Earning Success: A Blueprint for Longevity | Cedric the Entertainer EP 539

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Cedric the Entertainer shares valuable insights into his mindset shift throughout his career, from his early days in St. Louis to his current success. Cedric emphasizes the importance of humility, hard work, and the constant need to earn success, debunking the idea of entitlement. He reflects on moments of self-awareness during periods of fame and how he navigates the changing landscape of comedy, expressing admiration for the unique talents of the younger generation. Cedric's collaborative mindset, rooted in his Midwestern values, shines through as he discusses the joy of helping others succeed in the entertainment industry.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	Through your career of transitioning from again, State Farm Insurance,
0:15.0	of go to school, get this career, what was the mindset shift for you?
0:21.0	And is it's still the same mindset today as it was back then? for you
0:25.0	and is it still the same mindset today as it was back then?
0:26.0	I think probably me, probably one of the greatest mindset shifts
0:30.0	was to not to think of yourself as this kind of monolith that's outside the system, that you know you're so far outside that nobody else can see you.
0:41.6	I used to always kind of feel like you never can make it from St Louis,
0:44.6	you know I'm not the shiny, soo you start to see yourself like, you know, I'm only going to be able to you know knock down these doors and as you
0:56.7	kind of go you recognize that the world is big is it is truly an audience out there for everyone and you earn them. You don't get it automatically because you feel you deserve it. You earn it. And so that's that's truly one thing that I keep to this day.
1:17.0	I literally am willing to work for, go grab, go hustle for, and build every little thing that comes my way.
1:24.6	I'm not resting on any laurels, I'm not resting on any hubris you can give me all the accolades
1:30.9	or everything you loved, that's great thank you
1:33.2	and right now I'm here to do a job today for you like to get that if whoever's paying
1:39.2	the money come here for you let's go still feel like you got to earn it. I want to earn it.
1:44.0	You know and I try to teach that to my kids too is that you know you can you can be great you know you
1:50.2	can get a lot of things that's gonna come come to your way that's going to feel like,
1:53.6	hey, you know, and after a while your celebrity, your starter makes you feel like
1:58.4	that this should be mine automatically and you got to recognize that's not a truth.
2:05.4	Did that ever hang you up over the last you know decades where you became more of a
2:10.7	celebrity and had bigger opportunities and got the bigger paychecks.
2:14.1	Did you ever catch yourself thinking you were better than,
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