1098 | KRS One: “I Changed the Way I Looked at The World, Because I Changed the Way I Looked at Myself.”

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, KRS-One shares a pearl of perennial wisdom since time immemorial: true perception and creation, and teaches us a valuable lesson to live by, “You become what you think.” Source: KRS One - Autodidact (YouTube)

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0:00.0	Yo, today's QOD is I changed the way I looked at the world because I changed the way I looked at myself
0:07.5	Here we go
0:31.5	Welcome back to the Quot of the Day show I'm your host Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and calm
0:39.6	We got hip-hop legend KRS1 on the show today. I remember being a little guy
0:47.3	watching YoMTV wraps or rap city on BET and I could not wait to see a
0:54.7	KRS1 and bookie down productions video this man is just so intelligent probably the most
1:03.4	intelligent hip-hop artist you will ever hear and here's the thing he didn't even get out of eighth
1:10.0	grade now how does somebody who doesn't even make it out of eighth grade become this intelligent
1:17.4	keep listening and you'll find out why here's KRS this is what hip-hop is in its core the core of it
1:29.3	is through perception through what we call things how we look at things we create the reality we want now
1:37.7	use myself as an example here this little school for KRS1 where did I come up with that knowledge
1:49.6	reign supreme now look at this real quick okay look at it
2:00.4	see guys look at it I didn't make it past the eighth grade let me confess to you right now
2:09.8	I got to live that twice in the eighth grade twice I went to the eighth grade I couldn't get through it
2:21.2	it's cool and I could I could they let me back in eighth grade I went up 10 trying to do the eighth grade
2:28.8	it didn't happen I'd never been to high school never been to college but I went to the public library
2:40.7	I was a pretty boy in every corner there's a free library
2:59.7	the library I want in it I had a lot of philosophy I said wow you know I want to know what's real what's the truth what is real
3:16.0	I went to the library started reading and Aristotle's opportunities played oh free free
3:20.9	I'm not done with the public live there in fact he used the Brooklyn public library
3:42.5	grand army closet in Brooklyn you've been to Brooklyn just go to that library lab just like one fan he just laughed
3:51.2	that's where I was that's where I was right there and I mentioned this I'm talking about perception and reality here
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