Be Your REAL Self - The Teacha KRS One (@IAmKRSOne) - #Entspresso

Good morning, Believe Nation! My name is Evan Carmichael. My one word is believe, and I believe that entrepreneurs are going to solve all of the world's major problems. So to help you on your journey today, we're going to learn how to be your real self. Over to you, KRS-One.

I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.

I wake up every morning If you can be a better you, success is an effect of that. I'll say it again. Make sure you get this, brother, because you're the only one listening to me right now. Success is based on you being you. If you can't be your real self, success is impossible. A fake you can never be successful. Only a real you is going to be successful.

I 100% agree that you will only have your real success when you find your real self and you apply it and you take action on it every single day. You can model, you could copy, you can learn from others to get somewhere faster, but you will never reach your true potential by being a junior version of somebody else. I had an entrepreneur friend of mine reach out. She's starting a new business. She was one of the top trainers at a gym here in Canada, and she wanted to go teach that training system to other people. Basically take the training that she learned from the big corporate and apply it and help smaller gyms do their training. Using that model, all she would be at best is a junior version of the big corporate. So if somebody, as an example, is studying under Tony Robbins and goes out and applies his strategies to help other people, if you don't build on it, if you don't improve on it, then all you're going to be at best is a junior Tony Robbins. You're going to be a poor man's Tony Robbins. So somebody can't afford Tony, they're going to come to you. You could be so much more than a junior version of somebody else. And so yes, you model and you copy and you learn to get ideas, to test, to try to implement, and then to tweak and improve and make your own. So as an example, when I was working with my agent and my media trainer, they would always give me assignments every week. They would say, Evan, in your next video you have to do this, try this, try this, give me different assignments. And Steve came at it from a very aggressive, you got to raise the stakes, you got to make it more important point of view. And Jenny came at it from a more connection, loving, soft point of view, and they would always give me assignments. And every assignment they gave me never quite hit, always felt uncomfortable. I would do it, I would do it like they wanted me to do it, and it never quite fully connected. It was a stretch, it was better than what I was currently doing, but it wasn't quite what I needed. And I always had to take their advice and tweak it a little bit and build on it and grow it. To make it feel right for me. And so every time you're learning these strategies that I'm sharing on this channel, you're learning from Steve Jobs or Oprah Winfrey or whoever it is that you look up to and want to be a huge success, your goal should never be to be the next Steve Jobs or Oprah Winfrey. Your goal is to be the best version of yourself. And you do that by modeling others and learning from them and then tweaking the strategies so that it fits for you. So the question of the day today is, I'm curious, what is one thing that you've learned from somebody successful or somebody on this channel and then tweaked their strategy to make it work in your business? Leave it down in the comments below. I'm super curious to find out. I also want to give a quick shout out to Ariel. Ariel, thank you so much for picking up a copy of my book, Your One Word. I really, really appreciate it and I hope you're enjoying the read. So thank you guys again for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever Your one word is much love, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso.

I wake up every morning, espresso keeps me going.

You know, one of the things I've learned over time is that the best you'll ever be if you're trying to be someone else is a pale imitation. You know, most people spend their whole life looking at, you know, this, I want to be like this person, I want to be like that person. One of the things that I can't stand is people, you know, all these celebrities and people that want to be like them. The truth is you have to be the best you you can be. There's only one you. I mean, there's not another one on the face of the planet. Now, you need to learn from other people. From some people you need to learn well, what not to do. From some, a lot of people, you need to learn what to do. But as you study people, as you look at successful people, study their traits, study their behavior, study what they do, and then take the best and leave the rest. You have to create an authentic you. Now does that mean you don't need to learn from other people? No. But you've got to step back and go, well, okay, this person is super outgoing and full of— and I'm not wired that way. Maybe I'm quieter. Well, you're never going to be like them, but learn from them. Take the best. And then when you look at some other person that's got a great skill set that maybe doesn't line up with your skill set, but take and learn things that you can put to work in your life, but factor all of that together by understanding who you authentically are. Find what you're good at. All of us have a list of things that we're good at, but the truth is we spend way too much, way much more time working on what we're bad at, trying to get better at it. Well, I'm telling you, the thing that you're naturally bad at And you can work all day long, 7 days a week on it, and the best you'll ever be at that is mediocre. Somebody is naturally good at what you're bad at. But I guarantee you, you have natural skills that were just born in you, a part of your DNA that you're good at without even trying. And then other people are terrible at it. I mean, I've always been able to speak in front of people. Bothered me. For a lot of people, it mortifies them. It's never been a real problem. And so what I was able to do is find a way that there was something I knew that I was good at, that I could show up without any notes and do better than most people, and then work like crazy at it. Spend my time focused on what I'm good at. See, I believe each of us, if we found our natural inclinations and then we focused on what we're good at, you're going to be the best you you can be. I believe great teams are made up of a bunch of individuals who find a way to mesh together in a way that accentuates each person's positive for the good of the group. So be the best authentic you can be. Work on yourself. Focus on yourself. Understand your strengths and weaknesses and find ways to put yourself in a place where your strengths are magnified.

What do you want to say to your fans that are asking like, yo, like, are you still going to make that high BPM, you know, festival music? Are you leaving that for more—

I'm not leaving anything mainstream.

Or can you explain that transition and what you're doing there?

For me, it's all about trying to find new sounds, reinventing your own sound. I can, I can, I can release a 128 BPM club song every, every week, but I don't know, I want to challenge myself in the studio. I want to try out new things. I want to experiment. And me trying out something new and doing something like Scared to Be Lonely or Name of Love doesn't mean I'm completely switching my sound. I, like, in October I just released 7, like, very aggressive 128 BPM house songs and I've got Ultra coming up, I've got Coachella coming up and I'm gonna also play a lot of old sounding Martin Garrix stuff. But it's a weird situation, 'cause then I release a house song one year ago and they're like, "Oh, same repetitive boring stuff. Try some, do something new, be refreshing." And I do something new and they're like, "We miss the old Martin Garrix." And I'm like, "Wait, what do you guys want me to do?" But for me, what I think is most important is just me being myself in the studio, doing what I want and I don't let other people's opinions affect my music. I want to represent what I want to make, and I'm not switching my sound. I'm just having fun.

I live for the quiet moments where I can be my most authentic self and hear myself think. Somebody asked me, what makes you happy? My husband said bacon, which is true. But I'm happiest when I'm my most authentic self. Myself when nobody's looking, when nobody's judging me, when nobody's leaving nasty comments on my social media, and I can just exist. And in that quiet space, I realized I am worthy by birthright. I am fierce and fabulous because I breathe. All of us here in this room We are worthy. We are valid. Our journeys are real and worthwhile. And there's nothing that anyone can do to take that away from us. Everything terrible that has happened to us, we have a choice in how we ought to react. A lot of times, what we're actually reacting to is the fear of humiliation, The fear of, "What are they gonna think about me?" The fear of possible judgment. Newsflash: people will judge you whether you discover the cure for cancer or sit on the couch. You might as well live. So, I am a wife, but that does not define me. I am an actress, and that sure as hell does not define me. I am a parent. While awesome, that is not my whole life. None of those things, even though I get a lot of praise for that, makes me worthy. I am worthy by birthright. I am Gabrielle Union Wade.