- Send your questions in on Twitter
- Weekly fitness update: my weight isn’t great! But I’ve started going Simple & Sinister. Trying to do a daily workout. The approach is that it’s moderate exertion instead of some programs where failure is pretty much the goal for each workout.
- Wally has some mimosas at a bridal shower
Laughing at the hardship
From I Can’t Make This Up:
“In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it. I choose laughter.”
Have you ever been bullied or have you been the bully? Kevin Hart says he was bullied as a kid but knew that it was important to stand up for himself. Even once. Take the beating and then move on. They’d rather find someone who won’t put up a fight at all.
We’ve both been bullied. I talk about when I was sort of bullied. Wally talks about when he was definitely bullied.
Bully by association. There was a time that I was sort of the bully, but not really.
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Our parents were right
From I Can’t Make This Up:
“It turns out that the things I hated most as a child are the same things that serve me the most as an adult.”
Keep a schedule. Kevin Hart says that his mom would maintain a very strict schedule to make sure that he was in the right places at the right time. She would rather take the bus 2 hours than ask for a ride. Hart learned how valuable this mindset was.
Find a group of people who you meet with regularly. It doesn’t have to be church, like me and Wally went to growing up.
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Kevin Hart is persistent
From I Can’t Make This Up:
Persistence: More than anything, my willingness to be persistent is responsible for the success I’ve had. My mindset is: It’s okay to fail, but it’s not okay to quit. Struggle, rejection, failure, and doubt break most people. Your goal is to learn from these challenges without letting them diminish your motivation. The secret to accomplishing this is simple: Let yourself be driven by your will to succeed rather than your fear of not succeeding.
We talked a lot about persistence in our Grit episode. This book is great because you get to see how many obstacles he runs into and how he overcomes them. Wildly successful people make it seem easy. It never is as easy as it seems. Hart knows he’s lucky. He also knows he works very hard to keep a lot of irons in the fire.
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