This Is How We Do It: A Pep Talk

by Kevin Hart

You can decide to feel miserable and feel limited, or you can decide to feel optimistic and feel expansive, with an enduring sense of possibility. You can decide to see the worst intentions in somebody, or decide to have empathy and understanding for what led them to act that way.

Understand that all of the shit that you go through is only preparing you for the moment where that education is supposed to become of use.

How dare life inconvenience me! Oh Lord, what did I do to deserve this?! Why me?! They’re acting like entitled, stubborn-ass boulders, not water. They’re stuck in a fixed position. Inflexible. Immovable in all the wrong ways. Thinking they deserve something different or better than what they’ve been given.

Be like water: allow, adapt, and keep moving.

“Shortcuts are for suckers.”