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Les Brown - Why I Wrote You've Got To Be Hungry

Les Brown Greatness Radio

Les Brown Global

Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health, Entrepreneurship, Society & Culture

4.8736 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0

You have something special. You have greatness in you. You know, in my last conversation with you, I talked about my son, John Leslie, who said, maximize your downtime.

0:22.6

And when you maximize your downtime, there's certain things you need to do.

0:28.6

I want you to write this down.

0:30.2

Not only must you be hungry and be still and be present, but be productive.

0:36.5

See, the truth is that if the majority of us had our lives to live

0:41.7

over again, we could have done more than what we have done. I know in my own life I've wasted so many

0:49.8

times having a fear of failure, discounting myself, not believing in myself.

0:57.8

Maybe that's why Shakespeare said the fort dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves

1:04.6

that we are underlings.

1:07.6

That when I think about it, I had a tremendous inferiority complex.

1:11.9

It's what's my own personal racket.

1:15.3

Les, you were labeled, educable, mentally retarded, and put back from the fifth grade to the fourth grade and failed again in the eighth grade.

1:23.5

Less, you don't have a college education.

1:26.6

You can't compete with people with college education and PhDs and MBAs.

1:33.2

Less, you don't have the complexion of connection.

1:38.4

You don't have the money.

1:40.1

Have you ever thought about something that you wanted to do?

1:43.5

And you talked yourself out of it and decided to settle, decided to live a small life?

1:52.1

The people that are able to make their mark, the people that are able to live a life that will outlive them. Live from the scripture that says,

2:03.6

herein my father glorified that ye bear much fruit.

2:08.0

Listen to the underlying word there, much fruit.

2:13.0

We were created by the creator to create,

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