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Speaker 1: Well, hello everybody. I'm excited to have the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: be able to talk to you on this podcast and

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Speaker 1: to share something for you to think about, to feel,

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Speaker 1: to understand. I'll start with a quote from George Washington

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Speaker 1: Carver that he often used in his speeches. It says,

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Speaker 1: figure it out for yourself, My lad you all that

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Speaker 1: the greatest of men have had two arms, two hands,

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Speaker 1: two legs, two eyes. With this equipment all began. So

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Speaker 1: start from the top and say I can look them

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Speaker 1: over the wires and the great they take their food

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Speaker 1: from a common plate and similar laces they tie their shoes.

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Speaker 1: The world considers them brave and smart. But you're all

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Speaker 1: they had when they made their start. You can triumph,

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Speaker 1: and you can come to skill. You can be great

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Speaker 1: if only you will. You have arms and legs and

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Speaker 1: brain to use. And the man who has risen great

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Speaker 1: deeds to do, he began his life with no more

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Speaker 1: than you. You are the handicap you must face. You

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Speaker 1: are the one who must choose your place. How much

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Speaker 1: you will study the truth to know. God has equipped

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Speaker 1: you for life, but he lets you decide what you

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Speaker 1: want to be. Courage must come from the soul within.

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Speaker 1: The man must furnish the will, the fight to win.

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Speaker 1: So figure it out for yourself, My lad, you are

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Speaker 1: with all that the great have had with your equipment

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Speaker 1: they all began. Get a hold of yourself and say

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Speaker 1: I can. George Washington Carver, it's so funny. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about figuring it out as

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Speaker 1: you go, or as he said, figure it out for yourself.

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Speaker 1: I say this with a tinge of embarrassment, but I've

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Speaker 1: I did it. I've never done anything that I was

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Speaker 1: a professional before I started. I just figured it out

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Speaker 1: for myself. You have to have the courage where you

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Speaker 1: have never been before and risk the wounds and scars

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Speaker 1: and briars and branches that go along with succeeding even

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Speaker 1: though you don't know the road. You have to forward

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Speaker 1: the streams and swim across the river banks and land

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Speaker 1: on muddy shores, and let your flesh dry in hot sun,

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Speaker 1: and continued to run even though you have never run

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Speaker 1: that way before. How many times have you modeled forgiveness

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Speaker 1: in your behavior toward other people that expect forgiveness for

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Speaker 1: your behavior in other people. We are not God. We

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Speaker 1: don't always see the end from the beginning. If we did,

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Speaker 1: most of us would trip in the middle of the path.

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Speaker 1: It would scare us to death. It would haunt us,

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Speaker 1: it would terrify us, it would limit us. If we

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Speaker 1: take or give in our lives, we would shrink away

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Speaker 1: and pray for another day somewhere between our fan of meiga.

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Speaker 1: You become a great employee, a better boss, a better person,

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Speaker 1: better person. You aren't born that way. You have to

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Speaker 1: figure it out as you go. It's not there for you.

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Speaker 1: It's not a prepared meal, it's not a prefab house.

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Speaker 1: It's not even a microwave dinner. This is something that

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Speaker 1: you need to have. You have to figure it out

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Speaker 1: for yourself because whatever you are trying to build is

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Speaker 1: If someone gives you everything you need on a silver platter,

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Speaker 1: you are not valuable because when you run out of it,

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Speaker 1: you can't make it again. But if you make it

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Speaker 1: for yourself, if you do it once, you can do

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Speaker 1: it again. If you figure it out for yourself, you

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Speaker 1: Was I nervous? Still to this day? Was I uneasy?

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Speaker 1: Without question? I had to figure it out for myself.

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Speaker 1: I didn't always know which way to go, what budget

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Speaker 1: a treetop trying to get advantage over me. And there

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Speaker 1: were mistakes, Yes, there were mistakes. There were mistakes made

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Speaker 1: at a time that people capitalize off of mistakes and

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Speaker 1: when you have done all that you can do, if

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Speaker 1: working til you get it right. Once you get it right,

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Speaker 1: you can patent it, you can own it, you can

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Speaker 1: You can train other people to do it, but you

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Speaker 1: cannot reproduce what you did not authenticate. Transitions are difficult.

