Seize Opportunities and TRANSFORM Your Life (Act NOW!) | Eric Thomas EP 570

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Eric Thomas traces his passion and commitment back to the opportunity America provides and progress made, allowing him chances unimaginable just decades ago, which he feels ignites a responsibility to maximize his potential. Breaking his family's cycle of poverty through education motivates Thomas to also provide kids lacking resources the wisdom gleaned from great mentors, believing that while environment shapes possibilities, effort can still expand one's reality. By generously imparting hard-won knowledge, Thomas aims to give others the tools to transcend their circumstances, embrace the privilege he now enjoys, and attain their biggest visions. Overall, he stresses that access to the American dream must be matched by the drive to achieve it.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	What's your why? You're so passionate, you're so committed. Why are you so
0:16.8	committed to excellence and greatness in your own life?
0:19.6	Opportunity is the biggest thing. Like people ask you why'd you wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning?
0:24.9	If I could be a millionaire in America and live wherever I once live,
0:28.3	all I have to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning.
0:29.7	That's pretty sweet.
0:30.7	That's a sweet deal.
0:31.8	I can go to bed whenever I want to go to bed. I can buy a good bed.
0:34.6	Right? That I can skip in when I go to bed.
0:37.7	Right? So for me, it's an opportunity. This country has had, it's dark past, you know, but I'm not perfect.
0:45.0	Yeah, I'm fortunate enough not to live have lived in that dark past.
0:48.2	So there wasn't, there was a time in this country's history where Eric Thomas would not have had some of the
0:54.4	opportunity that I have not. So I have opportunities that Dr. Martin Luther King
0:58.8	didn't have. I have opportunities that just 50, 60 years ago they didn't have. So in my generation it
1:05.4	doesn't make a difference what your race is, it doesn't make a difference what your
1:09.1	ethnic background is, I can be an entrepreneur. Like a hundred years ago, somebody from my background couldn't have been an entrepreneur.
1:17.0	I can be a CEO of a company.
1:19.0	The two of us can get together and work together.
1:22.0	Like I live the dream. I have an opportunity to live
1:25.6	Dr. Martin Luther King's dream. You mean to tell me that I have that opportunity I'm not going to take
1:29.4	advantage of it? Like that, that's ignorant. There was a time where we couldn't go to school where if we were trying to get in school they bring the National Guard
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