking about. Man,
we'll never make it on the Tonight Show. You know
what I did when I first got in comedy, I

(01:49):
hummed the Tonight's Show theme song Before I went on,
I hummed it. I never got it with Johnny Carson.
But you know what I got on it Tonight's Show
when Jay Leno was on. Now, but I was already successful.
That's the only way I got on it. But see,

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I never allowed that statistic to enter into my system.
It's amazing what statistics do. Be very careful you all
listening to statistics because they got nothing to do with you.
They don't. Stats to me are for people looking for

(02:32):
a reason to explain why they're not going to do it,
or why they didn't make it, or why they're not successful.
I don't care nothing about no stats. See. The problem
is what I chose to do. And let me explain
this to you. See if you can get what I'm
talking about, Let's look at these two words. Let's start

(02:53):
with probability. What's the probability of you becoming rich one day.
What's the probability of you being able to have a child.
What's the probability of you hitting the lottery? What's the
probability of you owning more than one house? What's the
probability of you being able to travel like you want

(03:16):
to in this world? What's the probability of you seeing
four other countries before you die? You understand what I'm saying.
Once you look at the probability, you are in trouble
because the operative word and probability to me is probable.
It probably probably won't happen. Well, it's probable, but it

(03:41):
ain't likely. That's the problem with it. So I never
operate on probability. I choose to operate on another word, possibility.
I only look at the possibility of it. And here's
the codpart A. Y'all, if you thought about it for real,

(04:02):
listen to this right here. Do you realize that it
is impossible to think an impossible thought? Oh? What did
you say? I said? Do you realize it is impossible

(04:23):
to think an impossible thought? So if you thought it,
do you not understand that that's possible? Show me one person,
show me anybody, show me anybody that has thought an
impossible thought? How can you do that? How how can
you think an impossible thought? The reason you can't think

(04:48):
of an impossible thought because the moment you think it,
there lies the possibility. And now it opens up your life,
It opens up your realm of thinking. It opens up
you to starting to begin in the process that anything

(05:12):
is possible, Anything is possible. Do you know something that
you could really be rich one day if that's what
you want it now. I'm not saying that's a necessity
and that's what makes you happy. I'm just using that
as an example. Do you know you could actually have
more than one home. Do you know that you could
actually drive more than one or two cars? You can

(05:33):
have four cars. Do you understand that you actually can
help change lives that you've been thinking to change. Do
you know that you actually can be owned, become a
business owner, that you actually can open up that business.
You can actually do it. You can actually do it.
But you gotta fix your mind because it's possible. Stop

(05:57):
looking at the probability of something and look at the possibility.
And if you tell somebody an idea all the time
and they start telling you why it won't work, stop
talking to them people. You'll need them people. I only
talk to people when I give them an idea. They go, yeah, man,
we can do that. I don't need you telling me
how it won't work. The opposition gonna present itself in

(06:18):
everything you attempt to do anyway. I don't want to
hear your mouth talk about why it won't work. I
only give myself around people when I give them an idea,
they say, yeah, man, let's go. Those are my clothes,
with remarks ain't no more.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
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Speaker 1 (06:47):
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