THE BEST SPEECH EVER BY WILL SMITH [INSPIRATIONAL]

screamed to me the other night hey will I want to be an active man I want to be active just like you you know usually people say stuff to me like that I'm like yeah man you know you doing this give them an encouraging word but I was just sitting here thinking and it dawned on me 99% of people that say stuff like that are not willing to do what it takes to make their dreams come true the Marines have a saying everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die and that's just real at the center of bringing any dream into fruition is self-discipline you know something something as simple as food and eating it's not about your body as much as it is about your mind it's getting command of your mind to be able to choose actions that are in your own best interest every day we are choosing that's not in our own best interest right so if the world is attacking you and the world wants to fight you in the world's trying to hold you down so you're gonna kick yourself in the balls so you will stop yourself from getting what you dream self-discipline is the center of all material success you cannot win the war against the world if you can't win the war against your own mind hugely important to me to maintain a certain energy it's a it's it's healing it's loving its kind and I've learned really young that my energy was infectious right so when you know I come into the studio when I long after I leave the energy that I bring is still gonna be here and then people are gonna take it home and are gonna affect their families with it so you know for me it's hugely important to maintain just a positive loving energy just release your wife's grateful yeah young really happy it's funny I worked with G I work with Gene Hackman and we had a thing every morning because Gene Hackman wasn't a morning person and he said this is what I do in the morning you know so every morning I would say I would say day good morning mr. Hakman yeah yeah yeah I don't say anything how you doing will I say hey man I'm just happy to be here he would say no you're lucky to be here every morning but it became my way of like just you know getting it getting it up and getting it going it's just I love it fail early fail often fail forward you know it's always a little bit frustrating to me when people have a negative relationship with failure failure is a massive part of being able to be successful you have to get comfortable with failure yet you have to actually seek failure failure is where all of the lessons are you know when you go to the gym and you work out you're actually seeking failure you want to take your muscles to the point where you get to failure because that's where the the adaptation is that's where growth is successful people who fail a lot they fail a whole lot more than they succeed but they extract the lessons from the failure and they use that the the energy and they use the wisdom to come around to the next phase of success you got to take a shot you have to live at the edge of your capabilities you got to live where you're almost certain you're gonna fail that's the reason for a practice practice is controlled failure you're getting to your limit getting to your limit getting to your limit you can't lift that you can't do that you until you get to the point that all of a sudden your body makes the adjustment and then you can do it failure actually helps you to recognize the areas where you need to evolve so fail early fail often fail forward that your life on fire and seek those who fan your flames the Phillie translation of that is don't be hanging with no Jang casts Joker's that don't help you shine the prerequisite for spending time with any person is that they nourish and inspire you they feed your flame look at your last 5 text messages are those people feeding your flames or dowsing your fire put your phone down for just a second and look around look to the people around you are those people throwing logs on your fire or they pissin on it the people that you spend time with are gonna make or break your dreams everybody don't deserve to be around you you got to defend your light with your life so who are the people in your life that are fanning your flames concept of improving lives runs through the center of everything I do and then I realize that the the way to improve lives is to continually improve yourself right so with that every every morning when I when I get out of the bed you know I I haven't fixed everything in the world yet so there's always something to do and in this film I read an interesting quote the Siddhartha Gautama the Buddha he said that good people have to get out of the bed every day and try to empty the ocean with a ladle right and I thought that was you know I knew that was profound and I paused for a second and I said all right what the hell is a ladle right right so there you know I just touched it on my iPad is ladle oh oh it's like a big spoon a big spoon okay so try to empty the ocean with a soup spoon you know as the the mentality of how you you wake up every day to try to do good in the world so for me I'm I'm really driven by continually trying to elevate my elevate my mind and elevate my spirit and care for my body and to be able to love as many people as effectively as as possible with this mystery of life that I've been given I want to do good I want the world to be better because I was here I have a great time with my life and I want to share it I love living I think that's infectious there's something that you can't fake greatness is not this wonderful esoteric illusive godlike feature that only the special among us will ever taste you know it's something that truly exists in all of us it's a very simple this is what I believe and I'm willing to die for it I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want one of my favorite books is the The Alchemist Paulo Coelho and that's just I just believe that I believe that I can create whatever I want to create it's that simple I Know Who I am I don't know what I believe I Know Who I am I know who what that's all I need to know that's how hard you know so from there you do what you need to do you know and I think what happens is we make this situation more complex than it has because we're looking for complexities it's got to be something complex to understand