10 Minutes Of 50 Cent Giving Life Changing Advice

never allow my uh fear to limit me. I'll figure out how to uh get past it. I think the most the thing that you should be afraid of most would probably be being alone. And I've been on my own since I can remember. So you went for permission. You want me to go under you and you asking permission? Well, I'm not listening to nobody. You see, I do better when I listen to me. You know, I had to convince myself that uh I'm going to make it. A lot of people probably think I was born fearless. I might project that energy, but it's not true. I was scared of the dark as a child. It shifted me. It's either when you get hurt that bad, your fear consumes you or you'll become a bit insensitive and you'll start to approach the problem instead of run from it. I I never ran from anything cuz I had nobody to go to. I've always had that where I'm going home to get me. I've experienced anxiety and angst of all kinds. The difference is I refuse to allow myself to grow comfortable in all those fears. Comfort, I learned, is a dream killer. It saps our ambition, blinds our vision, promotes complacency. The number one thing most people are comfortable with is fear. There's going to be points that people are going to mistake my confidence for arrogance because I've had to. They don't understand the process I went through and how much I had to believe in myself in order to make these things happen. I kind of I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen will. And if you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. No matter how much you feel like you're prepared for something, it it never happens on your time. like when you think you're ready, like it's supposed to happen. It always happens when it's supposed to happen. I think if you do things on other people's terms, then it's just wrong for your life. If I had to be different in order to make it happen, I wouldn't be being me and it wouldn't be the right thing. Well, when you're in life-threatening situations, it makes you a little more conscious of death, you know, and the more that you are aware of your fate, the higher the probability you have a chance to live. Ask someone if they're living in a constant state of fear, and they'll probably say, "Of course not." That's just pride talking, though. Fear dominates most people's lives. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of the unknown, fear of loneliness. I don't think there's anything shameful about experiencing fear. A little bit of paranoia is actually extremely helpful. There are a lot of real dangers out there. A lot of people with bad intentions. Being aware of those possibilities makes it easier to avoid them. What you cannot do is become complacent with any of those fears. If you fear loss, you can't spend your life avoiding intimacy and love, something I've struggled with. If you fear failure, you can't stop taking risk. If you fear the unknown, you can't stop trying new experiences. You see what I'm saying? And we got some people that have just decided not to try. They're more comfortable in a tent with nothing on their schedule every day. That's some of them make the decision to just get the tent and feel no pressure to make it or no pressure to do anything. You know what I mean? And that's just the I don't I can't comprehend the thinking like you know my my thought process is so different from them that I can't relate to it. When I say get rich or die trying in a literal fashion I think they took it where I meant I'm determined. I'mma make it all. I'm putting everything on the line here. It is not death a man should fear, said the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius. But he should fear never beginning to live. Some people they have the uh the trait of like let's say the person across the street, they look at you, they don't like you from across the street. Some people feel the need to go across the street to say why I'm a good person. I don't give a [ __ ] Now [ __ ] say you crazy. Call me crazy. You know, I be thinking when they say that, yeah, I'm crazy. I be thinking, "Yep, I was crazy enough to believe what the I was saying going to happen was going to happen." And that's why I was persistent enough and consistent enough to exist. Now, being persistent, right? I think the only thing that separates people is passion. Having the ability to focus on something or to work on it will allow you to work hard enough to be good enough at it. That's the Kobe Bryant run. He outworked those people. Like, you know, a lot of people in the league perform according to their paycheck. So, they're like, "I ain't getting that money. Let them do it." I think the things you go to make you who you are. So, I don't regret those things. Well, I think ambition is a part of a person's character isn't a learned behavior, you know. So, I always be looking forward to move to the next level and as different opportunities open up for me, I'll explore them. like so I can't put a limit to how far I can actually go. Get rich or die trying right in the process cuz that's already what I'm feeling like I'm going to do. I'm in the process is the greatest thing is to watch me because either I'm going to get rich or I'm going to die in the process and then if I die in the process I was doing what I wanted to do. I can trace the roots of my own sense of fearlessness back to one specific effect, the death of my mother. That's a special kind of fear, one that is hard to describe. I didn't communicate well with the loss of my mom. I actually never really spoke to anybody about it. She was everything like she was like my mother or my father. My mom met me at 15. So it it felt like the only real option would be to actually hustle at that point from her. I believe I don't think she would agree with me going in that direction of hustle. I don't think she wanted that for me, you know, but the other part, the music and everything else that happened, I think she'd be really proud of me. Losing my mother was the most significant thing that ever happened to me. Even in middle age, I could still feel her loss. But through her death, my mother managed to give me a rare gift. The seed of fearlessness. I don't mind losing. I just like to lose at my expense at let it be my fault. If I'm losing based on someone else's decision to do it, I'm I'm furious about it. Yeah. because I'm like I I could have learned it and made better judgment myself than to just allow that to happen. I got instincts. A lot of people will gauge your level of intelligence by you having an associates, bachelors, or a master's degree. But a lot of those people retain information long enough to pass midterms and never use it. I also came to understand another important truth. I wasn't comfortable being scared. That may seem like an obvious thing to say, but I think it's actually what makes me unique. Most people are extremely comfortable with their fears. Afraid of flying? Stay off of planes. Afraid of failure? Well, then don't even drop. A lot of people live their entire lives that way. Not me. I hated being scared. I hated looking over my shoulder. To me, hiding would have almost been worse than getting shot. In some ways, the physical pain I endured was my friend. It pushed me further than most people are willing to go. See, cuz a guy at a schoolyard doesn't want to fight always leads to a black eye. The moment that you show people that you're not willing to fight, they want to fight. You change the feelings. Do you want to feel like you're afraid all the time? Or do you start to become the aggressor? And you start saying, you know what, you ain't got to find me cuz I'm looking for you. And then it changes everything. Try try the treadmill with no music. See how long you do that because you'll be in your head so much and hear yourself breathing. You ain't going to do it as long as you usually do it. When you can put the music on and and just go, it takes your mind off of it. You can do the work. When fear interrupts your routine or makes you rethink it in any way, it's gotten it hooks deep into you and will hold you back forever. Cowards die many times before their deaths. or Shakespeare. The valiant never taste of death but once. I wasn't trying to go out like a coward. The best way to get past a fear that's holding you back is first to acknowledge it and then come up with a plan to get past it. So that's what I did. First I accepted that I was afraid. I feel I can't change and that's that I misunderstood. You know, my confidence is mistaken for arrogance constantly. You know, people don't actually uh understand my intentions a lot of the time cuz once what I've offered is myself. So, there's artists out there that can beat me at doing different things, but not at being me. Can't nobody beat me at being there.