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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

192 | Les Brown: “You’ve Got to Be Willing to Die to Who You Are Now to Give Birth to Who You Can Become.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

It’s Motivation Monday with the one and only Les Brown. Today, Les talks about dying -- not in the physical sense, but what Les reminds us is that sometimes you must die in regards to your mindset, your environment, your decisions, and the people you surround yourself with in order to become who you truly are and want to be…because when you’re not going after what you want, the things you don’t want can easily take over.

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You've got to be willing to die to who you are now, to give birth to who you can become.

0:07.0

And that is the quote of the day.

0:31.0

Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

0:39.0

I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and calm today's episode is brought to you by the

0:43.5

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0:48.0

I got less brown in the house to fire you up on this Monday morning.

0:52.0

Less covers several different topics, but the one that I enjoy the most is when he's talking about death.

0:57.0

And it's something I think about quite frequently and not from the perspective of like death on a physical level.

1:02.0

What I'm talking about is dying to who we've been in order to become somebody new.

1:08.0

You know, they say that the creative process is to be, to do and then to have.

1:14.0

And so often what we do is we try to do where we're human doings.

1:18.0

We're just doing stuff.

1:20.0

We're trying to follow some list of instructions that we found in some book.

1:24.0

We find it really hard to do it and stick with that because we haven't made the decision to become somebody new by letting go of that person who we've been.

1:34.0

Because when you become somebody new, you can do something new and you can have something new.

1:40.0

Here's less.

1:43.0

One area of my life that I regret that I can't unscramble those eggs.

1:48.0

There's some people who decided to do drugs because they didn't hear my voice.

1:51.0

When I'm going down the street and I see young men walking with their pants dragging below their butt.

1:56.0

I get angry with myself because this happened on my watch.

2:01.0

On my watch when I see the incarceration rate going up.

2:05.0

Part of what I'm doing and my social commitment is to reduce the number of women who die from breast cancer and honor my mother.

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