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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1987 | Inky Johnson: “Give Me Character Over Talent.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

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

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today, Inky Johnson discusses how the way you deal with adversity reveals your true character. Will you rise to the occasion?

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Yeah, well today's Q-O-D is Give Me Character over Talent.

0:06.0

Here we go. So, Welcome back to the Quater of the Day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and

0:35.4

Sean Crox and I'm happy Monday to you my friend we've got Inci Johnson on the

0:40.2

show today and today Inci is to talk about how one of the greatest revealers of your character

0:47.6

is how you deal with adversity.

0:50.4

Inky Johnson's coming up. And I'm a firm believer that perspective drives performance every day or week.

0:58.0

How a person view what they do will always affect how they do what they do.

1:02.0

And so if I meet somebody and they say, oh man I want to be

1:04.5

rich I'm like cool nothing wrong with that but the true measure of their wealth is if you

1:08.6

got it then you lost it then how much would you be worth how much is your character worth

1:14.6

how much is your integrity worth

1:16.7

like me and my wife got three homeless shelters in Atlanta

1:20.0

right and we do work with inner city youth and I was with a kid a 15 year old his mother called me and she's like

1:26.1

Enky can you come and get him I'm like come and get who?

1:30.9

My 15 year old he's disrespecting authority, disrespecting teachers, disrespecting me, he won't listen to anybody. I don't want him to go to jail.

1:40.0

I said, can I smack him when I get to him? I said I'll meet you I'll get him.

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I meet her with the guy we get out we ride downtown Atlanta under a bridge and it's this gentleman sleeps on the I-20 east cardboard box.

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Doesn't want any help. Since there, great person.

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We ride up, got some food, engaging in dialogue.

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I tap the kid, he's a jelly bean, hard on the outside, soft on the inside, just a jelly

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bean.

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I said, hey, champ, I said said you're brilliant, you're smart, right?

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