Kevin Hart: They're Lying To You About How To Become A Millionaire! I Was Doing 28 Sets A Weekend!

You can't be afraid to verbalize your ignorance. That's holding you back. Give me an example. I can give you several. Like investing. Like. You're telling me if I put this money in here right now, I get 30X. 20X. What the f the f scam. I know a scam when I see one. Go buy you another idiot. Cause it ain't happening over here, buddy. But When you go, you say, I don't know what that means. How does investing really work? I don't know where to get. Now you're a part of the right conversations. You're a part of the right opportunities, but you get there by being the dummy in them. And now look at what I'm able to Give

Kevin, it took 13 years where you did your first stand out, to you having your moment. But why didn't you quit? Because of the lessons that my mom gave from being very scarred for my brother. Let's go back. I grew up in North Philadelphia. My brother told the drugs. My dad was always in jail, out of jail, my mom wasn't gonna let that happen with me. So we had an agreement, I had a certain amount of time, to make comedy work. And in my mind, it wasn't gonna be hard because there was no other option. I will figure it out. So I was driving from Philadelphia to New York every day. I wasn't coming home until 4 a.m. where I was doing 25 to 28 sets a weekend. I worked at for a very, very long time. And the struggle left you with days of what am I doing? Can I pay my rent? this man but my mom's biggest lesson was you're not quitting and not many people are going to do the 13 years of hard

Most people opt out at year two and wanna go find a quick return. Or you keep quitting to start something else that you think is the idea. It's just a cycle. You're never completing anything. You gotta make a choice of the thing you're gonna do and finish. I made the choice that stand up comedy was what I was going to finish. Because if I focus and did it well, that would open up the doors for me to do everything else that I wanna do. But they say that you can't have everything in life. So what is the cost? Have you struggled with your mental health? What advice have you got for young men in terms of like what it takes to be a good man? That's a weird thing that's happening where the definition of a good man is so foggy. It seems that in this time today, more men are being forward wanting. to express and talk. But the fear of being judged. After

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