1848 | Dr. Dennis Kimbro: “You Cannot Succeed Being Like Everybody Else, You Must Take that Lonely Road.”
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Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Author and university professor Dr. Dennis Kimbro reveals what he learned from some of the most successful black achievers about “what makes the great great.”
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| 0:00.0 | Yo today's Q-O-D is you cannot succeed being like everybody else. You must take that |
| 0:08.5 | lonely road. Here we go. So, Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. I'm your host Sean Croxton |
| 0:39.4 | and Sean Croxton.com. We got Dr Dennis Kimbrough back on the show today. |
| 0:45.0 | And Dr Kimbrough is going to talk about what makes the great great. |
| 0:50.0 | You may have heard Dr Kimbrough's story. |
| 0:52.0 | He interviewed 250 I think of the most successful black |
| 0:57.9 | achievers in the country because he wanted to find out like what makes people successful and what makes people |
| 1:05.2 | impoverished and he found the answers and he's got some phenomenal books about this |
| 1:09.5 | They can grow rich a black choice the wealth choice as well as what makes the great, great. |
| 1:14.0 | I recommend you read them all. |
| 1:15.9 | But one thing he talks about here that a lot of successful people have had to deal with and |
| 1:20.9 | that a lot of people can't handle as they're moving |
| 1:23.7 | towards success is the alowness and what I mean by that you know a great way to |
| 1:30.1 | talk about this is something I wrote about on Instagram the other day and it really seemed to |
| 1:35.2 | resonate with a lot of readers. It's something I learned from Dr. Lisser Rankin who wrote a book called |
| 1:41.4 | The Anatomy of a Calling. |
| 1:43.2 | I write about this concept there. |
| 1:45.2 | The concept is called the empty elevator syndrome. |
| 1:50.4 | And what this means is, for most of your your life you've been on the same elevator |
| 1:55.7 | with the same people stuck at the same floor. |
| 1:59.3 | It's almost like being in a video game. You're playing the same level over and over and over you just can't |
| 2:04.3 | get past that level well if you want to move up in the game of life one thing you're |
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