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the wisest person I ever met in my life by third grade drop-outs what is this in Dropout in the same sentence is rather oxymoronic like jumbo shrimp like fun run and nothing fun about it Microsoft Works I used to say like country music but I country music now I yeah I finish a cowboy no longer oxymoronic for me to say country music it's not oxymoronic for me to say third grade Dropout to come and wisdom to make it impact with my father a sympathy card wisest man I ever met in my life just a simple cook left school in the third grade to help out on the Family Farm but just because he left school doesn't mean to Jessica education stop Mark Twain one said I'm never allowed my school play my education decided in the midst of Jim crowism as America was breathing the last gasp for the Civil War decided he was going to stay and not a black man little brown man white man but a man he literally challenge himself to be the best that he could use of his life I have three degrees my brother is a judge what are the smartest ones in our family to third grade Dropout daddy I'm going to have a real issue with game low and hits country mother calling Henry Ford saying if you think you can or you think you can't you're right I learned that from a third-grade truck simple lessons lessons early than a minute late to my house cuz the clocks were always ahead my mother said for nearly 30 years my father left the house at 3:45 in the morning one day she asked him why Daddy he said maybe one of my boys will catch me in the act of Excellence I want to share two things with you Aristotle said you are what you repeat differential and talk me a habit not an act don't ever forget that I know you're tough but always remember to be kind always don't ever forget that never embarrass mama your mama ain't happy ain't nobody happy happy don't nobody care but you know and tell you next lesson lesson from a cook over there in the galley sun make sure your serve ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity y'all might have a relative in mind you want to send that to let me say it again ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stoop any pride is the burden of a foolish person John Wooden coach basketball UCLA for living but it's calling was the impact people and with all those national championships guess what he was found in the middle of the week going into the cupboard grabbing a broom sleeping is on gym floor you want to make an impact find your broom everyday of your life you find your broom influence that way that way you're attracting people so that you can impact them adolescent son you're going to do a job do it right I've always been told how average I can be criticize about being average but I want to tell you something I stand here before you before all of these people not listening to those words but telling myself every single day to shoot for the to be the best that I can be good enough isn't good enough if it can be better and better isn't good enough if it can be best let me close with a very personal story that I think will bring all this the focus wisdom will come to you in the end sources a lot of times no failure when you hit rock bottom remember this while you're struggling rock-bottom can also be a great foundation on which to build and on which to grow I'm not worried that you'll be successful I'm worried that you won't fail from time to time person that gets up off the canvas and keeps growing that's the person that will continue to grow their influence back in the 70s to help me make this point let me introduce you to someone I'm at the finest woman I've ever met in my life woohoo back in my day we called her a brick house when was the finest woman I've ever seen in my life there's just one little problem that can ladies didn't like big old Lyman The Blind Side and come back with his stance and I find out her name is Trina Williams Lompoc California and we're all dancing and we're just just excited and I decide in the middle of dancing with her that I would ask her for her phone number she treated was the first one was the only woman in college you gave me a real telephone number the next day we walk to Baskin and Robbins ice cream parlor my friends couldn't believe it this is been 40 years ago and my friend still can't believe it we go on a second date and a third date fourth date we drive from Chico to Vallejo so that she can meet my parents my father meets her my daddy my hero he meets her pulse meter the sign says is she psycho but anyway we go together for a year 2 years 3 years 4 years by now Trina's a senior in college I'm still a freshman I'm so glad I graduated Nixon for Carter Reagan so now it's it's it's time to propose I talked to her girlfriends and it's California to the 70 so I had to go outside and have a candle and chocolate a bottle of Boone's Farm wine that's what I had she said yes that was the key I married to even before the wedding starts you hear this side of the family when you get married we have a few children our lives are great one day Trina finds a lump in her left breast breast cancer 6 years after that diagnosis me and my two little boys walked up to Mommy's casket and for two years my heart getting big it wasn't for my faith in God I wouldn't be standing here today if it wasn't for those two little boys there have been no reason for which to go on voice completely lost that rock bottom you know what sustained me the wisdom of a third-grade Dropout the wisdom of a simple cook where the casket I never seen my dad cry this time I saw my dad cry. his daughter Trina was his daughter now his daughter-in-law and I'm right behind my father about to see her for the last time on this Earth and my father share three words with me to change my life right there at the casket it would be the last lesson he would ever teach me he said Son just stand you keep standing you keeps getting no matter how rough the sea you keep standing and I'm not talking about just water you keep sending no matter what don't give up and it's clearly as I'm talking to you today these were some of her last words to me she look me in the eye and she said it doesn't matter to me any longer how long I live what matters me most is How I Live the actual one question a question that I was asked All My Life by a third-grade Dropout how you living how you Livin everyday ask yourself that question how you live just want to cook with suggest you to live this way that you would not judge that you would show up early that you'd be kind but you make sure that that servants towel yes you can use that you're going to do something you do it the right way that it's never wrong to do the right thing that how you do anything is how you do everything in that way you will grow your in how to make an impact in that way you will honor all those who have gone before you who have invested in you look in those unlikeliest places for wisdom enhanced your life everyday by CNET wisdom and asking yourself everyday how am I living may God richly bless you all thank you for all of you

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