Emmanuel Acho

What is your intention?

Two lessons.

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, yo, 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.

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 saying when nobody's listening.

It's the character you're developing when nobody's watching.