Nelson Mandela spent 29 years in prison mentally rehearsing his presidency before achieving it. The speaker argues that feeding your mind with knowledge and vision creates real-world power, and that seeking discomfort and criticism matters more than approval.
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Say this, I need to stretch. I need to stretch. In my mind. In my mind. See, your mind is going to work with you as long as you work it. If you don't feed your mind, your mind will not feed you. If you don't water the seeds that have been sown in your mind, In, in the form of knowledge and education and wisdom and intellect and revelation and understanding and comprehension, then that seed will wither up and die. Everybody, regardless of their age, Yes. Should be trying to further and advance their knowledge, their wisdom, their education, and their understanding, even if it costs you money to do so. You're only an enemy to yourself when you stop learning and you stop growing and you stop thinking and you stop planning and you stop dreaming and you stop envisioning and you stop having goals and stop having ambitions. Yeah. That's why I say you are your own worst enemy. How could Nelson Mandela be in prison for almost 29 years, made to serve with hard labor, and come out of prison and be a president in his country? How could he do that? He did it in his mind. Every day that man was in prison, he saw He saw himself from the prison to the presidency. Long before it manifested in his life, he dreamed about it. Long before it manifested in his life, he envisioned it. Long before it manifested in his life, he meditated on it. Long before it manifested in his life, he had a picture of it and an image of it in his mind. When you stop dreaming, you stop envisioning, and you stop having ambitions and desires to do things, You are on your way to the grave. Amen. Amen. Boy, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm teaching better than you're saying amen. Amen. See, you need to be stretched. Amen. You need to be stretched. I come to stretch you. I didn't come to excite you. I come to stretch you this morning. Look at your neighbor one more time and point that finger at them and tell them, that's your problem. You don't want to be stretched. You don't want anybody telling you anything. You don't want anyone to disagree with you. You want everybody to like you. You want everybody to agree with you. You want everybody to be on your side. You want everyone to be on your team. You don't need everyone to be on your team. You don't need everyone to agree with you. When you are wrong, you need to be told that you are wrong. When you are off, you need to be told that you are off. When you are missing the mark, you need to be told that you're missing the mark. When you are wasting potential, you need to be told you're wasting potential. You don't want people that will come and pat you on your back and tell you you're doing a good job when you and your heart know that you're not. You don't want folk to agree with you and tell you you're right when you know that you are wrong. You want folk that loves you enough to look you in your eyes and say, girl, you know you're better than that. Boy, you know you can do better than that. You need to get up off your behind and do something with your life and stop letting moments pass you by and stop letting dreams pass you by and stop letting years pass you by and stop letting time pass you by. 3 weeks.
