Yo, today's QOD is, it's not the color of your skin, it's the color of your mind.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the QOD of the Day Show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and Sean Crox and

Taccom. We got Reverend Ike back on the show and let me take some. This is one of my favorite

clips of all time, like not just this year, but of all time. Like the last three or four

years I've been doing this show. And if you're a person of color, especially if you're a

black person like myself, I'm going to encourage you today to listen to this as many times

as you possibly can. Just listen to it over and over and over and over again because

there's a lot of conditioning that needs to be overcome. There's this concept called

learned helplessness. And essentially it works like this. You can have a baby elephant

and you can drive a steak into the ground and you can tie up or chain that baby elephant

to the steak. And the elephant is not strong enough to pull the steak out of the ground.

So the elephant stays within a certain little perimeter just as far as the chain or the

rope will let it go because the steak is too heavy to take out. And what happens is that

elephant gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger and stronger

and somewhere along that path, somewhere along that journey of growth and strength. It's

able to pull that steak out of the ground and go do whatever wants to do. But because the

elephant as a baby was conditioned to believe that it wasn't strong enough to pull the

steak out of the ground and move about the world freely. It doesn't even try. It's big

enough to do it. It's strong enough to do it, but it doesn't even try because it believes

that it's not strong enough. Now, why am I talking about this? Because, you know, here's

something that I posted on Instagram a couple months ago. Got a lot of love. I said this.

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