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The work ethic and gotta have go get it mentality has disappeared in this country. How and why? · The Facts with Jamal 🇺🇸🦅👊

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  The old ads goes in life hard work pays off.
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  So when exactly at a certain point did that saying lost its
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  purpose in a lot of ways me now there are a number of ways to
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  kind of sum up how the hard work work, hard effort and the God
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  having mentality at any cost is seriously lacking in the society
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  today. OK, that would be one of the
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  huge understatements obviously, but it does kind of raise the
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  alarm bell. Why are so many people nowadays,
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  especially, you know, the ones who feel as if life owes some
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  whole bunch of things, why is the work ethic still lacking
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  within them? Could it be because many of
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  them, for one reason or another, don't have the just the mindset
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  in general to really wanna go get something that they want?
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  Whatever way you want to kind of describe it.
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  The point of the matter, people don't value and appreciate the
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  true importance of how hard work will actually help them in life
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  and how you just can't costar through thinking that you're
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  going to get whatever you want by not working hard for it.
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  So here's just my take on the lack of not having a work ethic
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  and how it's costing people a lot more in society today than
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  it ever has before. You know, when I was growing up,
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  I never, I never was a person rather than had we've been
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  impressed by the materialistic side of things as far as, you
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  know, the flash materials. I mean, I did have nice things
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  going up, but I just never really been the type of person
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  to be swayed by, you know, the flashiest of things.
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  Simple has always been the way to go for me.
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  If I see something simplistic, I stay with it and I don't try to
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  go above or beyond what my thought is as far as you know
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  when it comes to certain things. And even now as an adult, I
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  still have that same mindset even today that I've always
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  appreciated the simple things cause the flashiest stuff, it
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  just hasn't really suited me. And more so this is for my dad
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  who always tells me even today, always stay low key, never go
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  beyond what you don't need and just live a simple life.
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  And especially for my mom, you know, even today she always
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  tells me simple is better, always appreciate the basics and
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  never take those things for granted.
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  Now, while I can't really speak for everyone, at a certain point
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  in time it seems as if that even having the simple basics of
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  things in life just isn't good enough for anybody anymore.
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  Now it's easier to point to just one thing as far as why people
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  feel as if that even having, excuse me, the basics of life
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  won't never be good enough. I mean, you can point to a
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  myriad of things 'cause it's never just one specific thing,
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  but it's like if people don't have the best of things in life,
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  then it's like their whole life doesn't matter.
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  And that's the crux of where I'm going right now, of why people
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  feel as if they have to just stay one step ahead of others or
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  even in a lot of cases try or out do the other.
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  There's another old saying in life, keeping up with the
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  Joneses. And while unfortunately that
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  saying has actually been more poetic in a way, nowadays, why
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  do people feel as if they have to have the best of things?
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  See, if you combine that kind of, you know, mindset of wanting
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  to have the best of things with the lack of, you know, work
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  ethic, it it's kind of like a clash of hot versus cold.
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  See, nowadays people essentially don't want to work hard for
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  anything that they claim they want to have 'cause they always
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  say they want this, that and the third and the whole 9 yards.
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  But yet if you actually ask a person, well, how you plan on
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  making it happen, that's when they get dumbfounded.
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  Cause see, it's easy to say a whole bunch of stuff like that,
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  but if you would ask them how you plan on getting those things
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  that you claim you want and they don't have a real
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  straightforward answer, that's when you know you got.
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  The reality is, is that you can't really say that you want
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  this, that and the third in your life, but yet not have a
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  legitimate plan for it as far as how do you plan on getting it
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  and what will be the backup scenario if you don't.
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  Unfortunately, people nowadays aren't really too, you know,
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  smart and blind enough to even go that far, but that kind of
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  remains to be seen. The other issue that is that
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  players is that it just seems like nowadays people don't want
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  to work period. You know, most people really
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  want to be on their phones, on social media, want to hang out
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  with their companions and essentially just coast through
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  life. Unfortunately, one that's
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  unfortunately not the way life goes.
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  And #2 and this is obviously the most important thing.
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  If you think life is all about just coasting on by and not
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  really having a care in the world, boy do I got good news
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  for you. And actually bad news.
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  The good news is, is that you can actually do all those
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  things, you know when it's warranted and that you've earned
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  it. The bad news is you actually
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  have to work hard to get that luxury and privilege.
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  Now, that part of it I will explain in a little bit.
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  The bottom line is, you know, without the work ethic and the
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  willingness to try to do whatever is needed to get what
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  you feel like you want, if you don't work hard for it, you're
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  not going to get it. At a certain point, it really
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  comes down to with people, how is it that the work effort that
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  isn't instilled in you believing that you can essentially get
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  through life, not really have it, but you have this laissez
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  faire attitude and or I guess mentality that you don't really
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  need to work hard, that you can essentially just breathe on
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  through life. Everything is going to be given
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  to you on a silver platter and that you'll be OK.
