Mike Tyson
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Mike, were you really sick this week? What was the problem? I broke my back. What do you mean by that? My back is broken. A vertebrae or what portion? Spinal.
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Yeah, kind of. But listen, it was embarrassing at first, but the people knew all this. The people that was old, they knew. They saw what happened in the paper. They read the paper. They saw what happened. They saw what happened. People complained about it on television. So I couldn't, everybody knew what happened. So I had to be very honest.
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Yeah, everybody knew it, but they just never heard me say it, but they all knew it. That's the only way. Yeah, everybody knew. There wasn't no secrets.
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One of those shows. Yeah, something like that.
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Thank you.
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Listen. Evan, my wife, it was supposed to be a gritty, hardcore show, a hardcore guy. It came out like a car. They laughed at my hard, tough life. Yeah, yeah. You know, I'm talking about not having a father. The people broke our left side, ran back to the street. I said, babe, what's going on? What's happening? Why are they laughing? Why are they laughing? She said, it's causing. Keep it going.
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Keep it going.
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Um... That shouldn't be too hard on myself. I should be more appreciative of what I've accomplished from where I've came from. That's amazing. Are you usually hard on yourself? Absolutely. Why? I don't know, that's all I've ever known, because if I made mistakes, I got harshly, you know what I mean, verbally punished. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You heard some bad stuff. Yeah, of course.
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You heard some stuff you didn't want to hear. Wow. So you get yourself numb to that by calling yourself that all the time. I'm a loser, I suck. Yeah, what the fuck are you doing? Are you stupid? You dumb. How could you do that?
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Oh, I love myself. I love my kids. Isn't your kids awesome? Aren't you very lucky that you have your wife? What would you be without her? Wow.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Life prepares you. Life prepares you for everything. prepares you for doing 100 years in jail, prepares you for getting ready to go to the electric chair, prepares you for death. You know what I mean? When life is enduring with you, when you're enduring with life and you're making The age limit's going to your 50s, your 60s, your 80s, and you're making it up there. You're prepared.
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All your friends are no longer around. Most of your family members are not around. What the fuck am I doing here? Then we go.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yes, dropping my ego. I think my life would be a disaster if I never took the toad. I took this ancient medicine, the toad, right? And it changed my whole perspective on how I look at life and how I look at people and how I talk to people. Wow.
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Wow. Why don't you educate him? That's going to be very interesting. You're an awesome guy.
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...had a very transformational experience. Listen, if you take this medicine... It's a possibility you may feel like God. Wow. And then you may have a small encounter with God and say, oh, God, please forgive me. I'm sorry.
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I felt the pain of everybody I ever hurt before in my life.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I'm sorry, God.
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Oh, man.
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It's so amazing, that pain that you could feel. I had no body. It was nothing. I just existed. Wow. And you could just feel everything. You feel. It's like being dead. You're vulnerable as hell. There's no ego. You're afraid of everything. Naked, yeah. Yeah. It's, please, don't hurt me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's, please, God, please.
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You know, you don't even see nobody, and you're scared. It's the fear. You're scared. I'm sorry. Please. It's just that I don't understand it, and I've never been the same since I did it. Wow. I don't think about hurting people. I don't think about loving people. You just don't want to do that stuff anymore.
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You know, I've never been the same since I died. In my time in life, I'm talking a little fast, but in my time in life, I thought I'd seen it all. I thought I'd been everywhere. I think I f***ed everybody, drank everybody, smoked everybody. I did it all. And I realized I don't know nothing, and I'm nobody. Wow. I don't know anything. I don't know where I came from. I don't know my real name.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Somebody named me Mike, I don't know who the I am. I'm just here.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And I always used God as a way to get to be in, and I was never really, I knew of God, but I always, I didn't, I was, it was always, it wasn't bigger than me. You were bigger than God. Yeah. You were God. Yeah, yeah, my thick head, and then you realize that you have to get on your knees, you don't know what his name is, but you know you have to worship. Wow. You know? After taking the toll, yeah.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Listen. Listen, I'll tell you about that. Even though you're humble, you stop. He's still there. Don't let him look at it. I might look around, look at the reflections of why I'm handsome. Once you take the toll, you know, he. Yeah.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
listen i'm gonna tell you something about the ego from my experience my i'm nothing but it's a junkyard study kid right but my i had nothing i had nothing this this old italian man gave me an ego right and he gave me everything i wanted the ego gave me everything i ever wanted and more but it took so much more in return what did it take took everything wow Took everything. Been in prison.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Took everything. Family, love. Yeah, well, you don't care no more. You're almost an animal. Wow. You know? Oh, I don't never want to go there again. Wow, man. Why do you want to live like an animal when you can just say, give it up? Hey, I don't want to do it no more. I love you. Wow. It's amazing. Crazy. It's awesome.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
What is that? Why me? Why me? Who the am I? Why do millions of people know me and think of me in nice ways? Why me? Why did I have to meet this guy? He had nothing. He has died broken. But how did he give me the tricks that he had to give me what I want? You know, why me? How did he know I was the guy for this job? Wow. I never had a boxing glove all my life. I never thought about sports.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I never played sports. How did he know I was the guy?
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Yeah, I know. That blows me away. This guy knows. Crazy.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Listen, I can't say I know. I can only say love, kindness, passion, patience, you know, among each other. Look at each other as equals. You know, everyone can succeed in one particular way. We can all succeed if we work together in any way.
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You know, any way.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Exactly. And the conduct of one is the faith of us all. And there's billions of others. The conduct of one is the fate of us all. Say that one more time. The conduct of one? The conduct of one of us is the fate of all of us. What does that mean for you? What does that mean to you? That we all have to be in sync with one another. One guy robs a store and murders some people.
