Speaker 1: I See's Daily Game. It's a production of iHeartRadio. What's
Speaker 1: Up to SiZ team. You're listening to The Daily Game,
Speaker 1: the compilation of motivational quotes I've collected over the years
Speaker 1: that I've found inspiring and helped me through the game
Speaker 1: of life. Today's quote is something I keep in mind
Speaker 1: to stay motivated and focused. I've never been competitive. I
Speaker 1: only set out to outdo myself. I think the most
Speaker 1: competitive part of my life was probably when I was
Speaker 1: in high school. You know, I was in gymnastics. You
Speaker 1: know that's competitive. You're trying to outdo somebody. You know
Speaker 1: too harder moves than other people. When I got into rap,
Speaker 1: you have battle rap where you're trying to out wrap
Speaker 1: other people. But truly, personally, I learned that competing with
Speaker 1: people can send you down a very dark road. We
Speaker 1: always said, you know, oh, if everybody you knew was
Speaker 1: in a room and all of them through their problems
Speaker 1: in the air, I bet you'd reach for yours on
Speaker 1: the way down, meaning I know who I am, but
Speaker 1: I don't know what problems you have. The guy that
Speaker 1: just passed me in the hood and the new roles,
Speaker 1: I can't compete with him. Because I don't know what's
Speaker 1: really going on in his life. He might have a
Speaker 1: body in the trunk. I know what I'm doing. So
Speaker 1: once you get into this mode of competing with yourself,
Speaker 1: now you really can grow. I'll also say that life's
Speaker 1: kind of like go to the gym. You go to
Speaker 1: the gym, you look to the right, there will always
Speaker 1: be someone in better shape than you. But if you
Speaker 1: look to your left, there will be someone who would
Speaker 1: die to be in your shape. So guess what You're
Speaker 1: where you should be, and you just have to outdo yourself.
Speaker 1: If you can do ten pushups tomorrow, you want to
Speaker 1: do fifteen. If you can do fifteen in a week,
Speaker 1: you want to be able to do twenty five. Then
Speaker 1: you move up to fifty. If you compete with yourself,
Speaker 1: if you set your own goals, you will advance way
Speaker 1: faster than if you're looking at somebody trying to parlay
Speaker 1: off of them. I had this one cat run up
Speaker 1: to me the other day. While it goes tell me
Speaker 1: you're wis tea. You know you ain't doctor Dre, and
Speaker 1: doctor Dre made a billion dollars on Dre beats. You
Speaker 1: ain't doctor. I'm like, well, you ain't Ice Tea, Like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck you worry about me being dre. I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about being dre. I'm trying to be ice.
Speaker 1: So use yourself. Compete with the person in the mirror.
Speaker 1: It's a waste of time competing with other people. It's
Speaker 1: a waste of time. Unless you're in some competitive sport,
Speaker 1: it's a waste of time. Just out do yesterday. Out
Speaker 1: do yourself yesterday, you know, like the Buddhists say, grow
Speaker 1: like the tree silently just grows and it's gonna grow
Speaker 1: longer and forever. And you look around at Preece bigger
Speaker 1: and bigger and bigger. It doesn't make any noise. It's
Speaker 1: not competing with anybody else, but it's just growing. It's
Speaker 1: keep growing, you know, don't be competitive. Being competitive will
Speaker 1: just have you in a negative space, a lot of
Speaker 1: waste of energy where you could just concentrate on outdoing yourself.
Speaker 1: This has been another ice code fact from me Iced Tea.
Speaker 1: Listening again tomorrow when I drop some wisdom on your
Speaker 1: ass till then, stay safe, stay smart, and stay stronger
Speaker 1: than you were yesterday. I sees daily game. It's a
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