Evan CarmichaelSpeaker / Author / Introvert

The BEST Piece of Advice Bishop T.D. Jakes Ever Received

9 Jul 2016 · 1 min

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In this short clip, Bishop T.D. Jakes emphasizes the importance of trusting one's gut instinct over empirical data when making major life and career decisions. He recounts three pivotal moments where instinct guided him: writing the book Woman Thou Art Loosed—a project no publisher wanted that sold 7 million copies and was translated into ten languages; relocating from Charleston, West Virginia to Dallas, Texas, which led his congregation to grow from 1,000 to 30,000 members; and turning gospel stage plays into movies, securing contracts with Sony. He notes that even influential figures like Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey operate on instinct, reinforcing his message that intuition can lead to extraordinary outcomes. The segment ends with a call to viewers to comment and engage.

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To go with my gut, to listen at my inner— Your instinct. My instinct. I mean, it's really true. And that's why I had the aha moment out there, because when I look back over my life, I wrote a book, a man writing a book called Woman Thou Art Loosed to Women at a time no publisher wanted to publish it. There was no precedence for it, but I went with my gut. And that book sold 7 million copies, blessed people all over the world, been translated into 10 different languages. If I would have gone by the empirical data, I would have never done it. I moved from Charleston, West Virginia to Dallas, Texas, didn't even know anybody, but I felt like I was finished in West Virginia, instinctively saw Dallas as a place that I needed to be, and I went from pastoring 1,000 people to 30,000. Every major move that ever happened in my life, from doing gospel plays that turned into movies, that ended up with contracts with Sony. I've never been trained to do it. It was all instinct. And when I presented this idea and began to talk about it, and I started talking to other people like Tyler Perry or Oprah Winfrey or anybody else that I got a chance to corner long enough to ask a question or two, they were instinctive too.
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