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That's the fate of all of us. One guy kills a guy because he's a different color or a different religion. That's the fate of all of us.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And it chases anybody that loves you away. Exactly. You only have motherfuckers around you. It's never enough. Your ego can never have nobody you love around you. It won't work. Why is that? If somebody loves you and your ego's acting up and it's controlling you, you can't have them. You push them away, yeah, yeah. You slammed them away.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
It was a European, I think it was a, not a philosopher, but I think a philosopher. I know a therapist, and he did the same thing with the mask of sanity. He got his name. But it was about everyday people. We're not who we appear to be.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
No matter how much they try to love you, you're just like... You can't do it. You can't do it. It won't work. Because you're never satisfied.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And that kind of sickness, if you can't have it all, you've had nothing.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Because it's not enough. It's not all of it. I'd rather have nothing. Is that what happened to you? I'd rather have nothing. If I can't have every one, every girl, every drug, every movie star, if I can't have every one of them, all of them, I'd rather have nothing.
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I don't know. I'm not proud of it, though. That's stuff that I'm proud of.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
No, it wasn't. Listen... I wanted those women to love me. Why? Because I didn't love myself. Wow. Did you let them love you? No way. How can I not love myself? I can't let them love me. My love was to make me or to tell me I was great or tell me that was the best you ever had. That was my ego. Yeah. You know what I mean? That was my fulfillment. I would pay you up a house, a car.
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I'm the best all night. Wow.
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I owned everything that was in my presence. Wow. You're around me. It's a work. I own you, mother. You're around me. You're a fan. You're around me. I own you, mother. Wow. I own you, mother. You're around me. You're in my presence. You accept anything from me. I own you.
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Yeah.
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Listen, let me tell you. Have you ever been married? No, I've never been married. Wait, let me tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. Marriage is something that, it's like a roller coaster, right? Yeah. And it's really scary because the roller coaster goes up and it gets to the top and it's making a lot of noise. And at the beginning, we're making a lot of noise about being in love.
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And then we get to the top and then we come down. It's sad. And you can't learn this stuff. You got to grow with this stuff.
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You can't get ready for this. You can't prepare for this. You know what I mean? You're going to find out you and this person really care about each other. Love is out of the question now. We're married. Love. Now it's how determined you are to make this work for the betterment of your children, your name, God. You know what I mean? How tough are you now? You're a tough guy.
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I want to see how tough you are. You beat up a lot of people. Let's see how tough you are with this. Wow. You know what I mean? This is for God. Let's see how tough you did this for money. Let's see what you can do for God. What's the greatest, what's the thing you love about her the most now? Right now? That she puts up with me. She puts up with me for a little bit.
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I can't, can you believe we're still married? Ten years, yeah, wow. And then I ran into the toad. Wow. Oh, man. Toad life.
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Once you reach that spot where you understand, hey. We have to take care of ourselves. We have to make sure our side of the street is clean. I can't worry about her side of the street. I got to make sure my side of the street is clean. That's a key. That's an absolute key.
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Never personal. If she says things that make... How do you not take it personal? Well, it's wrong. It takes a lot of practice. No, it's not wrong because... No, it's triggers. When they're attacking you. No, we have triggers from other relationships and other lives.
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And so they hit those triggers and we blame them for the trouble that everybody else caused us because they pressed those buttons that brought that pain back up. So how do you not take it personally when they're like, you mother... It takes a lot of practice. You learn not to take it personally. And you say, I love you.
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And listen, this is what I found out too. Remember when you said it comes a time when you just don't want to do it no more? You still like to do it, but it's not like it used to be. That's because God prepares you. Sometimes when you're younger, it has to go. And when you get older, it's not that important. You don't care as much. That's why God made it feel good.
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Because even when you're older now, it's not that important, but it still feels good. I feel like I'm feeling good right now.
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Because your wife would totally lose it. She would pick something up. Why are you not being this way? Are you with somebody else this way? Women pick things up. They're very sensitive. They pick up things. You have to be consistent. The same thing all the time. All the time. You stop one time or something, they pick up something. Consistency with women. I learned that late. To be consistent.
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You have to be consistent. Consistent. Never change your colors. Wow. Because they would pick that up quick. That's the first thing they'd pick. One day you change? One second.
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Tough guy, yeah, to be the tough guy. Because everybody, I don't care who he was, the gangsta, the mob, they respected a tough guy. That's it.
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One second. She picks it up. They're different than we are. Communication. You see a whole bunch of people in here? If my wife was in here, we're all talking. My wife would remember hearing only my voice. Everybody's talking. She remembers everything I said. Everybody's talking, but she's going to hear my voice.
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That's how women are, they get tuned into your voice, everything about you, your characteristics, they wanna know you. They want to be the puppet master. They don't wanna be the puppet master, they just wanna know every move you make.
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That's it. Please communicate because something that happened six months ago and you won't know it until the outbursts come out. And you go, what the hell happened? That's six months ago. What? Always communicate. Is everything okay, baby? Sure? Nothing's on your mind? You don't want to talk about anything? Every day, yeah. Oh, I've learned that late.
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I started doing that recently, like a year ago.
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Evan, my whole life, once I've been married, all I did was throw money at my problems. Buy a house, buy your mother a house, buy some cars, you know, get away. I can't deal with no children today. I don't want to hear what the teacher said today.
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Yeah, I was bullied when I was a kid. And I said, wow, if I was like these guys that were bullying me, nobody would with me. Right.
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They want to know how the money's building. They want to know everything. You know what I mean? And then when you realize you don't have the money like you used to have and throw the money at the problem, you have to deal now. Deal with the problem. Deal with the problem. That's almost like death. I'd rather almost die than deal with the problem.
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I wish I had some money I could give a lawyer to deal with the problem.
