Stop Setting Goals. They're Creating Your Ceiling | Emmanuel Acho

What's been the biggest lesson in the last couple years of taking your shot, of putting it out there, being on a limb, and then learning about how to handle the opportunities, the success, the fame, the recognition. And also how have you learned how to say yes and no to certain things that might be big but not right for you at the right moment? Two lessons. Yes. I'll give you one pre-success, one post-success.

I'll start with the post-success lesson because that one I'm learning right now as I'm talking to you. Everybody will not like you, and that is okay because you don't like everybody. And you know, I've had to realize like, yo, people don't like me, man. Like, this person's mad at me. A black person's mad at me because I'm too nice to white people, a white person's mad at me because I'm a race baiter.

Why don't people like me? And then I kicked back and I said, wait a second. I don't like everybody. So how can I expect everybody to like me? It was something, dude, I've had a hard time to reconcile with because you're a nice guy, right?

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