Hack Your Mindset To Overcome Life's Challenges & Find The Positive w/ Inky Johnson EP 1279

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

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

4.8 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Husband, father, collegiate athlete, entrepreneur and author, Inky Johnson is one of the most highly sought after speakers in the world. For over a decade, executives, professional sports teams, business owners and people all over have benefited from the raw energy of his thought provoking and inspirational presentations. Inky was a three year letterman and two year captain on the football team at The University of Tennessee, where he started as a cornerback. Unfortunately, on September 9th, 2006, he sustained a life threatening, career ending injury that paralyzed his right arm and hand. From that day to present day Inky has had a burning desire to use his situation and experiences to add value to peoples' lives. In this episode you will learn:How to extract the positive from adversity. How your attitude can drive your performance.How to enjoy every aspect of life.How to manage all of the different emotions that come from painful experiences. For more, go to lewishowes.com/1279 Ed Mylett on Developing Superhuman Levels of Self-Confidence: https://link.chtbl.com/1274-pod Scooter Braun On Healing Past Trauma, Building A Business Empire & Finding Peace: https://link.chtbl.com/1244-pod Lisa Bilyeu on Defying Social Norms and Becoming Who You Were Always Meant to Be: https://link.chtbl.com/1265-pod

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0:00.0	I'll get to it tomorrow. I'm like who promised you that right? I'll get to it a month from now
0:03.8	I'm like who promised you that cuz light changes so quick right and as people we're often arrogant
0:10.1	I was one of them we live our lives and we feel as if we're promised something
0:14.2	Right, but when you think about it's like
0:16.5	Welcome to the School of Greatness my name is Lewis Howe's former pro athlete turn lifestyle entrepreneur and each week
0:24.6	We bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness
0:31.6	Thanks for spending some time with me today now let the class begin
0:39.2	I want to bring your message to my audience so for those that don't know can you share a brief story about your background from athlete to
0:48.3	You know break down to then break through and what and what what actually
0:52.7	You grew up believing and dreaming in what happened and then where you're at now man a kid that grew up in the city Atlanta
1:00.9	Mom at 16 had me
1:03.2	Took me back to 125 Warren
1:05.8	To bet from home 14 people and
1:08.8	In my cousins man we grew up sleeping on the floor pallets
1:12.6	You know best time of my life, you know we loved it right but like any other kid man
1:18.4	I had a dream you know and I felt as if at the time
1:22.0	Football was the quickest vehicle to get me in a space in place to help my family right my mother's working a double shift that
1:29.2	Wendy's my grandmother sweetest soul lover resting piece
1:33.2	She's transition but I wanted to help my family and I felt as if I had the tools and the skills to do that and
1:40.2	I had a lot of people in my life that helped me man and so I was I was the first in my family a lot
1:46.0	I was the first one to graduate and go to college, you know
1:49.6	I was the first one that looked as if I had something really promising that was about to happen and so when I went to college
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