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HUMBLE THE POET - THINGS NO-ONE ELSE CAN TEACH US: How To Learn From Losses | TRAILER

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Brian Rose

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🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

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Humble The Poet is the Canadian author, rapper, and spoken-word artist.

In 2010 he left his job as an elementary school teacher to pursue poetry and music full-time, and today his videos have millions of views, and he is touring the world.

Humble The Poet has written two books, “UNLEARN - ONE HUNDRED AND ONE SIMPLE TRUTHS FOR A BETTER LIFE” and his latest “THINGS NO-ONE ELSE CAN TEACH US” which shares raw and honest stories about how a change in mindset can radically alter one’s outlook.

HUMBLE THE POET:
Website: https://www.humblethepoet.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kanwersingh
Twitter: https://twitter.com/humblethepoet
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humblethepoet

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0:00.0

The biggest enemy to art is people who think yesterday was more valuable than tomorrow.

0:07.0

So my parents are from the India side of the job.

0:10.0

I originally was going to keep my parents happy, get an NBA.

0:14.0

I figure an NBA's path to employability.

0:18.0

And at the same time, I discovered spoken with poetry

0:21.0

when I realized that it was a powerful tool.

0:25.0

That just felt like the most liberating thing ever,

0:27.0

and I wanted it. I wanted that freedom.

0:30.0

The first song I ever put out was called Voice for the Voiceless, and it was telling stories that other people weren't able to tell for whatever reasons.

0:37.0

And I was working with a bunch of different people in music, and one producer came up to me and said I can get us a deal.

0:43.0

What happened was this deal turned out to be fraudulent.

0:46.0

It didn't exist.

0:48.0

It took me a year of denial to figure that out.

0:52.0

Now I was just burning money out of my bank account, living off

0:56.4

credit cards in line of credit, because in my head at any moment the check from

1:00.0

this deal was coming, not realizing that it wasn't coming.

1:05.0

That just kind of made me just be like, what am I going to do now?

1:10.0

Kind of ramped up and I said it's humble the poet tell death.

1:13.3

So either you're going to die in three months

1:15.6

or you're going to do this forever.

1:17.4

But you will die humble the poet.

1:19.5

You will do nothing else for the rest of your life.

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