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With my wife.
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Remember when I was in the NFL, I said, why is it that men and women have to be married? Why is it that we look for a mate? And I tell you, a man needs a woman to make sure that he's a man. Because she'll make sure that we're a man because she'll test us and try us and push us. to the extent until they see a breaking point.
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By being a man, you have to control yourself, and that's what they teach us. Once you control yourself, you control your feelings with a woman, I don't want to say submit, but she understands I can't get to her. Once you control your feelings, because we don't have the emotional intelligence to control our feelings with a woman, because in our mind, our macho mind... We want to react.
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Oh, she making us look like...
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Every man go for it. Every man, I don't care, big, strong, biker, gangbanger, tough killer. With a woman, you're going to have to deal with that. A lot of people think, I'm going to beat love. I'm going to get all these. I ain't going to marry. Do you know what?
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They're great. Good question. My experience, a guy that did a lot of stuff with women and stuff, I'm not proud of it. The more women you, you know, you would think the more women you have, the more crown and achievements you will receive from people or whatever the situation, the play world. But the more women you be with, the more you feel like you've been taken parts away from you.
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The hole is getting bigger. Yeah, it feels like you're dying. The more they take it from you, you feel like you're being taken. You're being torn apart. You're feeling empty. You're feeling dark. You just don't feel good about yourself. Wow. You're just... You f*** all these people and you've got nothing from them but a... And what did you get from that feeling?
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Why did you want to have that feeling? What was the cause of having that feeling? Nobody had no, you know, maybe three people had babies, but it was like, what was the purpose of that feeling? I don't feel that way no more. I don't move like that no more. And I said, what was the purpose for me to be that way? What did I get out of it? No one got any babies. We got some diseases.
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You know what I mean? Nobody got any love from that. What's that perceived as love? I tell my wife, what's that all about? You think I would meet all these people in the afterlife and stuff? What's the afterlife? What about the people that watch me fight? Would I ever see them again, all of them collectively? If all this stuff go back, where do we all go?
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What you're thinking right now, what am I talking about? That feeling, that energy, where does that go when we die? Like you're not even talking, but you're talking, you hear, where does that go when we die? That can't die. Where does it go? I'm just thinking, does that just black out? Like you pull out a plug socket? What happens with that?
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But imagine if it go into a bug or a rock or a tree and we become that.
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I was telling my wife, my wife hates bugs. Every now and then a bug gets in the house and she freaks out, right? I said, listen, that's probably your grandmother coming back in reincarnation. She wants to see you so bad. As soon as you come back, water. Wow. You know, I think it's stuff like that. You know what I mean? I think these are people that we love. And we see them and we hate them so bad.
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And they say, Mike, look, it's me. But they're so, I'm back. I thought I was dead. Hey, Mike, it's me. Boom.
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I'm like, babe, that thing. I tell my wife, I'm not killing nothing. I tell her that right there. I'm like, you're going to kill, you kill. I'm going to kill anything. That might be my new policy.
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You know when? When I'm around watching YouTube and I hear my kids running around and my wife comes up and down after feeding the kids that maybe come from work and I'll come upstairs and get in the shower, maybe sit on the bed or sit on her chair, electric chair that puts electric vibes to her body. And I say I'm very happy. Everybody's in the house. All my kids are here.
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And that's when I'm the most loved. Wow. We're all together. All my oldest kids, the youngest kids, they're all from school, from home, they're all back together in the same house. I feel one love for them all. That's awesome.
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Because everything that I love is I feel secured. I feel like, listen, this is the fourth sense of security. I feel like I can protect them right now. I can't do nothing. Someone can come in there and do something. Someone can come in and kill us all with a bat. Forget a gun. Right? But it's the fact I think that they're safe now because they're with me. Boy, that's the eagle.
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I think they're safe because they're with me. Isn't that sick? And I know that, but it just makes me feel.
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I love them so much. I don't want them to ever, and I see, they never experience anything I experience. They're the kind of people that did the things and been in prison and got bad records and stuff. They're very clean. They got good stuff. They got a good beginning. You don't got to with them.
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What I learned from jail, this is what I learned from jail, was there's gonna be a trip, that there's beautiful people in this world. Beautiful. Yeah. There are. There were so many nice people there. So many beautiful people in this world. They just had hard luck or bad times and stuff. It's beautiful people. And they may be killers. Yeah, they may have done some really horrific shots.
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People did some stuff. Drug deals aren't bad stuff, but they have a human quality about them. They're kind. We have a different look. We have a different perspective of a drug dealer. We look for the drug dealer. He has some guns. He's coming with his pack. And a bunch of guys got their guns ready for people, for action to come. And they come across a big bag, sadistic people.
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But that's not what it is. These are people in hard times. And our government's not doing nothing. They're not even getting welfare out anymore. You know, this is the company where if you're not doing well, if you don't make it, **** you. That's the country we live in.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I know you don't know what he likes to hear, but if you're not doing good, you don't have a good family, you don't got good education, you don't got good working skills, you're not a big, strong buck, **** you. You come back from the Army, you're paralyzed, you got shot up, **** you. You're old. You can't work, can't do nothing. F*** you. You immigrate. Don't got no skills.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
How your girlfriend look? How your wife look? They beautiful? Can I f*** them? No. F*** you.
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Yeah, I know that. But listen, how do these beautiful people that we're talking about, how do they get a good break when they come out there and they got this? Stripes on their back. They want to read your portfolio. They see all this prison shit. Some of these guys got the highest form of education from Ivy League schools. Online, in prison, they can't get a job. They got Ivy League stuff.
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And we take that out on our loved ones, the people close to us. Everyone. Our family, our children. Everyone.
