What do you do to sharpen your mind? What do you do to continually grow and develop yourself as a person? Me, I like to study, man. You know, and it's a, in these days, you know, I've gotten to a particular level of success and it can make a person comfortable, right?
But I always keep myself uncomfortable. Right. You understand me and I'm always studying new fields because if you understand your brain it needs to be stressed and challenged in order to grow. You understand me, if your brain ain't stressed and challenged then you become doive.
You can only recite the things you said yesterday, years ago. But for me, I'm like Kevin Samuels. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no.
Now you don't run a name, but we had to go to it. Yeah, we'll get into that. But just to segue what you were saying, they just came to my mind because I was thinking, one day I was like, this is fascinating. This guy said the same thing every day and it's interesting.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, when you go ahead that you can just give a breakdown on it so that a person can be educated.
Right. And the way things are to date things change. So much. It changes marketing for instance.
Yeah. I feel sorry for people who take marketing to school because by the time you're done and get a job, it's completely different. School? It's all different.
You don't know? Yeah. You know what I mean? The school creates some of the worst learners.
Period. Because it kills your process of creative learning. Mm-hmm. The one thing that I've learned to do to better is to become a better teacher, right?
If you tell your student everything, then you're robbing them of their ability to go learn it, right? It's almost to this point that the more you teach a student, the less they learn how to learn, you understand me? So they don't have to go through that process of figuring things out. And that's brain exercise.
That's when you're bringing your brain to certain levels. I agree with you. I do that with my son all the time. Like you wanted to start a corporation for his merch company, right?
I said, all right, do the research on what's necessary. And then I want to know the steps. You got to leave blanks. Correct.
I'm not going to do it for you. Yeah. And we have too much privilege with technology right now. I get my students.
I get your 10 strategies on something. And I'm intentionally going to leave something out, which I know is going to prop a question. But that question ain't for me. It's for you to go seek answer and then execute.
Number one, once you've got to put in some work, now you got to scan in the guy. It's going to make you want to finish. It's more important to you. Yeah.
So I'm telling the young brother the other day yesterday, he said, Keith, how do I become that type of person? You understand me? Like who finished what they start? Like I'll be picking up things.
I got a lot of stuff going on. Like give me the secret. And I'm saying, right, you just got to drop your nuts and be a man about it. And I had to say it in that manner, because you got to understand like, there's a ability that men have when we can find a wide is logical and we can just keep going towards it.
It's not the fact that the emotion of fear or procrastination worry, insecurities don't come up. But do you have courage? Do you have confidence? Right?
Do you have fearlessness that supersedes the emotions to get you to your point? And if we can get especially young males to understand how to tap in and utilize the full power of their masculine side, then they can execute more because you got all this masculine, you got to think about it as a power. Like you're not even tapping into your masculine potential, right? There's certain things that make us biologically energetically different from women, right?
And you're not even tapping into that aspect of it to execute, right? It's like, it's no reason that any man needs to walk around weak. We have the potential to become very strong. Yeah, man.
I've had people in my ecosystem at times that, you know, work for me in certain capacities and we're walking to my kitchen, coward under me. I'm like, what are you doing? What do you mean? This one particular guy, I'm like, what are you doing?
I'm like, what are you doing? I'm a maniac. Like, what are you doing? I made him take a boxing and I'm a guy at the boxing.
I said, you know, I said, you're a sparman, beat his ass. He got to feel that, you know what I'm saying? That's what my son of boxing at the end of age. My son is a smart clever person.
He needs to be punched in the face. You know what I'm saying? I know that sounds counterintuitive for a father who loves his child, but I love my child so much he needs to fight and feel adversity. He needs to.
I would be doing him an injustice by coddling him. I wouldn't love him as much if I coddled him. He would be a character. Correct.
You know what I mean? So I know how, I mean, and he's lucky. Like, I had to really fight. I don't want him fighting.
You know what I mean? I want him to know how to fight and defend himself and protect others, you know? It's something to that though, that you have like just being set out in the neighborhood and whatever happens. You know what I mean?
That's right. In the past, but think about this, when we were children out and about. It's straight ... You had no cell phones.
They couldn't keep tabs on us. No emergency content, nothing. Kids now track them. They got phones.
I mean, they can record the countas with the police because they get to buy the police. Right, right. There ain't no recording of that. You just got to get your apartment.
We turned out all right, but I feel like it's always something variables always change, but ... The issues are different. Yeah, it's different. You know what I'm saying?
Number one, they got so much exposure the information. It's making them sensitive, right? They got different type of agendas that exist in today's time. time and have a different perspective on masculinity, man, do it, rights and passages, right?