it can't be that easy no we didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were going to be you know we grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter because we will becoming we were becoming something greater something that came in Islands just got finished doing a couple days of work and you know I was I'm in the room I'm finally by myself it's quiet it's no people around I'm chilling and I'm like you know if trying to figure out something to do so you know I figured I'd let me go turn the news on and then it dawned on me I was like but did the news agitates me it's disruptive I get aggravated and I was like nah and then I felt this crazy urge like I couldn't stop myself from going to turn the news on and I was like oh Sh and I realized my mind was seeking disturbance by now it's too peaceful I knew I need to be disrupted and and aggravated and then I realized like we actually have to cultivate a taste for peace we're actually addicted to things that agitate and aggravate us you know you're like damn every time I see this person we argue I'm just I don't I don't want to argue with this food will stop what happens is we actually get addicted to the argument we're addicted to the aggravation addicted to the agitation I just really made a decision to myself today just sitting here in the Cayman Islands that I'm gonna be quiet I'm gonna be still and I'm gonna be alone I mean we're right after you listen to my IG story and right after you you follow me then then put it down and just just feel be alone and quiet and still the first step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it there's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan egg it was 94 or something like that they were open to Planet Hollywood I found myself in a room with Arnold Schwarzenegger Bruce Willis and sly and I was like oh my god I got these three guys in the room and I was like okay I want to be the biggest movie star in the world and I need you guys to tell me how to do it and Arnold Schwarzenegger he said he said if your movie is only big in America it doesn't matter you'll be a movie star only when you're a movie star in every country in the world you have to travel you have to kill you have to meet the people Confucius said he who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity why would you be realistic what's the point of being realistic just put up a barrier yeah I'm gonna do it it's done it's already done the second I decide is done it's already done so now we just gotta wait for y'all to see I just launched a YouTube channel and they I didn't realize how great social media was for the short-form content so I have all of these ideas I have all of these songs I have all of these skits I have all of these things that I didn't think I'd ever get around to putting out that I'll be doing on my social media so I'll definitely be putting out records I'll definitely be doing skits and I'll definitely be creating content that has been bubbling in me for usually I believe that self discipline is the definition of self-love that when you say that you love yourself that means that you have behavior towards yourself that is loving it's like you say to yourself a man look I know you want to eat that pizza and it'll be really good you know but I can't let you eat that man loved you too much to let you eat that and I think the word discipline has kind of gotten a bad name we think about it in terms of punishment I'm not talking about discipline in that way I'm talking about discipline in the sense that you you forego immediate pleasure for the exchange of long term self-respect it's unrealistic to walk at the moment for the switch and my travel as of realism fortunately the density thing so unrealistic particular have been the piece of metal and black people over an ocean did that net that's unrealistic but fortunately the Wright brothers and others they didn't believe that and it just seems it you seem like such a ridiculous idea to me to embrace the idea that it's not what happened that's not real for that to happen assume you say now he just made everyone dude screamed to me the other night a will I wanna be active man I won't be active just like you you know usually people say stuff to me like that I'm like yeah man you know you do is give them an encouraging word but I was just sitting here thinking and it dawned on me 99% of people that say stuff like that are not willing to do what it takes to make their dreams come true the Marines have a saying everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die and that's just real at the center of bringing any dream into fruition is self discipline you know something as simple as food and eating it's not about your body as much as it is about your mind it's getting command of your mind to be able to choose actions that are in your own best interest every day we are choosing that's not in our own best interest right so if the world is attacking you and the world wants to fight you in the world's trying to hold you down so you're gonna kick yourself in the balls so you will stop yourself from getting what you dream self-discipline is the center of all material success you cannot win the war against the world if you can't win the war against your own mind our leaders are physical in the universe that if we dream something we picture something we could get ourselves to [Music] visible thrust towards realization into the universe - the only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill you might have more talent than me you might be smarter than me but if we get on the treadmill together right there's two things you're getting off first or I'm going to die [Music] there's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have you have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 to 80 years of history you have to believe that something different can happen fail early fail often fail forward you know it's always a little bit frustrating to me when people have a negative relationship with failure failure is a massive part of being able to be successful you have to get comfortable with failure yet you have to actually seek failure failure is where all of the lessons are you know when you go to the gym and you work out you're actually seeking failure you want to take your muscles to the point where you get