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  Oh, you'll be OK all right, OK and being your own worst enemy.
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  See, for a lot of people, you know what, and it's not just
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  here in America, but it's essentially throughout, you
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  know, the world. Many of them will tell you that
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  working hard and having the hard work ethic that there is no
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  other way they can try to go because it's the only thing for
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  many of them that they only knew in their life.
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  See, put yourself in some of these people's perspectives for
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  a moment. Whether and if it's not just
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  here in America, take like a different country that maybe
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  doesn't have the resources that we do.
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  I mean, you have tons of families out there that are
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  scraping just to get by. Even the smallest, I guess luck
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  that comes their way. They are just happy to have it,
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  unlike some people here who feels as if even having the
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  most, I guess with joyous luxury.
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  I am is, you know, something that they feel like they are
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  entitled to. Yeah, good luck trying to tell
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  that with those people who essentially have to scrape by,
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  scrap and do everything that they have to do to essentially
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  put food on the tables for their family.
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  Another problem that persists is that not only so much of the
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  entitlement aspect of I mentioned, but it's also the
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  privileged fact. And if you are a parent of a
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  kid, especially in this generations nowadays, I think
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  this might actually be something you should take note.
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  Many times, you know, when I was growing up, and I'm sure you
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  were growing up in a different generation, our parents always
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  told us no. Now when you were a kid, let's
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  say 8 to 10 years old, joining a note there, you probably didn't
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  really know why or even understood why your parents
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  always told you no. But it wasn't until you get laid
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  on close to a doctor to an extent that you finally
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  understood to a large extent why they always told you that.
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  And part of it, it wasn't because they didn't want to give
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  you what you were asking for, but it was really a layer that
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  they were trying to get through to you.
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  And that was nothing. It's just given to you.
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  You have to work hard for it. You have to earn those things.
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  You have to be willing even when you get to a certain point later
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  on in life. You have to be able to work hard
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  for what you want. Even if you don't get it
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  immediately, eventually you will get those sad things.
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  OK. That's why parents, at least
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  when I grew up, and I'm sure you did, they always said no.
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  Not because they didn't think you want worthy of getting sad
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  things, but they were telling you there's another way of
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  getting it outside of simply asking for it.
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  And you know what? Right now I can actually say I
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  am so glad that my parents kind of instilled that in me, even at
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  a young age. And just for clarification
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  purposes, I've never been really the type of person even growing
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  up to really ask for a bunch of things.
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  I mean, I was pretty much content, you know, with what I
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  had. Now, if I was doing my house
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  chores as I was supposed to, not getting in trouble in schools
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  and everything like that, and I was keeping up with my grades
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  and stuff and acting right in public, yeah, they would reward
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  me every now and then, especially, you know, when it
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  was report card time at schools and, you know, all that stuff.
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  But other than that, I never really asked for a lot of things
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  'cause I was pretty much comfortable with what I had.
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  But also I knew that in the back of my mind I also thought about,
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  you know, the main people, not just in America but in the war,
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  who all as fortunate as I am. So that was really something I
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  held on to in the back of my mind when I was growing up
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  mostly. But nowadays it seems as if
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  parents are just so quick to give their children whatever
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  they want 'cause if they say no to them, they essentially hate
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  them. I don't know why that is the
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  case, but Echo, welcome to society today.
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  In the end, here's what it comes down to.
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  You can't get through life thinking hard work is not going
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  to be beneficial if you really think that life is just going to
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  give you everything you want simply by asking for it.
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  Or if you don't want to have the attitude of God, go get it by
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  any means. You really only have yourself to
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  blame when you put yourself in a untenable and quite frankly,
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  unwinnable situations because you choose not to have the
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  mindset of I'm going to work hard for whatever it is I want,
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  and I'm going to get it no matter what.
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  Hard work is always the thing that will help you when talent,
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  personality and charm even isn't enough.
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  And quite frankly, those things will never be enough as far as
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  trying to get through life. So if you have that mindset that
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  those 3 will carry you, you need to get that out of your head
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  almost immediately. Hard work pays off when
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  everything else doesn't work. And look, there's another saying
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  that even I still refer to. Nobody cares.
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  Work hard. And quite frankly, that's what
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  society needs to get back to. That if you want something, you
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  go work for it. And regardless of the outcome,
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  you feel proud that you didn't take the easy way, but you took
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  the way that should have been instilled in you from a young
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  age, which is that hard work always pays off.