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There's a guy at Stanford from there. Yeah. Ivy League stuff, man. These guys are geniuses. They just went the wrong direction. These guys are geniuses. These guys are brainiacs. The reason why we can't have radios and stuff in prison is because one of these little crazy intelligent bastards are turning into a phone where they can hear what's in the warden's office. You know what I mean?
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So that's why we can't have the things no more, the Walkmans no more, the radios, because these guys are turning into devices where they can hear in the warden's office when they're going to send the people up for searches and lockdowns and all that stuff. These guys are geniuses. You can't believe it. They're like Einstein. They're in there for murder. I believe it. Drug them.
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These guys are so smart. They'll blow your mind, man. It's wild. I'm curious. They pass every state that the school requirements have for college institutions, and they pass them with flying colors like they were cheating. You think they're cheating? That's scores that they get. Wow. It's wild, man.
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I wouldn't live long because I wouldn't want to see my children die. Wow. Okay. I wouldn't live long at all. Wow. Wow. That would kill me if I see him growing old. I lost a daughter at four, but imagine me with the relationship I have with my children now. I would probably handle it, but I wouldn't want to deal with it. I wouldn't want to see it. I would want to die a lot earlier.
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I don't know. I told my kids that my daddy took care of us. Oh, yeah. That's just more important. My dad, you know, the other people are going to have their opinion, their individuals, whatever it is, you know, and that doesn't bother me. I told my children because I've always been up in that department. Yeah.
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You know, my children have to come visit me and my brother, they always have to see me in prison all the time. You know what I mean? I went through that part of my life. My kids always got to come through, through the glass, got to take, you know, my kids through the, ah.
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That's what we are as people. We want people to think something about us. That's our ego. I'm telling you, people's egos are so big. They're mad they can't be at their own funeral. They want to see who came.
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I knew if I didn't change, I couldn't have a family. My kids wouldn't respect me. I was just on that verge where my kids would not respect me no more.
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And then you have to deal with this. Your best wasn't good enough. Oh, man. Imagine that. Well, you're dead then anyway, so you don't have to hear it anymore. But listen, how do we know? Maybe death is another form of life that we go to. It's another part of life. You know, how could life be glorious and death not be glorious? You can't have death if you don't have life.
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No doubt about it. Wow. But I say to myself about that, too. I say, listen, is this an illusion? People are born every second. What is the big deal? Why would God need me to come back? He gets somebody, other people that keep coming. Why do we need my energy back anymore? We already dealt with your energy. We're doing some new shit. You die. and let people come on your stage.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
We don't want to talk to you about you. We may bring you up in some history class, but work, okay? I think that's a part of our ego, believing that we're going to continue to live and we're going to be reincarnated. No, you're finished. You had your turn. Come on.
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Almost right there. The clip of it is so frightening.
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I don't know. I felt like dying. I wanted to kill myself. Yeah. That's all I have for my children. They didn't respect me. I didn't want to live anymore. Wow.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
So tell me this, right? How does somebody that lived in the Stone Age connect with somebody that lives right today? He died during the Stone Age. Now somebody, do they intertwine one another, the energy intertwine one another? Hey, you're my cousin from 10 million years ago. Do we find things out? Do we receive knowledge from my death?
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All of this ancient knowledge of who we are. For my brief investigation about the toad and all this stuff and the universe, I just... It's just hard to believe that so many people are born and what happens to all these people. And like you say, say a man, say a Chinese emperor at one time, he led billions of people. And those billions of people accomplished great things.
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The Great Wall of China and all the great temples, all this stuff, right? Where are their names? Where are their names? Gone. That's a crime. Every million of them, their names should be mentioned. That's when they found the territorial soldiers. They had thousands of them, but it was just too many of them.
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But they put their names on every one of them with different characters, different soldiers, and they put their names on them. That's cool. And that's the closest that it ever came down when the whole crew got the recognition from China. He made a clay statue of everyone and the lifestyle of every one of his soldiers and his soldiers' horses and stuff and the guns and all this stuff.
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The conduct of one is the faith of us all.
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39.
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Wow. Yeah.
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Exactly, exactly.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Nobody ever went that far before. Nobody ever went that far. That must have been crazy. Imagine marching for 10 years. Imagine 10 years, just keep going. Not ever thinking about home. Well, you're thinking about home, but you never know when you're coming back. Everybody had to, they went mutiny on them when we got to India. They said, man, we're not going home. We've been gone for 10 years.
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We lost a bunch of people. We got children by other women from other tribes that's in our group now. You know what I mean? It's just, whew.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, pretty big, yeah.
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Hey, listen. Why do we have doubt? We human beings are the only species that make doubt up when it's not there.
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It was hard.
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It was so hard. You just had to be available. You had to come to work. You had to show up. You know, you have to have gratitude. Do you have a lot of gratitude in your life right now? Oh, I've been beaten in submission, so I have a lot of gratitude, yeah. Yeah.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
This is, that's so interesting. This is something I always wanted to find out. Like I have some sparring partners, people that have, and when I'm a sport, I'm vicious. I'm like the limit. I'm like you cold break, you do your eyes. And there's some guys in there that kick my ass, right? And you're like, what? But you put them in the ring, you put them on the spot. They're nervous.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
You put them some popcorn there, and they panic. Won't throw a punch. I said, fight him like you fought me. It's fighting the same way. Please, this guy will be home after he's dead. And they freak out.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
That's true, too. There's other things in that realm. There's some guys that don't got shit, ain't got nothing, talk, pop, cough. And there's guys that got the world. They don't do nothing. They're shy. They're introverted. They don't think much of themselves. They're scared to talk to people. Now, why is that? Now, if you're talking about self-doubt, you get the world. The insecurities, yeah.
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You're scared to talk to a girl.
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I would buy one. Don't forget to take this one. I think it's, yeah. Take the car, take the house.