to failure because that's where the the adaptation is that's where growth is successful people who fail a lot they fail a whole lot more than they succeed but they extract the lessons from the failure and they use that the the energy and they use the wisdom to come around to the next phase of success you got to take a shot you have to live at the edge of your capabilities you got to live where you're almost certain you're gonna fail that's the reason for a practice practice is controlled failure you're getting to your limit getting to your limit getting to your limit you can't lift that you can't do that you until you get to the point that all of a sudden your body makes the adjustment and then you can do it failure actually helps you to recognize the areas where you need to evolve so fail early fail often fail forward I was just having a debate with a friend of mine and we got stucked on the difference between fault and responsibility she kept talking about how something was somebody's fault somebody's fault and I was like it really don't matter whose fault it is that something is broken if it's your responsibility to fix it not somebody's fault if their father was an abusive alcoholic but it's for damn sure their responsibility to figure out how they're gonna do with those traumas and try to make a life out of it it's not your fault if your partner cheated and ruined your marriage but it is for damn sure your responsibility to figure out how to take that pain and how to overcome that and build a happy life for yourself fault and responsibility do not go together it sucks but they don't when something is somebody's fault we want them to suffer we want them punished we want them to pay and we want it to be their responsibility to fix it but that's that's not how it works especially when it's your heart your heart your life your happiness is your responsibility and your responsibility alone the longest we're pointing the finger and and stuck in whose fault something is we're jamming and trapped into victim mode when you're in victim mode you're stuck in suffering the road to power is in taking responsibility your heart your life your happiness is your responsibility and your responsibility alone me a personal confrontation with death made me see the value of time and the fact that the only elixir is love the time that you spend has got to be in preparing yourself and giving and receiving the most about a love you can you know my mission is to improve lives so I want to do things that put positivity and positive energy and love into the world you know I've always been really product oriented you know it's like I want to win when I do something I want to win I wanted to be number one and I want to smash it you know I have a daughter and I was over 15 year old daughter and she really she got me and shifted my focus from product to people it took a couple of years but as soon as I got knocked off of product and started shifting to people the whole world opened up for me again and acting opened up in a whole new way to not go into day one of a movie trying to figure out what everybody has to do so we win versus opening up and every person's a new it's a whole new world generally when I went into a product when I went into a meeting with director my focus was can this guy win can this girl win a pathology that got broken for me a couple of years ago and then releasing that and just wanting to connect with people and wanting to grow and wanted to get new ideas and have new experiences that don't have to have an outcome it just opened up a whole new world for me and I fell in love and then I couldn't imagine what else I could do in acting that could add so much to my life other than acting difference between depression and joy right and I think it's purpose when you wake up in the morning and your life means something to somebody other than you that you have a purpose if you don't go do the things that you're going to do people's lives will suffer to live in service not to you but to live in service to humanity to live in service to your family to live in service to your church to your city to your country to the world living in service is that I feel like that is the purest form of joy the taking responsibility accepting responsibility is not an admission of guilt but you're not admitting that your fault taking responsibility is a recognition the power that you cease when you stop blaming people it's not like you're letting somebody who wronged you off the hook like taking responsibility is an act of emotional self-defense taking responsibility is taking your power back I look at the world through a lens of comedy my natural reaction is always no matter when something happens and I can't even help it it's why is that funny you know so even at a funeral I can't help but think why that's funny extremely helpful for me just psychologically that no matter what's going on I can't keep my mind from finding jokes a beautiful way to stay joyous and positive I live in complete terror everything for me about this business and a you know about what I've been trying to build and what I've been trying to do with my life keeps me in terror I am deeply motivated by fear I'm trying to to develop a more realistic perspective of what this business is when I was 15 years old my first girlfriend cheated on me oh and I remember making a decision that nobody would ever cheat on me again and the way I was going to do that is by being the biggest actor on earth ah right so is there's there's been this weird psychology that I've always felt like if my movies are number one my life is gonna work out great I've always been the type of person who thought of I thought of myself as resilient you know that I could always make my way back being stuck in the past is it makes it extremely difficult to find your way out and future thinking for me has always been the way to get over difficult times to be able to look over the darkness to a potential time of light very rarely do I look backwards I'm always looking forward you know to me showbiz is not separated from the rules of the universe whether you're in show business or you know you're selling cars or you're farming you know you're not you're not separate from the laws of the universe and all of the rules are the same everywhere from my children the most important thing