Eric Thomas
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You are powerful.
But you have some vices.
And you have some vices that take you down a crazy road.
Like, you are your father.
You are your grandfather.
You are your mother.
You are your grandmother.
Like, it's real.
And so I started saying, okay, E, you got to discipline yourself.
And this is for me.
This ain't for everybody.
I started getting up at 3 o'clock in the morning.
It's like, yo, you're going to have to get up a little bit earlier because you didn't finish school.
You didn't take care of your business.
So you can't get up the same time another man who gets up who handle his business.
So you need to get up at 3 if you're going to catch the greats.
You got to get up at 3.
You got to go to bed early.
This is why I said I never drank or smoked because the men in my life who did it were extremists.
I had an uncle who died of cirrhosis of the liver.