What's been the biggest lesson in the last couple of years of taking your shot, of putting it out there, being on a limb, and then learning about how to handle the opportunities of success, the fame, the recognition?

And also, how have you learned how to say yes and no to certain things that might be big but not right for you at the right moment?

Two lessons.

Yes.

I'll give you one pre-success, one post-success.

I'll start with the post-success lesson because that one I'm learning right now as I'm

talking to you.

Everybody will not like you and that is okay because you don't like everybody and you know I've had to

realize like you know people don't like me man like this person's mad at me a

black person's mad at me because I'm too nice to white people a white person's

mad at me because I'm a race baiter why don't people like me and then I kick

back and I said wait a second I don't like everybody so how can I expect everybody to like me. And then I came back and I said, wait a second, I don't like everybody. So how can I

expect everybody to like me? It was something, dude, I've had a hard time to reconcile with because

because you're a nice guy, right? You want to be liked by people? That's it. At least I try to be a

nice guy. And in the midst of trying to be a nice guy, I'm still like, why are so many people

upset daily? And I have to reconcile with that. Pre-success, I think it's, you know, the old

phrase, no one didn't wait till it started raining to build a boat. Right? Like, we don't wait

until things get crazy to start building and I think what

you've learned what I've learned what I hope people learn through this conversation

it's what you do in private and in silence that ends up getting praised in public

it's the wood that you're chopping when nobody's looking it's the paintings that you're

drawing when nobody's buying it's the words that you're chopping when nobody's looking. It's the paintings that you're drawing when nobody's buying.

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