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I love that.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I used to have a mentor and he used to say this, confidence...
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So tell us, I'm going to say something that John Kennedy Jr. said, all right? I've known him well before he died, right? And he said this, I met a lot of great men. But, and all those great men I met, I never met, there were no good men. And he said, after meeting all these great men, I decided I wanna be a good man. And that's what I said. I said, I wanna be a good man.
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People told me I was great for a long time. But it didn't give me, you know, as I got older, it didn't mean anything to me. You know what I mean? And then I realized that being a good man is worth more than being a great man. All great men are not good men. But most good men could become great men. Yeah, that's true. So true. That's great.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I lost my four-year-old daughter. She accidentally killed herself by accident. Oh, man. She jumped on a treadmill. She didn't know how to work and then she got hurt. So after that I didn't know what to do. I just didn't know what to do.
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Listen, we're human beings. We're, you know... We're human beings. You're a great man. How do you take that?
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I thought of a great man's man like Gandhi, a man that gives up all his money, gives everything to something. But that don't make him a great man. That's just man don't give money. But that don't make him a good man either. You know, he just value. He has a price, but his price is not money. Might be sex. Might be liquor. Might be drugs. It might be his happiness. You know what I mean?
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And all happy people are not good people. You know what I mean? Yeah, you could be doing bad things and feel happy about it. Well, happy people are not good people.
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This is fun, guys. It's really good when you see somebody that's in a bad situation and you try to make that situation better.
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That's a good person. You don't have to know him or anything, but to make a situation better.
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See, in Hollywood, but Hollywood, they got the functional homeless people. They're still clean, they still know how to talk, have conversations and stuff. These guys downtown don't have nothing. They're going to die there, man.
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I don't understand. Listen, it's funny you say that. It was a story about Alexander the Great. And it was this guy, I forgot, a genius. I forgot his name, but it was a homeless guy. And he never complained. He was always happy. And Alexander was the king of Greece or something. He said, hey, listen, I know this you. You have nothing. You're always happy. I have everything. What can I do for you?
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And the guy said this. He said, for once, if you can please just get out of the way of the sun so I can get my pants. And Alexander just couldn't understand why this guy had nothing, but he was happy. And he had everything. He wasn't happy.
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I didn't have it. I just know in order to make her happy I have to do good things and be positive.
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Cool. We do.
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Well, they don't expect anything. In this country, we were taught to expect things. Even if we don't work, we expect to have that beautiful girl. We expect to have that house. We expect to have that money. Someone to give us money, yeah. Someone to give it to us.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
It's a cosmic joke, man. Isn't it crazy? No, this is crazy. People are so fragile. Life is fragile. It's hard living life. You see people, they say they make a bad mistake, think it's over, they may kill themselves. Life is hard to live. Yeah. I'm making them say, oh, God, I'm never going to get no money. I'm never going to let my girl love me. No one's going to ever love me. Boom, I'm dead.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
You know, it's just people. It always passes, though, right? You've been through some crap. Yeah, but you have to go through it. Some people can't go through the rain. It's a lot of pain to go through. You have to deal with that pain.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
we're so human beings are so drama filled we're movies in our own self that's it stories we tell we listen to it's not even true when we're playing we got the emotion we cry it's cool it's over it's gone it's cool
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Do you ever think about that? Like, where the fuck am I going to go when this is over? I know you don't think it's a blackout, boom. I know you know something's going to happen.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah, you do. Because it's kind of exciting, too. Let's be honest. What's next? It's exciting. Because, you know, God didn't make it for us to blank out. Do you think God made us for us to say, hey, it's over, blank out, we don't exist anymore? Come on. I don't think so. I'm interested. The galaxy is so big. I think sometimes that we're in somebody's system. No, we're in somebody's system.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
No, it was always about me. It was always about my everybody else. I would give people money and stuff. I was capable of being kind to people and nice to people, but it didn't matter. I just wanted what I wanted and that's all that mattered.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
We have guts, we have cells. We're cells. We're living inside somebody that's just so big we can't even fathom it. Why not? Why not? When we stop being afraid, we're ready to die. Isn't that crazy? That's the paradox. Even when you're young, when you're no longer afraid, you usually die.
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Do you guys have a special ending, too?
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Thank you, man.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Why do you think we put greatness and wealth in the same category? I don't do that. We know most people.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
What do we do about homeless people? What do we do about having homeless hotels? Imagine a hotel like Vegas, like the MGM Grand, a 5,000-room hotel. Imagine something like that for the homeless. And as they go in the hotel, they learn how to take care of the hotel. They learn how to handle it, take the people. They learn how to bellhop. They learn how to do administration.
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They learn all that, and then they build more hotels all over the world for homeless people to learn how to live their life.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Because, listen, this is what happens. Us as little kids, especially boys, What we hear, we think of great men all the time. We think of people that we heard, hey, did you hear about that guy that knocked that guy out of the crown of the corner? What was his name again? We always hear a legend. We hear about Jim Brown. We hear about Bruce Lee. We hear about all these guys.
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And we want to know how this bad is telling me about these guys. I'm scared of this guy that's telling me about these guys. So I want to be like these guys. So guys like this could be afraid of me or respect me or something, you know? And it's ancient.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Like Jim Brown, the football player.
