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🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Tom, with guest Humble the Poet. On this episode, Tom and Humble go back and forth on truths and beliefs that anyone who wants to be successful at anything need to deeply internalize. They discuss the reality of taking risk, the way culture stacks on itself, how to buck the systems you disagree with, how to attain mastery at valuable skills, and how to make and save money. This is not a fluffy episode where they tell you what you want to hear. They go deep on their own fears and failures, and explain exactly how they turned their setbacks into success. This episode is brought to you by: Check out Impact Theory University at: http://bit.ly/ImpactTheoryUniversity2 SHOW NOTES: Humble describes his experience as an immigrant and his cultural history [1:16] Humble discusses the difficulty and pay of being a teacher [3:14] Humble doesn’t find value in complaining or even in venting [6:03] What do you do when the world is way out of step with you? [7:22] Humble talks about how culture stacked on itself in hip hop [9:05] Humble describes his existential crisis when he realized he wanted to be an artist [11:06] Tom and Humble discuss why they won’t “work their way up” in entertainment [12:39] Tom and Humble discuss doing hard things to build self-respect [15:08] Tom describes his fear of open water [19:09] Humble explains how he avoided being a starving artist [22:54] “The big strength I found was in admitting I f*cked up” [28:18] Humble and Tom discuss taking risk and not quitting on your dreams [31:35] Humble strongly stakes his claim that he is meant for hip hop [36:10] Humble talks about getting a book published [41:48] Humble describes exactly how he started to make money as an artist [45:00] Tom and Humble discuss whether intelligence makes you happy [51:40] Humble and Tom discuss the power of having a chip on your shoulder [56:43] Humble and Tom discuss wanting to see other people win [1:05:09] Tom advocates that money doesn’t change your self-image [1:11:27] Humble advocates that the struggle to overcome fears never ends [1:14:23] “True freedom exists only in discipline.” [1:18:55] Humble describes his most important tattoos [1:25:17] Humble discusses the power of unlearning things [1:26:35] Tom and Humble advocate that it’s possible to be both content and ambitious [1:30:43] FOLLOW Humble The Poet: WEBSITE: www.humblethepoet.com INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/2QfJHRr FACEBOOK: https://bit.ly/2CIDHbP TWITTER: https://bit.ly/2Kl06jL

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0:00.0	So what gave me the idea for the show? I wanted to create something that was far more intimate.
0:06.8	So when we're up on stage, I find a lot of times that the guests, the level of anxiety
0:10.6	is raised. We've got like 20 people milling around. We've got a camera on a crane. It's
0:15.2	zooming in and out. And it just, it creates our super different vibe. And I love that
0:19.6	show. And we're going to keep doing it. It's really extraordinary. But I think that there's
0:24.4	something that I really wanted to experiment with what would it look like if it was just
0:29.0	me and a guest. We were alone doing our thing. There's no one around. What would that
0:33.8	bring out? Where would it go? Less formal. And so I thought that that would be really,
0:38.8	really interesting. And so here we sit, man. So your background is super fascinating.
0:43.9	I see we're wearing a shirt. This is child of an immigrant. Yes. Give us like a super
0:48.0	quick thumbnail. Like what's the background? Super quick. My parents are from Punjab, which
0:52.8	was the north part of India. And they came in the 70s to Toronto, Canada. My dad had a
0:57.9	master's degree in economics, but immediately in Toronto, he had to find labor jobs because
1:02.7	he couldn't afford to go to school and didn't have the time either with the new family.
1:05.8	Why do you, why Toronto? I have no idea why they make the choices they make, but I feel
1:11.2	like at that point, they thought that's where the opportunities were in the early 70s.
1:15.7	And even though he had education, he came and he worked in a furniture factory for a bit
1:19.9	and then he became a cab driver. And he drove cab for about 30 years until he retired.
1:25.9	And my mother worked at the Kellogg's factory for about two years and as you heard her
1:30.3	shoulder. And then after that, she had to be stay at home. But that started her journey
1:35.3	into spirituality. She spent more time learning about sick care, her traditions and sick history
1:39.9	and going to the temples and kind of sharing all the cool stories. We're very martial people.
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