A multitude of different issues that exist today that are more emotional, right? Intellectually complex, right? A lot of the issues that we dealt with, you know, growing up in the streets, it was very primal, you understand me? Like, you do tap into the best size of being a man to overcome certain things.
Some things they didn't want on social media have nothing to do with manhood whatsoever. You got to figure it out as a human in this new world on how to interact and be good at it. So it's like they got a new complexity of issues that they deal with and that's why you have to give them a myriad of experiences so that they can know themselves because knowledge of self, you have to have experience of self to go through so many situations, see, like, I'm starting to my brown dude from Oakland named Haas. He knew me since I was a child and we was laughing so much because he like, you know, what we went through is like, that won't exist for no other generation in the same capacity.
Right. So I can't tell you how to be like me because the amount of experiences and situations that I've been in to where I had to test myself, feel myself, right? And see what I would or wouldn't do is what prepared me and built me to be who I am. So the streets and the adversity prepares you to build character to become this phenomenal human being.
If you can get on that other side because everybody don't come out, you know, florists. So people go through the roughness and you can see every day in the damage. Yeah. Like what then you said that's so real.
What we dealt with was very primal, right? And I take that with pride, right? Because when I'm navigating now in my life now in the business world, corporate world and some of these conversations or boardrooms or whatever I'm dealing with. And I feel like my great neutralizer, right, is the fact that I've tapped into that primal side.
Yeah. None of these guys have. None of these guys have. So I always have edge.
Yeah. I mean, and they know it and they treat me accordingly. And it's not like a, it's not like an intimidation thing, right? But it's something there that they're not unfamiliar with that I can recognize that always gives me an advantage.
It gives me an edge. Yeah. I love it. Yeah.
You know, you'll be, you'll be able to go more in depth inside yourself than any other subject. You understand me. And I'm more than you about some corporate thing, marketing or branding or, you know, some documentation or whatever it may be, a supply chain. But when it comes to the experience you have of self and the more depth that you can go, there's no competition there because this person has went deep in themselves and dealt with the darkest places and then came out and become a light, right?
You can't compete with that and you can see that. And this person has more experience at life and being the human being period, you understand me? So that depth is unfuckable. It's anonymous to like our soldiers, like a Marine, you know, Green Beret or whatever, that sees the worst of humanity as the offer.
You know what I'm saying? Also, our brothers at arms that he fought went to war with. You know what I'm saying? So you're building a type of brotherhood and bond that is not taught in any institution.
You know what I'm saying? And you're also seeing the type of carnage and filth and absence of humanity that most people don't even know exists. The levels of human nature is like, correct. Right.
Where they go to prison and they see those levels of humanity that exist. You know, that's not like everything is experiencing. But some people go through the same mundane experiences over and over and over. It doesn't require your brain to create new connections.
It doesn't require your spirit to challenge itself to grow because your spirit is that flame that either go be lit or die out. And some things that will kill one person's spirit, allow another person to blame the bro. So it's like nothing in this room could kill my spirit, but there's things inside this room that can be said, some things that can happen with a deal that may kill another person's spirit. And they realize that they have nothing that can kill you in here.
You understand me? And when you dealing with a, what a, I'm going to call it a beast just for lack of better terms, you understand me or God, of course, you understand me that whom which you know you can't harm and you can't do nothing against you know what things you could do, but you still know that's not enough. This is, this is God don't fear it. He doesn't care.
You know what I mean? The fearlessness is probably the most biggest thing about it. Right. Right.
The more fearless, I mean, because fearlessness is psychotic to a person who has so many fears. Correct. Like you walk into so many situations without the thought of feeling like you're going to be harmed and the ability to prevent that harm. Right.
Because when you're fearless, you live in life at his highest level. This is, I say this all the time. I love you said that. And I tell people the time is of fearlessness, it takes, I feel like it's the most honorable way to live because ultimate fear that everyone has is death.
Right. And you don't fear consequences because your actions are right and exact. You're living at your highest frequency. That's right.
You're an admirable person. Just like 300, the movie 300 historically is garbage, but as a movie is great. I love that movie. Such an honorable fucking story.
Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I love that. When his wife says Spartan, come back with your shield or on it.
I'm like, yeah. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, I love shit like that. And I, you know, I wish that these movies were more popular in today's society.
Those principles were more popular. Those principles exactly. Like, but see we could teach with entertainment. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah. Because a lot of those principles are no longer covered in anymore. Right. Those principles of bravery, like you're going to have some, you know, intellectual these days look at it and find some issue with this.
That's toxic or that's some philosophical way that they're going to break it in and really, you know, garbage, all of those values of man to man. Right. And here's the thing about it, right? There will exist a generation who will raise up and decide to be men again.
Decide that the rules and the work that they live in and you understand me is unbearable.