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I didn't know he was a football player. From the streets, I always thought he was a bad... I didn't know he was a football player. I thought he was a bad... I had no idea he was a football player until I got older.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Because they bullied me all the time. Everybody picked on me. Why do you think they picked on you? I don't know because I had nobody to protect me. I had no... There's some people in the neighborhood that got very intimidating families. They may have 20 kids in the family. You're not going to mess with those kids. And they're very aggressive. Yeah, yeah. Cousins and their brothers and everything.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
They're very aggressive. So we don't bother those guys. Yeah. Because they got a family to get behind you.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
The fact is, as we talk, really look at this, as we talk, Evan, when you think about it, it's these few questions. Check it out. Who are you? Yeah. No one knows when you're 12. Yeah. Where have you came from? Yeah. What is your purpose? Why are you breathing? Why do you look the way you do? Who's the first you? You have to make your existence.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
The first one, probably a million years ago, 10 million years ago, who is he? What did he look like? Was he black? Was he Asian? Crazy, right? You don't even know who the first us was. Why do you think you're here, Mike? Excuse me? Why do you think you're here? Why do I think I'm here? To understand the world before I die. To be lucky to understand and be conscious of it before I die.
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I always think about the world now that I'm one with everything. That we're involved with everything. I'm involved with it. I'm involved with the bugs, I'm involved with the ants, the butterflies, the cats, the dogs, I'm one with everything, the clouds, the sewage, everything, the cars, smoke, everything, I'm one with it all.
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I had no viewpoint. Only thing I knew was... These guys were great champions and I wanted to be like them. Yeah.
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Dick Buckets, all those guys had to deal with that.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Imagine being so immortal on the football field and now that stops. Stops. And then you live in the past constantly. You can't help it. How could you not help it? Tell me that, especially in the 50s and stuff, when people wasn't elevated on, after we done with this, if we haven't saved up, we're screwed. If we didn't save up after this career, we're in the gutter again.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I don't care, black, white, Chinese, unless somebody's such a big fan, they have rich guys, I loved them when I played, and they gave you a job. That's what happened to a lot of those guys. They became salesmen for the big corporations because guys loved them when they were playing. But then the glory was over, though, you know?
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
No, I had everything, and next thing you know, I'm $60 million in debt. Now you owe everything. Could you imagine, dude? You owe everything now. How'd you get out of that? Hmm. This is interesting. Listen, right? For some reason, they thought I was trying to get a deal to get out of this bankruptcy. They thought I was going to still fight. I had no intention to fight.
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They said, nah, you're going to fight. You're going to get out of this deal, and then you're going to fight for a whole bunch of money. You're a fucking sucker. So they kept thinking I was going to fight. They wouldn't give me deals. And so I just kept paying a little bit at a time, make some money, I kept paying them.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And then, next thing you know, I would owe them money for so long, they would say, hey, you owe this for so long, so we're going to decline you owing us this. Because you're not paying us. You owe this for so long, so now you don't owe us $5 million. We're going to take $7 or $5 million off. And so that's how I was getting down. And so they said, all right, we're going to take this off, too.
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And I wound up owing them $2 million, and I paid that, and it was over. I said, it's done. Nice.
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Wow, bro. But you haven't paid in seven months. If you don't pay this in seven months, you're going to take $20 million off or something like that. Just never pay them. Yeah, you never pay. How could they do that? They're supposed to take everything. I was living in Manchester. They're supposed to took all that. How did that happen? Interesting. I was thinking, how am I keeping all this?
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Why are they not coming to take this stuff? Interesting. Yeah, they never came to take anything. What do you think the moment – what was the – I had cars and stuff. I couldn't ride them because I couldn't have money to put gas in them. That Rolls-Royce. I couldn't ride them.
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I didn't have the slightest idea. I got involved with this woman who's now my wife, right? And she just kept saying, everything's going to be all right. We're going to write a show. We're going to produce television shows and movies, and this is going to be over. I'm looking at her, and I'm still strung out on drugs. And I'm looking at her, and I said, that's just illusion, though.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And the next thing you know, we were talking about, we went and saw Chaz Parmentier at Bronx Tale, but we saw it on stage. It was magnificent. It was, um... It was so quiet, you could hear a mouse on cotton. He was so captivating. You know what I mean? This guy was so captivating. Chad Palminteri was so captivating. Everybody was so quiet. You could hear everything.
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And I said, baby, I want to do that. Baby, I do that before. Like, when I go to Europe, people ask me questions, and I answer the question. But this time, I just want to answer the question. I do it, you know what I mean, theatrically, like Mr. Palminteri. And she was writing the script. and we were rehearsing, she was writing the script. We didn't know how we was gonna ever do it.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I always think about the world now that I'm one with everything, that we're involved with everything. I'm involved with it. I'm involved with the bugs. I'm involved with the ants, the butterflies, the cats, the dogs. I'm one with everything. The cars, smoke, everything. I'm one with it all.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And then a friend of mine was at the gym where I work at, and a guy was like, don't Mike Tyson work here? And he said, yeah. He said, if you ever see him, give him my call. I wanna do a show with him. Whoa, bro. Came out of nowhere. That's the universe manifesting that. Came out the universe a week later. So we called the guy. It took my wife, I think, six weeks to write the show. Wow.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Her first show ever. We did the show. standing room over, knockout, blasted all over the world, knocked the country out. We did it on Broadway for three weeks. First show in Vegas? Yeah, on Vegas, we knocked everybody out. Everybody came to town. So one of Spike Lee's assistants came and saw the show and said, Spike, I think we should get into this. And Spike said, want to go to Broadway?
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I was in Poland. He called me and said, want to go to Broadway? We went to Broadway. Listen, we went to Broadway. Everybody came, all the Broadway shows and actresses and actors came. Stevie Wonder. Everybody came. All the actors. We did it on a pen year here in California. All the people from the sets came. All the actors. Everybody came. It was so awesome.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I couldn't believe we could ever do something like that. Be on that level where they would come watch us. do something other than a fight, something that I'm not gonna get hurt doing. I did that, you know? I said, wow, I'm performing and these guys are coming and they're enjoying it.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
What does it take to be a true champion, to be the best in the world at something?
