The School of Greatness - 843 Everything is Perfect

Episode Date: August 30, 2019

TURN ADVERSITY INTO ADVANTAGE. Do you spend a lot of time wishing things were different? Do you feel sorry for yourself for the struggles you face? Maybe it’s time to reframe those obstacles as gifts. After all, the things that hurt us the most can help us show others more love. Pain can lead us to pleasure. And your negative experiences will lead you to greatness. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Prince Ea where he shared his message that everything is perfect. Richard Williams, better known by his stage name Prince EA, is an American rapper, spoken word artist, music video director and rights activist from St Louis, Missouri. He has over four million subscribers on YouTube and inspires people daily with his viral videos. Learn how to accept your present while changing your future on Episode 843. In This Episode You Will Learn: How the artist Immortal Technique influenced Prince Ea (2:00) The importance of accepting what is (3:00) About the philosophy that everything is perfect (3:30) How pain can be ultimately good (4:00) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/843 and follow at instagram.com/lewishowes

This is 5-Minute Friday! Welcome everyone to today's episode. We've got a very special guest. I'm super excited to introduce you to the one and only Prince E, better known as Richard Williams, and his stage name is Prince E. He is an American rapper and activist known for discussing topics like politics, sociality, environmentalism, and life issues. His YouTube videos have garnered over 40 million views. And the guy is crushing it, over 350,000 subscribers there.

It was probably into high school, listening to the the conscious hip-hop artists you know because you know if anybody that's listening listens to immortal technique you know he he goes in on government and and tells you what's wrong with it and you know he goes in on politicians and uh the world affairs and so from that is probably the first time where i looked outside to say hey things are things might not be going the way they should be um or the way they could be so but but i've developed from then too to the you know after after um hip-hop, I got into spirituality. And I don't mean when I say, I always have to kind of specify when I say spirituality, because I don't mean like, you know, climbing the Himalayan mountains and meditating with the Dalai Lama.

I just mean looking inside to figure out who I am. And so to answer your question, now I think the world is fine you know i think i think things are as they they should be and i think why is that because when we argue with reality we lose everything that happened should have happened by the very nature that it happened and that doesn't mean that we shouldn't be here to change it either you know so we we have to live in the now and create out of that acceptance of what is so you believe that the world is perfect where it is right now yeah yeah then why create videos to open people's minds about change yeah because that's perfect too interesting all

right i like that yeah okay so it's perfect where it is now but it doesn't mean it does it can't improve exactly and be perfect then as well. Exactly. The caterpillar and the butterfly are perfect. You got to go through these steps to get to that place. It's perfect. There's been so many illnesses and negative things that have happened to people that have gotten them to the point of greatness. That's true.

And without these things, they wouldn't have got there. That's true. So these things, it's all perfect. It's all, yeah. That's true. I believe that one of the principles that I live by is that we should always turn our adversity into our advantage. And that is actually one of our biggest gifts and one of our biggest callings is the things

that hurt us the most can actually show others how to feel that much more love and open them up. Wow. And our pain is really what can create the most pleasure in the world and all those different things. Without those moments, then we may not be as impactful without those. That's it. And without the world probably going through where it is right now, maybe it won't be as impactful to people in the future. Exactly. So I never looked at it that way with your message that's perfect right now there are no smooth mountains

out there man there's ridges you gotta climb that thing if they were smooth it wouldn't look beautiful either probably that's it if it was a smooth mountain I wouldn't want to look at it it's like the ridges and the points that make it look picturesque. Hey guys, if you enjoyed this inspirational clip from a past episode of the show,

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