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Speaker 1: They're hard at best. If you've got people with you,

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Speaker 1: they've got questions for which you have no answers. How long,

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Speaker 1: how close are we, how far away? How much will

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Speaker 1: it cost? We don't have all the answers. Yes we've

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Speaker 1: got plans, Yes we've made preparations. Yes we have good intentions,

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Speaker 1: but the road to hell was paid with good intentions,

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Speaker 1: having the courage to march on with no drummer, to

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Speaker 1: beat your drum and make your sound and let the

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Speaker 1: at least they knew you were there. Now, transitions are difficult.

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Speaker 1: They're always difficult. They're always heard. There are the customs

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Speaker 1: that you read about and the customs that nobody told

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Speaker 1: are penalize that that's a part of transition. Not too

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Speaker 1: long ago, I was in Nigeria where they were celebrating

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Speaker 1: I counted the years, and I realized that Nigeria was

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Speaker 1: the same age as I was, And I scoffed at

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Speaker 1: we smell like everything. But we don't give people the

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Speaker 1: to give them encouragement without control and dominance, without taking

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Speaker 1: does it right? Serve the greater even while you're the lesser,

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Speaker 1: because while you're serving, you're learning, and while you're learning,

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Speaker 1: you're becoming. And while you are becoming, you are emerging.

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Speaker 1: And you are on your way. And when you get there,

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Speaker 1: there'll be nobody there to turn up their nose and

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Speaker 1: say they made you who you are. There'll be nobody

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Speaker 1: your foot and say made by John Doe. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: this was a designer's original, designed and completely made by

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Speaker 1: the grace of God. And you'll have nobody to think

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Speaker 1: but the one who gave you the breath you breathe

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Speaker 1: and the creativity you possess that you never would have

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Speaker 1: You have to have the courage to figure it out

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Speaker 1: for yourself. One of the hardest things in the world

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Speaker 1: I did something that I didn't have a manual for

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Speaker 1: I didn't have an architect. I had a two by four,

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Speaker 1: relentless determination that before all of this is over, it

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Speaker 1: will be what I said it will be. Figure it

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Speaker 1: out for yourself. Don't deny yourself of the rich education

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Speaker 1: and the institutional understanding of matriculating from the university of experience.

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Speaker 1: Figure it out for yourself, and then they can read

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Speaker 1: what you wrote. Figured out for yourself. They'll start out laughing,

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Speaker 1: they'll make a lot of fun, they'll crack a lot

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Speaker 1: But keep on going the way you're going, because you're

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Speaker 1: They never make fun of people that have no potential.

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Speaker 1: They never scandalize people say they being an adventure. Nobody

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Speaker 1: but she's moving right ahead, and she moves through murderers

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Speaker 1: They don't expect much from you. They don't expect you

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Speaker 1: to sue see, they don't expect you to arrive low

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Speaker 1: grade expectations. Its magical because when you win, you leave

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Speaker 1: them with their mouths hanging open because you succeeded, not

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Speaker 1: and you kept on going untill you got to the

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Speaker 1: But don't be afreid to go where none have gone before.

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Speaker 1: Don't be afreid to be Lewis and Clark and go

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Speaker 1: where you could lose your life or find the greatest

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Speaker 1: have the right to celebrate like no one has the

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Speaker 1: right to celebrate, because it's a song said you did

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Speaker 1: the criticizers. They wouldn't be criticizing you if you weren't

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Speaker 1: well known enough to be talked about. Nobody talks about

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Speaker 1: nameless people. Nobody discourages people who have the potential to arrive.

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Speaker 1: Their insults are your compliments. Their procrastination and their aggravation

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't be under attack. So figure it out for yourself,

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Speaker 1: and go and take notes and the notes you take

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Speaker 1: today will be the manuals they study from tomorrow. We

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Speaker 1: cannot live in the future only reading the wisdom of

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Speaker 1: the past. We have to have the courage to be bodacious,

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Speaker 1: to go where no man has ever gone before, to

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Speaker 1: story of our world. That is the power of our dreams.

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Speaker 1: To have tried and failed and try again, to have

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