Denzel Washington's Life Advice Will Leave You SPEECHLESS |LISTEN THIS EVERYDAY AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE

I was twenty years old I was at my lowest point and then one day and I remember the exact day March 27 1975 I was helping my mother in her beauty shop my mother owned a beauty shop up in my Vernon and there's there was this older woman who was considered one of the elders in the town and I didn't know her personally but I was looking in a mirror and every time I looked at the mirror I could see her behind me and she was staring at me she just kept looking at me every time I looked at it she kept giving me these strange looks so she finally took the dryer off her head and says to sump she said something I'll never forget first of all she said somebody give me a piece of paper give me a piece of paper she said young boy I have a prophecy a spiritual prophecy she said you are going to travel the world and speak to millions of people I began at Fordham University as a pre-med student I took a course called cardiac morphogenesis I couldn't read it I couldn't say it I sure couldn't pass it so then I decided to go into pre-law then journalism and with no academic focus my grades took off in their own direction I was a 1.8 GPA one semester and the University very politely suggested that it might be better to take some time off I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks nothing Nelson Mandela said there is no passion to be found playing small and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living fail big you will fail at some point in your life accept it you will lose you will embarrass yourself you will suck at something there's no doubt about it in the acting business you fail all the time early on in my career I auditioned for a part in a Broadway musical perfect role for me I thought so I'm in the wings I'm about to go on stage but the guy in front of me he's singing like like like Pavarotti and I'm just shrinking I'm getting smaller and smaller so they say oh thank you very much thank you very much and you will you'll be hearing from us so I come out with my little sheet music and so I assumed I didn't get the job but the next part of the audition he called me back the next part of the audition is the acting part of the audition so I'm like hey okay maybe I can't sing but I know I can act so they pair me with this guy and again I didn't know about musical theater and musical theater is big so they can reach everyone all the way in the back of the stadium it and I'm more from realistic naturalistic kind of acting where you you know you actually talk to the person next to you so I don't know what my line was my line was will hand me the cut and his line was well I will hand you the cup my dear the cup would be there to be handed to you I didn't get the job but here's the thing I didn't quit I didn't fall back I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition and the next audition and the next audition I prayed I pray and I pray but I continue to fail and fail and fail but it didn't matter because you know what there's an old saying you hang around the barbershop long enough sooner or later you're gonna get a haircut so you will catch a break and I did catch a break last year I did a play called fences on Broadway if someone talked about it won the Tony Award but here's the kicker it was at the Court Theatre he was at the same theatre that I failed that first audition 30 years prior Reggie Jackson struck out 26 hundred times in his career the most in the history of baseball but you don't hear about the strikeouts people remember the homeruns fall forward Thomas Edison kentuc did 1000 failed experiments did you know that I didn't know that because the 1,000 and first was the light bulb fall forward now I'm sure in your experiences in school and applying to college and picking your major and deciding what you want to do with life I'm sure people that told you to make sure you have something to fall back on make sure you got something to fall back on honey but I never understood that concept having something to fall back on if I'm going to fall I don't want to fall back on anything except my faith I want to fall forward I figure at least this way I'll see what I'm going to hit for forward the point is every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed but do you have the guts to fail while it may be frightening it will also be rewarding because the chances you take the people you meet the people you love the faith that you have that's what's going to define you keep working keep striving never give up fall down seven times get up eight ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship without commitment you'll never start but more importantly without consistency you'll never finish it's not easy if it was easy they'd be no Kerry Washington if it was easy there'd be no taraji Henson Pete Henson if it were easy there'd be no Octavius pencil but not only that if it were easy there'd be no Viola Davis there very easy there'd be no Michael Teague Williamson no Steven McKinley Henderson no Russell Hornsby it more easy there'd be no Denzel Washington so dreams without goals are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment so have dreams but have goals life goals yearly goals monthly goals daily go don't confuse movement with progress remember just because you're doing a lot more doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done in order to achieve your goals you must apply discipline which you are already done and consistency every day not just want to lose day and miss a few days you have to work at it every day you have to plan every day you've heard the saying we don't plan to fail we fail to plan hard work works working really hard is what successful people do what are you going to do with what you have I'm not talking about how much you have some of you are business majors some of you are theologians nurses sociologists some of you have money some of you have patients some of you have kindness some of you have loved some of you have the gift of long-suffering whatever it is whatever your gift is what are you going to do with what you have and it's not how much you have it's what you do with what you have we all have different talents some of you will be doctors some lawyers some scientists some educators some nurses the most selfish thing you can do in this world is help someone else why is it selfish because the gratification goodness that comes to you the good feeling the good feeling that I get from helping others nothing's better than that well I had traveled the world and I have spoke to millions of people but that's not the most important thing in success that I had the most important thing is that what she taught me or what she told me that day has stayed with me since I've been detected I've been directing I've been corrected I kept God in my life and has kept me humble I didn't always stick with him but he always stuck with me so stick with them in everything you do if you think you want to do what you think I've done then do what I've done today is the beginning of the rest of your life and it can be stick to be very frightening it's a new world out there it's a mean world out there you only live once so do what you feel passionate about passionate about take chances don't just aspire to make a living aspire to make a difference you

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Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 14 2019

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[u/Shanghai-Rock]

Thanks for this! Very helpful today!

[u/dieselmangina]

I love the line "ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship"..."without commitment you will never start, without consistency, you will never finish".

[u/leannbmxmom]

Amazing! Every word of the is true!!