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The School of Greatness

843 Everything is Perfect

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.822K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

TURN ADVERSITY INTO ADVANTAGE. Do you spend a lot of time wishing things were different? Do you feel sorry for yourself for the struggles you face? Maybe it’s time to reframe those obstacles as gifts. After all, the things that hurt us the most can help us show others more love. Pain can lead us to pleasure. And your negative experiences will lead you to greatness. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Prince Ea where he shared his message that everything is perfect. Richard Williams, better known by his stage name Prince EA, is an American rapper, spoken word artist, music video director and rights activist from St Louis, Missouri. He has over four million subscribers on YouTube and inspires people daily with his viral videos. Learn how to accept your present while changing your future on Episode 843. In This Episode You Will Learn: How the artist Immortal Technique influenced Prince Ea (2:00) The importance of accepting what is (3:00) About the philosophy that everything is perfect (3:30) How pain can be ultimately good (4:00) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/843 and follow at instagram.com/lewishowes

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0:00.0

This is five minute Friday

0:10.9

Welcome everyone to today's episode we've got a very special guest. I'm super excited to introduce you to the one and only

0:17.4

Prince E better known as Richard Williams and his stage name is Prince E

0:22.5

He is an American rapper and activist known for discussing topics like politics

0:28.1

Sociality environmentalism and life issues his YouTube videos have garnered over 40 million views and the guy is crushing it over 350,000 subscribers there

0:42.5

It was

0:44.5

probably

0:45.5

Into high school

0:47.5

Listening to the conscious hip-hop artists, you know because because you know if anybody this listen and

0:53.4

listens to immortal technique, you know he he goes in on government and tells you what's wrong with it and

1:01.5

You know he goes in on politicians and the world affairs and so from that is probably the first time why I'd like to

1:10.1

Outside say hey things are things might not be going the way they should be

1:14.9

Well the way they could be so but but I've developed from there too to them

1:19.9

You know after after

1:22.0

hip-hop I got into a spirituality and I don't mean I say I always got to

1:30.1

Kind of specify when I say spirituality because I don't mean like you know climbing the Himalayan mountains and

1:35.9

Meditating with the Dalai Lama. I just mean looking inside to figure out who I am and

1:41.7

So to answer your question now. I think the world's fine

1:44.9

You know, I think I think things are as they they should be and I think why is that?

1:50.0

Because when we argue with reality we lose everything that happened should have happened by the very nature that it happened and

1:57.7

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be be here to change it either

2:01.2

You know, so we we have to live in the now and create out of that acceptance of what is?

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