Let Brown give an analogy about this in a motivational speech: Imagine you are on your deathbed, and there are ghosts standing around your deathbed, representing your unfulfilled potential. There are ghosts of ideas you never acted on and skills you never used.
And they stand around your bed, angry and distraught. They say we came to you because you could have brought us back to life. I wonder how many ghosts there are going to be.
The question around your bed is, "What are you going to do with what you have?" I'm not talking about how much you have.
Some of you are theologians:
- Some of you are nurses;
- Some of you have money;
- Some of you have patients;
- Some of you have compassion;
- Some of you have the gift of patience, whatever your gift is.
Whatever you're going to do with what you've got, you've got to get out there and give it your all. Received Is it your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasures?
If I'm going to fall, I don't want to back down from anything I believe in. I want to move forward. I'm going to move on. I mean, Reggie Jackson had the most strikeouts in baseball history, 2600 times in his career.
Not many people remember that Thomas Edison did 1,000 failed experiments before the first light bulb went off. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success that you have to take, and I'm sure you did that. I've heard it before, but I want to talk to you about why you will fail first.
At some point in your life, other than losing, you'll embarrass yourself. You'll stink at something in the acting business. You fail all the time early in your career. I found the perfect role for me in the Broadway musical. I auditioned for a part I thought I didn't want.
I didn't get the job, but here's the thing: I didn't quit, and I didn't fall back. I went from there to prepare for the next audition, and the next audition, and the next audition.
But I kept failing and failing, but it didn't matter because you know what you're doing—the barber shop is very So here's my second point about failing. If you don't fail, you're not trying to achieve something you never had. You have to do something you've never done before.
But do you have the courage to let your life fail?
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