Will Smith
Appearances
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)
When you look at... the athletes right there's a certain extreme mindset that you i was gonna say you have to take on i don't know that you have to take it on what i do know is that in this society um we worship that mindset that um you know it's the the can you become michael jordan without that mindset You know, and that is a really powerful, difficult question.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)
It's like, most people can't sustain the mindset that, you know, fortunately, because it can be so destructive, but most people can't sustain that level of discipline to manifest the things that they want in their life. And there's just a, there's a poisonous edge to that kind of discipline. And I've been to the edge of that kind of material world discipline in my mind.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)
And I can tell you, you can have a whole lot of stuff and be miserable out there. on that edge and I found a much more comfortable and productive space in my life. And you still need that discipline. But it's like when you use that kind of power to achieve things, it's like there's a brutal reckoning.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)
My father, my mother, and my grandmother, whenever I think about the three of them, I picture a triangle in my mind. And I see like my father was the base as discipline. And my mother didn't care about anything but education. You had to learn, grow, study, travel. My mother was really serious about educating the mind. And my grandmother was love and God.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)
My grandmother was that grandmother at Resurrection Baptist Church. And she had, you know, we were doing our Easter recitations. And we was at the nativity, you know. So she was that grandmother at the church. And her life was deeply devoted to God and Jesus in the form of loving service. Right, so the form that it took was she was working hard to love everybody.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)
You know, I remember my grandmother bringing homeless people into our house when we were little and washing them in our bathtub. I thought that was the nastiest thing. But she would be in the bathroom with her hands washing homeless people, you know? And as a child, it was like, no! But as I grew older, I just saw how dedicated and devoted she was to living her life in service.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)
It took me 50 years to figure, you know, to figure out what the secret of that was, you know, but it was... There was a day of her life that wasn't devoted to loving and serving. And I just watched her. She worked the graveyard shift at the hospital. And she watched us, my brothers and sisters, during the day while my parents were at work.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)
And then when my parents got off work, then she went, she would take a little nap and then she would go to work at the hospital. And she was just the happiest person that I had ever met. Nothing faced her. She was okay. And I remember I was about 12 and I had started rapping. And so I had my rap books. I had all my little curse words and everything in my rap book.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)
And she found my rap book and she never said anything and she just opened the cover and she wrote a letter to me. Dear Willard, truly intelligent people do not have to use words like this to express themselves. God has given you the gift of words. Be sure to use those words to uplift people. And I was sitting, I was reading that and just love Gigi.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)
And that was part of the reason why I never used profanity in any of my music. And it was like, she missionized me in that way to make sure that what I was doing was uplifting others. And when you're telling stories, you can always find the part of the story that is a gift for the potential upliftment of somebody that would see it.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)
Anybody who hasn't spoken to their parents or their brother, call them right now. Don't think you're going to have a chance to call them tomorrow or next week. That opportunity with my father changed every relationship in my life.