is that they be encouraged to fully and thoroughly be themselves no matter what when you when you have yourself and you're thorough and confident in who you are you can survive anywhere there's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have you have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 52 million years of history you have to believe that something different can happen it's almost a kind of innocence absolutely in other words if you knew how difficult it was right you have never gone down that path absolutely no if Fowley somebody said to ollie no one can beat this guy he's this much stronger this much bigger he's got that much bigger punch than you do and he believed that he would have said never you gotta have an innocence that somehow absolutely no and I think they dead that's a huge part of me because and I say to my friends all the time and we laugh about it I truly honestly as I sit here before you right now as honestly as I can say to you I truly believe that I could be the president if I wanted to and as bizarre as that may sound to people that have traveled the path before me and to people who actually know how difficult it is foolish Will Smith honestly believes it's I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be consider myself an alchemist an alchemist is basically a mystical chemist one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead just take a chunk of lead and they could turn lead into gold being able to turn lead into gold you know my grandmother used to say you know life getting your lemon you go ahead and make lemonade to me that's that's alchemy that's that's the same concept behind the the alchemists you don't set out to build a wall you don't say I'm gonna bake this build the biggest baddest greatest wall that's ever been built you don't start there you say I'm gonna lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid there will not be one brick on the face of the earth that's gonna be laid better than this brick that I'm gonna lay in this next ten minutes and you do that every single day and so you have a soon you have a walk it's difficult to take the first step when you look how big yeah the task is the task is never huge to me it's always you mean one brick I don't want to be an icon I realized that when you to have the level of success that I want to have it's difficult to spread it out and do multiple things you know it's in order to to be world-class and I've made a decision I want to be world-class and it just it takes such a desperate obsessive focus to to excel on a certain honor on the level that I want to make movies you know I was a Star Wars when I was young i sat in the movie theater and watched Star Wars and I just couldn't believe that that movie made me feel like that just floored and just stunned by the creativity and just I'm realizing that in order to move people in that way in order to touch people in that way you really got to focus with all of your fiber and all of your heart and all your creativity we didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were going to be you know we grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter because we were becoming we were becoming something greater as a child my parents always told me you could be whatever you want to be you could do whatever you want to do it was something I heard my parents saying it but I didn't totally believe it yet I went out in the world and I carried myself and I held my head high and I stood there and I look people in their eyes and I talked to people as if I was deserving of everything that this planet has to offer Confucius said one time he who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right so I want to stand here before you and as I hold this award I want to give love to my wife and I want you to keep in your heart just know that you can no road to success is through commitment and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard and it is going to get hard and you're gonna want to quit sometimes but it'll be colored by who you are and more who you want to be I definitely found that wanting to be an actor stems from wanting to be somebody separation of talent and skill is one of the the the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel who have dreams that want to do things talent you have naturally skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your crap for me it it has been the to be that guy that does what people say can't be done you know and I think it started with trying to please my mother and trying to please my grandmother and they always wanted higher for me they always wanted more for me and it got to the point that I wanted to be something I wanted to be somebody and it it made me choose certain roles it made me turn down certain roles there is more than an image that I want to project I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave never really view myself as particularly talented where I excel is ridiculous sickening work ethic you know while the other guys sleeping I'm working what other guys eaten I'm working anytime you inject extremes into the universe you can expect extremes to to come back I think that you know one of the best pieces of advice I ever got was don't let your successes go to your head and don't let your failures go to your heart do you follow that I try it's absolutely a difficult even more so now with my my wife and my children expanding into it the the scope of it is actually becoming more difficult to manage the things that almost in a spiritual sense the things that you attract to yourself and also if you think about it in terms of altitude the higher you go the harder it is to breathe there's less oxygen and I think within that phrase what I get from that with marlon brando but what happens is if you think about it in terms of mountain climbing mountain climbing the higher and the higher you get the less oxygen there is the harder it is to breathe as you get to this successful space and the first thing people want to do is get down and what you do by getting down is self-destructive and i'm just working hard to make sure that i don't allow the lack of oxygen to dull my appreciation for the gifts I've been given

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Length: 33min 39sec (2019 seconds)

Published: Tue May 15 2018