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It's just dedicating and sacrificing your life to be in a particular way you want to be. Like, you want to conduct yourself. Say you want to be like Tony Robbins. You get all the information you can about Tony Robbins. And you conduct yourself. This is how I want to live my life. This is almost like... What do we call these things? This is your manuscript.
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Yeah. You know what I mean? Your blueprint, yeah.
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Yeah, this is what I'm going to do. Yeah. And I'm going to live like Tony. I'm not going to be Tony Robbins, but I'm going to live it. I'm going to conduct myself like Tony Robbins.
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Yeah, yeah. So you've got to live it, you've got to breathe it.
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Yeah, and you have to be that before you actually become the person. Interesting. You're not going to become the person over there. You think you're prepared to be Tony Robbins right now, right? Tomorrow you're Tony Robbins. You didn't know. It's going to take time, so I'm going to become this guy. You know, I'm going to be this guy before, because you're not ready.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
But when the time comes, you're going to be ready. You're going to be Tony Robbins. This is my life. I'm accustomed to this. Of course I got this role. Of course I got this job. Of course I got this rate. I prepared for it. You wouldn't even be surprised. Mm-hmm. Before you became the champ the first time, were you visualizing and imagining? Oh, yeah. Ever since I was 14, this is who I am.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
This is who I'm going to be. This is the guy. You have to be the champ before you be the champion. You understand? Does that make sense? Yeah. You have to be him before you can be him. You can't just pop this by training and doing push-ups and knocking people out. No, you have to be the actual champ. Your conduct, your lifestyle have to be the champ before you actually wear the belt.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
Maybe that's better.
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That's what I did. I would read books about them. That's all I did. Read books about them, watch them fight. That's my life. I wasn't in school. I wasn't training. I was watching them and reading about them.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
Watching the greats. Yeah. Wow. What's the best advice you ever got from a champion before you?
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I don't know. Most of them, the advice they gave me about life and stuff, they said, you have to live your own life. Because you can't live your life like me. I can't live my life like you, you know. And we're just all different. And some of them say, take care of your money, you know. They regret about that. Right. I used to learn from afar.
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A lot of these guys, I just watched the way they conduct themselves. They're always dignified, most of them. Unless some of them have some mental issues, like he had damage from boxing, they're a little bit outrageous. But other than that, most of them are very dignified and classy men. Yeah.
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I don't know. I think I was a glutton. I just wanted everything.
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Everything. I just wanted everything, yeah. You wanted the world. Right now, no. That's the only thing I wanted now. I didn't want it yesterday. Tomorrow, I want it right now. It's instant. Wow. And if you can't give it to me, I don't want it no more. If I can't get it right now. Yeah, I don't want it no more. Yeah, anything I couldn't have, anything I couldn't have, I despise and hate it. Wow.
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Yeah, if I couldn't have that girl, I hate her guts. Wow. Because I have that car. Those cars.
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Why do you think that was?
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
Because I didn't need no distractions. Oh, wow. That made me feel anything that I'm less than immortal.
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Wow. Yeah. So if you couldn't get it right now, it made you feel less than immortal.
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But I'm sure it was bizarre or something. Yeah. I want a tiger right now. Give me my tiger. It's just the mentality. It's just the way I was raised as a fighter to think. Because if you couldn't get it, it would distract you. Wow. Why can't I possess that? If I'm so great, why can't I possess that? Wow. It would distract you from your goals in life.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
What do you think is your greatest weakness right now, this time of your life?
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I don't know, my friends and my kids and stuff, family. It's a weakness? Yeah, because people, we're losing so many people. They say, you know, he's dead, she's sick. My friend's mother just died yesterday. Everybody starts dying. Everybody's so sad. And then, wow, you know? Yeah. So instead, you know, we should always look at death as something glorious, you know?
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
Because, listen, life is very interesting, listen. We got it for nothing, look at what we received. We have kids, we have grandkids, all of a sudden, your mother and father, and they saw each other, and they, hey, we in love, we made love, now we're here. Look what we got, look what you're doing, if you just show. It's because these people were in love. You know what I mean? This is glorious.
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Yeah. For free. We don't have to pay anything to be here. Nothing. We can't get mad when it's our time to go. It's free. What do you think about with death? Death is beautiful. You know, how could life be beautiful if death is not beautiful? Because there wouldn't be life if there wasn't death. Wow. So death isn't something you're afraid of? At one stage in my life, you know.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
And then you reach 52, and you say, well, I'm not going to get another 52. Wow. And then you know, wow, what happened to that time? My whole perspective on life is different. My whole perspective is what I needed, what I wanted. That was all about what I needed, what I needed for someone else that I love. What am I leaving when I'm gone? It's really bizarre, right?
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When you have the actual confrontation aspect of immortality no longer existing.
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What do you think is your biggest superpower right now? Like your biggest strength?
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I think it's me, who I am. My essence, my existence. When I'm no longer here, it doesn't no longer exist.
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Just remember. It doesn't matter how. You know how many thousands of years are going to go by once I die? It's no longer going to matter.
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No one's going to remember that in a couple thousand years. So what's the biggest fear for you right now? No. You don't have any big fears right now?
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No. Besides, you know, eventually, when my kids get sick, I want them to have a life like I had. Yeah. To see the world like I've seen. Mm-hmm. Other than that, no, I'm prepared to be God, yeah. Wow.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
No, no.
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No one? Really? You were like, I'm going to run this whole place? Wow. Wow. What was the biggest thing you learned about yourself during that time? I don't know. Back then I learned that I didn't want to be there. I was afraid. To be there? No, I was afraid that I lost everything.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
That I had it once. You lost all your money at one point, right?
