1512 | Eric Thomas: “Don’t Be Great, Shoot for Phenomenal, or You Will Be Forgotten.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
On today’s Motivation Monday episode, Eric Thomas discusses the steep cost of being average. Choose to be phenomenal. Because in America, “we don’t do average.”
Source: Eric Thomas - How To AVOID Being Average! (Motivational Keynote)
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, today's QOD is don't be great shoot for phenomenal or you will be |
| 0:06.7 | forgotten. Here we go. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show I'm your host shine, |
| 0:36.8 | cracks in the shine, cracks in time. We got Eric time. It's also known as |
| 0:40.5 | ET the hip hop preacher on the show today and today he's going to encourage |
| 0:45.3 | you to not be average. Don't be average. He's going to point out the steep |
| 0:51.7 | cost, the problems, the pains that can be caused by being average, being |
| 0:59.1 | mediocre. You can choose to be great. You can choose to be incredible. You can |
| 1:05.5 | choose to be phenomenal. And if you know me, you know I love how he finishes |
| 1:12.2 | this clip because not many days passed by where I don't thank my lucky stars |
| 1:18.1 | for the fact that I was blessed. That's right. I said blessed to be born in the |
| 1:23.2 | United States of America where I'm free to become whoever I want to become. |
| 1:27.8 | That's a rare thing in this world. We got people who are committing to being |
| 1:35.2 | average and mediocre until we have a perfect country. There are no perfect |
| 1:41.9 | countries. That's not a thing, right? So it's really up to you. Are you going to |
| 1:47.1 | wait for something that's not going to happen and be committed to average and |
| 1:51.2 | be committed to mediocre? Or are you going to decide to be phenomenal? They are |
| 1:57.7 | Thomas. He's coming up. |
| 2:01.3 | Success and average have nothing to do with each other. Get rid of one of them. |
| 2:07.4 | You're emotional, you're mental, side chick, it got to go. Which one you which one |
| 2:14.1 | you with? You with you with success or you with average, which one you with? Those |
| 2:18.5 | are two different paradigms, two different ideologies, which one are you with? |
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