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🗓️ 9 November 2014
⏱️ 99 minutes
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The Hip Hop Preacher Eric Thomas sat down in May 2013 with Spoken Word Artist Suli Breaks and Brian Rose to talk about his viral video "When you want to Succeed as Bad as you want to Breathe", why he thinks that each one of the 86,400 seconds in a day is worth pursuing for excellence, how he hates "average" and loathes "good", and how he would like to be remembered when he's gone.
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0:00.0 | This week on London Real we have Eric Thomas the hip-hop preacher |
0:05.0 | What up what up what up what up? |
0:08.0 | Well I came to London with a specific purpose and assignment that I'm here to get something done. |
0:14.0 | All roads lead through hard work. |
0:18.0 | So if you don't like to work hard, then you might want to cut back on some of your |
0:22.0 | little dreams and some of your goals. |
0:23.7 | But if you dream big, you better work even harder. |
0:26.3 | And then my haters say what's on their mind, you know? |
0:32.2 | And sometimes what they say is real you know that there's some adjustments that I |
0:36.7 | need to make you got to be courageous enough to be able to look at |
0:40.0 | yourself and say everything about me is not solid. |
0:43.0 | Whatever you do because it speaks of who you are, |
0:50.0 | don't do it if you're not going to do it great. Why waste my time? |
0:55.9 | With pain, when I see pain coming, I don't try to push it to the side or I don't try to rush through the process. I feel it, you know, because once it's over, I can use that energy. |
1:07.0 | I just want to go down in history as this guy motivated as many people as he could |
1:14.6 | possibly motivate and he changed the course of their life and maybe even a |
1:18.4 | course of history by using his gifts. |
1:29.8 | London Real presents Eric Thomas, the hip-hop preacher, Redux. When I invested in myself, other people begin to invest in me. |
1:33.4 | When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, |
1:40.9 | only then will you be successful. |
1:45.0 | I'm quoting Eric Thomas, the hip-hop preacher, |
1:49.0 | who was made famous in a video on YouTube that was a film many many years ago where he was speaking to a |
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