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
Yeah, but no, no, no, not that time. That time I still had money. When I was in prison, I still had money. It wasn't no bankruptcy stuff, but... I couldn't do nothing, so I would call my accountant and send money to her. If somebody needs money, I would still take care of my friends and their bills and stuff.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
But you're afraid you lost everything else.
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Like the titles, like the respect.
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No, just things you could have done if you didn't have this. What do you call it? What do you think you could have accomplished had you not gone to jail? Really good stuff. I accomplished it when I came out. Right. And I still wasn't happy. It was just all in my mind. All the things I thought I could accomplish, only if I didn't went to jail, was just an hallucination in my mind. I went to jail.
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I still accomplished everything. It's not more than I thought I would accomplish. Because you came out, and you still won the title. Yeah, it was just, um.
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It was just an illusion. You know, I was chasing an illusion. It was just, it never existed. But it was in my head. What happened to your life when you started studying spirituality more? I don't know. Spirituality is pretty tricky. It's pretty much just letting it wing you. It's saying, just imagine if it was like this. And then you realize I can make it like this.
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You know, spirituality, I don't know. It wipes everything. This is what spirituality is. It wipes everything that I ever believed. It makes it a lie. You know?
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I mean, what did you use to believe that makes it a lie now?
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I believe just what everybody else has underneath. Yeah, I believe that. Yeah, that's what I believe, you know. I believe all that crap. Wow. And everything then, so that's the paradigm shift. When everything you've been taught your whole life, and then it comes the time you realize it was a lie. Now, how do we start from there? Well, we live in a lie. Yeah.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
We have to make up our own lie and live in this lie. Mm-hmm. You know, it's going to take a... If you checked and tried to figure out to the day you die, you would never figure it out. It's based thousands and thousands and how many millions of lives and years of lives.
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And some people just dedicated their whole lives to trying to figure out the lies and what this world is about, and they found out nothing. They have this big encyclopedia in mind about wonderful things in the history of the world and stuff, but we don't have the answer still. It's just a beautiful ride. Just enjoy the ride. Yeah. Don't try to figure everything out. No way. It's a beautiful ride.
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We don't do that. As human beings, we don't do that. We don't enjoy the ride. It's not right. We've got to figure this out. This is not right. That's how we are.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
I didn't know. All my life I read about the Conqueror, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Shalami, all these crazy gods, Clovis. I read about these guys. You know what I mean? They had declared themselves gods. You know, it depends. You think of great prophets, you think of Jesus or... Prophet Muhammad was in the time of Alexander the Great, he would eliminate them. They wouldn't exist anymore.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
Everything is proper timing. You know, in certain worlds, in certain times, they would never existed.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
Wow. When do you think was the moment you started to feel more peace in your heart, like inner peace?
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
I don't know, when I had the responsibility of just taking care of my family. That's when it shifted more? Yeah, after I tried to destroy it, it didn't work. And I said, well, I have to take care of this stuff. I have to really confront, what am I going to do here? And then I said, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to dedicate my life. And that was a mess, too.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
And then eventually, we have 10 years. It worked out. We have a great deal of respect for one another.
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Where do you think you'd be if you had no kids right now? Really?
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Where would you be? Wow.
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Give me a dog. Do you wish you would have had kids younger then, or? No, I want to accomplish my goals. Uh-huh. And everything's proper timing. Proper timing, yeah. You think you're playing checkers, and you think you're navigating your life, but you're not.
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You know, you think, I know you say, why don't I just go ahead and do some joking? My life up there, Mike don't think I'm navigating my life. It's not. You're not programmed to do that then. Yeah. And if you were programmed to do that, you're programmed to come back and rebound. Right. You know, your life is not meant to go there. It's just not. Wow.
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How To Think Like A Champion & Destroy Your Limits With Your Mindset
What do you think is the lesson you still want to learn for yourself? Like, the challenge you want to overcome still to make you a better person?
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I can't. I can't never find that. You know, because that lesson, that thing I want to realize is, why me? Why is this happening? I'm never going to figure that out. What's the question you wish you could have answered? Why is this school of mine? Why is my purpose here? You know? But I can make something. I can say my purpose is to be the best person I could possibly be before I die.
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You know what I mean? That could be my purpose in life. See how far we can go in life before we die. Yeah. You know? But suppose... Enjoy that. Nothing. They're ready to die, ready to meet God, taking care of the kids, the people they love, who may go on a vacation, may never go on a vacation, or leave the town, but this is just a simple life. This is what makes them happy.
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And I really can't, you know what I mean? I come into a place, if you're nothing, if you're something, you're nothing. You know, this is not a shower. If you're not something, you're nothing. What's my definition of something? Somebody with a motherfucking wad of money in their pocket, I have no concept of humanity. It's what life is. Does that mean I have a what?
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I should be able to violate that person that does it? Wow. I don't know. Yeah. I'm lost again. Wow. I shouldn't try to fix it. We just go with the flow.
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Mm-hmm. How did you learn to finally start forgiving yourself?
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Oh, that happened. Excuse my language. That must have happened yesterday or something. And that stuff, you just don't do that stuff overnight. It doesn't work like that. At least for me, it doesn't work like that.
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Yeah, because I only, I know my demons. And I realize in life, everybody's going to really find them out eventually. You think you're going to hide that. It doesn't work that way.
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So you just started to forgive yourself on things?
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Pretty much. It's happening every day? You know, it comes around, yeah. Wow. I'm not going to hate my... It's cool, man. God loves you. That's cool. I don't function. I don't think that. I don't think God leaves you to figure it out. It's not yourself. If it's cool, it's cool. If it's not, it's not. You figure it out.
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Yeah. And what are you most proud of in your life that you've done?
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I'm proud that I'm existing. Yes. I love to be alive. I know that makes sense. I'm proud to be alive and existing, yeah.
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Really?